Mario Nawfal

🇷🇴 Cristela says the campaign against Călin Georgescu did not stop when the election was cancelled. He tried to run again and was blocked. Then came the criminal cases. One alleging a coup attempt. Another involving fascism and antisemitism. And now a fraud case serious enough to place him under rules normally used for organized crime and terrorism. Cristela’s concern is not just the charges themselves. It’s that major political figures and much of the media, in her view, began treating him as guilty before the courts had established anything. “If he is unguilty, he has to prove that.” That is the part she finds most disturbing. Not simply that Călin is being prosecuted. But that the burden seems, in her eyes, to have flipped from the state proving guilt to him proving innocence. @CG_Romania

🇾🇪🇮🇷 OIL IS ABOVE $100 AGAIN, AND THE MIDDLE EAST IS MAKING IT VERY HARD TO COME BACK DOWN Brent is hovering around $106 a barrel, and it's not hard to see why traders are nervous. The Houthis have been hitting Saudi oil infrastructure, even striking Aramco's headquarters. Iran is going after ships in the Strait of Hormuz. So now it's not just about how much oil the world can produce, but whether anyone can get it out safely. And that's worrying more than the price itself. A short spike is one thing. But if oil stays this expensive for months, we'll feel it everywhere. Transport, groceries, flights, pretty much anything that has to be made or moved. The war might feel far away. The bill won't. Writer: Oliver

🇬🇧🇨🇿 Q: “Do you support Britain rejoining the EU?” Czech PM Andrej Babiš: “Yes, of course. We need more money.” Finally, a European integration argument with all the romance removed. Writer: Oliver t.co/U7HxyqA5YJ

🇷🇴 Cristela Georgescu says one of the strongest pieces of “evidence” used against their campaign was a €1 payment. Literally one euro. The transfer came after the campaign had already ended, with a message mocking Georgescu by referring to “Russian money.” Yet she says it still appeared in the case as proof that money had entered the campaign. The second part is even stranger. Cristela says ordinary TikTok users, many of them pensioners, were questioned about promoting Georgescu’s videos. Most denied being paid or even knowing him. And many were then fined €2,000 anyway. Her point is simple: If unpaid supporters sharing videos can be treated as undeclared campaign spending, then the definition of “campaign financing” becomes very elastic indeed. @CG_Romania

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi-backed forces are now OPENLY talking about PUSHING all the way into Yemen's capital The Saudi-led coalition has entered a new phase of its campaign, with simultaneous strikes targeting Houthi military positions, supply lines, energy sources and fortified sites in mountains and caves. The key objective is al-Bayda, whose highlands overlook Sanaa and could provide a strategic route toward the Houthi-held capital. The stated goal is no longer simply weakening the Houthis, the campaign is being described as one that will continue until forces reach the heart of Sanaa. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Samuel

🇷🇴 Cristela Georgescu says Romania feels more oppressive to her today than it did before communism fell. Not because the old system was freer. Because back then, she says, nobody pretended it was. “You knew you were not allowed to talk against it.” What disturbs her now is the contradiction: people are told they are free to speak and challenge the system, while she believes political dissent is punished underneath that democratic surface. “Today we are told, ‘You’re free.’” For someone who actually remembers Romania before 1989, that distinction is what frightens her most. Not open dictatorship. A system that still calls itself free while, in her view, behaving increasingly like one. @CG_Romania

🇩🇪🇮🇱🇵🇸 Thousands took the streets of Berlin last weekend, demanding an end to arms exports to Israel... Larger demonstrations earlier in the autumn drew TENS of thousands of participants. Ceasefire or not, these protests aren't stopping. Writer: Michael t.co/eSj4HbsYom

🇮🇩 Indonesia's Rupiah is COLLAPSING The country's stock market has just suffered its worst single-day crash since the 1998 Asian financial crisis. Nearly 12% wiped out in one trading session. The trigger? MSCI is threatening to strip Indonesia of its emerging-market status over serious concerns about stock market governance and transparency. That could force billions of dollars in foreign investment out of the country. Indonesia's stocks have already lost nearly 40% this year. And the real danger is what's about to come. A falling currency, collapsing equities and foreign investors heading for the exits can become a vicious cycle. This is how a stock market crisis risks becoming something much bigger. Source: Reuters / Writer: Oliver

🇬🇧 Another day in the modern "UK" Writer: Samuel t.co/HfPhVleqaz

🇪🇸🇩🇰 Denmark's left-wing PM is challenging Spain over its MASS legalization of undocumented migrants. Frederiksen is calling for the EU to examine Sánchez's regularization plan, arguing it goes against Europe's broader migration policy. The striking part: Frederiksen and Sánchez are both social democrats from the same European political family. Writer: Samuel t.co/JyS0zWQE06

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran is finding ways to SNEAK fuel exports right through the U.S. naval blockade... LPG has escaped through the Gulf of Oman, totaling an estimated 4.1 MILLION barrels. Tehran has reportedly concealed cargoes among the growing number of ship-to-ship transfers conducted by other Gulf producers off Oman. Most Iranian petroleum exports are still being stopped or redirected, and U.S. Central Command insists its blockade remains “ironclad.” But that might be too strong a word for it... Source: Reuters / Writer: Samuel

🇮🇷 Tanker on fire near Oman after getting hit. Iran claims the ship had its AIS turned off and was trying to pass through a restricted zone. More than 100 war-related incidents involving ships have now been recorded since the war began. Just a week ago, Iran warned that ships using unauthorized routes could be targeted anywhere in the region, not just in Hormuz. Writer: Daniyal t.co/Tus4NQLqve

🇷🇺 I don’t think that I even know anyone who can afford a $600,000 car. Just doesn’t seem like a wise investment. Writer: Jamie t.co/QjOGO2ru73

🇮🇹🇪🇺 This is in Turin, Italy. Like the rest of the EU, the kids are wilding out!! These student protests across Europe are starting to look more and more like a coordinated operation. Let’s go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, shall we? Could an outside actor be instigating these protests and pushing students to destabilize their governments? Adults are quick to spot when they’re being fed propaganda, but are parents paying attention to what their kids are being exposed to in school and online? Something to think about… 🤔 Writer: Jamie t.co/pJxWWWN4Pr

🇧🇾🇺🇦🇺🇸 Lukashenko on Zelensky: "It's not for Trump to decide who will be president of Ukraine. That's for the Ukrainian people to decide." Wow, unexpected... 😳 Writer: Samuel t.co/ZWeFQPUnvD

🇮🇱🇺🇸 A Washington Post photographer was beaten in the West Bank. Now Netanyahu's office is challenging the story being told. Heidi Levine ended up in hospital after masked Israeli settlers allegedly attacked her while she was covering the Palestinian olive harvest. But Netanyahu's office says there's more to what happened. It claims around 200 Arabs and activists confronted 40 Israeli youths, with masked people on both sides throwing objects. The government wants investigators to establish who started the violence and warns against blaming an entire Jewish community for the actions of individuals. There's footage of Levine being beaten, and her injuries are real. But the wider circumstances of the confrontation are now being disputed. Netanyahu's office is insisting on one principle: “The facts must determine the conclusions. Not the headlines.” Headlines backed by video, one might add. Writer: Oliver t.co/psDnDFyCPJ

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A Ukrainian drone STRUCK a Gazprom plant in Russia and set it ON FIRE Ukrainian channels identified the site as the Surgut Condensate Stabilization Plant, which can process 12M tonnes of oil and gas condensate a year into gasoline, DIESEL, and jet fuel. This is the kind of facility tied to the diesel volumes Russia just agreed to push out under the deal with Trump. Zelensky doesn't give a damn anymore. Writer: Lucas t.co/iWOFgDXUWa

🇪🇸 Spanish skater Diego Poncelet just hit 151.83 km/h on a skateboard. New world speed record. Previous mark smashed by over 5 km/h. Writer: Samuel t.co/GzxVjF6tlI

🇧🇾🇺🇦🇷🇺 Belarus' Lukashenko just wants peace: "All wars end in peace anyway. So it is better sooner rather than later. People are dying. For these humanitarian reasons, peace is needed there, and it will be achieved. I would like this war to end by next year. And if it ends this year, that would be wonderful." That would be wonderful, indeed... Writer: Michael t.co/y3nwkizpqL

🇺🇸 BABY BOOM BUSTED! 13 million pregnancy tests are being recalled by Abbott for showing false positives! Damn, I wonder how many shotgun marriages are getting annulled now. 😂 Writer: Jamie t.co/uG4PcsRd2T

🇩🇪🇪🇺🇮🇷 German FM Wadephul on Iran: "Europe is in Iran's crosshairs. We will not tolerate Iran's hostile activities directed against Jews in Germany or our open society as a whole. We will respond here as well." When I hear the people ALWAYS talking about Ukraine sounding the alarm about Iran as well... I start to worry about two wars becoming one. Writer: Michael t.co/AevpE5NLL2

🇵🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱 Hamas is accusing Trump's Board of Peace of SIDING with ISRAEL in a new dispute over aid and commercial goods entering Gaza. Hamas accused them of “blatant bias and complicity” after the Chief of Board of Peace cited an Israeli government report blaming Hamas “coercion” for the suspension of private-sector goods entering Gaza. Now the two sides are openly blaming each other for obstructing the flow of goods into the territory.... Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Samuel

THE WORLD SHOULD NOT FORGET ROMANIA 🇷🇴💔

🇩🇪🇺🇸🇺🇦 German FM Wadephul chalks up Trump's evolving position on Ukraine/Russia to the midterms: "We certainly have to view the current remarks of the American president in the context of the final phase of the election campaign in the United States. That's why I believe we have to look at the substance of what the United States continues to do. And that is supporting Ukraine together with us and advancing a negotiation process." A much more charitable view than Zelensky gave... Writer: Michael t.co/Kao38JRHHf

🇪🇸 Spain in 1971 🇪🇸 Spain in 2025 It's sad man... Writer: Samuel t.co/bQP0GedHHc

🇩🇪 Germany's Angela Merkel: "Even if the AfD were the strongest party, I would not raise my hand to elect its candidate as president of the state parliament." YOU let in MILLIONS of migrants, tore down the country's nuclear reactors, and destroyed Germany. That's why AfD is winning, "Mutti"... Writer: Samuel t.co/BHgSKgEjiL

🇺🇸 NEW WH Press Sec Katie Zacharia was asked if she still has Trump's confidence after just her first week... "I'm standing here, and I was able to travel with him... and I hope to be able to build the trust and confidence of everyone around me." People should give her some time, that job isn't easy... Imagine the stress of that job, NORMALLY. Now multiply that x10 for Trump 😂 Writer: Michael t.co/uaIFxUcf7m

🇧🇷 Eduardo Bolsonaro says his father is in prison for one reason: he’d be Brazil’s next president if they let him run. Instead, his brother Flávio is carrying their father's torch into the presidential runoff against Lula!! Flávio actually finished FIRST in the opening round with 47.03%, ahead of Lula's 45.16%. “The reality is that he's in prison because, if he were free, my father would be the next president of Brazil.” Lawfare... 💯💯 Writer: Samuel / @bolsonarosp t.co/I8S3k1rBLJ

🇦🇱🇪🇺 WTF is going on with students in Europe?! I guess setting sh*t on fire when you’re angry with the government is seen as an appropriate reaction now. Good luck with that!! Writer: Jamie t.co/Ldbh2j4mFj

🇺🇦🇷🇺 HOLY SH*T: A Ukrainian drone flew through a hail of Russian gunfire and NAILED a truck heading to Crimea. Ukraine’s drones are on another level... Source: @TabzLIVE on TG / Writer: Michael t.co/X3usGJih7d