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Updated: 2026-09-10
NATO chief says Hormuz mine clearance 'not a NATO mission' The remarks in Berlin come as Washington presses European members to absorb the full weight of the continent's convention…
Yemeni army storms Red Sea islands, captures Bab al-Mandab Strait Yemeni media quoted officials as saying that ‘navigation is safe’ in the strategic waterway, and that operations w…
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BREAKING | Massive explosions reported in south Lebanon's Ali al-Taher Heights as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and War Minister Israel Katz announce that Israeli occupation forces…
The Saudi cutout and the CIA shadow over 9/11 As Riyadh fights 9/11 families in US courts, buried intelligence testimony points beyond the kingdom to a far more protected hand. By …
⭕️ According to a statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces, Saudi warplanes carried out 64 airstrikes over the past 24 hours across the governorates of Taiz, Hodeidah, Marib, and Al-Ja…
⭕️ OPEC on Thursday cut its forecast for global oil demand growth in 2026 to 380,000 barrels per day, according to a copy of its monthly report, marking the group’s fifth consecuti…
A head-to-head of how Backpack and Phantom advertise on Telegram — the Solana-rooted exchange-and-wallet versus the leading self-custody wallet, their creative and targeting differences, and what the Telegram Ads Spy archive reveals.
How advertisers reach Belgian audiences on Telegram — one of Europe's toughest gambling and ad-restriction regimes pushing operators offshore, a Dutch/French/German language split, and EU-regulated crypto and trading.
How advertisers reach Irish audiences on Telegram — an English-speaking EU member inside the UK-Ireland creative pool, a fintech and tech-HQ hub, EU-regulated crypto and forex, and offshore gambling under a tightening licensing regime.
How advertisers reach Korean audiences on Telegram — the real-name banking regime that pushes activity offshore, one of the world's most intense retail-crypto cultures, gaming and esports adjacency, and won-denominated payment friction.
Flags — the regions we asked our observer pool for while recording this ad in this channel. That is a label on our request, not a confirmed place of viewing: when no account is available in the requested country the pool silently substitutes another and does not say so. It is not the advertiser's targeting country either. We stopped requesting the region on {date}, so newer creatives carry no flags at all. The channel's main country (by its language) is highlighted in blue; regions under 5% are collapsed into +N.