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🇲🇽 Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is resigning from her position to launch a bid to become the country’s first female president. Sheinbaum, who became Mexico City’s first female mayor in 2018, is a member of the country’s ruling Morena Party, which is heavily favored to win the June 2024 election to replace current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (who can’t seek reelection due to term limits). The Morena Party recently agreed to announce the winner of its internal presidential selection process – which features Sheinbaum as one of two favorites – on September 6.

🇺🇦🛢️ The CIA reportedly warned Ukraine not to attack the Nord Stream pipelines last summer, three months before the pipelines were blown up. That’s according to a newly-published WSJ report, which cites multiple officials with knowledge of the exchange between the two countries. The Journal says Ukraine was initially planning to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in concert with a nearby NATO exercise in mid-June, but ended up scrapping the mission after the CIA notified a group of allied countries about Kyiv’s secret plans. The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which represent the main energy connection between Russia and Europe, were ultimately damaged in late September due to a series of underwater explosions for which no group has claimed responsibility.

🇷🇴⚖️ Romanian prosecutors upgraded their criminal charges against social media influencer Andrew Tate. The British-US citizen, his brother Tristan, and two others are now being charged with human trafficking in continued form, which represents a more serious crime than separate counts of trafficking, per local Bucharest officials. The four suspects are currently under house arrest pending a criminal investigation for suspected human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women – accusations they have all denied.