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On Saturday, the Kirkuk Provincial Council is expected to convene to elect a new Turkmen governor, replacing former Governor Mohammed Samaan, who has been appointed to a ministerial position in the federal government.

The two KDP members are expected to boycott the session.

The PUK (five seats) will have to abide by its agreement with the Arab and Turkmen coalitions, which hold a combined eight seats, to rotate the governorship, with each side holding the position for two years.

 

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🚀🚀 — Despite the ongoing totally-not-a-cyberattack incident in US, Elon Musk's SpaceX managed to launch the Starship successfully

➡️ As noted by observers, SpaceX will try to catch the booster and the ship during this flight.

📝 It would be the first time they catch the ship, which would amount to a huge step forward for spaceflight.

🔗 SpaceX (@SpaceX)

 

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#BREAKING

🇪🇺🇺🇸✈️🚫 — The European Network Manager Operations Centre, the Eurocontrol, has suspended all flights from the EU-controlled European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) countries to the United States at the US FAA's request due to "technical issues."

 

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🇺🇸🤖❗️ — Air Space Intelligence (ASI), the company behind the FAA's new AI tool known as the SMART system, says the nationwide ground stop has nothing to do with its technology.

 

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🇺🇸🤷‍♂️⁉️ — The FAA "doesn't know yet what is going on" and the outage is "affecting different facilities in different ways," an airline source tells CNN.

 

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#BREAKING

🇺🇸🚂❗️ — Amtrak has now confirmed reports of outgoing outages on both its website and app!

It's unknown as now if such thing might be likely the result of higher than usual web traffic caused by the nationwide ground stop in the United States or due to malicious actions!

 

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🇺🇸✈️ — The FBI does not believe the nationwide FAA outage was caused by a cyberattack or criminal activity, reports Bloomberg

➡️ The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t believe the communication issue affecting air traffic control was due to a cyberattack or criminality, said a person familiar with the matter. One area of inquiry is whether the outage was caused by a software update, the person said.

📝 The Federal Aviation Administration posted Friday on its website that a ground stop affects all US airports and departing flights should remain grounded until further notice. It cited “extraordinary circumstances” and “reasons of safety.”

https://archive.ph/GBo42

 

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🇺🇸 Two vessels collided today in New Orleans.

 

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📢 🇺🇸 ✈️ Airlines are now being told by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the nationwide outage and resulting ground stop was prompted by a problem with network routers, starting at Chicago Midway International Airport, a source tells CNN.

📎 OSINTdefender

 

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🇬🇷🤝🇨🇾 — “Freedom for Cyprus” graffiti spotted in Ikaria, Greece painted over a Palestinian flag.

🔗 Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)