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US Senator Lindsey Graham visited a secret Ukrainian military drone factory just one day before his sudden death Saturday evening age 71.

EU Eyes 2040 Electrification Target To Slash Oil and Gas Dependence

Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com,

The European Commission is set to unveil next week an electrification target for 2040 in a bid to reduce the need for fossil fuels and strengthen the renewable energy sector in the EU, according to a draft proposal seen by Bloomberg News.

The Commission, the EU’s legislative arm, is expected to propose on July 17 a target for the share of electrification, still unspecified, as part of the energy consumption in the bloc by 2040.

“With decisive action at all levels, Europe can become the first electro-continent,” the European Commission said in the document seen by Bloomberg News.

“This profound transformation will require investments and lead to savings and benefits well beyond the energy system, from clean tech manufacturers to the installation sector, from more modern and competitive industries to emissions and pollution reduction in European cities.”

Higher electrification rates could help the EU replace two-thirds of its gas consumption and halve its oil consumption, according to provisional EC estimates in the draft proposal.

The expected decline in fossil fuel consumption could reduce the bloc’s energy import bill by a total of $228 billion (200 billion euros), the EC reckons.

The EU’s current electrification rate is about 23% and has been stagnant at around this number for nearly a decade. At the same time, countries like China, Japan, and South Korea have exceeded a 30% electrification rate.

The EU currently has an implicit electrification rate target of 32.5% by 2030, according to estimates by clean energy think tank Ember based on the individual National Energy and Climate Plans.

The EU Electrification Action Plan, expected next week, would contain an “ambitious electrification target,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said earlier this year.

The electrification target is expected to be expressed as a yet-to-be-defined percentage share of energy consumption by 2040, according to the draft document seen by Bloomberg News.

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/12/2026 - 07:50

IMF Downgrades Global Growth Forecast Second Time In A Row

The IMF downgraded global growth prospects for the second time this year, saying it expects the global economy to grow by just 3 percent in 2026.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, in January, this projection had still stood at 3.3 percent. While the downgrade is slight, it still conveys the multiple risks to the global economy currently present. As shocks from the Iran war persist, driving up the price of energy and other traded goods, disinflation has stalled and financial markets continue to be at risk of negative reactions.

The IMF saw a positive aspect in the global AI boom, creating an increase in demand for related technologies.

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Two countries upgraded since the last forecast were China and the UK, the latter one on a very low level, however. Other countries where economic growth is paper-thin and decreasing are France, Germany and Japan. All three are expected to grow by only 0.6–0.7 percent each this year. This number was as low as 0.9 percent for the Euro Area and 1.1 percent for Canada, giving rise to some doubts around the economic prospects of developed countries in general. The IMF meanwhile said the global economy weathered the current shocks "better than feared".

The organization also said that global first-quarter growth in 2026 turned out better than expected at an annualized 3.0 percent quarter-over-quarter, slightly above forecast. According to the IMF, the rise in renewable energy use was making economies less vulnerable to elevated energy prices which are currently an issue. The AI boom also helped some countries and territories to achieve better economic growth numbers, but this was mostly limited to Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia. China could also grow more than expected on the back of public investments and a high-tech manufacturing surge. Much of the rest of the world, however, pretty much suffered the negative effects of the current crisis without many upsides.

The IMF concludes that risks to the world economy were more balanced than in April, but still pointed in a negative direction as both peace in the Middle East and gains from the AI boom remain fragile. It also cautions that trade tensions could resurface as a result of war-induced shortages, which would put an additional damper on the economy.

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/12/2026 - 07:35

Looks like Spidey may be getting a Black Widow-sized surprise.

Record High 53% Of Gang Rape Suspects Were Foreigners In 2025 In Germany

Via Remix News,

The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

According to the statistics, 53 percent of the suspects — a total of 574 — did not have German citizenship in gang rape cases. Broken down by nationality, 110 suspects came from Syria, 64 from Afghanistan, 46 from Iraq, 44 from Turkey, and the rest from other

ountries, Focus Online reported.

Among the victims, 80 percent were German citizens.

While the report discloses that 509 suspects came from Germany, data about a possible migration background among German citizens was not recorded separately. Previous studies have shown that when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, a total of 75 percent of gang rapes are committed by individuals with a foreign first name.

The high number of foreigners involved in gang rape cases comes at a time when more and more foreigners have been naturalized as German citizens. Millions of migrants also have dual citizenship and whenever they rape, murder or steal, their crimes are recorded as “German” in the federal crime statistics.

🇩🇪Germany

2 Syrians have been convicted for taking turns gang raping a 27-year-old unconscious woman in Düsseldorf on top of the hood of a car, along with a third suspect who remains on the run from police.

At first, Saad A. (34) said he was "ashamed" to have a woman as his… pic.twitter.com/mRHFHsUHjw

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 22, 2026

The AfD has demanded that the interior ministry begin breaking down crime statistics not only by citizenship status but also by migration background, which would enable German authorities to determine integration success and crime rates among German citizens with a foreign background.

“Although the issue has been on the political agenda for years, there is clearly a lack of effective political and legal measures to prevent these crimes,” AfD politician Stephan Brandner told WELT.

He also responded to the fact that 72 percent of all solved cases involve a suspect who was already known to the police.

“This demonstrates a blatant failure of the judiciary, security authorities and politics. This requires consistent prosecution, faster procedures, harsher sanctions and – in the case of foreign perpetrators – consistent termination of residence. Only in this way can women be effectively protected from such acts,” Brandner stated.

During a session in the Bundestag earlier this month, Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel described a case from Nuremberg in which migrants allegedly subjugated underage girls with drugs and forced them into prostitution. Her speech was met with loud interjections in the plenary session, including laughter. According to the official Bundestag minutes, a specific MP, the Left Party’s Katrin Fey, laughed at this specific point in the address.

🇩🇪 AfD co-leader @Alice_Weidel asks German MPs, "What have you done to our country?" after exposing the migrant grooming gangs taking underage German girls as sex slaves in Nuremberg.

She's met with laughter from politicians of the legacy parties. pic.twitter.com/uR9NfEScSt

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 11, 2026

She then spoke about the consequences of migration policy for internal security. Weidel said that “violent, sexual and crude offenses are not ‘cold statistics,’ but daily companions of fear and ‘concern for our children.”

The AfD chairwoman then detailed the case at the Nuremberg Central Station, where young men from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and North African countries are alleged to have driven girls between the ages of 13 and 18 from precarious circumstances into drug addiction in order to force them into prostitution.

In March of this year, Jan van Aken, who was serving as co-leader of the German Left Party at the time, claimed that the most prominent cases of gang rape involved all White men during his appearance on a German podcast show hosted by Ben Berndt.

Remix News fact-checked his claim, finding that non-Whites rape at far higher rates than their White counterparts in Western countries.

Read more here...

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/12/2026 - 07:00

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