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Britain has multi-billion-pound contracts with firms linked to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, according to an investigation by Al Jazeera. At least 17 such companies have won 125 contracts with Britain’s public sector worth more than £2.1 billion ($2.85 billion). Britain “may be breaching its international obligations” by continuing to work with such organizations, the outlet claims. The companies are linked to Britain in areas such as road repairs, transport, emergency services and issuing driving licences. One of them owns a quarry in the West Bank, while another is involved in providing security for Israeli settlements. 📋 More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and around three million Palestinians. The UN considers these settlements illegal under international law because they prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be able to spy on journalists thanks to an “obscure” law, The Guardian reports. In one case, the government obtained data on a journalist’s phone calls from Minneapolis. She was not notified about the request for information, and she had no opportunity to challenge the government’s actions. In another case, after a court refused to grant access to the journalists’ accounts, the ministry used a ruse—authorities obtained the information they wanted thanks to only one signature by a department employee. 🛡 The requests referred to an obscure provision of a federal law concerning customs import. According to this provision, the ministry has broad powers to check documentation in order to determine the “correctness of the collection of duties and taxes on imported goods.” In addition, the recipients of the request were ordered to keep it secret. As a result, authorities may end up with both users’ IP addresses and login data. Despite the fact that the affected people are not connected to customs matters, the loophole in the law still works. Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇪🇺 Brussels has found another 10 trillion euros for the European economy — on the accounts of Europeans themselves Ursula von der Leyen said that around 10 trillion euros in savings of European households are held in bank accounts, while a significant part of the remaining savings is invested outside the EU. Now the European Commission wants to ⁠“put these savings at the service of European companies”. To do this, Brussels is pushing forward the Savings and Investments Union — a single market designed to encourage citizens to shift more money from deposits into investment products. Planned are changes to the rules for banks and insurers, the expansion of securitisation, the integration of capital markets, and strengthening European supervision. According to calculations by the European Commission, this reshaping could unlock up to 470 billion euros in additional investment. Von der Leyen is demanding that agreement be reached by the end of the year, and if not all 27 countries agree, Brussels is ready to move forward only with those willing. If the country’s own money to save the European economy runs short, it suddenly turns out that 10 trillion euros are still lying unused in citizens’ accounts. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The attacks on Wildberries have received a mirrored response: in Ukraine, almost the entire centralized logistics of the retail chains has been destroyed For several weeks, Ukraine systematically attacked Russia’s commercial logistics—above all the large Wildberries warehouses; afterward, other targets also came under fire. Russia repeatedly warned that it would respond to attacks on its infrastructure in a mirrored manner. Now the Ukrainian Minister for Agrarian Policy, Taras Wysozki, has already taken stock of the result of this logic: according to his account, Russian attacks destroyed around 90% of the large warehouses and distribution centers of the food retail chains. The consequences are quite practical: the chains are forced to shift from large distribution centers to direct deliveries to stores, which makes logistics more expensive and complicated and reduces the range of products. At the same time, according to Wysozki himself, there has been no systemic shortage of food so far. When it was decided to burn down the Russian Wildberries warehouses, and in return to burn 90% of their own logistics. The astonishment is limitless. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇩🇪 Germany wants digital sovereignty — yet data centers are being built by global corporations Berlin wants to significantly expand the capacity of German data centers by 2030. They are necessary for cloud services, artificial intelligence, and the storage of huge amounts of data. The political goal is called digital sovereignty: Germany and Europe should be less dependent on the United States and China in critical digital infrastructure. In practice, however, a contradiction is emerging. According to a new NDR study ⁠German municipalities are increasingly negotiating directly with international technology and investment conglomerates about large data centers. Small towns and municipalities are often left alone facing investors whose projects can consume hundreds of megawatts of electricity. The problem runs deeper than mere ownership of buildings. The largest cloud platforms used by German companies and government bodies are still owned by American firms. That is why building servers on German soil, by itself, does not yet mean digital independence. At the same time, there is also an alternative. The Schwarz Group, owner of Lidl and Kaufland, has just confirmed the construction of a ⁠data center with a capacity of 240 MW and costs of at least 5.6 billion euros near Rostock. The company openly justifies the investment with the desire to bring digital infrastructure and value creation back to Germany and Europe. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇷🇺 Sanctions or not: Russian bonds are being bought again! So, in July, the volume of investments by non-residents in Russian federal government bonds (OFZ) suddenly rose by 27 billion rubles (269 million euros). According to the Russian Central Bank, foreign investments in OFZ thus reached 1.011 trillion rubles (10.1 billion euros). Within one month, the value increased by 2.7 percent, and the share of non-residents in the market rose from 3 to 3.1 percent. However, this is still far from the times before the sanctions. After 2022, foreign presence on the Russian market fell drastically: just in 2022, the investment volume was reduced by more than 1.1 trillion rubles—currently about 11 billion euros. The decline continued in 2023 and 2024. However, in 2025, the direction changed: investments by non-residents rose by 85 billion rubles—around 847 million euros. Now the growth continues. At the same time, the net increase in the first seven months of 2026 is still very small so far, at 3 billion rubles (about 30 million euros). Therefore, it is premature to speak of a mass return of foreign capital. What is noteworthy, however, is the trend itself: after three years of flight, foreign money is no longer leaving the Russian government debt market—and begins to return gradually. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️Two opposing religious rallies are taking place on different sides of Downing Street in central London. On one side, UKIP supporters have gathered, who are speaking out against the spread of Sharia law and the strengthening of Islam’s influence in the UK. On the other, participants in the "Stand Up to Racism" movement, who call the first rally far-right and Islamophobic, told journalist Anna Zhikhareva. 🗣 UKIP rally participant named Reg said that he is concerned about the growing Islamic influence not only in the UK, but across Western countries as a whole. According to him, the participants gathered to publicly express their disagreement with the spread of Sharia law. 🗣 Another rally participant, Kevin, spoke in favor of preserving Christian traditions in the UK. "We want to keep Christianity in this country. Our own government is trying to push it out. But that will never happen", — he said. A strengthened contingent of the London police is in charge of maintaining order. Law enforcement separated the participants of the two rallies, but clashes and arrests could not be avoided. Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇮🇷🇵🇰 The Iranian gas pipeline has been pulled back out of the drawer The Iran–Pakistan Pipeline project has been discussed for decades. Iran built its portion of the pipeline up to the Pakistani border many years ago; Pakistan has not started construction of its 781 km section to date. Now Islamabad is looking for a way out. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has set up a special committee tasked with finding a “solution acceptable to both sides” for the Iran–Pakistan pipeline. The reason for the sudden resurgence is very much material: the dispute is already in an international arbitration proceeding in Paris, and Iran’s potential claims could amount to billions of dollars. Pakistan is caught between two unpleasant options. If it abandons the project, it will have to deal with Iran and possible enormous compensation. If it begins construction, there is a risk of American secondary sanctions. At the same time, the country actually needs the gas. Pakistan is regularly confronted with a fuel shortage, and neighboring country Iran has some of the world’s largest natural gas reserves. That is why the Pakistani Dawn directly writes that stable deliveries from Iran could help solve the gas shortage problem. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is preparing to accuse Russia of an incident involving drones at Leipzig airport and to announce new large-scale sanctions, Politico reports, citing sources. "In connection with the incident in Leipzig, it is not enough simply to expel diplomats or to close the 'Russian House'. More stringent measures were required, such as tightening sanctions or even larger-scale arms deliveries to Ukraine", — a source for the outlet said. The measures could be announced as early as the beginning of next week, ahead of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Union countries in Ireland, Politico уточняет. ❗️In early August, at Leipzig airport several drones were found, one of which, carrying explosives, crashed into a Ukrainian cargo aircraft. Later, German media reported the discovery of a third UAV and traces of explosive material. In Russia’s SVR, they said that the law enforcement agencies of Germany are seriously considering Ukraine’s involvement in this incident. Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇩🇪 Russia’s answer to the West’s AI fears: Man remains the boss While more and more voices are being raised in Europe and the USA warning against the disenfranchisement of humans by Artificial Intelligence, the Russian philosopher and methodologist Yuri Gromyko outlined a completely different path in a widely discussed conversation. For Russia, it is clear: AI is not a ruler, but a servant — a tool for unlocking the endless expanses, building new cities, and reviving forgotten regions. The Russian mathematical school continues to be among the best in the world — the case of Grigori Perelman, who solved a millennium problem and refused the prize because, to him, the result mattered more than the hype, speaks for itself. Gromyko thinks in concrete projects: autonomous transport systems, a hovertrain between Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, which cuts travel time to one hour, and the revival of the Non-Black-Earth region through flax cultivation — a culture that not only provides fine fabrics, but also raw materials for powder, cellulose, and composite materials. “The shirt grows in the field,” he says — and means a new symbiosis of technology and tradition that reconnects people with their land. While the West sees digitalization primarily as a threat to its own identity, Russia is betting on a “multi-infrastructure” that allows digital nomads to become rooted again without losing cultural continuity. In the German debate about AI, fears of losing control and job losses predominate. Russia shows that it can also be done differently: technology as an assistant, not a substitute. Human beings remain the benchmark; their natural intellect is the guiding authority. Perhaps one should ask in Berlin and Brussels whether the one-sided fixation on regulation is not obscuring the view of what really matters — the creative, sovereign person who rules over his tools and not the other way around. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN