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🇨🇳 Chinese tech giant Huawei is now selling the world’s first tri-fold phone. Huawei’s Mate XT is exclusive to the Chinese market and carries a price tag of ~$2,800. The tri-fold device has racked up 6.3+ million pre-orders since it was first unveiled on September 7 – though Huawei is only expected to make ~1 million Mate XTs by the end of this year. This gap in supply vs. demand has prompted many local vendors and scalpers to more than triple their prices for the Mate XT ahead of today’s launch.

🇷🇺 A marital and business spat involving Russia’s richest woman led to a deadly shooting. Tatyana Bakalchuk is the founder of Wildberries, the country’s biggest e-commerce platform, and the first self-made woman billionaire out of Russia. On Wednesday, Bakalchuk’s estranged husband was arrested for murder after a shootout in the lobby of Wildberries’ HQ in Moscow that left two people dead. Bakalchuk accused her estranged husband of attempting to seize the office, while her husband says he came for planned negotiations but was provoked into an armed conflict by security.

💥 Israel-Hezbollah update: Both sides exchanged airstrikes across the Lebanon-Israel border yesterday. In a televised speech during the strikes, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Israel's remote detonations of pagers and hand-held radios in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday amounted to "a declaration of war," and promised future retaliation. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the pager and radio attacks targeting Hezbollah members.