👮‍♂️ Texas officer fired after shooting hamburger-eating teenager

San Antonio Officer James Brennand was fired after shooting Erik Cantu, 17, on Oct. 2 in a fast food restaurant parking lot, police training commander Alyssa Campos said in a video statement released Wednesday. Brennand had responded to an unrelated disturbance at the fast-food restaurant when he saw the Cantu inside the car, which had evaded him a day earlier, Campos said.

“There is nothing I can say in defense of that officer’s actions that night,” Police Chief William McManus told WOAI-TV. “I think what happened, initially, there was some contact made, but that did not justify the shooting.”

The district attorney, said no decision had been made on whether to pursue charges against Brennand, pending the outcome of a police investigation into the shooting.

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🇨🇳 US issues sweeping restrictions on chip sales to China

The Biden administration announced sweeping new restrictions on the sale of semiconductor chips and manufacturing equipment to China on Friday in a major effort to impair Beijing’s military and technological capabilities.

The new rules require manufacturers, like Intel and Micron, to receive a license from the Commerce Department in order to export semiconductors and chip-making equipment to Chinese companies. In addition, the administration issued several foreign direct product rules, banning international companies from exporting chips built with US technology.

The White House’s Friday move to restrict US chip sales to China is an attempt to cut off Beijing’s access to American tech before the industry has even fully matured. 

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❗️Traffic and railway service have been suspended on the Crimean Bridge after a fuel tank caught fire on one of its sections, local authorities said.

According to the Crimean emergency services, the movement of trains across the strait has also been suspended.

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⚡️Navigation of ships in Kerch strait continues despite the fuel tank incident, the Russian Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport (Rosmorrechflot) told Sputnik

⚡️Zaporozhye NPP has been disconnected from Ukraine's power system, a local official said.

According to Vladimir Rogov, a senior official in the Zaporozhye regional government, the Ukrainian troops have damaged the last high-voltage communication link which connects the Zaporozhye NPP to Ukraine's power transmission system.

The official added that the NPP has automatically switched to operation on diesel generators.

⚡️⚡️⚡️A cargo vehicle exploded on Crimean Bridge, Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee says

⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the formation of a government commission to examine the Crimean Bridge incident, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

❗️Crimea's ferry crossing will start on Saturday, Crimean chief Aksenov says

❗️Video showing the collapsed motorway of the Crimean bridge

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⚡️There are no forecasts on how long it will take to repair the Crimean bridge, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

According to the head of Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov, one motorway section of the bridge is "visually intact".

❗️A video from surveillance cameras shows the moment the blast occurred on the Crimean bridge

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⚡️All trains to and from Crimea will be suspended temporarily, Russian railways say

⚡️Fire on train carrying diesel on Crimean bridge has been put out — Russian Emergency Ministry

❗️⛴ Kerch strait ferry line resumes operation, first ferry begins crossing, 3 more in line — Transport Ministry

❗️What is known so far about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge, which connects Crimean Peninsula and Krasnodar region:

▫️Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) said on Saturday that a truck was blown up on the Crimean Bridge, which caused seven fuel tanks of a railway train to catch fire

▫️Two motorway sections of the bridge have partially collapsed. The arch over the land part of the bridge has not been damaged, as estimated by NAC

▫️Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a government commission to be formed to inquire into the emergency on the Crimean Bridge

▫️A criminal case had been opened after the truck's explosion on the Crimean Bridge, Russian Investigative Committee said

▫️Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there are no forecasts about when the Crimean Bridge will be repaired

▫️All motor and rail traffic has been suspended on the bridge

▫️Russian railways said that the sale of train tickets to Crimea has been suspended because of the emergency on the bridge

▫️Ferry crossing in Kerch has resumed operation

⚡️Footage showing the emergency services extinguishing the fire after the blast on the Crimean Bridge

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Russian Railways take special control of cargo transportation to Crimea, company says

⚡️Moscow: Kiev regime's reaction to destruction of civilian infrastructure proves its terrorist nature

📌 Earlier, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, actually admitted Ukraine's involvement in the explosion on the Crimean bridge, by tweeting that “Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed." Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense also reacted to the explosion on the bridge, rhetorically asking “what’s next in the line”.

❗️Crimea is fully supplied with fuel and food, there are no risks - Sergei Aksenov, head of Crimea

🇺🇸📹 Journalists tried to ask Joe Biden a question about Vladimir Putin, but the US President literally ran away from them 🤷‍♂️

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“A former colleague asked me to drop the coordinates of this house”: A policeman who handed over coordinates for a missile attack to Ukrainian troops has confessed to his crime after being caught in Kherson

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