Flashpoint | Global Affairs

🇲🇽 A rogue man, who thinks that he is a superhero, appeared in the Mexican town of Lagos. He catches people, who steal mopeds, and ties them to poles, using duct tape.

🇮🇹 Heatwave made traffic lights melt in the Italian town of Verona.

🇫🇷 Paris lightening hit the Eiffel tower.

🇰🇷 Korean football bans booed the national team's former head coach (who just resigned) right after the team returned back home after their failed World Cup performance.

🇬🇭 In the capital of Ghana, days of continuous rainfall led to the entire city getting flooded and several fires from the electric grid's malfunctions.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 The Venezuela earthquake destroyed the hotel, where 100+ illegals just deported from the United States were staying at. Some of them are dead, many are injured, some remain reported missing.

🇯🇵 Japan schools now hold exercises imitating how wild bears invade their buildings. Teachers train to coordinate and evacuate children fast, hunters train to provide emergency response and operate in teams in order to shoot bears, if necessary. Bears involved in the exercises aren't real - instead, people dressed in cheap bear costumes are being used.

🇨🇭 In Basel, after their workday is over, white collars undress and pack all their belongings inside waterproof floating bags. After that, they use these bags to float down the Rhine river towards residential neighborhoods where they live.

🇷🇺 Russia's main brand of oil, Urals, fell to bellow $58 per barrel. That is even lower than the $60 price ceiling pushed by the European Union.

🇺🇦 Air quality in Kiev became worse because of the ongoing wildfires in the Chernobyl safety zone, and winds blowing south from there. Scientists fear that the air can become even more unsafe and reach dangerous level of pollution, if the heatwave causes more fires, while winds keep blowing south.

🇳🇬🇮🇪 A Nigerian with the asylum status in Ireland explained that he was granted permission to stay, because of risks of prosecution for his homosexuality back in Africa. When reporter asked the man whether he had a family in Nigeria, he rushed to tell that he has a wife and two sons there, instantly disproving the homosexuality claim.

🇰🇷 South Korean industrial giant Hyundai plans to install 25 thousand humanoid robots in its factories, ignoring total opposition from workers' unions.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Apple begs the Trump administration to authorise purchase of memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese manufacturer blacklisted by the United States. Without this deal, Apple risks to run out of memory chips by 2027.

🇫🇷 French president Emmanuel Macron once again wears his famous sunglasses. This time - while meeting the Omani sultan. Previously, Macron had to wear the sunglasses both inside and outside after appearing in public with a mysterious eye trauma.

🇨🇳 Lithium battery inside a Chinese airline passenger's bag caught fire in the middle of the flight.

🇬🇧 Outgoing British prime-minister Keir Starmer tried working as popcorn server.

🇳🇴🇺🇸 Norwegian World Cup fans took over Times Square in order to hold their viking-style rowing mass performance.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom decided in favor of selling oil from sanctioned Russian tankers, when the Royal Navy manages to seize them. Proceeds from sales of that oil will be directed towards funding for Ukraine.

🇮🇷 Iran's national team scored decisive goal in their game against Egypt at the game's 4th added minute, being completely certain that they pulled ahead, secured win and qualified for playoffs. After lengthy celebration when everyone already stopped playing, the players and fans were devastated to learn that the goal was cancelled after a review by VAR. Rumors are mounting that the Iranian team was intentionally setup to fail to qualify for the tournament's playoffs: after having the crucial added time goal nullified, Iran saw how Algeria just stopped defending in the final two minutes of their game against Austria, almost trying to make Austrians score. Austria did, ensuring a 3:3 draw, which let both Austria and Algeria qualify for playoffs. Had Algeria defended for 2 minutes while being in the lead, Austrians wouldn't have scored, paving way for Iran to qualify for playoffs as the 8th best third-placed team.

🇺🇸 With prices adjusted for inflation, GTA VI became the cheapest game in the series. Additionally, you measured GTA games' prices in cheeseburgers, GTA VI would only cost you 37 patties, while GTA III - shocking 70 burgers.