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title: Live: Explore the night sky and the mysterious planet parade
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<p>A stunning "parade of planets" will grace the night sky this week, with all seven of Earth's celestial neighbors – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn – being briefly visible in the evening sky. The planetary parade occurs when multiple planets line up along the great circle that represents the Earth's orbit around the sun. </p>
<p>Join CGTN to explore the breathtaking night sky and the mysterious planet parade!</p>
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title: Live: Captivating scenery of Xiangshan Scenic Area in Guilin
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<p>Join us for a stunning view from Xiangshan Scenic Area, a renowned national park in Guilin City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Enjoy panoramic views of the lush landscapes, winding rivers and karst mountains that define this beautiful region. </p>
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title: Live: Explore the prototype of Avatar Hallelujah Mountains in C China
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<p>Zhangjiajie, a natural wonderland, features thousands of spectacular peaks rising abruptly from the ground, waters winding across, and clouds floating gently with the wind, creating a dreamy and illusory scene. It served as the inspiration for the movie <em>Avatar</em>. The fascinating Hallelujah Mountains in the movie were filmed here. The unique landforms of Zhangjiajie blend perfectly with the fantasy scenes in the film, captivating countless tourists. They all set foot on this magical land, seeking that touch of fantasy from the movie.</p>
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title: Live: View of Jinghang Grand Canal in China&amp;#039;s Zhejiang Province
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<p>The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal plays an important role in promoting and stabilizing China's economic development. It served as a crucial transportation route for various necessities during ancient times and is celebrated as a UNESCO World Heritage site in recognition of its cultural and historical significance. Traversing the canal, Maojiadu Bridge offers a harmonious view of the towns along both sides of the waterway. Join CGTN live to take a look at the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in east China's Zhejiang Province.</p>
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title: Watch: NPC deputies in action for the people
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<p>From bustling city streets to remote mountain villages, from snow-capped plateaus to vast grasslands, China's grassroots voices are being heard. Deputies of the National People's Congress (NPC) from all walks of life are taking public concerns and bringing real changes and solutions – promoting rural revitalization, protecting the environment, safeguarding workers' rights, and driving the development of new-quality productive forces. This is China's whole-process people's democracy in action, close to the people, making a difference. CGTN presents "People's Choice, Deputies' Voice" – a special documentary following NPC deputies across China as they turn public concerns into meaningful changes.</p>
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title: Russia-Ukraine conflict three years on: Is the dawn of peace in sight?
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<p>Since the Russia-Ukraine conflict erupted on February 24, 2022, it has resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties and displaced millions. However, a potential shift in U.S. policy – from staunchly supporting Ukraine to prioritizing a swift end to the conflict, even at Ukraine's expense – has introduced the possibility of a different outcome.</p>
<p>On the ground, Russian forces have made significant territorial gains. Colonel General Sergei Rudsky, first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, reported that approximately 75 percent of the Donetsk region, along with parts of Zaporizhia and Kherson, has been liberated from Ukrainian forces. In the Lugansk region, less than 1 percent remains under Ukrainian control.</p>
<p>In a recent escalation, Russia launched over 200 drones on Ukraine in a single overnight attack. Describing it as "the largest of the war," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the assault and urged unity among Ukraine's allies.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Ukraine and its European partners have grown uneasy due to recent developments involving U.S. President Donald Trump. Tensions have risen over a controversial U.S.-Ukraine <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-23/Trump-says-close-to-minerals-deal-with-Ukraine-Will-Zelenskyy-accept--1BdEYGoEd0c/p.html">minerals deal</a>, Trump's criticism of Zelenskyy – whom he labeled "<a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-21/Trump-Zelenskyy-spats-Who-said-what--1BahSbAMVjy/p.html">a dictator without elections</a>" – and U.S.-Russia peace talks in Riyadh conducted without Ukraine and the European Union's participation.</p>
<p>During a press conference on Sunday, Zelenskyy expressed a willingness to step down if it would secure peace. "If peace for Ukraine requires me to leave my post, I am ready," he said. However, the impact of such a proposal remains uncertain, given the conflict's far-reaching consequences, including disruptions to global energy and food supplies and its strain on European economies.</p>
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<p><strong>A possible ending in sight?</strong></p>
<p>While Trump's administration is actively engaged in negotiations with both Russia and Ukraine, aiming to broker a deal to end the three-year conflict, experts are divided on the likelihood of success. Some see signs of a potential resolution, while others highlight significant obstacles.</p>
<p>Sun Taiyi, an associate professor of political science at Christopher Newport University in the U.S., noted that Zelenskyy, Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin all have strong incentives to end the conflict quickly.</p>
<p>"Zelenskyy recognizes that U.S. support is waning, and Europe is reluctant to fill the gap. Putin, despite his ability to prolong the war, may seize the opportunity to secure a favorable deal under Trump's presidency. Meanwhile, Trump faces pressure from his base to disentangle the U.S. from the conflict," Sun explained.</p>
<p>Sun added that Trump may aim to declare a diplomatic victory during his anticipated address to Congress on March 4. Meanwhile, Putin could seek to announce success ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War in May. "These dates could serve as deadlines for their respective goals," Sun said.</p>
<p>However, he cautioned that reconciling the conflicting interests of the three parties will be challenging. "Each leader seeks to maximize their gains from any ceasefire. Ukraine wants security guarantees and a path to NATO membership, the U.S. is focused on accessing rare earth minerals and other resources, and Putin demands territorial concessions and assurances against further Western expansion," Sun said.</p>
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<p><strong>Will their respective demands be met?</strong></p>
<p>Cui Zheng, director of the Research Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asian Countries at Liaoning University, emphasized that Russia has no illusions about the complexities of ending the conflict. "While a U.S.-brokered ceasefire is possible, Trump has yet to present a detailed peace plan. Russia, on the other hand, has clear objectives centered on long-term security." </p>
<p>Cui added that current U.S.-Russia negotiations are still in the preliminary stage of exchanging proposals, making a swift and straightforward ceasefire unlikely.</p>
<p>Chen Yu, deputy director of the Institute of Eurasian Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said the biggest hurdle to peace is the significant divergence in the parties' positions, including whether Ukraine and the EU will accept the territorial status and Ukraine's non-membership in NATO, which were preliminarily reached in Riyadh talk, and whether Russia would reject Kyiv's demand for the deployment of European troops in Ukraine.</p>
<p>"Even if a truce is reached, future negotiations may face numerous challenges, and the peace process is unlikely to be resolved quickly," Chen said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, European leaders are concerned about the implications of the U.S.-Russia negotiations. French President Emmanuel Macron convened a meeting with major European leaders before the Riyadh talks. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that a failed Ukraine would weaken both Europe and the United States.</p>
<p>Sun noted that European leaders fear a fragile ceasefire without robust guarantees could embolden future Russian aggression. "Unlike Trump's apparent focus on a quick resolution – potentially freezing current frontlines – Europeans seek a ceasefire with ironclad enforcement to deter Putin from reigniting hostilities," Sun explained.</p>
<p>As discussions over the minerals deal continue and the U.S. and Russia prepare for further talks, Sun observed that U.S. policy under Trump has become more transactional, prioritizing economic gains over the geopolitical and strategic objectives pursued by the Biden administration.</p>
<p>Zhao Huirong, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies, emphasized that Trump's approach is driven by U.S. interests. "The Trump administration aims to shed the 'burden' of the Russia-Ukraine conflict as quickly as possible while maximizing benefits. By negotiating separately with Russia and Ukraine, Trump positions the U.S. as a dominant mediator," Zhao said.</p>
<p>In essence, while the U.S. appears to mediate the conflict, its actions reflect a political game centered on "America First," with the broader implications for peace still uncertain, Zhao said.</p>
<p>Read more: <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-23/Trump-says-close-to-minerals-deal-with-Ukraine-Will-Zelenskyy-accept--1BdEYGoEd0c/p.html">Prospects of the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal: Will it be signed in near future?</a></p>
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title: AI Art sold at Christies auction
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<p>Artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in our daily lives, and now, it's also being embraced by prominent artists who say they've discovered a new way to express their experiences, emotions, and perspectives - with their works going under the hammer at a Christie's auction.</p>
<p>However, for many, AI's use in art is highly controversial with critics arguing the software artists are using is trained on copyrighted work, without proper consent.</p>
<p>CGTN’s Mitch McCann reports.</p>
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<p>Argentina’s President Javier Milei is moving fast with his economic program, focused in large part on reducing inflation and reducing regulations. In contrast to the new economic policy being pursued in the United States, Milei’s government is removing tariffs on imports. </p>
<p>CGTN’s Joel Richards reports.</p>
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title: Chinese film premieres at Slamdance Film Festival
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<p>The Slamdance film festival is being held for the first time in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>The event draws some of the most talented film makers from around the world, and this year’s selection includes a documentary style film called “Banr” from China.</p>
<p>Its world premiere was held in a Hollywood red carpet event, highlighting another milestone for the Chinese film industry this year, following the animation blockbuster “Ne Zha 2,” which broke several box office records in recent weeks.</p>
<p>CGTN’s Ediz Tiyansan reports.</p>
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title: Honduran president&amp;#039;s helicopter makes emergency landing, no casualties
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<p>A helicopter carrying Honduran President Xiomara Castro made an emergency landing on Tuesday, in a mountainous area of Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Cortes, due to poor visibility from bad weather, the government said.</p>
<p>No casualties were reported.</p>
<p>(With input from Xinhua)</p>
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title: 18 killed, 31 injured as bus overturns in eastern Thailand
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<p>Eighteen people were killed and 31 others injured in a bus accident in eastern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said.</p>
<p>The accident occurred early Wednesday in Prachinburi province when a double-decker bus carrying 49 people on a study tour lost control and overturned on a downhill road, the local public relations office said.</p>
<p>The injured were taken to the nearest hospital for treatment.</p>
<p>Preliminary investigations suggest a brake system failure may have caused the accident.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: Hamas says solution reached over release of Palestinian prisoners
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-26/Hamas-says-solution-reached-over-release-of-Palestinian-prisoners-1BiDzld6Okw/img/c947578ea4cc47efbac456b5fba09b37/c947578ea4cc47efbac456b5fba09b37-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>An agreement was reached to resolve the problem of delaying the release of Palestinian prisoners who were supposed to be released in the last batch, Hamas said on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The prisoners will be released simultaneously with the bodies of the Israeli hostages that were agreed to be handed over during the first stage of the Gaza ceasefire deal, Hamas said in a statement.</p>
<p>A Hamas leadership delegation concluded a visit to Cairo, where the delegation members met with Egyptian officials, the statement said, noting that discussions were held on the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, the exchange of prisoners, and the prospects for the second phase of negotiations.</p>
<p>"The delegation of the movement's leadership stressed its clear position on the necessity of full and precise commitment to all its provisions and stages," the statement added.</p>
<p>Israel announced early Sunday that it had postponed the release of Palestinian detainees, who were set to be freed Saturday under the ceasefire agreement, until more hostages are released.</p>
<p>Israel was expected to release more than 600 Palestinian detainees on Saturday after Hamas freed six hostages earlier in the day.</p>
<p>However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement that it had been decided to delay the release of Palestinian detainees scheduled for Saturday "until the release of the next hostages is secured, without the disgraceful ceremonies."</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Israeli officials said Israel was considering an extension of the 42-day truce in Gaza as it seeks to bring home the remaining 63 hostages, while putting off agreement on the future of the enclave for now.</p>
<p>The initial phase of the ceasefire deal, launched with the backing of the United States and the help of Egyptian and Qatari mediators on January 19, is due to end on Saturday and it remains unclear what will follow.</p>
<p>Hamas official Basem Naim said progress could not be made while the prisoners were still being held but that Hamas was committed to a permanent ceasefire and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.</p>
<p>The deal, which included the release of 33 Israeli hostages in return for some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli jails and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from some of their positions in Gaza, has survived numerous hiccups.</p>
<p>So far, 29 Israeli hostages – plus five Thais – have been released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, with the bodies of four more hostages, initially due to be handed over on Thursday, still to come.</p>
<p>(With input from agencies)</p>

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title: U.S., Ukraine agree on terms of critical minerals deal: Reuters
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-26/U-S-Ukraine-agree-on-terms-of-critical-minerals-deal-Reuters-1BiFsiEpCms/img/7fb68925eefc4569b45daea229b42345/7fb68925eefc4569b45daea229b42345-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The U.S. and Ukraine have agreed on the terms of a draft minerals deal central to Kyiv's push to win Washington's support as President Donald Trump seeks to rapidly end the war with Russia, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two sources with knowledge of the matter.</p>
<p>According to the report, a source familiar with the contents of the draft agreement said that it does not specify any U.S. security guarantees or continued flow of weapons but says that the United States wants Ukraine to be "free, sovereign and secure."</p>
<p>Future weapons shipments are still being discussed between Washington and Kyiv, the report added, citing one of the sources familiar with the deal.</p>
<p>Trump told reporters that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to come to Washington on Friday to sign a "very big deal." This came after the two leaders exchanged hostile words last week.</p>
<p>The U.S. president, who has cast the deal as a repayment for billions of dollars in aid to Kyiv, also said some form of peacekeeping troops are needed in Ukraine if an agreement to end the conflict is struck. Moscow, which launched a special military operation in Ukraine three years ago, has refused to accept any deployment of NATO forces.</p>
<p>Some European countries have said they would be willing to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine. Trump said on Monday that Moscow would accept such peacekeepers, but the Kremlin denied that on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Trump's rush to impose an end to Russia-Ukraine conflict and his lurch toward Moscow has stoked fears of far-reaching U.S. concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin that could undermine security in Ukraine and Europe and alter the geopolitical landscape.</p>
<p>Officials on both sides have agreed to the draft and advised it should be signed, the sources said. The deal could open up Ukraine's vast mineral wealth to the U.S.</p>
<p>"What we're doing is now we're saying, look, we want to be secured," Trump said. "The American taxpayer now is going to get their money back, plus."</p>
<p>Zelenskyy refused to sign an earlier draft of a minerals agreement as Washington sought rights to $500 billion in Ukraine's natural wealth. Kyiv protested it had received far less than that in U.S. aid and the deal lacked the security guarantees Ukraine needs.</p>
<p>Under the terms of a draft minerals agreement, according to sources familiar with its contents, the United States and Ukraine would establish a Reconstruction Investment Fund to collect and reinvest revenues from Ukrainian sources, including minerals, hydrocarbons and other extractable materials.</p>
<p>Ukraine would contribute to the fund 50 percent of the revenue minus operating expenses and continue until the contributions reach the sum of $500 billion. The United States would provide a long-term financial commitment to the development of a "stable and economically prosperous Ukraine."</p>
<p>Asked what Ukraine would get in return for the minerals deal, Trump cited what he said was $350 billion already provided by the U.S. "and lots of military equipment and the right to fight on."</p>
<p>Scott Anderson, a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said that while the minerals deal would look like "a kind of piracy" to much of the world, it is necessary to get buy-in from Trump and Republican lawmakers.</p>
<p>"They say this gives him (Trump) real skin in the game. I think there is real logic to that," Anderson said.</p>
<p>"I hear that he's coming on Friday," Trump told reporters. "Certainly it's okay with me if he'd like to. And he would like to sign it together with me."</p>
<p>Ukraine has deposits of 22 of the 34 minerals identified by the European Union as critical, according to Ukrainian data. They include industrial and construction materials, ferroalloy, precious and non-ferrous metals, and some rare earth elements.</p>
<p>Ukraine's reserves of graphite, a key component in electric vehicle batteries and nuclear reactors, represent 20 percent of global resources.</p>
<p>(With input from Reuters)</p>

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title: DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model: Reuters
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<p>Chinese startup DeepSeek triggered a $1-trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors.</p>
<p>Now, the Hangzhou-based firm is accelerating the launch of the successor to January's R1 model, according to three people familiar with the company, Reuters reported on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The company had planned to release R2 in early May but now wants it out as early as possible, two of them said, without providing specifics, according to Reuters, adding that DeepSeek says it hopes the new model will produce better coding and be able to reason in languages beyond English.</p>
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title: Mystery illness in Congo kills over 50 people
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<p>An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.</p>
<p>The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding – and death has been 48 hours in most cases and "that's what's really worrying," said Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center.</p>
<p>These "hemorrhagic fever" symptoms are commonly linked to known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow fever, but researchers have ruled these out based on tests of more than a dozen samples collected so far.</p>
<p>The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on January 21, with 419 cases recorded and 53 deaths.</p>
<p>The outbreak began in the village of Boloko after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours, the Africa office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday.</p>
<p>There have long been concerns about diseases jumping from animals to humans in places where wild animals are popularly eaten. The number of such outbreaks in Africa has surged by more than 60 percent in the last decade, the WHO said in 2022.</p>
<p>After the second outbreak of the mystery disease began in the village of Bomate on February 9, samples from 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, for testing, the WHO said. All samples were negative for common hemorrhagic fever diseases, although some tested positive for malaria.</p>
<p>Last year, another mystery flu-like illness that killed dozens of people in another part of Congo was determined likely to be malaria.</p>
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title: China, Germany eye closer cooperation amid rising protectionism
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-26/China-Germany-eye-closer-cooperation-amid-rising-protectionism-1BiLlYlk2NG/img/84212760f0d9486caeb5211f969bb31e/84212760f0d9486caeb5211f969bb31e-750.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>With protectionism emerging as one of the strongest headwinds faced by the global economy, some 200 representatives from Chinese and German government and business circles have backed the idea of closer cooperation between the two nations.</p>
<p>The consensus among participants in the China-Germany Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum, which was held on Monday in Stuttgart, Germany, was evident: international cooperation should be strengthened, not undermined.</p>
<p>Under the theme of "New Opportunities for China-Germany Economic and Trade Cooperation in the Context of Global Supply Chain Restructuring," the forum was organized by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).</p>
<p>Johannes Jung, director of strategy, commercial law, foreign trade and Europe at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, shared his concerns over the rise of protectionism at the forum. Fears have been growing among many internationally active companies about protectionist tendencies, said Jung.</p>
<p>These companies need "open markets, fair trade relations and reliable international perception" and the confidence that their investments abroad are safe, Jung said, adding that these companies need to make sure they will find equal, fair, competitive conditions abroad.</p>
<p>Jung believes that regular political and private visits are important building blocks to ensure mutual understanding and to further deepen cooperation.</p>
<p>Despite the rise of trade protectionism, the trend of economic globalization is irreversible, and all parties should strengthen international cooperation based on trust, according to Jung.</p>
<p>The CCPIT is willing to join hands with German partners to tap into the potential of trade cooperation, continue to provide opportunities for high-quality German products such as autos and agricultural machinery to enter the Chinese market, and strengthen cooperation in industrial and supply chains, said Ren Hongbin, chairman of CCPIT.</p>
<p>The CCPIT intends to promote the development of bilateral investment, create a good environment for business cooperation, and encourage more competent Chinese companies to invest in Germany, Ren added.</p>
<p>Tim Wenniges, deputy chief executive officer (CEO) of Entrepreneurs Baden-Wuerttemberg Association, considers the forum as a "positive signal" that "cooperation is both possible and desired."</p>
<p>As a leading organization representing the economy of Baden-Wuerttemberg state, Entrepreneurs Baden-Wuerttemberg Association consists of 65 associations from 50 industries and represents businesses across various sectors, from industry and services to trade and craftsmanship.</p>
<p>According to Wenniges, China is one of the most important trading partners for the German economy, and economic ties between the two nations are extensive, with mutual investments and engagements.</p>
<p>"Around the world, we see increasing tendencies toward economic closure, but businesses are resisting these trends. Together, we aim to promote innovation, engage in trade, and foster deeper exchanges in various fields," he said.</p>
<p>The global supply chain is undergoing a profound revolution, which will inevitably have a great impact on cooperation between Chinese and German companies, said Wang Xiao, director of Genertec International Holding Co., Ltd.</p>
<p>Enhanced cooperation based on the principles of openness, tolerance and mutual benefit, is the best way to overcome challenges and achieve a win-win result, said Wang.</p>
<p>China has been an appealing destination for foreign investments due to its open approach, Huang Yiyang, the consul general of China in Frankfurt, underlined. Huang is looking forward to seeing more German companies benefiting from the opportunities that arise from the industrial transformation and technological innovation currently underway in China.</p>
<p>Lin Shunjie, chairman of China International Exhibition Center Group Limited, presented the third China International Supply Chain Expo, which is set to kick off on July 16 in China. The company signed letters of intent and cooperation memorandums for the exhibition with German partners like Wolqe GmbH and the China Network Baden-Wuerttemberg.</p>
<p>A total of 19 German companies attended the last China International Supply Chain Expo, Lin said. The German companies, which come from smart auto, clean energy and advanced manufacturing industries, are important players along the global supply chain, and their presence demonstrates the interconnection of the supply chain, added Lin, convinced that there will be more German companies at the third China International Supply Chain Expo.</p>

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title: South Korea birthrate rises for first time in 9 years, marriages surge
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-26/South-Korea-birthrate-rises-for-first-time-in-9-years-marriages-surge-1Bj6rp1bxtu/img/7db90423a1464b1f9d9a62dac2688626/7db90423a1464b1f9d9a62dac2688626-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>South Korea's fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, fueled by a rise in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that the country's demographic crisis might have turned a corner.</p>
<p>The country's fertility rate, defined as the average number of children a woman is expected to have during her reproductive life, stood at 0.75 in 2024, up from 0.72 in 2023, according to Statistics Korea.</p>
<p>In 2023, South Korea recorded the lowest fertility rate in the world for the eighth consecutive year, raising concerns over the economic shock to society from such a rapid decline. The country had seen its fertility rate plummet from 1.24 in 2015.</p>
<p>Since 2018, South Korea has been the only member of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) with a rate below 1.</p>
<p>In response to the demographic crisis, South Korea rolled out various measures to encourage marriage and childbirth, after now impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a "national demographic crisis" and a plan to create a dedicated ministry devoted to tackling low birth rates.</p>
<p>"There was a change in social value, with more positive views about marriage and childbirth," Park Hyun-jung, an official at Statistics Korea, told a briefing, noting the impact of delayed marriages during the pandemic and a rise in marriages for those in their early 30s.</p>
<p>"It is difficult to measure how much each factor contributed to the rise in new births, but they themselves had an impact on each other too," Park said.</p>
<p>Marriages, a leading indicator of new births, jumped 14.9 percent in 2024, the biggest spike since the data tracking began in 1970. For the first time in 11 years, marriages also increased by 1.0 percent in 2023, driven by a post-pandemic boost.</p>
<p>In the Asian country, there is a high correlation between marriages and births, with a time lag of one or two years, as marriage is often seen as a prerequisite to having children.</p>
<p>South Korea continues to face a shrinking population, with 120,000 more deaths than births in 2024, marking the fifth consecutive year of natural population decline. Seoul, the capital, reported the lowest birthrate at 0.58, reflecting regional disparities. The administrative city of Sejong was the only major center where population grew.</p>
<p>South Korea's population, which hit a peak of 51.83 million in 2020, is expected to shrink to 36.22 million by 2072, according to the latest projection by the statistics agency.</p>

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title: Trump floats $5 million &amp;#039;gold card&amp;#039; as a route to U.S. citizenship
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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Governors Working Session in the State Dining Room at the White House on February 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. /VCG</p>
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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a visa program for foreign investors with a so-called "gold card" that could be bought for $5 million as a route to American citizenship.</p>
<p>Trump told reporters he will replace the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program, which allows foreign investors of large sums of money that create or preserve U.S. jobs to become permanent residents, with a so-called "gold card."</p>
<p>The EB-5 program grants "green cards" to foreigners promising to invest in U.S. businesses.</p>
<p>"We are going to be selling a gold card," Trump said. "We are going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million," he continued.</p>
<p>"It's going to give you green card privileges plus its going to be a route to (American) citizenship, and wealthy people would be coming into our country by buying this card," Trump said, adding that details about the scheme will come out in two weeks.</p>
<p>Trump added it is possible Russian oligarchs could qualify for the "gold cards," when asked by a journalist if those people would be eligible. "Yeah, possibly. Hey. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people," he said.</p>
<p>The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was created by Congress in 1990 to "stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors," according to the USCIS website.</p>
<p>"The EB-5 program ... It was full of nonsense, make believe and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low price. So the president said, rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we're going to end the EB-5 program. We're going to replace it with the Trump gold card," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters on Tuesday.</p>
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title: Chinese vice president meets with New Zealand deputy prime minister
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<p>Chinese Vice President Han Zheng (R) shakes hands with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters in Beijing, China, February 26, 2025. /Xinhua</p>
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<p>Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters in Beijing on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Han said that leaders of both sides met on the sidelines of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting last November, providing strategic guidance for the continued development of China-New Zealand relations from a new starting point.</p>
<p>Noting that as the China-New Zealand comprehensive strategic partnership enters its second decade, Han said that China attaches great importance to the development of China-New Zealand relations and stands ready to work with New Zealand to implement the important consensus reached by leaders of the two countries, enhance mutual understanding, and promote the sustained, sound and steady development of the China-New Zealand comprehensive strategic partnership.</p>
<p>Peters, meanwhile, said that New Zealand attaches importance to developing relations with China and is willing to strengthen dialogue, enhance understanding, and deepen economic and trade cooperation as an active partner of China.</p>
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title: U.S. launches private lunar lander to deliver NASA science instruments
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<p>Intuitive Machines' Athena lander on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, U.S., February 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>U.S. company Intuitive Machines launched its second lunar mission on Wednesday to deliver science payloads of NASA to the moon.</p>
<p>The mission, codenamed IM-2, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday evening.</p>
<p>After the launch, Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, Athena, will spend approximately one week in transit to the moon before landing on the lunar surface no earlier than March 6.</p>
<p>The lander is loaded with scientific instruments and will carry NASA science investigations and technology demonstrations to further understand the moon's environment and help prepare for future human missions to the lunar surface, according to NASA.</p>
<p>IM-2 is set to demonstrate lunar mobility, resource prospecting, and analysis of volatile substances from sub-surface materials, a critical step toward uncovering water sources beyond the Earth – a key component for establishing sustainable infrastructure both on the lunar surface and in space, according to Intuitive Machines.</p>
<p>Launched as a rideshare with the IM-2 delivery, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft also started its journey to lunar orbit, where it will map the distribution of the different forms of water on the moon.</p>
<p>Last year, Intuitive Machines made history when its first lunar lander, Odysseus, made a soft touchdown on the lunar surface, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface in more than 50 years.</p>
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title: Elon Musk releases game changing Grok 3 AI
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<p>Less than a year ago, it seemed that the AI chatbot race was primarily dominated by ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. But in the past month, the landscape has changed with the emergence of China’s DeepSeek, and now another competitor that comes from a man who constantly make headlines — Elon Musk. Mark Niu reports.</p>
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<p>U.S. President Trump has held his first cabinet meeting since taking office. He publicly backed his special advisor Elon Musk, charged with eliminating government waste and had conciliatory words on the U.S. relationship with China. CGTN’s White House Correspondent Nathan King reports.</p>
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<p>Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao has written a letter to Jamieson Greer, the newly appointed United States Trade Representative, congratulating him on his appointment and expressing China's concern about the U.S. tariff policy.</p>
<p>Since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and the United States, economic and trade relations have seen significant progress, Wang said, adding that the two countries' economic and trade cooperation has played a key role in driving economic growth, boosting employment and enhancing the well-being of people in both countries.</p>
<p>A healthy and sound China-U.S. economic and trade relationship aligns with the common interests of both countries and meets the expectations of the international community, he said.</p>
<p>He said that China is willing to work with the United States to create a better business environment for enterprises in both countries and deliver more tangible benefits to the two peoples.</p>
<p>China has expressed firm opposition to the United States' decision to impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods on the grounds of fentanyl-related issues and has taken corresponding countermeasures. This is a necessary move to protect China's legitimate rights and interests, he said.</p>
<p>China has also noticed that it is targeted by multiple investigations under a memorandum titled "America First Trade Policy," Wang said, adding that China hopes the United States will conduct these investigations with an objective, rational and professional attitude while enhancing transparency throughout the process.</p>
<p>"It is natural for China and the United States to have differences in the economic and trade field. We should address our respective concerns through equal dialogue and consultation," the minister said.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: EU warns of firm response to U.S. tariffs
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-28/EU-warns-of-firm-response-to-U-S-tariffs-1BlSiZjNg52/img/da8bc2320ffb4402ae1898cc48e90a01/da8bc2320ffb4402ae1898cc48e90a01-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Transatlantic trade tensions have escalated following U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of a 25-percent tariff on European imports, with European countries warning that Europe will react "firmly and immediately" against unjustified barriers.</p>
<p>The tariff plan announced by Trump on Wednesday covers various European imports, including cars and other goods. Speaking at a White House cabinet meeting, he claimed that the EU has "taken advantage of" the United States by blocking American cars and agricultural products.</p>
<p>In response, European Commission spokesperson Olof Gill said on Thursday at a press briefing that American businesses have reaped significant profits from investments in Europe.</p>
<p>"By creating a large and integrated single market, the European Union (EU) has facilitated trade, reduced costs for EU exporters, and harmonized standards and regulations across all our member states. As a result, U.S. investments in Europe are highly profitable," he stressed.</p>
<p>Regarding the tariffs, the European Commission said on Wednesday that the EU would react "firmly and immediately" against unjustified barriers to free and fair trade, including when tariffs are used to challenge legal and non-discriminatory policies.</p>
<p>Speaking in Washington on Thursday, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola underscored that Europe and the United States have shared values and warned against isolation. She reaffirmed that the EU is ready to respond "firmly and immediately against unjust barriers to free and fair trade."</p>
<p>France and Spain shared the EU stance on retaliation, calling for unity to defend Europe's interests.</p>
<p>According to French media Le Figaro, French Economy Minister Eric Lombard, who recently participated in the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, said that the EU must protect its interests by doing the same as what the United States did.</p>
<p>"We need to have a firm and proportionate reaction," French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu told France Info in an interview on Thursday. "The EU must react in the firmest possible way, in the most immediate way, and I insist in the most proportionate way, because that's how it works," he said.</p>
<p>The EU will defend itself "against those who attack it with absolutely unjustified tariffs that threaten our economic sovereignty," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said at an event in the Basque Region of northern Spain. He stressed that the EU was "prepared" and the member states will "adopt measures proportionate" in response to the tariffs.</p>
<p>He emphasized the EU's commitment to open trade and cooperation, in contrast to Trump's promotion of "isolation." "We will not abandon that route, because we will keep on looking for collaboration between countries, commercial openness and a multilateral system that is more important than ever," Sanchez said.</p>
<p>In addition, he rejected Trump's statement made on Wednesday that the EU was "formed to screw the United States," arguing that many of the rich in America are, in fact, "thanks to Europe."</p>
<p>On social media platform X, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk echoed Sanchez's stance. He posted: "The EU was not formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship."</p>
<p>Adolfo Urso, Italian Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, expressed concern over escalating trade tensions with the United States, noting that Italy, with its export-driven economy, is "obviously worried." Speaking to the media in Paris on Thursday, he stressed the need to avoid a trade war, emphasizing that the West should remain united rather than divided.</p>
<p>However, Italian industrial leaders have called for a stronger response, blaming Trump's policy for hindering Europe's economic development. Emanuele Orsini, president of the Italian industry association Confindustria, warned that Trump's tariffs disrupt trade dynamics and threaten European businesses and jobs.</p>
<p>"The real goal of the U.S. is the deindustrialization of our continent," he said in a statement. "Europe must change the gear: time is up. The measures announced today in Brussels are insufficient," he added, calling it a "dark hour" for Europe.</p>

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title: Negotiations on Gaza truce deal begin in Egypt&amp;#039;s Cairo
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<p>Israeli and Qatari delegations arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Thursday for Gaza ceasefire talks, with the participation of U.S. representatives, according to Egypt's State Information Service (SIS).</p>
<p>The SIS said in a statement that the parties have begun intensive discussions "on the next stages of the ongoing Gaza truce deal," while addressing ways to ensure the implementation of the previously agreed-upon understandings.</p>
<p>The negotiators also touched upon means to enhance the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, as part of the efforts to alleviate the suffering of its people and further support stability in the region, it added.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office announced that an Israeli negotiating delegation was sent to Cairo to continue the ceasefire talks, without providing further details.</p>
<p>The announcement came after the final exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners under the first phase of the truce was completed overnight between Wednesday and Thursday. The 42-day initial phase of the three-stage agreement is set to expire on Saturday.</p>
<p>In response to a question about whether the delegation heading to Cairo will discuss moving on to a second phase, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said, "Our delegation will go to Cairo and see whether we have common ground to negotiate."</p>
<p>"We said we are ready to extend the framework in return for the release of more hostages," he added. Israeli media said the minister was referring to the framework of phase one.</p>
<p>Earlier on Thursday, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israeli media that 59 hostages remain in Gaza and securing their release remains a top priority.</p>
<p>Hamas said on Thursday it was ready to begin talks on the second phase and that the only way the remaining hostages in Gaza would be freed is through commitment to the ceasefire.</p>
<p>The ongoing Gaza ceasefire agreement, which took effect on January 19, was brokered by Qatar and Egypt, with support from the United States.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: Russia against any European peacekeepers in Ukraine, Lukashenko says
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<p>Russia is categorically against the deployment of peacekeeping forces from European states to Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday.</p>
<p>In an interview with American blogger Mario Nawfal in Minsk, the Belarusian leader said Russia will never agree to EU peacekeeping forces in Ukraine. "At least, this is Russia's position today. Especially since the leadership of the European Union, primarily Germany and France, is taking a very aggressive position at the moment," Lukashenko said.</p>
<p>Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been quietly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to help enforce any future peace settlement with Russia, the Associated Press has reported.</p>
<p>Britain and France are at the forefront of the effort, though details remain scarce.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that Britain would "play our part" in any peacekeeping role in Ukraine, but could only do so with some kind of backup from the United States.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Lukashenko also said that during his latest contacts with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader confirmed his readiness for negotiations to resolve the situation in Ukraine, including with the Ukrainian side. No one will resolve Ukraine's issues without Ukraine, the Belarusian president stressed.</p>
<p>Touching on a possible U.S.-Ukraine deal on rare earth metals, Lukashenko said this "deal may be alarming for Russia and most likely is alarming" if it goes beyond economic relations.</p>
<p>(With input from agencies)</p>
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title: Trump dismisses Starmer&amp;#039;s call for U.S. military guarantees in Ukraine
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-28/Trump-dismisses-Starmer-s-call-for-U-S-military-guarantees-in-Ukraine-1BlX4L59lCg/img/377c928b51e945de8455df9bbb2936d5/377c928b51e945de8455df9bbb2936d5-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a minerals deal with Ukraine is the security guarantee Kyiv needs against Russia, brushing aside a plea from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a commitment of U.S. military support.</p>
<p>Starmer, who was meeting Trump at the White House for the first time since the U.S. leader took office, turned on the charm, saying peace in Ukraine had only become possible because of Trump.</p>
<p>However, underlying differences between the allies remained, including transatlantic frictions over U.S.-Russia talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Trump's tariff threats.</p>
<p>Before the meeting, Starmer had said there could be no long-term peace in Ukraine without firm U.S. security guarantees – an argument Trump all but dismissed.</p>
<p>"We are a backstop because we'll be over there, we'll be working," Trump said, referring to the economic partnership. "We're going to have a lot of people over there."</p>
<p>Asked whether he could trust Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said, "Trust and verify," echoing former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's views on negotiations with the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>Noting that talks towards ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict were moving briskly, Trump said, "It will either be fairly soon, or it won't be at all." Starmer said not just any deal would do, underscoring the concern among European nations that a rushed peace deal with Russia might lead to further instability in Europe.</p>
<p>"We have to get it right," Starmer said at a joint press conference with Trump. "It can't be peace that rewards the aggressor."</p>
<p>Starmer is the latest European leader to meet Trump, after French President Emmanuel Macron came to the White House on Monday for a friendly encounter that also displayed stark differences over the Russia-Ukraine conflict.</p>
<p>Starmer has signaled that Britain will increase defense spending and has tried to reassure the U.S. president that Europe will provide support and security guarantees to Kyiv if peace talks with Russia are successful.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Trump reaffirmed the United States' long-standing commitment to the mutual defense of NATO nations, even if European peacekeepers end up in Ukraine. "I support it. I don't think we're going to have any reason for it," he said.</p>
<p>Starmer has said he is open to British troops providing security guarantees to Ukraine but only alongside other European nations and with "the right conditions in place."</p>
<p>The two leaders also negotiated a bilateral trade agreement. A wide-ranging free trade deal has eluded the countries since Trump's 2017-2021 term in office, but the U.S. president said the two countries could reach a deal "very shortly."</p>
<p>Asked by a reporter whether Starmer had convinced him to abandon threats to impose tariffs on Britain, Trump said, "He tried. He was working hard, I'll tell you that."</p>
<p>"We could very well end up with a real trade deal where the tariffs wouldn't be necessary," Trump said. "We'll see."</p>
<p>(With input from Reuters)</p>

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<p>U.S President Donald Trump's swift reversal of Joe Biden's decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list highlights the ongoing U.S. flip-flopping on Cuba. In this video, we examine the harmful effects of U.S. sanctions, the questionable rationale behind its policies, and how global support for Cuba is pushing back against American pressure.</p>
<p>Is it time for the U.S. to change its approach, or will this cycle of hostility continue? Watch the video and share your thoughts in the comments below!</p>
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title: Backgrounder: Trump, Zelenskyy to meet amid war of words
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<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the United States on Thursday ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump scheduled for Friday.</p>
<p>The first face-to face meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy since the former was inaugurated on January 20, expected to focus on a rare minerals agreement, comes after a recent slew of high-profile verbal clashes between the pair.</p>
<p><strong>'Behind our backs'</strong></p>
<p>Trump and Zelenskyy have been trading barbs following a high-level U.S.-Russia meeting over the Russia-Ukraine conflict, held in Saudi Arabia on February 18.</p>
<p>Senior Russian and U.S. officials, including top diplomats from both countries, agreed on charting a path toward ending the conflict.</p>
<p>However, Ukraine was not invited, and in response Zelenskyy postponed a scheduled visit to Saudi Arabia on February 19, emphasizing that "negotiations should not take place behind our backs."</p>
<p>His reaction prompted a wave of verbal attacks from Trump, triggering a rare public back-and-forth between the leaders of two countries that have been steadfast allies since the conflict began three years ago.</p>
<p>Hours after the U.S.-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida that he was "much more confident" that the conflict would end.</p>
<p>When asked about Ukraine's absence at the negotiating table, Trump responded, "I hear that they're upset about not having a seat. Well, they've had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily."</p>
<p>He further suggested that Kyiv bore responsibility for starting the conflict, a stark departure from the long-standing stance of the United States and its allies. "You should have never started it. You could have made a deal," Trump added.</p>
<p>Trump also claimed that Zelenskyy's approval rating had plummeted to "4 percent" and called for new presidential elections in Ukraine as Zelenskyy's mandate has long expired.</p>
<p>Ukraine postponed its presidential election that was scheduled for 2024 because of the ongoing conflict.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy responded sharply to Trump's comments, accusing him of falling for Russian "disinformation."</p>
<p>"I believe that the United States helped (Vladimir) Putin break out of years of isolation," Zelenskyy told reporters on Wednesday, delivering some of his strongest criticism yet of the new U.S. administration.</p>
<p>He also urged Trump's team "to be more truthful" in their statements.</p>
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<p><strong>'Dictator' accusations</strong></p>
<p>The war of words further escalated when Trump labeled Zelenskyy a "Dictator without Elections" on his social media platform, Truth Social, on February 19.</p>
<p>"Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a country left," Trump wrote.</p>
<p>In the same post, Trump referred to Zelenskyy as "a modestly successful comedian" who "talked the United States into spending 350 billion dollars to go into a war that couldn't be won, that never had to start," and "will never be able to settle" without the United States and himself.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy pushed back by saying that the United States had given $67 billion in military aid and $31.5 billion in support for Ukraine's budget.</p>
<p>He also pointed out that his approval rating stands above 50 percent, referring to a recent poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.</p>
<p>However, on the eve of Zelenskyy's visit, Trump on February 27 voiced respect for the Ukrainian president, downplaying the earlier jibe that he was a "dictator."</p>
<p>"Did I say that? I can't believe I said that," Trump said when asked by journalists about his recent comment.</p>
<p><strong>'Zelenskyy has no cards'</strong></p>
<p>Trump depicted Zelenskyy's presence at peace talks as "not very important" on February 21.</p>
<p>In an interview on Fox News Radio's The Brian Kilmeade Show, Trump criticized Zelenskyy's handling of the war. "I've been watching this man for years now, as his cities get demolished, as his people get killed, as the soldiers get decimated."</p>
<p>Trump went on to argue that Zelenskyy lacks leverage in negotiations. "He has no cards," said Trump.</p>
<p>The American president said that Zelenskyy's participation in talks over the past three years had not led to any substantial progress.</p>
<p>"He's been at meetings for three years, and nothing got done," Trump said.</p>
<p>While acknowledging the devastation in Ukraine, Trump argued that Zelenskyy's involvement in peace talks has made it more difficult to reach deals. "He makes it very hard to make deals. But look what's happened to his country, it's been demolished."</p>
<p><strong>'Ukraine can forget about joining NATO'</strong></p>
<p>Trump said on February 26 that Ukraine could "forget about" joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and he would try to get Ukraine as much land as possible from Russia.</p>
<p>"NATO, you can forget about it," Trump told reporters before convening a meeting of his cabinet members inside the White House.</p>
<p>"I think that's probably the reason the whole thing started," he said.</p>
<p>The U.S. president made the remarks when asked what concessions he would like to see at the negotiating table with Russia.</p>
<p>Trump, who has been trying to broker peace for the three-year conflict between Kyiv and Moscow, also said that he will try to let Ukraine take back as much Ukrainian territory currently occupied by Russia as possible.</p>
<p>"We're going to do the best we can to make the best deal we can for both sides, but for Ukraine, we're going to try very hard to make a good deal so that they can get as much back as possible. We want to get as much back as possible," he said.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy said that he was willing to step down as president if that would mean Ukraine could become a member of NATO.</p>
<p>(With input from agencies)</p>
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title: Sinner&amp;#039;s Laureus Sportsman of Year nomination revoked after doping ban
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-28/Sinner-s-Laureus-Sportsman-of-Year-nomination-revoked-after-doping-ban-1BlRollKqR2/img/622e353990734c16a98481cfca0453ee/622e353990734c16a98481cfca0453ee-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The Laureus Academy revoked tennis number one Jannik Sinner's nomination for its annual World Sportsman of the Year Award on Thursday, citing his three-month doping ban.</p>
<p>Sinner, who accepted the ban earlier this month, had tested positive for anabolic agent clostebol which the 23-year-old said had entered his system from a member of his support team through massages and sports therapy. The ban will end on May 4.</p>
<p>"We have followed this case, the decisions of the relevant global bodies and – whilst we note the extenuating circumstances involved – feel that the three-month ban renders the nomination ineligible," Laureus Academy Chairman Sean Fitzpatrick said in a letter addressed to nomination panel members. "Jannik and his team have been informed."</p>
<p>The Laureus World Sports Awards have been presented since 2000, with nominees selected by the global media, recognizing individual and team achievement in sport. The nominees for this year's awards will be announced on March 3 in Madrid.</p>
<p>Sinner, who retained his Australian Open title in January, failed two drug tests in March 2024 but was allowed to keep competing while he appealed his case.</p>
<p>The positive tests came to light days before the U.S. Open, when an independent tribunal cleared him of wrongdoing, plunging the year's final major into controversy.</p>
<p>A number of players and fans criticized officials for allowing Sinner to play on despite the positive tests and believed that the Italian had been given preferential treatment because of his top-ranking status.</p>
<p>In September, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed to sports highest court (CAS) against an independent tribunal's ruling, which had cleared Sinner of any wrongdoing because it found he bore "no fault or negligence" for the failed tests.</p>
<p>WADA had said that finding was incorrect under the applicable rules, and that Sinner should serve a ban "of between one and two years".</p>
<p>However, two weeks ago Sinner accepted an immediate three-month doping ban after WADA said it had reached a settlement on his period of ineligibility. WADA also withdrew its appeal to CAS following the settlement.</p>
<p>Sinner, who will return to competition before the next Grand Slam event takes place at the French Open, is the second high-ranked player to accept a doping ban in recent months after women's world number two Iga Swiatek accepted a one-month ban in November.</p>

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title: John Higgins sweeps Pang Junxu to reach WST World Open semifinals
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<p>Pang Junxu of China makes a gesture in the quarterfinals against John Higgins of Scotland at the World Snooker Tour (WST) World Open in Shangrao, east China's Jiangxi Province, February 27, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Four-time world champion John Higgins of Scotland swept past home player Pang Xunju 5-0 in the World Snooker Tour (WST) World Open quarterfinals in Shangrao, east China's Jiangxi Province, on Thursday.</p>
<p>The last time Pang faced Higgins was in the qualifying tournament for the Welsh Open in 2022 when Higgins beat Pang 4-1. He maintained his dominance over the only Chinese player in the last 8 on the night, making a break of 125 to clinch the first frame and then delivered another three breaks of 87, 96, 81 in the following three games respectively before sealing the deal.</p>
<p>Higgins will play Englishman Zak Surety in the semifinals. Surety defeated his compatriot Tom Fard 5-3 on the same day.</p>
<p>In another eye-catching last 8 battle between two English players, Joe O'Connor continued his giant-slaying journey by defeating Shaun Murphy 5-1. O'Connor began with breaks of 135 and 100 to lead 2-0. Though Murphy replied a century of 128 in the third frame, O'Connor claimed three straight frames, including making a break of 132 in the fourth, to pocket the final victory.</p>
<p>"I played really well and didn't give Shaun many chances," O'Connor said. "When the long pots are going in you have to punish the top players, that's what I did today and I'm proud of it. It's cementing confidence I have had for many years. This week it has all come together and hopefully I can win the trophy. If I play like that it will take a lot to stop me. I have been consistent for a while now and when my game clicks I feel I can beat anyone."</p>
<p>O'Connor will face another Englishman Ali Carter next. Carter came back from 3-1 and 4-3 down to edge Barry Hawkins 5-4. He has won two of his six ranking titles in China.</p>
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<p>Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands hits a shot in the men's singles quarterfinals against Daniil Medvedev of Russia at the Dubai Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 27, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands hits a shot in the men's singles quarterfinals against Daniil Medvedev of Russia at the Dubai Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 27, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands saved four match points before beating top-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia 2-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5 to reach the semifinals at the Dubai Championships on Thursday.</p>
<p>"When I won the second set, I was actually thinking 'how am I even still in this tournament?' I probably should have been on the plane to Indian Wells already," world No. 47 Griekspoor said "Sometimes you've got to be a little bit lucky."</p>
<p>The Dutchman survived a first-round encounter with another Russian Roman Safiullin by saving three match points. He then eliminated French defending champion Ugo Humbert on Wednesday.</p>
<p>"It's my best win by ranking," Griekspoor added. "Just very pleased with this win. It means a lot."</p>
<p>Griekspoor will meet fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece for a shot at the title. Tsitsipas beat Matteo Berrettini of Italy 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-4. It will be the Greek's first Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) semifinal match of the year.</p>
<p>Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada defeated 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to set up a semifinal against French qualifier Quentin Halys, who eliminated Luca Nardi of Italy 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).</p>
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title: Asia News Wrap: Bangladesh and Pakistan resume direct trade, and more
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<p>Here are a few stories from around Asia you may have missed this week.</p>
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<p><strong>Bangladesh and Pakistan resume direct trade ties</strong></p>
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<p>FILE: A ship docked at Port Qasim in Pakistan. /Port Qasim's official website</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">FILE: A ship docked at Port Qasim in Pakistan. /Port Qasim's official website</p>
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<p>Bangladesh has resumed direct trade with Pakistan for the first time since its independence in 1971. The first shipment of 50,000 tonnes of rice left Port Qasim in Pakistan under a government-to-government deal.</p>
<p>The agreement follows an improvement in diplomatic relations since an interim government in Bangladesh, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, took over last year.</p>
<p>Previously known as East Pakistan, Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971.</p>
<p>The new deal, finalized earlier this month, involves Bangladesh purchasing white rice from Pakistan at $499 per tonne. The shipment will be delivered in two phases, with the remaining 25,000 tonnes expected in early March.</p>
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<p><strong>South Korea's birthrate rises for the first time in 9 years</strong></p>
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<p>Nurses take care of newborns at a neonatal center in Seoul, South Korea, February 28, 2024. /CFP</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Nurses take care of newborns at a neonatal center in Seoul, South Korea, February 28, 2024. /CFP</p>
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<p>South Korea's fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, data showed on Wednesday, supported by an increase in marriages as more couples tied the knot after pandemic delays. Policy efforts to incentivize companies and Koreans to embrace parenthood also began to pay off.</p>
<p>In 2023, the birth rate fell for the eighth consecutive year to 0.72, the lowest in the world, down from 1.24 in 2015, raising concerns over the economic shock the country could face from such a rapid decline.</p>
<p>South Korea has rolled out various measures to encourage young people to get married and have children after now-impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a "national demographic crisis" and announced a plan to create a new ministry devoted to tackling low birth rates.</p>
<p>"There was a change in social values, with more positive views about marriage and childbirth," Park Hyun-jung, an official at Statistics Korea, told the press, also citing the impact of a rise in the number of people in their early 30s and pandemic delays. Marriages, a leading indicator of new births, jumped 14.9 percent in 2024, the biggest spike since the data was first released in 1970.</p>
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<p><strong>Wildfire in Japan burns buildings, forces evacuations</strong></p>
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<p>A wildfire spreads in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, February 26, 2025. /CFP</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A wildfire spreads in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, February 26, 2025. /CFP</p>
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<p>A wildfire in northern Japan has damaged over 80 buildings and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents, with military helicopters mobilized to assist. The fire reduced several houses to charred frames in the forested areas of Ofunato, located in Iwate Prefecture, authorities said on Thursday. Nearly 600 residents have been evacuated, according to the local municipality. No injuries have been reported.</p>
<p>As of Thursday morning, city officials estimated that at least 84 buildings had been damaged by the fire. Ofunato's mayor, Kiyoshi Fuchigami, described the fire as "large-scale" on Wednesday evening, saying more than 1,400 acres of land had been burned. The cause of the blaze remains unknown, he added.</p>
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<p><strong>Indonesia lifts iPhone 16 sales ban in exchange for $300 million investment</strong></p>
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<p>A store offering Apple products displays older iPhone models in Jakarta, February 26, 2025. /CFP</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A store offering Apple products displays older iPhone models in Jakarta, February 26, 2025. /CFP</p>
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<p>Apple will soon be able to sell its iPhone 16 in Indonesia, its industry minister announced on Wednesday, following an agreement to include an Apple manufacturing plant and a research and development center. The agreement ends months of negotiations after Indonesia banned the iPhone 16's sale last year due to Apple's failure to meet local component requirements. Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita described the talks with Apple as "tricky," but confirmed that the company is now in the process of obtaining a local content certificate to sell its devices. As part of the agreements, worth over $300 million, Apple will invest in a software research and development center near Jakarta and establish plants to produce components for its products, including AirPods. No timeframe was provided.</p>
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<p><strong>India's six-week-long Maha Kumbh religious festival ends, drawing 663 million</strong></p>
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<p>Devotees take a dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers with the mythical, invisible Saraswati River, to mark one of the auspicious days during the Maha Kumbh Mela," or the Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India, February 12, 2025. /Reuters</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Devotees take a dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers with the mythical, invisible Saraswati River, to mark one of the auspicious days during the Maha Kumbh Mela," or the Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India, February 12, 2025. /Reuters</p>
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<p>Large crowds turned out in India on Wednesday for the last day of the six-week Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, held once every 12 years, with authorities saying it drew a staggering 663 million people seeking absolution of their sins by taking a dip in waters devout Hindus consider sacred.</p>
<p>Television images showed security officials trying to direct visitors around barricades in the temporary township set up in Prayagraj, near the banks where the holy rivers meet. Authorities said as many as 15.3 million people took the holy dip on Wednesday, bringing the total number to more than 663 million.</p>
<p>The last event in 2019 drew 240 million visitors, but this year's event, signified by the term "maha" (meaning great), is rendered even more auspicious by a rare alignment of celestial bodies that occurs once every 144 years.</p>
<p>People from all walks of life, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ministers, business tycoons, and television and film actors, participated.</p>
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<p>Are you intrigued about the future of Chinese modernization? From cutting-edge technology to green transformation, from smart home devices to autonomous vehicles, Chinese modernization is gradually reshaping our daily lives. How will Chinese modernization impact our era? And what part will you play in this transformative journey? Let's explore the unlimited possibilities of this new era together!</p>
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<p>The negotiations over a deal that could grant the United States access to Ukraine's mineral resources have attracted significant attention. CGTN invites its global audience to share their views on the matter.</p>
<p>Please click <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/vote/BbAA/index.html">here</a> to take the poll. </p>
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title: China vows countermeasures to Trump&amp;#039;s new 10% tariff threat
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<p>China's Commerce Ministry on Friday voiced firm opposition to the U.S. threat to impose another 10 percent tariff on goods imported from China starting March 4, and vowed to take "necessary countermeasures" to safeguard China's legitimate rights and interests.</p>
<p>"China has repeatedly stressed that unilateral tariffs violate World Trade Organization rules and damage the multilateral trading system. China firmly opposes the U.S.' move," a spokesperson for China's Commerce Ministry said.</p>
<p>The U.S. cited the so-called fentanyl issue as an excuse for the latest tariff threat.</p>
<p>China has some of the strictest and most rigorously enforced anti-drug policies in the world and actively engages in international anti-drug cooperation with countries around the world, including the U.S., the spokesperson said. </p>
<p>However, the U.S. has consistently ignored objective facts, the spokesperson added, noting that it imposed a 10 percent tariff on goods imported from China citing fentanyl and other reasons, and now it is threatening to impose additional tariffs. </p>
<p>China hopes the U.S. will not continue down the wrong path and will quickly return to the correct track of resolving differences through equal dialogue, the spokesperson said. </p>
<p>If the U.S. persists in its actions, China will take all necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests, the spokesperson added.</p>
<p>The country's foreign ministry also denounced such actions from Washington.</p>
<p>China has repeatedly stated that there is no winner in a trade war or a tariff war, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular news briefing on Friday, adding that the U.S. unilateral tariff hikes severely violate World Trade Organization rules and harm the interests of the two countries and the whole world.  </p>
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title: "China travel" through the African lens
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<p>Have you ever travelled to a place because it was featured in your favorite films? The recent box office success in China is fueling a new wave of movie-inspired travel and culinary exploration, creating new opportunities for cultural tourism.</p>
<p>Capitalizing on this momentum, travel agencies in China have offered a variety of themed tours based on popular film locations, scenic spots, and iconic story settings.</p>
<p>These offerings have attracted a surge of tourists, with train and air tickets to destinations like the western provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi experiencing a notable increase in demand.</p>
<p>China has also launched a global promotional campaign called "Travel China with Chinese Films," designed to inspire international travellers to explore the country's breathtaking landscapes and rich cultural heritage.</p>
<p>So, what trends are we seeing among African travelers to China? Two young Africans share their ideas.</p>

<p>1.      Jackie Chan's Influence: Many Africans are first introduced to China through Jackie Chan's movies, where elements like Kung Fu and traditional Chinese architecture form their initial impressions of the country. (3:07)</p>
<p>2.      The Real China Exceeds Expectations: The true China surpasses any preconceived notions, with its remarkable development, modernization, technology, infrastructure, and convenience. The modernization of Chinese rural areas is not the "typical" rural setting but rather more urbanized. (14:00)</p>
<p>3.      Famous Filming Locations in China: China boasts many renowned filming locations featured in international blockbusters like Avatar, 2012, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. These locations further motivate visitors to explore the country. (25:16)</p>
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title: Scientists provide evidence for existence of ancient ocean on Mars
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<p>Chinese researchers have cooperated with their overseas counterparts to identify subsurface dipping reflectors indicative of an ancient prograding shoreline on Mars, according to a recent research article published in the journal PNAS.</p>
<p>The findings offer the most direct subsurface evidence of an ancient ocean on the red planet.</p>
<p>Although orbital images have identified ancient shorelines that suggest the northern lowlands of Mars may once have been covered by an ancient ocean spanning a third of the Martian surface, the hypothesis of an ancient Martian ocean remained controversial.</p>
<p>The controversy is due to the inconsistent elevation distribution of the ancient shorelines inferred from remote sensing data, as well as the impacts, weathering and resurfacing processes that Mars has experienced over the past 4 billion years, which may have distorted or obscured evidence of the ancient ocean's surface.</p>
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<p>China's Mars rover Zhurong successfully landed in southern Utopia Planitia on Mars in May 2021. It had traveled 1,921 meters by May 2022 on the red planet, collecting abundant scientific data.</p>
<p>Zhurong is equipped with a dual-frequency subsurface-penetrating radar system, which is capable of probing subsurface structures and potential water ice deposits.</p>
<p>Through radar data gathered by the rover, the researchers from Guangzhou University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tongji University, the University of California, Berkeley and Pennsylvania State University identified extensive dipping deposits in the subsurface of southern Utopia Planitia.</p>
<p>The reflectors dipped unidirectionally with inclinations in the range from six to 20 degrees and were imaged to a thickness of 10 to 35 meters along an uninterrupted 1.3-kilometer northward shoreline-perpendicular traverse.</p>
<p>These structures were similar to the radar imaging results of coastal sediments on Earth. Their consistency and physical properties ruled out other origins such as aeolian sand dunes or fluvial alluviation.</p>
<p>The structure, thickness, and length of the section supported voluminous supply of onshore sediments into a large body of water, rather than a merely localized and short-lived melt event, the article noted.</p>
<p>Such findings support the existence of an ancient Martian ocean in the northern plains and provide crucial insights into the evolution of the ancient Martian environment.</p>
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title: Chang&amp;#039;e-6 samples provide evidence of "magma ocean" on early moon
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-28/Chang-e-6-samples-provide-evidence-of-magma-ocean-on-early-moon-1BmmY5jm4cE/img/8899397837de4a75b80091311cc76456/8899397837de4a75b80091311cc76456-750.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the moon was entirely covered by a molten "magma ocean" in the early stages after its birth. This provides critical evidence for understanding the moon's origin and evolution.</p>
<p>This study, led by a joint research team organized by the China National Space Administration (CNSA), has been published in the latest issue of the journal Science.</p>
<p>The Chang'e-6 mission in 2024 accomplished humanity's first-ever sampling from the far side of the moon, successfully retrieving 1,935.3 grams of lunar material from the Apollo Basin within the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin.</p>
<p>The research team from the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, was given two grams of the Chang'e-6 samples to conduct their research.</p>
<p>The study revealed that the composition of basalt, a type of volcanic rock, from both the far and near sides of the moon proved similar. The basalt present in the Chang'e-6 samples is primarily 2.82 billion years old, and its characteristics support the lunar magma ocean model. The research also suggests that the impact event that created the SPA Basin may have altered the moon's early mantle, according to Liu Dunyi, a senior researcher at the institute.</p>
<p>The lunar magma ocean model was previously established based on samples from the moon's near side. The model proposes that the newborn moon went through a global melting event, creating a vast magma ocean. As this ocean cooled and crystallized, less dense minerals floated to the surface to form the lunar crust, while denser minerals sank to form the mantle. The remaining melt, enriched with incompatible elements, formed the KREEP layer, with the name derived from the initials of the key components, namely potassium (K), rare earth elements (REE), and phosphorus (P), Liu explained.</p>
<p>However, for decades, all lunar samples came from the moon's near side, leaving the model incomplete. "Without samples from the far side, it was like solving a puzzle with half the pieces missing," said Liu, while adding that the far-side samples collected by Chang'e-6 had changed this scenario.</p>
<p>"Our analysis showed that the KREEP layer exists on the moon's far side as well. The similarity in basalt composition between the far and near sides indicates that a global magma ocean may have spanned the entire moon," said Che Xiaochao, an associate researcher at the institute.</p>
<p>The SPA Basin, where Chang'e-6 landed, is no ordinary crater. Stretching 2,500 km, which is comparable to the distance from Beijing to south China's Hainan, and plunging to a depth of 13 km, this colossal scar, formed by a cataclysmic asteroid impact 4.3 billion years ago, is the oldest and largest impact basin in the inner solar system, according to scientists.</p>
<p>Notably, the new study also reveals that the lead isotope evolution paths in basalt from the far and near sides are different. This suggests that different regions of the moon evolved differently after the magma ocean crystallized. Giant impact events, especially the one that created the SPA Basin, likely changed the physical and chemical properties of the moon's mantle, according to Long Tao, another senior researcher in the team.</p>
<p>"In other words, the moon was once covered by a global magma ocean, but later bombardments of asteroids caused different evolution processes on the near and far sides," Long explained.</p>
<p>The research team plans to delve deeper into the moon's early impact history. "The Chang'e-6 sampling site is in the largest and oldest impact basin in the inner solar system, so it may contain records useful for the study of early solar system impacts," Che said. "We also hope to find materials from the moon's mantle."</p>
<p>"Studying the moon's impact history helps us understand Earth's own past, which has been obscured by tectonic activities," Long added.</p>
<p>The CNSA emphasized its commitment to advancing lunar research and sharing scientific findings with the international community.</p>

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title: Xi&amp;#039;s article on properly handling economic work to be published
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-28/Xi-s-article-on-properly-handling-economic-work-to-be-published-1BmpCO22yRi/img/8a1a83342d4a41cd94d7e6ca311fe54d/8a1a83342d4a41cd94d7e6ca311fe54d-250.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on properly handling several key relationships in economic work will be published on Saturday.</p>
<p>The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year's fifth issue of Qiushi Journal, the flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee.</p>
<p>The article noted that as adverse impacts from the changing external environment intensify, China's economic operation still faces difficulties and challenges.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Chinese economy is underpinned by a stable foundation, abundant strengths, strong resilience and vast potential, and the supporting conditions and fundamental trend for long-term growth have not changed, it said.</p>
<p>"We must face up to the difficulties, strengthen our confidence, and strive to transform all positive factors into actual achievements in development," the article said.</p>
<p>Economic work is complex and multifaceted, and there are five key relationships that must be properly handled, the article said.</p>
<p>It is essential to coordinate the relationship between an efficient market and a well-functioning government, and the government must act decisively when necessary while also knowing when to refrain from intervention, according to the article.</p>
<p>The article also stressed the relationship between total supply and demand to ensure smooth economic circulation. Efforts must be made to address weakness in domestic demand, which should serve as the major driver and stabilizer of growth.</p>
<p>The relationship between developing new growth engines and upgrading traditional industries is another priority that should be handled well, according to the article.</p>
<p>It further emphasized properly managing the relationship between optimizing incremental resources and making good use of existing resources, as well as the relationship between quality improvements and scale expansion.</p>

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<p>A rare astronomical phenomenon will occur on Friday evening: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align almost perfectly in the sky, forming a "seven-planet alignment" visible from Earth.</p>
<p>Although this is due to the planets' orbital paths aligning by chance, the alignment is the most precise in 300 years, with a span of 117°.</p>
<p>In the Northern Hemisphere, three of the brightest planets – Jupiter, Venus and Mars – will be visible to the naked eye.</p>
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<p>An illutration of the solar system. /VCG</p>
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<p>This alignment is the result of the planets' unique positioning within our solar system. While their orbits are elliptical, they lie roughly within the same plane, meaning they align from Earth's perspective at certain times.</p>
<p>This event is rare because the planets not only appear near each other but also align in a specific, narrow time window. The last occurrence of such a precise alignment was over 300 years ago, and the next won't happen for some time.</p>
<p>The alignment will be visible to the naked eye across much of the Northern Hemisphere. About 30 minutes after sunset, Venus, Jupiter and Mars will shine brightly in the western sky. The planets will gradually align, offering an unforgettable view.</p>
<p>Visibility will be best in areas with clear skies and minimal light pollution. In cities, it may be harder to spot all planets, but Saturn, Uranus and Neptune can be seen with a telescope.</p>
<p>Whether using binoculars, a telescope or just your eyes, this seven-planet alignment offers a rare chance to witness a phenomenon that only happens once every few centuries. It's a reminder of the vast beauty of our solar system.</p>
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title: Top Chinese diplomat holds strategic dialogue with Russia&amp;#039;s Shoigu
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-28/Chinese-top-diplomat-holds-strategic-dialogue-with-Russia-s-Shoigu-in-Beijing-1BmESWmFbnG/img/1aa9177c41084d1eacedd965117c6fff/1aa9177c41084d1eacedd965117c6fff-250.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi held a strategic dialogue with Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, in Beijing on Friday.</p>
<p>Wang noted that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Russia relations will continue to remain rock-solid and unshakable.</p>
<p>Recently, leaders of both sides had a phone conversation after the video meeting at the beginning of the year and conducted communication on deepening strategic coordination and promoting the stability of the international situation. This fully reflected the high level and particularity of China-Russia relations and highlighted the responsible role played by the heads of state of the two major powers, Wang said.</p>
<p>He called on the two sides to stick to the implementation of the consensus reached by the two heads of state, maintain close coordination, and continue to deepen mutual trust and cooperation in strategic security.</p>
<p>History and reality have proved time and again that China-Russia relations have a strong internal driving force, solid public support, and unique strategic value, and are not aimed at and should not be influenced by third parties, Wang said.</p>
<p>He noted that China-Russia relations in the new era increasingly demonstrates the resilience and calm of the new model of major-country relations.</p>
<p>Wang said that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, as well as the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN, which is of landmark significance in the history of both China-Russia ties and broader international relations.</p>
<p>As two major victors of World War II and permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and Russia have the responsibility to join hands to defend the outcomes of WWII and maintain global peace and development, he added.</p>
<p>Shoigu said that the two heads of state have outlined the direction for the development of bilateral relations and strategic coordination. The two countries enjoy a high degree of political and strategic mutual trust, and are unaffected by external factors, he said.</p>
<p>The establishment of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination is a firm choice that has been made by both sides, serving the fundamental interests of the two countries and their peoples, he said.</p>
<p>Russia and China hold highly consistent positions on international affairs, and coordinate closely within mechanisms such as the UN, the G20 and APEC, Shoigu said, adding that Russia will fully support China's chairing of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and its hosting of summits, while expressing gratitude for China's support of Russia's chairing of BRICS last year.</p>
<p>The two sides exchanged in-depth views on the Ukraine crisis. Shoigu outlined the latest situation of Russia-U.S. contact, as well as considerations for Russia's position, saying that Russia is committed to eliminating the root causes of the Ukraine crisis and seeking a permanent, fair and sustainable plan for peace.</p>
<p>Wang said that China will continue to play a constructive role in promoting peace talks and pushing for a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis.</p>
<p>The two sides agreed to hold a new round of strategic China-Russia security consultations at an appropriate time. They also exchanged views on the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Afghanistan, and other international or regional issues of common concern.</p>

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title: China&amp;#039;s space station to welcome first foreign astronaut
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<p>China and Pakistan on Friday signed a cooperation agreement in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on the spaceflight of a Pakistani astronaut to China's space station.</p>
<p>The selection process will last for about a year, and the Pakistani astronauts will join in a comprehensive and systematic training camp in China.</p>
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<p>Muhammad Yousuf Khan (L), chairman of SUPARCO, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (C) and Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of CMSA, at the signing ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 28, 2025. /CMG</p>
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<p>The signing ceremony took place at the Prime Minister's Office of Pakistan. In the presence of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), and Muhammad Yousuf Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), signed the agreement.</p>
<p>According to the mission planning of China's space station, a Pakistani astronaut will join Chinese astronauts for short-term missions at the space station in the coming years.</p>
<p>This cooperation agreement provides a model for more developing countries to participate in international manned space cooperation. It is expected to inspire more nations to collaborate in exploring the mysteries of the universe and contribute to writing new chapters for the benefit of all humanity.</p>
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<p>The Trump tariffs, introduced in 2018 during his first term as US president, remained largely unchanged under the Biden administration. Six years later, US trade data shows that the tariffs have successfully reduced the US trade deficit with China and shifted imports to other countries. However, Chinese data reveals a nearly 10% increase in exports to the US from 2018 to 2024. Analysts attribute this "import gap" to the US de minimis exemption, which allows duty-free entry for small Chinese parcels not captured in US trade statistics.</p>
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title: European countries vow retaliation against Trump&amp;#039;s tariff threat
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-28/European-countries-vow-retaliation-against-Trump-s-tariff-threat-1BmrI29LzFK/img/e1f2cf9e3bb942f38d92dca87202d68a/e1f2cf9e3bb942f38d92dca87202d68a-750.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Transatlantic trade tensions have escalated following U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of a 25 percent tariff on European imports, with European countries warning that Europe will react "firmly and immediately" against unjustified barriers.</p>
<p>The tariff plan announced by Trump on Wednesday covers various European imports, including cars and other goods. Speaking at a White House cabinet meeting, he claimed that the EU has "taken advantage of" the United States by blocking American cars and agricultural products.</p>
<p>In response, European Commission spokesperson Olof Gill said on Thursday at a press briefing that American businesses have reaped significant profits from investments in Europe.</p>
<p>"By creating a large and integrated single market, the European Union (EU) has facilitated trade, reduced costs for EU exporters and harmonized standards and regulations across all our member states. As a result, U.S. investments in Europe are highly profitable," he stressed.</p>
<p>Regarding the tariffs, the European Commission said on Wednesday that the EU would react "firmly and immediately" against unjustified barriers to free and fair trade, including when tariffs are used to challenge legal and non-discriminatory policies.</p>
<p>Speaking in Washington on Thursday, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola underscored that Europe and the United States have shared values and warned against isolation. She reaffirmed that the EU is ready to respond "firmly and immediately against unjust barriers to free and fair trade."</p>
<p>France and Spain shared the EU stance on retaliation, calling for unity to defend Europe's interests.</p>
<p>According to French media Le Figaro, French Economy Minister Eric Lombard, who is now participating in the G20 finance minister meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, said that the EU must protect its interests by doing the same as what the United States did.</p>
<p>"We need to have a firm and proportionate reaction," French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu told France Info in an interview on Thursday. "The EU must react in the firmest possible way, in the most immediate way and I insist in the most proportionate way, because that's how it works," he said.</p>
<p>The EU will defend itself "against those who attack it with absolutely unjustified tariffs that threaten our economic sovereignty," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said at an event in the Basque Region of northern Spain. He stressed that the EU was "prepared" and the member states will "adopt measures proportionate" in response to the tariffs.</p>
<p>He emphasized EU's commitment to open trade and cooperation, in contrast to Trump's promotion of "isolation." "We will not abandon that route, because we will keep on looking for collaboration between countries, commercial openness and a multilateral system that is more important than ever," Sanchez said.</p>
<p>In addition, he rejected Trump's statement made on Wednesday that the EU was "formed to screw the United States," arguing that many of the rich in America are, in fact, "thanks to Europe."</p>
<p>On social media platform X, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk echoed Sanchez's stance. He posted: "The EU was not formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship."</p>
<p>Adolfo Urso, Italian Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, expressed concern over escalating trade tensions with the United States, noting that Italy, with its export-driven economy, is "obviously worried." Speaking to the media in Paris on Thursday, he stressed the need to avoid a trade war, emphasizing that the West should remain united rather than divided.</p>
<p>However, Italian industrial leaders have called for a stronger response, blaming Trump's policy for hindering Europe's economic development. Emanuele Orsini, president of the Italian industry association Confindustria, warned that Trump's tariffs disrupt trade dynamics and threaten European businesses and jobs.</p>
<p>"The real goal of the U.S. is the deindustrialization of our continent," he said in a statement. "Europe must change the gear: time is up. The measures announced today in Brussels are insufficient," he added, calling it a "dark hour" for Europe.</p>

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title: Key indicators show China&amp;#039;s economic recovery gaining momentum
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-01/Key-indicators-show-China-s-economic-recovery-gaining-momentum-1BooCoN7TIA/img/fbc01da157244f2f83563d1e3d22c211/fbc01da157244f2f83563d1e3d22c211-750.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>China's economic recovery gathered momentum in February, with the purchasing managers' index (PMI) for both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors revealing strong performances, experts said on Saturday.</p>
<p>The PMI for China's manufacturing sector came in at 50.2 in February, up 1.1 percentage points from the previous month and bouncing back to the expansion zone, official data showed.</p>
<p>A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below 50 reflects contraction.</p>
<p>National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) statistician Zhao Qinghe said the PMI data in February was influenced by factors including enterprises resuming production after the Spring Festival holiday.</p>
<p>NBS data also revealed that the sub-indices of production and new orders came in at 52.5 and 51.1, respectively.</p>
<p>The February PMI for the equipment manufacturing sector and high-tech manufacturing sector stood at 50.8 and 50.9, respectively, according to the NBS.</p>
<p>The PMI for China's non-manufacturing sector came in at 50.4 in February, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous month and remaining in expansion territory, official data showed.</p>
<p>Business activity indices in sectors such as air transport, postal services, telecommunications, radio, television, satellite transmission services, monetary and financial services, and capital market services remained above 55 in February, indicating robust growth in overall business volume, Zhao said.</p>
<p>However, the statistician also pointed out that business activity indices in sectors related to consumer spending, such as retail, accommodation and catering, significantly declined in February, influenced by factors including intensive purchasing ahead of the Spring Festival holiday and waning holiday effects during the post-festival period.</p>
<p>In February, the construction sub-index came in at 52.7, an increase of 3.4 percentage points from the previous month, according to NBS data.</p>
<p>China's composite PMI stood at 51.1 in February, up 1 percentage point from the previous month, the NBS confirmed.</p>
<p>All three key indicators, namely the PMI for both the manufacturing sector and non-manufacturing sector, as well as the composite PMI, stood in expansion territory in February in China, reflecting that an overall recovery was gathering speed, Zhao explained.</p>
<p>"The recovery in February's manufacturing PMI is a structural one, backed by seasonal factors and a combination of policies, driven by both the supply and demand sides," said Wen Tao, an analyst at the China Logistics Information Center.</p>
<p>Notably, several sub-indices reached new recent highs last month, indicating high-quality economic recovery, the analyst added.</p>

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title: Israel accepts U.S. proposal for temporary ceasefire in Gaza
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<p>Israel has accepted the U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza for the Ramadan and Passover holidays, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement early Sunday.</p>
<p>The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on Friday and will last until March 30, while the Jewish Passover week will be marked from April 12 to 20.</p>
<p>According to the proposal by U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, on the first day of the extended ceasefire, about half of the 59 living and dead Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza would be returned. At the end of the outline period, if an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire, the rest of the hostages would be released.</p>
<p>The statement said that Witkoff proposed extending the ceasefire after he felt that bridging the parties' positions to end the war was impossible at this stage and that more time was needed for talks on a permanent ceasefire.</p>
<p>It added that "while Israel has agreed to the Witkoff outline to return our hostages, Hamas has so far stuck to its refusal to accept this outline."</p>
<p>"While Hamas has repeatedly violated the agreement, Israel is not in violation," the statement reads. "If Hamas changes its position, Israel will immediately enter into negotiations on all the details of the Witkoff outline."</p>
<p>The statement also stressed that Israel may return to fighting if it believes that the negotiations are ineffective, as the first 42-day phase of the ceasefire-hostages agreement expired on Saturday.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: UK PM reaffirms support for Zelenskyy, signs $2.84b loan deal
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-02/news-1Bp7peHive0/img/9f1f08c59fff4b9b8c7e3c042a537eb2/9f1f08c59fff4b9b8c7e3c042a537eb2-750.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has reaffirmed strong support for Ukraine and signed a loan agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy worth 2.26 billion British pounds ($2.84 billion, 2.74 billion euros) to support Ukraine's defense capabilities.</p>
<p>Starmer greeted Zelenskyy with a warm embrace on Saturday after the Ukrainian leader flew to London for talks following his clash at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>During their meeting at Downing Street, Starmer said Ukraine has "full backing across the United Kingdom." He stressed Britain's "unwavering determination" to achieve lasting peace.</p>
<p>According to Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko, the loan is to be paid back with the profits of immobilized sovereign Russian assets. Zelenskyy and Starmer, together with UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, held a video call with Marchenko on Saturday evening.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy hailed "a meaningful and warm meeting" with Starmer and thanked him for the support Britain has shown to Ukraine since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. </p>
<p>Confirming the loan agreement, Zelenskyy wrote on social media platform X: "This loan will enhance Ukraine's defense capabilities... The funds will be directed toward weapons production in Ukraine."</p>
<p>Zelenskyy's visit came ahead of a defense summit Britain is hosting, with European leaders gathering in London on Sunday to discuss a peace plan for Ukraine. Starmer has said he believes such a deal will have to involve the United States.</p>
<p>The Ukrainian president traveled to Britain following a meeting with Trump on Friday evening in the White House, where a routine presence in front of a press pool erupted into an unexpected shouting match.</p>
<p>The fiery exchange between the two sides started with an interjection by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who demanded that Zelenskyy be thankful for Trump's efforts to get his country out of its three-year conflict with Russia. After the public clash, Zelenskyy was eventually asked to depart the White House early, leaving the planned minerals deal between the two sides unsigned.</p>
<p>Before his plane touched down in London earlier on Saturday, Zelenskyy posted on X that Ukraine is "ready to sign the minerals agreement" with the U.S., but "a ceasefire without security guarantees is dangerous for Ukraine."</p>
<p>In an interview with Fox News after the clash, Zelenskyy said he respected Trump and American people, but he did not believe he owed Trump an apology.</p>
<p>"I think that we have to be very open and very honest, and I'm not sure that we did something bad," Zelenskyy said.</p>
<p>(With input from agencies)</p>

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title: Real Madrid miss chance to go top in La Liga with 2-1 loss at Betis
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-02/Real-Madrid-miss-chance-to-go-top-in-La-Liga-with-2-1-loss-at-Betis-1BpcBiQjKrm/img/b27206bc0b464ecc941027977b5b7dfb/b27206bc0b464ecc941027977b5b7dfb-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Real Madrid slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Real Betis after their former player Isco converted a second-half penalty on Saturday, denying the visitors the chance to top La Liga.</p>
<p>The loss left Real Madrid level on 54 points with leaders Barcelona, who will host mid-table Real Sociedad on Sunday.</p>
<p>Third-placed Atletico Madrid, who have 53, could go top later on Saturday when they host fourth-placed Athletic Bilbao.</p>
<p>"I'm dead, exhausted. In the end it's very hard to win games against Madrid, who have millions of resources, it's very difficult," Isco, named man of the game, told Movistar. "I'm happy for the win against the best team out there today. Hopefully we can finish the year in the best possible way."</p>
<p>Madrid dominated the early proceedings and took the lead after 10 minutes when Brahim Diaz tapped in Ferland Mendy's pass from the left after a great through ball from Kylian Mbappe.</p>
<p>Betis overcame the sluggish start, though, and equalized in the 34th through Johnny Cardoso's close-range header off a corner from Isco.</p>
<p>Madrid's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois pulled off a crucial save to deny Cardoso a second goal shortly before halftime. The Belgian, however, could not prevent Isco from scoring a clinical spot kick to hand Betis the lead nine minutes after the break following Antonio Rudiger's foul on Jesus Rodriguez.</p>
<p>Madrid's boss Carlo Ancelotti sought to spark some life into his attack with the introduction of Arda Guler and Endrick, but Betis' backline held firm while goalkeeper Adrian blocked a late attempt from Vinicius Jr.</p>
<p>"We started off a bit off the pace, letting them play too much and they hurt us. But the team improved halfway through the first half," 32-year-old Isco said. "I am always grateful to Madrid for having helped me fulfil all the dreams a child has and I will always have Madrid in my heart."</p>
<p>Betis now have 38 points and are in sixth spot, the final European qualifying berth.</p>

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title: Han Mei earns women&amp;#039;s 1,000m bronze at Speed Skating World Cup
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<p>A file photo of Chinese speed skater Han Mei. /VCG</p>
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<p>Han Mei of China secured the women's 1,000-meter bronze medal at the final stop of the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, on Saturday.</p>
<p>Han was competing with home favorite Jutta Leerdam in the same group. Leerdam clocked 1:14.27 to win the gold. Han was 0.53 second behind in the third place. The silver went to Miho Takagi who finished in 1:14.49.</p>
<p>One day earlier, Han got the women's 1,500-meter bronze. She is in third in total points in both events.</p>
<p>Han's compatriot Ning Zhongyan came in fourth in the men's 1,000-meter competition in 1:08.07, 0.09 second behind home bronze medalist Tim Prins. Another Dutchman Jenning de Boo won the gold in 1:07.45. Cooper McLeod of the U.S. was the runner-up after clocking 1:07.87.</p>
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title: John Higgins beats Joe O&amp;#039;Connor to win World Open championship
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<p>John Higgins of Scotland celebrates winning the World Snooker Tour (WST) World Open title in Shangrao, east China's Jiangxi Province, March 1, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Jonhn Higgins of Scotland defeated giant slayer Joe O'Connor of England 10-6 in the World Snooker Tour (WST) World Open final in Shangrao, east China's Jiangxi Province, on Saturday, winning his first ranking title in four years.</p>
<p>As a four-time world champion, Higgins hadn't won any ranking tournament since the Players Championship in 2021. At 49, he was the oldest ranking event finalist since 1986. O'Connor, who is 20 years younger than "The Wizard of Wishaw," knocked out world No. 1 Judd Trump and new Triple Crown winner Shaun Murphy on his way to the final.</p>
<p>The first frame was lengthy and dramatic before Higgins clinched it 66-63. Having built his momentum with the result, he then claimed five of the following seven frames of the first session and led 6-2.</p>
<p>O'Connor tried to launch rally in the second session and made a break of 71, his highest in the contest, in the 10th frame. Leading 9-6 after 15 frames, Higgins ended the battle with a break of 100, the only century in the final.</p>
<p>The victory put an end to Higgins' five-ranking-event-final losing streak and brought him his 32nd ranking title of his career.</p>
<p>"I'm just delighted. I am drained, there has been a lot of nervous energy in the last couple of days. I am dead proud to win another big event at this age," Higgins said after winning his fourth ranking title in China. "I didn't know if I was going to win another event because I have taken so many devastating losses over the last three or four years. To come back and win this is a proud moment."</p>
<p>"Joe didn't play his best today, having been unbelievable all week," Higgins added. "He didn't have the same game he had against Shaun, Judd and Ali. The first frame was massive because he had a chance to win it on the last black and if he had gone 1-0 up he would have taken confidence. I kept him under pressure, my safety was pretty good all day. He's a great all-round player but just didn't turn up today, he'll come again I'm sure."</p>
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title: Swiss ambassador to China highlights Sino-Swiss relations as a model
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-02/Swiss-ambassador-to-China-highlights-Sino-Swiss-relations-as-a-model-1Bpo2XsD5ew/img/de2ca6659dac4e8db9008c467be291f5/de2ca6659dac4e8db9008c467be291f5-1280.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>As China prepares for its annual Two Sessions, global officials are sharing their perspectives on China's development and international cooperation in CGTN's special series "Spring Letters: Global Officials on the Two Sessions."</p>
<p>Swiss Ambassador to China Jürg Burri delivered a speech at the "Ambassador Forum" hosted by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China on February 25, 2025. </p>
<p>Ahead of the Two Sessions, the annual sessions of China's top legislature and top political advisory body, and on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Switzerland, Ambassador Burri spoke highly of the bilateral relationship, and expressed optimism about future cooperation under the China-Switzerland Innovative Strategic Partnership.</p>
<p>Here are some highlights from Burri's speech:</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="paragraph-subtitle"><strong>History and current state of Sino-Swiss relations</strong></p>
<p>Sino-Swiss relations date back to the 17th and 18th centuries when trade ties were first established. In 1950, Switzerland became one of the first European countries to recognize the newly founded People's Republic of China and establish diplomatic relations. Since then, political ties have remained stable, marked by frequent high-level exchanges and active people-to-people exchanges. </p>
<p>Economic cooperation has been a cornerstone of this relationship. The countries signed their first trade agreement in 1975, and the 2014 Free Trade Agreement further strengthened bilateral trade. Over the past decade, trade between China and Switzerland has grown by 70 percent. China is now Switzerland's third-largest trading partner, while Switzerland ranks as China's sixth-largest trading partner in Europe and serves as a key hub for technology transfer.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="paragraph-subtitle"><strong>Switzerland's innovation and economic strengths</strong></p>
<p>Despite its small size and population of 9 million, Switzerland enjoys a global reputation for its economic strength and innovative capabilities. Since its establishment as a modern nation in 1848, Switzerland has adhered to a policy of neutrality while fostering strong international ties. Switzerland's economic success is largely driven by education, particularly academic education, vocational training and research, forming an "innovation triangle" that has consistently placed Switzerland at the top of global innovation rankings.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="paragraph-subtitle"><strong>Swiss enterprises in China and Chinese enterprises in Switzerland</strong></p>
<p>More than 1,000 Swiss companies operate in China across diverse sectors, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, watchmaking and precision instruments. These companies have not only achieved success in the Chinese market but have also driven innovation and development through technology transfer and localized operations. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, Chinese enterprises have made significant strides in Switzerland, with companies like Huawei and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China expanding their presence, particularly in R&amp;D and logistics. As a hub in Europe, Switzerland serves as a gateway for many Chinese enterprises to enter other European markets.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="paragraph-subtitle"><strong>'China speed' and digital transformation</strong></p>
<p>Swiss businesses are also learning from China, particularly in adapting to "China speed" – the country's unmatched pace of innovation, customer service and marketing. This rapid transformation, driven by China's digital revolution, is influencing global business trends. The future trend is not about China adapting to the world's pace, but rather the world adapting to China's speed.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="paragraph-subtitle"><strong>Future prospects for Sino-Swiss cooperation</strong></p>
<p>The China-Switzerland partnership remains strong and full of potential. As 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, the two countries will host a Cultural and Tourism Year to further promote people-to-people exchanges and cooperation. Switzerland remains committed to an open economic approach, furthering trade, investment, and reducing trade barriers while exploring new areas of collaboration.</p>
<p>Burri also discussed the acceptance of Chinese new energy vehicles (NEVs) in the Swiss and European markets. He noted that while the road ahead is long, the Swiss market poses no barriers to Chinese automakers, allowing for completely free trade without customs or institutional obstacles. </p>
<p>Additionally, the ambassador engaged in in-depth discussions on topics such as biopharmaceutical cooperation, intellectual property, enterprise security, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the cultural influences of German-speaking regions – one of Switzerland's official languages.</p>

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title: U.S.-Europe divide on Ukraine crisis further widens transatlantic rift
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<p>The ongoing Ukraine crisis has highlighted significant diplomatic rifts between the United States and Europe, a division that has deepened since the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Under his administration, U.S.-Europe relations have been marked by conflicting approaches to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, revealing stark strategic differences and raising new challenges for European governments in the Trump era.</p>
<p>On Saturday, following a contentious exchange with Trump in Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in London to a warm reception from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer reaffirmed the UK's strong support for Ukraine, signing a 2.26 billion pound ($2.84 billion) loan agreement to bolster Ukraine's defense capabilities.</p>
<p>In sharp contrast to Trump, Starmer said Ukraine has "full backing across the United Kingdom." He stressed Britain's "unwavering determination" to achieve lasting peace. Similar sentiments were echoed by French and German leaders, who reiterated their commitment to Ukraine's security. </p>
<p>However, the growing rift between the U.S. and its European allies became apparent when the Trump administration sidelined European countries, including Ukraine, in peace talks with Russia last month.</p>
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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listen to Vice President JD Vance (R) as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listen to Vice President JD Vance (R) as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p><strong>U.S. strategic shift sparks European concerns</strong></p>
<p>Zhao Huirong, a research fellow at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told CGTN that Trump's leadership style prioritizes short-term gains, adding that in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Trump's goal is to "freeze" the situation as quickly as possible, extract economic benefits and minimize U.S. commitments to its allies.</p>
<p>"For Trump, the most immediate and tangible benefit is to swiftly halt the conflict while securing access to Ukraine's vast mineral resources, particularly rare earth elements," Zhao said. She added, "Trump believes the U.S. has the leverage to pressure both Ukraine and Europe into accepting his terms. His confidence in this approach was evident during his White House meeting with Zelenskyy."</p>
<p>During a meeting with Trump at the White House on Friday, Zelenskyy and the U.S. president clashed in a tense exchange, with a planned joint press conference being abruptly canceled and the much-anticipated U.S.-Ukraine mineral agreement unsigned.</p>
<p>The growing U.S. pressure on Europe extends beyond Ukraine. In addition to military aid, Trump has been imposing demands on European countries to shoulder a greater share of military expenses and threatening to impose more trade tariffs, further straining transatlantic relations. </p>
<p>Zhao noted that such actions are eroding trust between the U.S. and Europe and destabilized NATO, calling into question the future of the Western alliance.</p>
<p><strong>Europe's pursuit of strategic independence</strong></p>
<p>European leaders are increasingly calling for greater strategic autonomy in response to U.S. isolationist tendencies.</p>
<p>In a recent <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-02-21/CGTN-poll-reveals-broad-criticism-of-Trump-s-first-month-in-office-1Bb8BVXKyqc/p.html">CGTN survey</a> conducted in collaboration with Renmin University of China and the Institute of International Communication, 57 percent of respondents from G7 countries expressed skepticism about their future relations with the U.S., with the highest levels of concern from Germany and Canada, followed by Japan, the UK and France.</p>
<p>Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has warned that Europe must strengthen its defenses and even consider alternatives to NATO if the U.S. continues to neglect European security.</p>
<p>"My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA," Merz said.</p>
<p>Similarly, French President Emmanuel Macron has publicly stated that Europe cannot afford to remain a "vassal" of the U.S., urging the continent to chart its own course in international diplomacy.</p>
<p>His remarks came after he visited Washington, where he sought to convince Trump to commit to security guarantees for Ukraine, but failed to receive any clear commitments.</p>
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<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street, London, March 1, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street, London, March 1, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p><strong>Ukraine's dilemma: Seeking U.S. security guarantees</strong></p>
<p>Since negotiations on the mineral agreement began, Zelenskyy has repeatedly emphasized that signing a deal with the U.S. must come with security guarantees. However, Trump dismissed this idea during a recent cabinet meeting and said, "We're going to have Europe do that."</p>
<p>"For Ukraine, the ultimate security guarantee is NATO membership," said Zhao, but the U.S. and Western allies have shown reluctance, fearing direct confrontation with Russia. Trump, in particular, has refused to offer such commitments, instead pushing Europe to take more responsibility for Ukraine's defense.</p>
<p>Given Trump's strategy of maximum pressure, Zhao explained, Ukraine has been forced to lower its expectations. Instead of NATO membership, Kyiv is now seeking security assurances in the form of military aid. This could include training for military personnel, supplies of weapons and ammunition, and even the production of arms within Ukraine.</p>
<p><strong>How far away is a ceasefire?</strong></p>
<p>According to the Kiel Institute, between January 2022 and December 2024, Europe committed $138.7 billion in aid to Ukraine, compared to $119.7 billion from the U.S. </p>
<p>"Over the past three years, the U.S. has played a pivotal role in providing military aid to Ukraine. If the U.S. were to halt its support in the future, Europe, in its current state, would likely struggle to bridge the gap left by America's withdrawal," Zhao said.</p>
<p>She predicted that, given the continued U.S. pressure and efforts to push for a ceasefire, there is a possibility that Russia and Ukraine could reach a truce within the next six months to a year.</p>
<p>However, she stated that such a ceasefire is unlikely to lead to a permanent peace agreement as territorial disputes between Russia and Ukraine will remain unresolved, with both sides likely presenting their own interpretations of the territorial status quo.</p>
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guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921037
title: Top Russian diplomat informs Hungarian colleague of terror attack on TurkStream
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a phone conversation with his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto has explained the situation around a terrorist attack on the TurkStream gas pipeline, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.</p>
<p>"The Hungarian minister was interested in assessments related to the Kiev regime’s attempts to carry out a terrorist attack against TurkStream’s infrastructure. Lavrov has provided the necessary explanations," the Russian foreign policy agency said. The conversation took place at the initiative of the Hungarian side.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921039
title: Trump wants to stop ‘meat grinder, ’ Zelensky needs money to continue — Musk
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250301/1439697.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>WASHINGTON, March 1. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky in the White House insisted on halting the Ukraine conflict while Zelensky wanted money for it to continue, American entrepreneur Elon Musk who is in charge of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said.</p>
<p>"Trump pushed for a ceasefire that would have stopped the meat grinder. Zelensky wanted it to continue with the money," he said in a commentary on the X social network.</p>
<p>On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House for a meeting with Trump. Their televised exchange, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the US, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a "thank you" for all the support provided to Kiev. A news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled, and Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready for peace.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921041
title: Trump’s entire team supports halting talks with Zelensky — US national security advisor
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250301/1439701.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>NEW YORK, March 1. /TASS/. The entire team of US President Donald Trump has unanimously advised him to stop any negotiations with Vladimir Zelensky after the heated exchange in the White House on Friday, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said.</p>
<p>“We had a meeting after that exchange, after the press was asked to leave, and we advised the president pretty much unanimously that after that insult in the Oval Office we just do not see how that could move forward, that any further engagement would only go backwards from this moment on,” he told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fox News</a>.</p>
<p>Waltz added that productive negotiations and a minerals deal would have been a “positive moment for Ukraine.” “Instead, what became clear and, I think, what has the president so frustrated and, frankly, angry, is that it’s not clear that Zelensky truly wants to stop the fighting,” he noted.</p>
<p>The US national security advisor also noted that, following the argument, the Ukrainian envoy to Washington and Zelensky’s aides “practically in tears” begged to continue with the talks but Zelensky continued to argue because he got used to Washington’s unconditional support. “That’s what he heard for years from Biden,” Waltz noted. “He has not gotten the memo that this is a new sheriff in town, this is a new president, and we are determined to take a new approach towards peace,” the US official concluded.</p>
<p>“I think he did his country a true disservice,” Waltz emphasized while noting that Zelensky’s behavior was unacceptable.</p>
<p>On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House for a meeting with Trump. Their televised exchange, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the US, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a “thank you” for all the support provided to Kiev. A news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled, and Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready for peace.</p>
<p><em>The news has been edited (22:03 Moscow time) - corrects quote in para 4.</em></p>


guid: https://tass.com/defense/1921047
title: Up to 150 Ukrainian militants eliminated in Russian strike on testing ground
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russian forces, using an Iskander missile system, have carried out a strike on a testing ground of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, eliminating up to 150 militants, including up to 30 foreign instructors, the Russian Defense Ministry said.</p>
<p>"The crew of an Iskander-M missile system has delivered a strike on the Novomoskovsky military testing ground in the Dnepropetrovsk Region where servicemen from the Ukrainian 157th mechanized brigade were being trained. As a result of the strike, up to 150 Ukrainian nationalists, including up to 30 foreign instructors, were eliminated," the ministry said.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921049
title: About 20 armed individuals attack polling station in Abkhazia
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>SUKHUM, March 1. /TASS/. A polling station in Abkhazia was attacked by a group of armed masked individuals who were threatening members of the election committee, the republic’s Office of the Prosecutor General said in a statement.</p>
<p>Following the incident in the town of Tsandrypsh, the election committee said that the situation was under control. Law enforcement agencies tried to detain the perpetrators who opened fire, wounding two individuals. Criminal charges were filed over the incident.</p>
<p>The attack took place during the second round of the presidential election underway in Abkhazia.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921051
title: ‘Unprecedented dressing down’: Russian diplomat on Trump-Zelensky meeting
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has given Vladimir Zelensky an "unprecedented" "dressing down" in the White House, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.</p>
<p>"Unprecedented in the history of international politics and diplomacy, a dressing down given to Zelensky by the US president in the White House is also indicative of the political weakness and extreme moral degradation of the European leaders who continue to support the maniac leader of the Nazi regime who has lost touch with reality," the diplomat noted as <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2000774/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">cited</a> by the Russian Foreign Ministry.</p>
<p>"Head of the neo-Nazi regime Vladimir Zelensky’s visit to Washington D.C. on February 28 is an epic political and diplomatic failure of the Kiev regime," she asserted.</p>
<p>"Under the increasingly deteriorating political conditions, this figure is unable to show a sense of responsibility and is therefore obsessed with continuing the war and rejects peace, which means death to him," Zakharova noted.</p>
<p>"With his outrageously rude behavior during his stay in Washington, Zelensky reaffirmed his status of the most dangerous threat to the international community as an irresponsible figure that can stir up a big war. It must be clear to everyone that this kind of attacks coming from a terrorist leader are quite unambiguous. This cynical individual will stoop to anything in pursuit of his goals and is obsessed with preserving the power he has usurped. This is why he has destroyed the opposition, built a totalitarian state and is ruthlessly sending millions of his fellow citizens to their deaths," the Russian diplomat concluded.</p>
<p>On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House for a meeting with Trump. Their televised exchange, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the US, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a "thank you" for all the support provided to Kiev. A news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled, and Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready for peace.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/economy/1921053
title: Rotation of IAEA observers takes place at Zaporozhye nuke plant
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. A rotation of observers from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has taken place at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the press service of Russia’s Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation said.</p>
<p>It noted that the rotation route went via Russian territory for the first time.</p>
<p>"A rotation of IAEA observers took place at the Zaporozhye NPP. The 27th team of IAEA observers consists of three inspectors," the press service said in a statement.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921055
title: NATO chief tells Zelensky to restore relations with Trump
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>BRUSSELS, March 1. /TASS/. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has urged Vladimir Zelensky to restore ties with US President Donald Trump and branded their heated exchange as "unfortunate."</p>
<p>In an interview with BBC, the NATO chief said: "I told Zelensky: you have to find a way to restore your relationship with Donald Trump and the American administration."</p>
<p>"I think it was very unfortunate," Rutte said about the incident in the White House.</p>
<p>On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House for a meeting with Trump. Their televised exchange, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the US, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a "thank you" for all the support provided to Kiev. A news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled, and Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready for peace.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921057
title: Yamandu Orsi takes office as president of Uruguay
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>BUENOS AIRES, March 2. /TASS/. Yamandu Orsi, a member of the left-wing Broad Front coalition, has been sworn in as president of Uruguay, with the ceremony taking place at the parliament building.</p>
<p>"We will build a better Uruguay. And we will start today," Orsi said during his first speech as the head of state, which was broadcast on the YouTube channel of the presidential administration.</p>
<p>Uruguay's new leader promised to implement measures to combat child poverty and strengthen the agricultural sector. He also reiterated that one of his priorities would be the fight against crime, the rate of which has risen in Uruguay in recent years.</p>
<p>The ceremony was attended by the presidents of Bolivia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, and Chile, as well as the King of Spain.</p>
<p>Orsi won the second round of elections, which took place on November 24, 2024. During the election campaign, the politician, who served as the mayor of the Canelones Department from 2015 to 2024, promised to generate new jobs and raise the salaries of low-income workers. His foreign policy priorities include the need to accelerate integration processes within the regional organizations, including the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921059
title: Tucker Carson urges to ‘start blaming’ Zelensky for serious war crimes
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439705.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>NEW YORK, March 2. /TASS/. American journalist Tucker Carlson has called for putting the blame on Vladimir Zelensky and the Ukrainian authorities for crimes committed with the tacit support of the West.</p>
<p>The journalist drew attention to the way Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (put on Russia’s list of terrorists and extremists), who was one of the most vocal supporters of the Kiev authorities, said that Zelensky should resign after his clash with US President Donald Trump. Carlson suggested that such a drastic change in the senator's attitude is linked to the fact that he "knows what's coming."</p>
<p>"Over the past three years, with the tacit support of its western patrons, the Ukrainian government has committed a remarkable number of serious crimes," he wrote on X. "God knows what the Ukrainians have done with the pathogens in American biolabs in their country. Even US intel agencies aren’t sure. The Ukrainians have also murdered a number of people in various countries in political assassinations, and tried to murder others, including American journalists and a European head of state. This is all true, and it’s all going to come out at some point. Better to start blaming it on Zelensky now."</p>
<p>On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House for a meeting with Trump. Their televised exchange, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the United States, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a "thank you" for all the support provided to Kiev. A news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled, and the signing of the agreement on minerals between Ukraine and the US did not take place. Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready for peace.</p>
<p>In May 2022, the International Public Tribunal on the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and their supporters was established in Russia. More than 1,000 witnesses and victims of war crimes have been interviewed since then. All testimonies are documented, with the names and last names of the victims of the crimes put on the record. All data is compiled and sent to international organizations and Russian investigative agencies. The International Public Tribunal includes representatives of civil society from more than 30 countries. The testimonies of the victims of the Ukrainian military, which were collected by the tribunal and published on the Internet, have been viewed more than 80 million times.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921073
title: Israel endorses Trump’s special envoy’s temporary ceasefire proposal — Netanyahu&amp;#039;s office
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439709.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>TEL AVIV, March 2. /TASS/. Israel has accepted the proposal of US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during Ramadan and Passover, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement, noting that the radical Hamas movement "has so far refused to accept this proposal."</p>
<p>"Israel has accepted the proposal presented by US President's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, for a temporary ceasefire during Ramadan and Passover. On the first day of this plan, half of the living and deceased hostages will be released, and the remaining hostages, living and deceased, will be released at the end, if an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire," the statement said.</p>
<p>The Israeli PM's office noted that Witkoff "proposed a plan to extend the ceasefire due to the fact that it is not possible at this stage to bring the sides' positions closer together to end the war and additional time is needed for negotiations for a permanent ceasefire." The agency added that "If Hamas changes its position" and accepts the US special envoy’s proposal, "Israel will immediately enter negotiations on all the details of the Witkoff plan."</p>
<p>In mid-January, Egypt, Qatar and the US brokered an agreement between Israel and Hamas to declare a ceasefire in Gaza. The truce took effect on January 19. The first phase of the deal ends on March 1. Over 42 days, 33 hostages were returned to Israel from Gaza. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun on Friday evening since the new moon, with Saturday becoming the first day of fasting in most Middle Eastern countries. The Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesach) in 2025 is celebrated between April 12 and 19.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s office said that Hamas "has repeatedly violated past agreements," while Israel "has not breached any terms." "According to the agreement, Israel can return to fighting after the 42nd day (March 2) if it feels that the negotiations are ineffective," it added, noting that "this provision was stipulated in an additional letter from the previous US administration and was endorsed by the [US President Donald] Trump administration".</p>
<p>According to the Israeli side's latest data, the radicals still hold 59 hostages in the Gaza Strip, including Maxim Kharkin, a Donbass native, whose close relatives have Russian citizenship.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921079
title: Ukraine attacks 34 Russian regions since February 2022 — top investigator
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439713.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. More than 30 Russian regions located outside the special military operation zone have been attacked by Ukraine since February 2022, Russia's Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin told TASS in an interview.</p>
<p>"Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Ukrainian side has targeted the territories of 34 entities of Russia. These are regions located beyond the territory of the military operation," he said.</p>
<p>The Investigative Committee chief said that to do this, the Ukrainian armed forces use, among other things, Western weapons: tactical missile systems, multiple rocket launchers and artillery systems, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921081
title: Ukrainian attack on TurkStream threatens Hungary’s sovereignty — MFA
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>BUDAPEST, March 2. /TASS/. Hungary views Ukraine’s attack on the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline as an attack on its sovereignty, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.</p>
<p>"My Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov told me by phone that overnight a Ukrainian drone had attacked the Russkaya station, an important compressor station of the TurkStream gas pipeline. Three drones were neutralized by Russian air defenses. The TurkStream pipeline safeguards the reliability of natural gas supplies to Hungary, so a potential inoperability of the pipeline may seriously undermine our energy security," Szijjarto wrote on Facebook (banned in Russia; owned by Meta designated as extremist in Russia).</p>
<p>"Energy security is a matter of sovereignty, so such attacks should be viewed as an attack on sovereignty. The European Commission has recently issued a guarantee that Ukraine would not target the infrastructure of the gas pipeline leading to the European Union, so we urge the European Commission to immediately clarify whether it honors its guarantees," the Hungarian minister said.</p>
<p>In February, Hungary received guarantees for its energy security from the European Commission. They cover negotiations with Ukraine on the resumption of Russian gas transit to Central Europe, the continuation of the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline, and non-aggression by the Ukrainian armed forces against the TurkStream pipeline, which delivers fuel from Russia to Hungary. Hungary has bound the compliance with these requirements to the matter of the extension of EU sanctions against Russia, as well as the launch of talks with Ukraine on its accession to the association.</p>
<p>Hungary continues to receive most gas under long-term contracts with Gazprom through the TurkStream pipeline and its branches via Bulgaria and Serbia. According to Hungary's estimates, this amounted to 5.6 billion cubic meters in 2023, while in 2024 it reached a record high of 7.6 billion cubic meters.</p>
<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Saturday that Lavrov briefed his Hungarian counterpart on Ukraine's attempted terrorist attack on the TurkStream infrastructure. The conversation took place at the initiative of the Hungarian side. Overnight on February 28, Kiev once again tried to attack the station ensuring the supply of gas through TurkStream. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian forces used three UAVs in the attack. The drones were shot down at a safe distance from the station.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/science/1921083
title: Russia’s Progress MS-30 carrying new suit, equipment, other cargo docks at ISS
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Progress MS-30 space freighter, which was launched from the Baikonur space center on Friday, has docked with the Zvezda module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s state-run space corporation Roscosmos reported.</p>
<p>The process was managed by the Flight Control Center’s specialist on Earth and by Roscosmos cosmonauts Ivan Vagner (special TASS correspondent), Alexey Ovchinin, and Alexander Gorbunov aboard the ISS.</p>
<p>The spacecraft delivered 2,599 kg of various cargoes to the ISS, including 1,179 kg of equipment, stowage for scientific experiments, clothing, food, medical and hygienic sets for the crew, 950 kg of refueling propellant, 420 kg of potable water for cosmonauts, and 50 kg of nitrogen to replenish the ISS atmosphere.</p>
<p>The new Orlan-ISS No. 6 spacesuit for cosmonauts’ spacewalks has been delivered to the station. This model differs from the previous Orlan-MK version by a new inner containment shell made of high-tech fabric with a long service life, as well as a new automated water cooling system, which automatically maintains the most comfortable temperature for the operator. Moreover, a new information display system is installed on the spacesuit.</p>
<p>The spacecraft also delivered stowage for conducting the Aseptic, Biodegradation, Virtual, Cascade, Lasma, Mirage, Neuroimmunity and Photobioreactor scientific experiments to the ISS.</p>
<p>The Progress MS is a Russian automated cargo spacecraft developed specially for servicing orbital stations. It is used to deliver various cargo to the orbital outpost (propellant, scientific equipment, oxygen, potable water, food and other items), and also to adjust its orbit.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921089
title: Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions kill 652 — top investigator
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. More than 650 people, including 23 children, have been killed in Ukrainian attacks on Russia's borderline and rearmost regions, with nearly 3,000 injured, Russian Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin told TASS in an interview.</p>
<p>"As a result of &lt;...&gt; criminal actions by the Ukrainian side, 652 civilians were killed, of whom 23 were children. A total of 2,980 people, including 169 children, suffered injuries. Criminal investigations are underway on all the aforementioned facts," he said.</p>
<p>Bastrykin stated that the Investigative Committee has launched a total of 2,690 criminal cases on the shelling of Russia’s borderline and rearmost areas.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921091
title: Emergency summit for coordination of European position on Ukraine to be held in London
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>LONDON, March 2. /TASS/. Leaders of 14 NATO states will visit London to attend a meeting dedicated to the discussion of peace in Ukraine, with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer being the organizer.</p>
<p>According to the British PM's office, the leaders of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, as well as Vladimir Zelensky, European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen, EU Council President Antonio Costa, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte have been invited to the meeting, which is scheduled to take place at the Lancaster House mansion in downtown London. Turkey will be represented by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.</p>
<h2>Discussing sanctions against Russia</h2>
<p>The UK prime minister's office said that the leaders at the summit will focus on addressing three clusters of topics, with the first being "strengthening Ukraine’s position now - including ongoing military support and increased economic pressure on Russia." The second topic was entitled "the need for a strong lasting deal that delivers a permanent peace in Ukraine." And finally, the attendees plan to discuss "next steps on planning for strong security guarantees."</p>
<p>On February 17, French President Emmanuel Macron organized a similar meeting in Paris, but on a smaller scale. The true goal of both the Paris and London summits is to attempt to coordinate the European position in response to US President Donald Trump's peace efforts. Earlier, the US leader said he was determined to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine as soon as possible, after which US and Russian representatives discussed the topic in person. Europeans, however, did not receive an invitation to the negotiating table, after which they increased their activities.</p>
<p>Thus, Starmer announced for the first time that British ground troops could be sent to Ukraine at the end of the conflict as a peacekeeping force. Recognizing that such a plan would be difficult to implement without the United States, Starmer and Macron paid visits to Washington this week. While Trump responded was indirect in his response to suggestions for the US to become a shield for European forces, the French and British leaders' talks at the White House were deemed a success.</p>
<h2>Aftermath of Zelensky’s White House spat</h2>
<p>Zelensky's visit to the United States, which was described as disastrous by many global media outlets, caused adjustments to Europe's plans to secure support from the United States. On February 28, Zelensky’s meeting with the US president, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the United States, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a "thank you" for all the support provided to Kiev. The news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled. Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready to negotiate peace for Ukraine.</p>
<p>After that, Zelensky traveled to London, where he will take part in today's meeting. Meanwhile, whereas the majority of EU leaders expressed their support for him, the NATO Secretary General urged him to restore relations with the US president and described their clash as "unfortunate."</p>
<p>The spat in Washington, according to British analysts, can only add to the disagreements between the US and Europe. Today's meeting may show how relations between Brussels and Washington will develop in the future, as well as London, which is attempting to act as a mediator in this situation, while keeping its own (primarily trade) interests and promises to Kiev in mind.</p>
<p>Ahead of the meeting, Starmer promised that the support for Ukraine would stay unwavering. "Today I will reaffirm my unwavering support for Ukraine and double down on my commitment to provide capacity, training and aid to Ukraine, putting it in the strongest possible position," the British PM said.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>WASHINGTON, March 2. /TASS/. Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Ted Cruz believes that US President Donald Trump’s talks with Vladimir Zelensky will go down in history as the most disastrous Oval Office meeting.</p>
<p>"President Zelensky showed up in the Oval Office and decided he was there to battle Donald Trump, decided he was there to insult Donald Trump, decided he was there to attack and belittle Donald Trump," he said during a podcast posted on his X page. "And without exaggeration, I believe this will go down as the most disastrous Oval Office meeting in the history of our nation," he added.</p>
<p>On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House for a meeting with Trump. Their televised exchange, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the United States, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a "thank you" for all the support provided to Kiev. A news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled, and the signing of the agreement on minerals between Ukraine and the US did not take place. Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready for peace.</p>


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title: US to speed up $4 bln in military aid to Israel — State Department
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>WASHINGTON, March 2. /TASS/. US authorities will speed up the delivery of around $4 bln in military aid to Israel, according to a statement released by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.</p>
<p>"I have signed a declaration to use emergency authorities to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 bln in military assistance to Israel. The decision to reverse the Biden Administration’s partial arms embargo, which wrongly withheld a number of weapons and ammunition from Israel, is yet another sign that Israel has no greater ally in the White House than President Trump," the statement said.</p>
<p>According to the statement, the administration of US President Donald Trump has approved the sale of weapons and military equipment to Israel totaling $12 bln since January 20 of this year.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. European politicians must be held responsible for the deaths of Russian civilians caused by the weapons they supply to the Ukrainian armed forces, Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin said in an interview with TASS.</p>
<p>"European politicians can talk all they want about facts that are far from reality. But we know that they make decisions about the supply of weapons to Ukraine and therefore these people must also be held accountable for the victims among the civilian population of our country," he said.</p>
<p>Earlier, EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas said at the Munich conference that Russian civilians were not dying as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.</p>
<p>According to Bastrykin, since the beginning of the special military operation, the Ukrainian side has attacked the territories of 34 Russian regions located outside the borders of the special military operation. For this purpose, the Ukrainian Armed Forces also use Western weapons, including tactical missile systems, multiple launch rocket systems and barrel artillery, unmanned aerial vehicles. As a result of the criminal actions of the Ukrainian side, 652 civilians were killed, including 23 children. At the same time, 2,980 people were injured, including 169 children.</p>


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title: Russian troops liberate around 5 sq km near DPR border, Zaporozhye region
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MELITOPOL, March 2. /TASS/. Russian troops advanced from the previously liberated settlement of Burlatskoye to the north in the direction of the village of Veseloye, liberating about 5 square kilometers of territory near the border of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Zaporozhye region, Chairman of Russia’s Civic Chamber Commission on Sovereignty, Patriotic Projects, and Veteran Support Vladimir Rogov told TASS.</p>
<p>"After the liberation of Burlatskoye, our troops are building on their success, liberating about 5 square kilometers to the north in the direction of the settlement of Veseloye," he said.</p>
<p>On March 1, the Russian Defense Ministry released footage of the combat work of attack aircraft of the 127th brigade of Russia’s East battlegroup, which liberated the village of Burlatskoye from Ukrainian forces.</p>


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title: Karin Kneissl: Europe’s borders may be changed
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439717.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>- The Alternative for Germany party has achieved great success at the latest elections in Germany and in other European countries the opposition parties are gaining momentum. What’s your opinion: which drawbacks in the German and EU leadership does this reveal?</strong></p>
<p>We’ve got protest parties and in general they cannot be compared with more conservative parties in other EU states. Each should be considered separately through the lens of its historic development.</p>
<p>At the same time, absolutely all political parties in the EU are facing hurdles not only in terms of attracting voters, but also with searching for officials, I mean people who are ready to work for these parties. I think many already realize that if they go into politics, that is to say if they work for the government – either at the regional or federal level – are not involved in corruption, after this it will be very difficult. It’s becoming harder to find motivated people, who are ready to work for the sake of their country or a certain idea. Politics has turned into business, where people profit off and establish connections in order to get advantageous positions in the future. A protest is a big topic, it concerns various issues. This is not only about migration, but also a protest against high taxes, corruption and problems of a social system. For example, in Germany and Austria it’s difficult to make an appointment to see the doctor or to undergo surgery. These are well-known problems and it seems to me that the situation will continue developing in this direction. So far, this protest remains at the parliamentary level, but it may take to the streets and go beyond the parliament.</p>
<p><strong>- What is the foreign policy line’s significance for voters in European countries in the current conditions?</strong></p>
<p>As an American saying goes, what is good for Kentucky [a US state – TASS] is good for the world. It means that domestic policy always comes first. I especially felt this as a person who has worked as a diplomat for a long time. Foreign policy does not play a key role in any country. What interests people the most is their purchase power, tax burden, security while it’s very hard to bring foreign policy issues to the society. </p>
<p>I’ll give an example. One of my first initiatives was an attempt to normalize relations between Austria and Turkey. I went to Turkey because I believed that we should have normal ties with that country. As a result of my trip I faced a wave of hatred and protests just because I went to Turkey and declared the need to bring relations to normal. There were many reasons behind this but the situation once again showed to me – although this came as a surprise – that very few people worry about foreign policy.</p>
<p><strong>- If the situation in Germany in the economic field were better, would voters be happier?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, I would say that the economic situation in Germany is indeed a crucial factor.</p>
<p>Certainly, the migration and security issues do play a role, but as I see the situation in Germany and to a certain degree in France, people are more preoccupied by their purchase power. When inflation is constantly growing, when people can afford less and less, whey they realize that their children will live a worse life than they did, this undermines the main idea that is the foundation of the EU and national governments. This is a kind of logic – people expect that the next generation will live a better life than the current one does now. But now this is becoming impossible in the conditions of the modern economy. We are now only at the beginning of major shocks. At the moment, the state is still able to mitigate certain problems but this resource is being exhausted. More and more companies go bankrupt, more employers and, this also means tax payers, disappear. The energy supply problem is added to the list. When the economy is thriving, moderate parties gain greater support. But in Germany we see that the far-right and the far-left parties are winning votes: The Left – 10% and the Alternative for Germany – 20%. Political extremes are not necessarily something negative, but obviously there are great concerns about the future. Do voters believe that AfD can solve these problems or do they prefer the Christian Democratic Union of Germany? I think that nobody in fact knows the answer to the current challenges. Germany with its destroyed industry has almost no prospects. Now it is not a global leader in any spheres anymore.  The car industry, which used to be the most important economic pillar, is not operating anymore.</p>
<p>Now Germany is literally sandwiched between the anti-Russian sanctions, which it initiated itself, and US tariffs and duties, which are to come into effect on March 2. This creates huge problems for the German economy. And behind the German industry are numerous suppliers: Austrian, Czech, Slovenian enterprises - millions of jobs across Europe depend on it. But at the same time Italy, Spain and France find themselves in a completely different situation. Today, Germany is once again “the sick man of Europe.” If we remember 2010-2012, then Berlin was telling Italy, Greece and Spain what to do. Now, by purely economic indicators, countries such as Italy and Portugal are in a better position.</p>
<p><strong>- Do you think European goods should return to the Russian market?</strong></p>
<p>- Over the past three years, I have repeatedly said: if I were a Russian decision-making official, I would not simply open the doors again. Too much has happened. Many people have lost money, nerves, and strength. First of all, we need to talk about compensation [to Russia from the EU], because companies disappeared, jobs were lost, the Russian side had to look for solutions, which were eventually found. Russia was able to adapt to the sanctions. Now they are discussing the return of brands, such as fashion companies. But I believe that fashion is a secondary issue. Russian counterparts have already formed in this sphere. More important are large industrial sectors and the oil and gas industry. Of course, there is a lack of technology in some areas - that is a fact. But still, I would not be in a hurry to open up the market and let everyone back in. We see that German car producers, for example, have lost their positions, with their facilities having been taken by Chinese companies. The German car industry has no prospects due to various reasons. It has ruined its positions on the Russian market, and now it is ruining them on the Chinese market. The demand for expensive German cars will remain niche, for a small group of people who consider them as a status symbol. Whereas mass demand will be taken by other car makers. This is why I don’t think that the return of some companies to the Russian market will solve their problems.</p>
<p><strong>- How do you think relations between Europe and the US will change with Trump's comeback?</strong></p>
<p>- We can already see the changes. If you carefully read some articles published in the recent months, you will see that Europe has turned into a secondary player on the international stage. This did not begin with Trump’s [victory in the US presidential election]. Europe cornered itself.</p>
<p><strong>- Do you think Trump will eventually force Kiev to sign an agreement on rare earth minerals? What significance will such an agreement have for Ukraine?</strong></p>
<p>- The United States sees it more as a deal, as something similar to what the US did back in 1941 when it entered World War II and introduced the so-called Lend-Lease Act. That is, all US allies, be it the UK, France, or the Soviet Union, had to pay the US back for the weapons, money, and fuel it provided. Trump is acting in line with this tradition and believes that the Ukrainians should pay. I am not familiar with Ukraine’s geological map, but I know in general that the main minerals are located in the areas which joined Russia in the autumn of 2022. It has been repeatedly said in the past few weeks that the areas that are now under Russia’s control have major deposits of lithium, the demand for which is growing.</p>
<p>It is called a strategic raw material because it is needed for the production of various screens, whether in the communications industry or in the solar industry.</p>
<p>However, in my opinion, there is another aspect that goes beyond oil, coal, lithium and so on, and that is agriculture. Ukraine, like Russia, has very fertile land, and already in the past we have seen a huge interest from investment companies like BlackRock, as well as Chinese investors in the agricultural sector interested in the Ukrainian land. Foodstuffs in the broadest sense, from orange juice to grain, soybeans, etc., are often much more important to many investors, including sovereign wealth funds from the Arab countries. Why? Because they need to feed people, and Ukraine is an attractive object not only in terms of rare earth minerals, but, in my opinion, in the long term the issue of agriculture will be much more significant.</p>
<p><strong>- Do you think the territorial partition of Ukraine by European countries can happen?</strong></p>
<p>- We have seen that borders in Europe have changed many times. In 1975, the Helsinki Final Act was signed, which enshrined the principle of inviolability of borders. I grew up with this concept that borders should remain as they are. But then we saw the war in Yugoslavia, the creation of new countries, the reunification of Germany, the breakup of Czechoslovakia. We've seen a lot of changes around the world. So, the stability of borders is not as obvious as it was perceived in the 1970s and 1980s.</p>
<p>If we talk about the borders of Ukraine, they also underwent changes after the First and Second World Wars. The borders moved westward, some territories, including the former East Prussia, were given to Poland. As a result, there were major changes on the map. I personally dealt with this issue in my thesis and have always been fascinated by the topic of borders and border zones.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, I took part in a historical debate, which was also attended by [the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service] Sergey Naryshkin, and we touched on this topic. I pointed out that Ukraine, in a certain sense, has always been a zone of contact between different states and empires. It was a place where the interests of different nations were intertwined, and there were not always clear and fixed borders. I can't say for sure which countries might claim these territories, but Poland might be one of the candidates, given its historical claims. However, I am not inclined to make such predictions as the situation is too uncertain. I believe that these border zones are disputable and only where there is a really clear border, where there is mutual recognition - here sovereign A, there sovereign B - can we talk about stability and peace.</p>
<p>Ukraine's problem is not limited only to Donbass or Russian-speaking regions, it also covers the Russian community in Odessa. There are facts that, on the one hand, were created militarily and, on the other hand, have historically always existed. It is wrong to say that Eastern Ukraine was conquered by Russia. This territory has always been part of Russian-speaking and Russian history and then Soviet history. It also has close ties with Serbia, because many Serbs, for example, founded the towns that are now on the territory of Donbass. All of this plays a role.</p>
<p>We have here an interesting, but certainly explosive mixture of history, geography, natural resources and new dynamics that are emerging from a new geopolitical reality. We will see how all this will develop. It will largely depend on the new relations that are being built between Washington and Moscow. Current events are very interesting, including [the outcome of the UN General Assembly vote on the anti-Russian resolution] in New York. And no doubt, there will be new changes in territorial boundaries, so on the issue of Ukraine's territorial integrity, which the EU is demanding, the facts speak a very different language indeed.</p>
<p><strong>- Can we now say that Russia has won the special military operation?</strong></p>
<p>For me Russia has won in a sense that it has not been defeated. It had been said that Russia could allegedly be smashed on the battlefield, that it would fall to the Middle Ages level, that the Russian society would be ruined. However, that never happened. No mass riots that Europe expected or would like to see, ever happened either. The population supports the government, people are coping with the new reality. No one expected Russia to be so stable. We often heard that the country was going to fall into 40 new states, but it never happened as well. Given the mentioned factors, I think that yes, Russia has won.</p>
<p><strong>- Would you like to attend the Victory Parade on May 9 in Moscow? How do you assess the decision of European countries not to participate in this event?</strong></p>
<p>- You know, I was in Moscow for the first time in 2014, by chance on May 9. I saw the atmosphere of the holiday, and this special, impressive atmosphere on the streets left a strong impression. Had I had the opportunity to watch the parade from Red Square, it would have been a completely different perception. So if I received an invitation, yes, I would certainly accept it.</p>
<p>Now, in 2025, the situation is completely different, and none of us could have predicted that the world would change to such a degree. But I'm happy for the organizers, for the hosts of the parade, that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to participate, that's great. Also, maybe some European leaders, like [Slovak Prime Minister] Robert Fico, might want to take part. He has already announced this, and perhaps others will join as well.</p>
<p>As for the decision of European countries not to participate, it is really sad. I always say that in Brussels and many other European capitals, people do not know much about history, but rather have no interest in it. History doesn't matter to them, only ideologies and markets matter. But in fact history does matter.</p>
<p>I grew up in a neutral country and we were told that the US liberated us and we were grateful to our parents and grandparents for that. That was our historiography. Today, however, in Europe, the view of history has become even more distorted. It is not just sad, it is tragic - when at the EU level such an approach to history becomes normal. There is a rather catastrophic attitude towards history in Europe today. This is particularly evident in the context of World War II, but not only that. I believe it was also ridiculous when Italy, Spain and Greece were referred to as the “periphery” of Europe, despite the fact that these countries are central to European culture. These are all manifestations of historical forgetfulness. Without the knowledge of our own history, it is impossible to build a sustainable future for the next generations.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. French President Emmanuel Macron has not yet taken any real steps to communicate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite statements about his readiness for dialogue, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with television host Pavel Zarubin.</p>
<p>"He said earlier that he was ready to communicate with Putin. At the same time, no real steps have been taken in this direction," he said.</p>
<p>The Kremlin spokesman emphasized that France, on the contrary, takes a position supporting "continuing the war by any means". Peskov noted that in time it will become clear how exactly the position of the Europeans will change after their contacts with the US administration and in the context of the "suddenly emerging dynamics in Russian-US relations".</p>
<p>Earlier, Macron said in an interview with French Sunday newspapers that he did not rule out the possibility of restoring dialogue with his Russian counterpart.</p>


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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439721.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The range of possible topics for cooperation between Russia and the United States should be outlined now, but quick results should not be expected, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with television host Pavel Zarubin for Rossiya-1 TV channel.</p>
<p>Answering a question about possible cooperation on rare earth metals, the Kremlin representative pointed to the position of the US side, which notes that "first a settlement around Ukraine, then the economy".</p>
<p>"It seems to me that even now we need to outline the range of possible topics for cooperation, but we should not expect any quick results in this area right now," Peskov said.</p>
<p>Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow would be happy to cooperate with any foreign partners in the rare earths industry, including the US, as it is a capital-intensive project. US President Donald Trump has shown particular interest in the development and extraction of rare earth metals, a key element in modern microelectronics and high technology. Last year, the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources reported that Russia ranks second in the world in terms of rare earth reserves.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Center battlegroup amounted to 475 servicemen in one day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"Units of Russia’s Center battlegroup improved their position along the front line. They defeated formations of six mechanized brigades, three ranger brigades, two assault brigades, an airborne brigade, an unmanned systems brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a marine brigade, and two brigades of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Novopavlovka, Udachnoye, Krasnoarmeysk, Zverevo, Nadezhdinka, Grodovka, Dimitrov, Elizavetovka, Andreyevka, Kotlino, Ivanopolye, Muravka, and Uspenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic," the ministry said.</p>
<p>According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the enemy lost up to 475 servicemen, an M113 armored personnel carrier and a US-made HMMWV armored fighting vehicle, as well as five vehicles. Five artillery pieces were destroyed, including a German-made 155 mm RCH 155 self-propelled artillery unit and a US-made ANT/PQ-36 counter-battery radar station.</p>


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title: Russian troops defeat Ukrainian forces near Kramatorsk in DPR
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Russian servicemen have defeated formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"Units of Russia’s South battlegroup took more advantageous positions. They defeated formations of four mechanized, one airmobile, and two motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Predtecheno, Shevchenko, Seversk, Markovo, Chasov Yar, Konstantinovka, Serebryanka and Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic," the ministry said.</p>
<p>According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 320 servicemen, four vehicles and five field artillery pieces, including a 155 mm FH-70 howitzer. Two ammunition warehouses were destroyed.</p>


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title: Ukraine’s losses in Russia’s North and Dnepr battlegroups’ zones reach 140 servicemen
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Forces of Ukraine have lost up to 140 servicemen in the area of responsibility of Russia’s North and Dnepr battlegroups, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"In the direction of Kharkov, units of Russia’s North battlegroup inflicted losses on formations of the motorized infantry brigade and the territorial defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Metallovka, Granov, and Volchansk in the Kharkov region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 25 servicemen, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armored combat vehicle, four vehicles, and three artillery pieces,"the ministry said.</p>
<p>It was noted that the units of Russia’s Dnepr battlegroup inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault, infantry brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements Pyatikhatki, Novodanilovka, Stepovoye, Kamenskoye, Lobkovoe in the Zaporozhye region, Antonovka and Veletskoye in the Kherson region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 115 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, four cars, an electronic warfare station, and an ammunition depot.</p>


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title: Ukrainian forces’ losses in Russia’s East battlegroup zone amount to 190 servicemen
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 190 servicemen in one day in the zone of Russia’s East battlegroup, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"Units of Russia’s East battlegroup continued to advance deep into the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of four mechanized, ranger brigades, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a marine brigade, and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Otradnoye, Bogatyr, Voskresenka, Komar, Dneproenergiya, Novopol, Shevchenko, Burlatskoye, Privolnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, Chervonoye, Zeleny Gai, and Gulyaipole in the Zaporozhye region," the ministry said.</p>
<p>According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the enemy's losses amounted to 190 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, five cars, and four field artillery guns.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces in one day hit gas processing facilities supporting the operation of Ukrainian enterprises of the military-industrial complex, the ministry reported.</p>
<p>"Operational-tactical aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery groups of the Russian Armed Forces hit the infrastructure of military airfields, gas processing facilities that support the operation of Ukrainian military-industrial sector enterprises, unmanned aerial vehicle production workshops, and storage facilities, as well as concentrations of manpower and equipment of armed formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 147 districts," the ministry said.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The daily losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of Russia’s West battlegroup amounted to 240 servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"The enemy's losses amounted to 240 servicemen, six vehicles, two Western field artillery guns, and a materials warehouse," the ministry said.</p>
<p>It was noted that the group's units improved their tactical position. They inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of four mechanized airborne brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and one territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Stepovaya Novoselovka, Zagoruykovka, Lozovaya, Kamenka in the Kharkov region, Drobyshevo, Katerinovka, Kirovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, Nadiya in the Lugansk People's Republic, as well as Serebryanskoye forestry.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921211
title: Russia, US can quickly restore relations if their leaders want it — Kremlin
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The previous US administration caused enormous damage to relations with Russia, so the road to restoration is long. However, it can be accelerated if there is political will on the part of the presidents of both countries - Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with television host Pavel Zarubin for Rossiya-1 TV channel.</p>
<p>"Now attempts are being made to start a dialogue, to improve all relations. There is still a long way to go, because enormous damage has been done to the entire spectrum of bilateral relations," Peskov said.</p>
<p>"But if the political will of the two leaders - President Putin and President Trump - is maintained, then this path can be travelled quite quickly and successfully," he added.</p>
<p>The new US administration, unlike the cabinet of former US President Joe Biden and the leadership of European countries, has set a course for the restoration of relations with Russia and a speedy settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. On February 18 in Riyadh and on February 27 in Istanbul, negotiations were held between representatives of Moscow and Washington aimed at normalizing the work of the embassies of Russia and the United States, as well as resuming diplomatic contacts in general.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921213
title: New configurations of US foreign policy largely coincide with Russia’s — Kremlin
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The new foreign policy configurations of the US administration largely coincide with Russia's, the countries are voting together on a UN General Assembly resolution on Ukraine, which was unimaginable before, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with television host Pavel Zarubin for Rossiya-1 TV channel.</p>
<p>"The new [US] administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision," he said.</p>
<p>"Moreover, we are voting for a UN General Assembly resolution that contains absolutely balanced wording on the Ukrainian crisis. This was unimaginable before," Peskov added.</p>
<p>Earlier, the UN General Assembly voted on a draft resolution on the conflict in Ukraine. Eighteen countries, including Russia and the United States, voted against the anti-Russian draft resolution prepared by European countries and Ukraine. At the subsequent vote in the UN Security Council, a neutral resolution prepared by the US was adopted with the support of the United States and Russia.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921241
title: Badra Gunba elected President of Abkhazia according to second round preliminary results
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>SUKHUM, March 2. /TASS/. Badra Gunba has been elected President of Abkhazia in the second round of the elections, according to the preliminary results of the vote count, which were announced to journalists by Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Republic Dmitry Marshan.</p>
<p>"According to the results of the vote, Gunba Badra Zurabovich was elected," he said.</p>
<p>He added that Badra Gunba has won 54.73% of votes in the second round of Abkhazia's presidential elections, while his opponent Adgur Ardzinba has won 41.54% of votes.</p>
<p>"According to preliminary data, Adgur Ardzinba has received 41.54% of the votes, Bdra Gunba - 54.73% of the votes," Marshan said.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/defense/1921243
title: Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 240 servicemen in Kursk direction in 24 hours
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk direction in 24 hours amounted to over 240 servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"Over 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 240 servicemen, two armored personnel carriers, 15 armored combat vehicles, 17 cars, two US-made self-propelled Paladin artillery units, one artillery piece and one mortar, as well as four UAV control points and one ammunition depot were destroyed. Six Ukrainian servicemen surrendered," the ministry said.</p>
<p>According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the enemy lost more than 64,535 servicemen, 382 tanks, 291 infantry fighting vehicles, 251 armored personnel carriers, 2,110 armored combat vehicles, 2,281 vehicles, 505 artillery pieces, 52 multiple launch rocket system launchers, including 13 HIMARS and seven MLRS from the United States, 25 anti-aircraft missile system launchers during the fighting in the direction of Kursk.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921245
title: UK, Canada, Germany supply the deadliest weapons to Ukrainian Armed Forces
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439725.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Armed Forces of Ukraine receive their most lethal weapons from the UK, Canada, Germany, and Italy, Chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin said in an interview with TASS.</p>
<p>"Together with the Ministry of Defense, we are documenting the facts of the supply of foreign weapons and other equipment. Moreover, the most lethal weapons are supplied by the UK, Canada, Italy, Germany, Romania, Estonia, and a number of other countries," he said.</p>
<p>According to Bastrykin, Storm Shadow cruise missiles, artillery shells and mounts, tank shells, mortar rounds, aerial bombs, and cartridges are being supplied from Europe. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces receive drones, which are widely used not only in combat operations, but also in attacks on civilian infrastructure.</p>


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title:
Trump&amp;#039;s common sense says to ‘step aside" from Kiev, Biden&amp;#039;s pride prevailed — Lavrov

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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The common sense of US President Donald Trump's team dictates to "step aside" from Ukraine, while the pride of former US leader Joe Biden's team has prevailed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda.</p>
<p>"I had hoped that reason and common sense would prevail. But pride prevailed. Not only were there plans to draw Ukraine into NATO, but also to create bases in Crimea, on the Sea of Azov, all these plans were there. But in addition to this geopolitical plan, pride also played a big role," the minister said.</p>
<p>"It is not for nothing that Donald Trump now constantly says in connection with any conflict, considering US’ position, that there must be common sense. And Washington's common sense says to ‘step aside’," Lavrov added.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921249
title: Russia, US admit that they cannot think the same, but they must prevent war — Lavrov
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439729.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Moscow and Washington have admitted at talks in Riyadh that they cannot think the same on all issues on the global agenda, but both sides are obliged to prevent war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda.</p>
<p>"We will never think the same on every issue of world politics. We acknowledged this in Riyadh and the Americans acknowledged it. In fact, they themselves said this," he said.</p>
<p>Lavrov noted that Russia and the US, "on the one hand, can find common interests and many mutually beneficial things, and on the other hand, they are obliged not to go to war in case their interests diverge."</p>
<p>"Where we see a coincidence of interests, common sense suggests that it would be foolish not to take advantage of it to translate it into some practical actions and obtain mutually beneficial results," the minister explained. According to him, where interests do not coincide, "the duty of responsible powers is to prevent this disagreement from degenerating into confrontation".</p>
<p>Lavrov noted that this is precisely the format in which relations between the United States and China are built. "They have a huge number of disagreements," Lavrov explained. "Despite all this, the dialogue between Beijing and Washington has never been interrupted. I believe that this is exactly the model that should exist in relations between any two states. In particular, between Russia and the United States," he said.</p>
<p>The minister added that "an absolutely normal conversation between two delegations" took place in Riyadh. "What is striking is that this was perceived as a sensation. This means that our Western partners, during the term of [former US President] Joe Biden, managed to bring world public opinion to the point where it perceives a normal conversation as something out of the ordinary," he said.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921251
title: There was no preliminary bilateral preparation for Riyadh meeting — Lavrov
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Russian and US teams prepared for the February meeting in Riyadh only at home, there was no preparation in a bilateral format, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda.</p>
<p>"We flew there (to Riyadh - TASS) three days after the telephone conversation (between Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump - TASS). Therefore, there was no preparation," he said. "I mean bilateral [preliminary preparations]. Of course, each team prepared - ours in the Foreign Ministry, theirs in the Department of State," Lavrov clarified.</p>
<p>"We all proceeded from the premise that it was not Trump who broke off relations, but [former US President] Joe Biden, but this is one country," the Russian minister said. In his opinion, "Trump was well aware of this and called [Putin] himself."</p>
<p>"Before that, literally the day before, he sent his close adviser to Russia for a detailed conversation. Then, during a telephone conversation, at his suggestion, we agreed to meet in Riyadh," Lavrov said.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921253
title: West cannot explain future of Ukraine’s territory, Russian language under peacekeepers
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Western countries cannot explain what would happen to the territory of Ukraine and the Russian language if it comes under the control of European peacekeepers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda.</p>
<p>"When we ask these thinkers what will hypothetically happen to the part that they take under their control, they say that nothing would happen - Ukraine will remain there. I asked one person: will the Russian language be banned there? He said nothing. They cannot utter a word of condemnation of what happened," he said.</p>
<p>"No other language has been subjected to such aggression. Imagine if French or German were banned in Switzerland, or English in Ireland. Right now, the Irish want a ‘little’ self-determination. If they tried to ban English now, they would ‘shake’ the whole UN by its ‘pillars’ and demand that Ireland be condemned. But here, ‘it's possible’. You tell them to their face, and they don't react," the Russian minister added.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921255
title: While US talks about wanting to end conflict in Ukraine, Europe demands war — Lavrov
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The United States is openly talking about wanting to end the conflict in Ukraine, but Europe is demanding to continue the war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda.</p>
<p>"Now, after Joe Biden's term, people came who want to be guided by common sense. They openly say that they want to end all wars, they want peace. Who is calling for a ‘continuation of the banquet’ in the form of war? It’s Europe," the minister said.</p>
<p>Lavrov also recalled the opinion of many researchers that over the last 500 years, all world tragedies were born in Europe, the United States did not play the role of instigator.</p>
<p>"In the last 500 years, when the West was more or less formed in the way it has reached our days, of course with some changes, all the tragedies of the world were born in Europe or happened thanks to European policies," he noted. "If we look at history in retrospect, the Americans did not play any instigating or even ‘incendiary’ role," the minister added.</p>
<p>"I don't want to be anti-European. But the current situation confirms the idea that many historians have expressed," Lavrov said.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921259
title: Lavrov says Trump is practical person with ‘common sense’ as his motto
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called US President Donald Trump a practical person who conducts business under the slogan of "common sense".</p>
<p>"Donald Trump is a practical person. His slogan is common sense. It means, and everybody sees it, a transition to a different way of doing business. But the goal is still MAGA (Make America Great Again -TASS)," Lavrov said, adding, "This gives politics a lively, human character. That is why he is interesting."</p>
<p>According to Lavrov, Trump’s team, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are absolutely reasonable people, that’s why in Riyadh "two serious countries" were able to discuss problems.</p>
<p>"His [Donald Trump's] team, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are absolutely reasonable people in every sense of the word. They are talking based on the notion that they are not commanding us and we are not commanding them. Two serious countries simply sat down to talk about where they are going wrong and what their predecessor messed up over last four years, destroying all channels of contact without exception, introducing a series of sanctions, followed by the expulsion of US companies, incurring losses of hundreds of billions of dollars," the minister said.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921257
title: European peacekeepers in Ukraine would mean causes of crisis will not disappear — Lavrov
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. For Russia, the appearance of European peacekeepers in Ukraine will mean that the causes of the crisis will not disappear, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda.</p>
<p>"Just as they brought it [the current regime in Kiev] to power on bayonets and pushed it forward, they now also want to prop it up with their bayonets in the form of peacekeeping units. This would mean that the root causes will not disappear," Lavrov noted.</p>
<p>Lavrov also said that Vladimir Zelensky has become a "pure Nazi" and a traitor to the Jewish people. "Vladimir Zelensky has made a 180-degree turn from a man who came to power on slogans of peace, on slogans of ‘leave the Russian language alone, it is our common language, our common culture’ (you can find all this is on the Internet), and in six months he has turned into a pure Nazi and, as Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin rightly said, a traitor to the Jewish people," Lavrov noted.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/politics/1921261
title: Lavrov calls discussions in Europe about peacekeepers for Ukraine impertinent
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Discussions in Europe about peacekeepers for Ukraine are impertinent, continuing to incite Kiev for a war against Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda.</p>
<p>"President [of France Emmanuel] Macron is running around with some ideas, as is [UK Prime Minister Keir] Starmer. They say they are preparing so many thousands of peacekeepers and will provide them with air cover. This is also impertinent," Lavrov said, adding, "This plan to introduce ‘peacekeepers’ into Ukraine is continuing to incite Kiev for a war against us".</p>
<p>"First of all, no one is asking us," Lavrov continued. "US President Donald Trump understands everything. He said it was too early to say when there would be a settlement - you can discuss this issue, but the agreement of the parties is needed. He is behaving correctly.".</p>


guid: https://tass.com/economy/1921263
title: Gas withdrawals from European UGS in February were the highest in seven years
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Gas withdrawals from European underground storage (UGS) facilities in February were the highest in seven years and the third highest for the month in history, according to TASS calculations based on Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) data.</p>
<p>Total accumulated gas reserves in the EU at the end of February fell below 39%. At the same time, LNG supplies from terminals to the European gas transmission system also reached a record.</p>
<p>Withdrawal from European UGS facilities in February amounted to 17.7 bln cubic meters, which is almost twice as much as last year and the highest in seven years. This is the third highest figure in the history of observations for this month. Gas injection into storage facilities amounted to 880 mln cubic meters, or 27% less than the figure a year earlier and the lowest since 2018.</p>
<p>Gas reserves in European storage facilities as of February 28 fell to 38.54%, which is 11.57 percentage points lower than the average of the last five years. This is lower than the level not only at the end of the last fall-winter period, but also at the end of the 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2022-2023 heating seasons. At the end of last month, they contained less than 43 bln cubic meters of gas.</p>
<p>The heating season in Europe started on October 29, 2024 (10 days earlier than in the last fall-winter season) and since then EU countries have withdrawn more than 66.5 bln cubic meters of gas from storage. The net withdrawal (the difference between the volume of withdrawals and injections) is around 63 bln cubic meters. At the same time, the total gas withdrawal from the UGS facilities on the 123rd day from the moment of reaching the maximum filling is 27% higher than the average value for this day in the previous five years. The most problematic years for the EU were 2018 and 2022, when the reserves in the storage facilities at the end of the heating season in spring dropped to critical levels below 18% and 26%, respectively and it was even necessary to resort to the withdrawal of the so-called buffer gas, which is used to maintain the required pressure in the storage facilities.</p>
<p>The high dynamics of gas withdrawals from storage in February is explained by the cold weather in the first half of the month. In addition, the share of wind power in EU electricity generation was only 13% last month, compared to 21% in January.</p>
<p>At the end of February, the average price of gas in Europe was about $542 per thousand cubic meters (+5% compared to January) - a two-year high. At the same time, gas trading ended the month at $475 per 1,000 cubic meters, which is 18% higher than at the end of January.</p>
<p>LNG supplies from terminals to the European gas transportation system increased slightly in February. According to the results of the past month, they amounted to 10.7 bln cubic meters, which is 2.7% higher than in January and 11% more than in February 2024. This figure became a record for this month for the entire period of observation.</p>
<p>In total, in January - February, LNG supplies from terminals to the European gas transportation system amounted to about 21.2 bln cubic meters, or 4% more than in the same period of 2024.</p>
<p>Gas withdrawal from storage facilities in 2025 ranks first in terms of share among sources of gas receipt by Europe at 43.7%, according to data from the European Network of Gas Transmission System Operators (ENTSOG) as of February 27. In second place with a share of 24.9% are LNG supplies, in third place with 16.7% are supplies from the North Sea (mainly Norwegian gas).</p>
<p>This exceeded the figures for supplies from the East (Russian gas, Ukrainian gas supplies, as well as the withdrawal of their gas from Ukrainian UGS by European companies) (4.5%). Gas supplies from North Africa amounted to 6.6%, from the UK - 1.5%.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921271
title: Israeli army says it carried out airstrikes on Gaza ‘to eliminate a threat’
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>TEL AVIV, March 2. /TASS/. The Israeli Air Force carried out an air strike on the northern Gaza Strip "to eliminate a threat", the army's press service reported.</p>
<p>"Earlier on Sunday, several suspicious individuals were operating near IDF forces in the northern Gaza Strip and were seen planting an explosive device in the area. In order to eliminate this threat, the Israel Air Force carried out an airstrike against the suspicious individuals," the statement said.</p>
<p>"The IDF will continue to operate in order to eliminate any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF troops," the military added.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921273
title: Israel resumes fighting in Khan Yunis in Southern Gaza
link: https://tass.com/world/1921273
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439733.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>DUBAI, March 2. /TASS/. Israeli forces have resumed fighting in the area of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, launching a series of artillery and tank attacks on the outskirts of the town of Abasan al-Kabira, the Palestinian enclave's Civil Defense reported.</p>
<p>"The outskirts of the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, were subjected to artillery strikes and shelling from Israeli tanks," the statement said.</p>
<p>At least four people were killed on Sunday as fighting resumed in the Palestinian enclave, the Hamas-controlled Al Aqsa television channel reported, citing the Gaza health ministry.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921277
title: Parliamentary elections in Tajikistan recognized as valid, turnout exceeded 50%
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>DUSHANBE, March 2. /TASS/. Elections to the Majlisi Namoyandogon Majlisi Oli (Lower House of Parliament) of Tajikistan have been recognized as valid, voter turnout exceeded 50%, Chairman of the Central Commission for Elections and Referendums of the Republic Bakhtiyor Khudoyorzoda said.</p>
<p>"As of 12:00 local time (10:00 Moscow time - TASS), 59% of voters took part in voting at all 3,513 polling stations of the republic, this number is more than half of the total number of voters. The elections &lt;...&gt; are considered valid," he said.</p>
<p>On March 2, Tajikistan holds elections to the lower house of parliament and to the legislative bodies of the regions, cities, districts, and villages of the country. At 06:00 local time (04:00 Moscow time), 3,513 polling stations opened across the country. In addition, another 36 stations are operating at Tajikistan's diplomatic missions in 28 countries. Around 5.5 mln citizens of the country who have reached the age of 18 are eligible to vote, while 229 international observers are monitoring the elections.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/emergencies/1921291
title: Over 27,000 people recognized as victims of Ukraine’s invasion in Russia’s Kursk Region
link: https://tass.com/emergencies/1921291
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tags: #Emergencies #Military operation in Ukraine
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439737.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Investigators have recognized over 27,000 people as victims of the Ukrainian militants’ invasion of the Kursk region, Chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin said in an interview with TASS.</p>
<p>"Over 39,000 people have been questioned in criminal cases on the events in the Kursk region, and over 27,000 have been recognized as victims," he said.</p>
<p>He also said that data on the destruction of over 20 cultural heritage sites have been recorded.</p>
<p>"It was established that municipal facilities, large agricultural enterprises, other organizations and individual entrepreneurs suffered damages in the amount of over 26 bln rubles," Bastrykin said.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a congratulatory telegram to the elected President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba, the Kremlin press service said.</p>
<p>"Please accept my sincere congratulations on your election as President of the Republic of Abkhazia," the statement said.</p>
<p>"The victory in the elections, which took place in conditions of free expression of the people’s will, confirmed the support of the citizens of Abkhazia for your line on ensuring domestic political stability and progressive socio-economic development of the country," the Russian leader said.</p>
<p>Allied and friendly relations between Russia and Abkhazia will be strengthened under the newly elected President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba, Putin said.</p>
<p>"I expect that friendly, allied Russian-Abkhaz relations will continue to strengthen for the benefit of our fraternal peoples," the statement said.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921295
title: Protest organizers in Serbia have no chance of overthrowing Vucic — Deputy PM
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The organizers of the protests in Serbia have no chance of overthrowing the country's president Aleksandar Vucic, they do not have a single suitable candidate to replace him, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said in an interview with TASS.</p>
<p>"They do not have a single person who could remove Aleksandar Vucic. Their main problem is that they do not have a single suitable person," Vulin said.</p>
<p>According to him, the organizers of the protests "are simply trying to provoke an incident that would lead to a serious political problem, but nothing more". "They don't have a single political course. And there is no one who could come to Aleksandar Vucic and say: ‘I can do better than him’," he added.</p>
<p>Since November 2024, anti-government protests have been taking place in Serbia, organized by students and representatives of the opposition. The main reason for the protests is the Novi Sad train station tragedy, which occurred on November 1, 2024, and resulted in the deaths of 15 people.</p>
<p>Vucic said that the street protests were organized by foreign secret services in order to destabilize the situation in the country. According to him, around 3 bln euro came to Serbia from abroad to overthrow him.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies from European terminals to the EU gas transmission system in February were record-breaking for this month throughout the observation period, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE).</p>
<p>At the end of February, they amounted to 10.7 bln cubic meters, which was 2.7% higher than in January and 11% higher than in February 2024. This figure was a record for the month over the entire observation period.</p>
<p>In total, LNG flows from terminals to the European gas transmission system amounted to about 21.2 bln cubic meters at the end of January-February, which is 4% more than in the same period in 2024.</p>
<p>Gas withdrawals from storage facilities in 2025 rank first in terms of share among gas sources for Europe at 43.7%, according to data from the European Network of Gas Transmission System Operators (ENTSOG) as of February 27. LNG supplies are in second place with a share of 24.9%, and North Sea supplies (mainly Norwegian gas) are in third place with 16.7%.</p>
<p>This exceeded the figures for supplies from the East (Russian gas, Ukrainian gas supplies, as well as the withdrawal of their gas from the Ukrainian UGS by European companies) (4.5%). Gas supplies from North Africa amounted to 6.6%, from the UK - 1.5%.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Serbia believes that it is impossible to send peacekeepers to Ukraine without Russia's consent, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said in an interview with TASS.</p>
<p>"No, of course it is impossible without the consent of both sides," he said.</p>
<p>"Such a step would mean that they are trying to impose their military presence on Ukrainian or Russian soil. I'm sure this is impossible," Vulin added.</p>
<p>Earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that discussions in Europe about peacekeepers for Ukraine are impertinent, continuing to incite Kiev for a war against Russia. "This plan to introduce ‘peacekeepers’ into Ukraine is continuing to incite Kiev for a war against us," he said in an interview with <a href="http://redstar.ru/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Krasnaya Zvezda</a>.</p>


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title: At least 116 people killed in Gaza since ceasefire came in force — health ministry
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>TUNIS, March 2. /TASS/. At least 116 people have been killed and more than 490 have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the January 19 when the ceasefire came in force, Gaza’s health ministry said.</p>
<p>According to the ministry, four bodies and six wounded have been taken to hospitals across the enclave since this morning. "The overall death toll over the ceasefire period has reached 116, with more than 490 people being wounded," it said.</p>
<p>The total number of those killed as a result of Israeli bombardments in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 exceeds 48,000, with around 112,000 people being hurt.</p>
<p>In mid-January, Israel and Hamas reached an Egypt-, Qatar-, and US-brokered three-stage agreement to release the hostages held in Gaza and declare a ceasefire in the enclave. The three-phase deal took effect on January 19. The initial 42-day phase of the ceasefire ended on March 1.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921303
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439741.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>DOHA, March 2. /TASS/. Israel has demanded via the mediators that Hamas release five Israeli hostages and hand over ten bodies in exchange for a week-long extension of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the Qatari-based <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Al Jazeera</a> television channel reported, adding that Hamas has turned down the new deal.</p>
<p>"Israel demanded that Hamas release five alive hostages and return ten bodies n exchange for [the release] and Palestinian prisoners and the expansion of humanitarian deliveries," the TV channel quoted its sources. According to the sources, Israel’s initiative envisages a week-long extension of the first phase of the ceasefire deal.</p>
<p>The sources said that talks on this matter have been held by the Israeli delegation with mediators in the past 48 hours. "Via mediators, Israel demanded that Hamas respond to these terms until midnight in Friday (February 28 - TASS)," the sources said, adding that Hamas had notified the mediators that it rejected Israel’s terms, slamming them as "a violation of the existing agreements." Hamas has reportedly stressed its commitment to the original deal.</p>
<p>The Kan broadcaster said in the morning o March 2, citing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office that the Israeli army had blocked humanitarian deliveries to the Gaza Strip and closed all checkpoints along the enclave’s border. The step was taken following Hamas’ refusal to accept the plan for the Gaza ceasefire extension offered by US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s office said earlier that Israel accepts Witkoff’s temporary ceasefire plan during Ramadan (until March 29) and Passover (from April 12 through 19). Under the plan, Palestinian groups are to release half of the hostages and hand over the bodies of those dead on the first day and release the remaining hostages, living and dead, at the end, if an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire.</p>
<p>In mid-January, Israel and Hamas reached an Egypt-, Qatar-, and US-brokered three-stage agreement to release the hostages held in Gaza and declare a ceasefire in the enclave. The three-phase deal took effect on January 19. The initial 42-day phase of the ceasefire ended on March 1. All the living Israeli hostages and the bodies of those deceased that were supposed to be handed over in the first stage have been returned to Israel. In exchange, Israel released over 1,500 Palestinian prisoners.</p>


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title: Egypt proposes Gaza deal first phase be extended for two weeks — media
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>TUNIS, March 2. /TASS/. Egyptian mediators have proposed that the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas be extended for two weeks to begin talks on the second phase, the <a href="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Al Araby Al Jadeed</a> newspaper reported, citing an Egyptian source.</p>
<p>According to the source, Cairo’s plan envisages that during this two-week period "Hamas will undertake to hand over two groups of Israeli hostages," each including one living person and two bodies.</p>
<p>The proposal was advanced "in recent hours," the source said, adding that he hopes that it "would be accepted by Hamas." "An Israeli delegation is expected to arrive in Cairo again within hours to discuss this initiative," the source noted.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in the small hours on Sunday that Israel accepts US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s temporary ceasefire plan during Ramadan (until March 29) and Passover (from April 12 through 19). Under the plan, Palestinian groups are to release half of the hostages and hand over the bodies of those dead on the first day and release the remaining hostages, living and dead, at the end, if an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire.</p>
<p>According to Israeli prime minister’s representatives, should Hamas accept the US plan, Israel "will immediately begin talks on the details of Witkoff’s plan." However, later in the day, Netanyahu’s office said that Hamas had rejected the US proposal and Israel was blocking humanitarian deliveries to the Gaza Strip and closing all checkpoints along the enclave’s border.</p>
<p>In mid-January, Israel and Hamas reached an Egypt-, Qatar-, and US-brokered three-stage agreement to release the hostages held in Gaza and declare a ceasefire in the enclave. The three-phase deal took effect on January 19. The initial 42-day phase of the ceasefire ended on March 1.</p>


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title: Twenty Ukrainian troops convicted in Russia for crimes in Kursk Region
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Twenty Ukrainian militants have been sentenced by a Russian court for crimes committed in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region, chairman of the Russian Investigating Committee Alexander Bastrykin told TASS.</p>
<p>"As many as 332 criminal cases have been initiated on charges of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed units. A total of 247 people are facing charges in these cases. Thirty criminal cases have been referred to the prosecutor’s office. Forty-three cases involving 102 people are being considered by court. The 2nd Western District Military Court has pronounced verdicts to 20 people," he said, adding that the Committee’s investigators have been working in the Kursk Region since the first days of Ukraine’s incursion.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>BUFAPEST, March 2. /TASS/. The Hungarian government has confirmed that Prime Minister Viktor Orban issued a letter to European Council President Antonio Costa calling for direct talks between the European Union and Russia.</p>
<p>As follows from the letter that has been posted on the governmental website, the Hungarian prime minister also called on the European Union to support that neutral resolution on Ukraine that was passed by the United Nations Security Council on February 24.</p>
<p>"I am convinced that the European Union - following the example of the United States - should enter into direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire and sustainable peace in Ukraine," Orban said in the letter.</p>
<p>He also noted that there are "strategic differences (within the European Union - TASS) in our approach to Ukraine that cannot be bridged." That is why, in his words, it is highly improbably that a consensus could be reached at the EU summit on March 6. So, he suggested that the meeting yield only a brief statement approving the UN Security Council resolution of February 24.</p>
<p>The neutrally-toned resolution doesn’t place the responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine on either of the sides. It was supported by Russia, China, the United States and seven more Security Council members, while five delegations, including the United Kingdom and France, abstained from voting. The document calls for an immediate end to the conflict and a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia.</p>
<p>Commenting on Orban’s letter, the prime minister’s political adviser, Balazs Orban (no relation), said that the Hungarian government "did not want to discuss this matter publicly." But once the letter has been made public, the Hungarian government is ready to repeat: "Hungary’s position is that direct talks with Russia should begin immediately to cease fire and reach peace," he said. "We also expect the European Union’s leaders to act as responsible politicians.".</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>ANKARA, March 2. /TASS/. Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is looking at nominating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for president at the snap election in 2027, AKP deputy leader Huseyin Yayman said.</p>
<p>"We hope that we will again nominate our president at the election in November 2027. There is no need in another candidate. We will elect out president as head of our country again at the next election," the <a href="https://www.iha.com.tr/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">IHA</a> agency quoted him as saying at a meeting with party activists in Antalya.</p>
<p>According to Yayman, Erdogan will be nominated by the Republic Alliance of the Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.turkiyegazetesi.com.tr/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Turkiye</a> newspaper reported in late February, citing discussions within the AK party, that the party was unofficially discussing the possibility of organizing early presidential and parliamentary elections in the fall of 2027. The rescheduling of the presidential election stems from the AKP’s plans to nominate Erdogan for president as he will not be able to run for president at the regular election in 2028 under the country’s constitution.</p>
<p>The opposition called on the authorities earlier to make a decision on the snap election this year. However, the parliament’s consent is needed to implement the decision on early election. Currently, the AKP and its ally, the Nationalist Movement Party, lack votes to pass a parliamentary resolution on snap elections. At least 360 votes are needed for that.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, both the AKP and the country’s leadership claim that the issue of the early election is not on the agenda.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>TEL AVIV, March 2. /TASS/. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hamas that its refusal from further talks will entail "additional consequences."</p>
<p>"In light of Hamas's rejection of the [US Presidential Special Envoy Steve] Witkoff framework, we decided - at last night's discussion - that as of this morning, the entry of goods and supplies into Gaza will be prevented," he said at a weekly cabinet meeting, as quoted by his office. "If Hamas continues to stick to its position and does not release our hostages, there will be additional consequences, which I will not detail here."</p>
<p>According to Netanyahu, Israel fully agrees to the Witkoff plan for a temporary ceasefire for the Ramadan (until March 29) and Passover (from April 12 through 19) period. "According to the Witkoff proposal, on the first day of his framework half of the hostages will be released in one phase. At the end of the framework - if agreement is reached - the remaining hostages will be released, also in one phase," he recalled.</p>
<p>The Israeli prime minister stressed that Israel is supported by the United States and its president Donald Trump on this matter. "We are fully coordinating with President Trump and his people. According to the information that Israel has, Hamas is currently holding 59 hostages: Up to 24 are alive and at least 35 are deceased. We are not giving up on anyone and we are determined to bring them all back home," he stressed.</p>
<p>Israel, in his words, can resume combat operations any time now since the 42-day ceasefire under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal expired on March 1, but is refraining from this and agrees "to the Witkoff framework because we are committed to returning all of our hostages," despite Hamas’ repeated violations.</p>
<p>"While Israel has agreed to the Witkoff framework, Hamas has - so far - clung to its refusal and has not agreed to the framework. If Hamas changes its position, Israel will immediately enter into negotiations on implementing the framework," he said.</p>
<p>"I would like to clarify something else: There will be no free lunches. If Hamas thinks that it will be possible to continue the ceasefire or benefit from the terms of the first stage, without us receiving hostages, it is sorely mistaken," Netanyahu warned.</p>


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title: Three people hurt in shooting incident at shopping mall near Moscow
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Three people were hurt in a shooting incident at a shopping mall in the city of Mytyshchi just outside Moscow, the shooter was detained, the press service of the Russian interior ministry’s department for the Moscow Region told TASS.</p>
<p>"The Mytishchi police department received a call about sounds resembling shots at a shopping mall. Police arrived at the scene and detained the offender. As a result of the incident, three people received bodily injuries," it said.</p>
<p>Local emergencies services told TASS earlier that people had been evacuated from the Krasny Kit shopping mall in Mytishchi due to shooting.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921317
title: Rubio calls on Zelensky to realize importance od talks on settling conflict in Ukraine
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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250302/1439745.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>NEW YORK, March 2. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky must realize the importance of dialogue to end the conflict in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.</p>
<p>"These conflicts are not easy to solve. We’re getting - but you can't solve them at all if you don't even have a process to try to solve it, if you don't have the parties at the table. And right now that's been our goal. It's been explained crystal clear to the Ukrainians and the Europeans and everyone else who wants to know for weeks now - for weeks now. And the only thing they were told is, do not do things to derail it," he said in an interview with <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ABC News</a>.</p>
<p>"Sadly, President Zelensky couldn't contain himself in that regard. I hope this could all be reset. I hope he comes to the realization that we're actually trying to help his country here before it suffers thousands of more casualties," he said, adding that three million people have already left Ukraine. "Are they ever going to be able to come back?" he noted.</p>
<p>On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Their televised exchange, with reporters present, unraveled into a shouting match, with Trump scolding Zelensky for being disrespectful to the US, and Vice President JD Vance noting that Zelensky had not ever said a "thank you" for all the support provided to Kiev. A news conference scheduled to follow the meeting was canceled, and Trump posted a statement on the Truth Social media platform saying that Zelensky was disrespectful and not ready for peace.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/world/1921319
title: Constitutional declaration committee set up in Syria — presidential office
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>TUNIS, March 2. /TASS/. Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president during the transitional period, has formed a committee to elaborate the country’s constitutional declaration for the transitional period.</p>
<p>According to a Telegram post of his office, the new body includes seven experts. "The committee will work on the constitutional declaration regulating the transitional period in Syria," it said, adding that the committee "will refer its proposals to the president."</p>
<p>Al-Sharaa said in late January that a constitutional declaration for the transitional period will be made public following a nationwide dialogue in the country.</p>
<p>Armed opposition units in Syria launched a large-scale offensive on government troops in the Aleppo and Idlib governorates in late November 2024. On December 8, they entered Damascus, while President Bashar Assad stepped down and fled the country. On December 10, Mohammed al-Bashir, who had led the so-called Syrian Salvation Government in the Idlib governorate, announced his appointment as head of Syria’s interim government, saying that the transitional period will last until March 1, 2025. Leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (outlawed in Russia) Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, has become Syria’s de facto new leader.</p>


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News Host Joy Reid Raises Threat of Trump Selling U.S. to Putin; Ten Days Later Her Show Is Cancelled

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<p><strong>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and </a><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Russ Martens</a>: February 24, 2025 ~</strong></p>
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<p>On Thursday, February 13, MSNBC’s Joy Reid, host of the news program, The ReidOut, said this on air:</p>
<p>“If Donald Trump announced tomorrow that he was selling the United States to Vladimir Putin personally and that we will now be owned by the Kremlin, every single Republican [in Congress] would say, ‘Yes, sir,’ and vote for it.”</p>
<p>Reid’s remark came during her interview with Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. Jeffries had just indicated that all it would take is three House Republicans to vote with Democrats in order to do the right thing for the American people they represent.</p>
<p>You can <a href="https://youtu.be/81hntmYPY8E?si=a7lr6kgy6LArx1J4&amp;t=500">watch the exchange here</a>.</p>
<p>Just five days before Reid’s staff learned that her show had been cancelled – by reading about it first in leaked media reports and then having the fact confirmed by management – Trump and Elon Musk had appeared in a <a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-interview-sean-hannity-fox-news-with-elon-musk-february-18-2025/">bizarre joint interview with Sean Hannity</a>. In that interview, Trump specifically complained about MSNBC, stating the following:</p>
<p>“And the media is so bad. When I watch MSNBC, which I don’t watch much, but you have to watch the enemy on occasion, the level of arrogance and — and cheating and — they’re just horrible people. These are horrible people.”</p>
<p>Reid’s 7 p.m. weekday news program has been running since 2020. Over this past weekend, multiple media outlets reported that Reid’s show would end abruptly sometime this coming week. The abruptness raised suspicions of Trump’s brand of vindictiveness against his perceived enemies.</p>
<p><em>Variety</em> reported the following:</p>
<p>“There has been growing concern within several news outlets about drawing the wrath of the Trump administration. CNN, part of Warner Bros. Discovery, has parted ways with some anchors who tilted hard against Trump’s policies and media practices, including, most recently, Jim Acosta.”</p>
<p>Reid’s concerns about Trump’s closeness to Putin are not devoid of an evidentiary basis. Last week Trump declared that Ukraine had started the war with Russia. The Associated Press, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8">which is suing the Trump administration itself for banning it from press events at the White House, Mar-a-Lago, and Air Force One</a>, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-trump-war-zelenskyy-putin-7fe8c0c80b4e93e3bc079c621a44e8bb">fact-checked Trump’s revisionist history as follows</a>:</p>
<p>“WHAT TRUMP SAID [about Ukraine]: ‘You’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it. … You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.’</p>
<p>“THE FACTS: Russia’s army crossed the border on Feb. 24, 2022, in an all-out invasion that Putin sought to justify by falsely saying it was needed to protect Russian-speaking civilians in eastern Ukraine and prevent the country from joining NATO.”</p>
<p>Reid is also correct that the majority of Republicans in Congress have demonstrated that they are prepared to remain silent as Trump makes outlandish threats <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-take-canada-greenland-panama-canal-rcna186591">to take over Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal</a>, and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5287576/trump-gaza-takeover">grab ownership of the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian people</a>.</p>
<p>But Reid is incorrect about one thing. Not every single Republican in Congress is prepared to remain silent on the threat posed by Putin. On Thursday, February 20, Senator Thom Tillis stunned his Republican colleagues with a fiery speech against Putin on the Senate Floor. <a href="https://youtu.be/vejIjMNG-_g?si=sKyrNKA6YOqNXmts&amp;t=85">Tillis said this</a>, standing in front of giant photographs of mass civilian graves in Ukraine:</p>
<p>“Vladimir Putin is a liar, a murderer and responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. And that’s bad by itself. But, you know what’s worse? It’s when you employ tactics that intentionally terrorize the population.”</p>
<p>A comment under the video summed up the rare nature of a Republican speaking out like this, writing:</p>
<p>“One guy. A house and senate filled with self-righteous republicans, who know this goes against everything America stands for, and what do you get? One guy.”</p>

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In Trump 1.0, the State Department Used Taxpayer Money to Publish a Book Elevating Elon Musk to a Superhero; It Was Funded by USAID, the Agency Musk Wants to Quickly Shut Down

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<p>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and </a><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Russ Martens</a>: February 25, 2025 ~</p>
<p><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Elon-Musk-Book-for-Young-Readers.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Elon-Musk-Book-for-Young-Readers.jpg" alt width="288" height="428" data-sanitized-class="alignright size-full wp-image-16594"></a>During Donald Trump’s first term as president, while Mike Pompeo was serving as his Secretary of State, the State Department authorized a government contract on September 23, 2019 to translate and publish a book for young people that lavished praise on Elon Musk as an inspiring role model.</p>
<p>The book’s title was: “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Fantastic-Future-Young-Readers/dp/0062463276/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Young Readers Edition</a>.” It was authored by then Bloomberg/Businessweek writer, Ashlee Vance, and based on his New York Times bestseller for adults, “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and The Quest for a Fantastic Future.”</p>
<p>Curiously, however, the book wasn’t for U.S. children or even children on the same continent. The State Department award went to an organization called Steps to Success Public Association in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_SKG10019GR0115_1900">federal account from which the $17,054 contract came was USAID</a>, the federal agency that has been gutted and reputationally savaged as riddled with fraud, waste and abuse by Elon Musk.</p>
<p>The Associated Press, which is now banned from White House press conferences by the Trump administration, <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/03/elon-musk-says-president-donald-trump-agreed-usaid-should-be-shut-down">reported on February 3</a> that Musk had said this recently about USAID:</p>
<p>“It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm in it. What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair. We’re shutting it down.”</p>
<p>The U.S. State Department carries this statement on Kyrgyzstan:</p>
<p>“The United States established diplomatic relations with Kyrgyzstan in 1991 following the nation’s independence from the Soviet Union. The United States supports Kyrgyzstan in its development of an inclusive democracy based upon the rule of law and respect for human rights. Kyrgyzstan’s 2017 presidential election marked the first peaceful transfer of presidential power from one democratically-elected president to another in post-Soviet Central Asia. Significant impediments to Kyrgyzstan’s development include corruption, aging infrastructure, high unemployment that fuels labor migration and dependence on remittances, and endemic poverty. Kyrgyzstan, however, benefits from a robust civil society and a relatively free media sector.”</p>
<p>Despite Musk receiving billions of dollars in classified federal contracts through his rocket and satellite company, SpaceX, the Wall Street Journal broke the bombshell news in the fall of last year that Musk has been secretly speaking with Vladimir Putin since 2022 – despite Putin being on a U.S. sanction list and Musk holding classified information about U.S. technology development.</p>
<p>The speed at which Musk has endeavored to get into the computer systems of USAID, shut it down, and even strip its name from its building – raises the question as to what exactly resides in those files that Musk and/or Trump are so hell bent on keeping from the American people.</p>
<p>Musk may rue the day that he and his chainsaw came into the crosshairs of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the former Harvard Law Professor who is the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee.</p>
<p>Warren and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, have received acknowledgement from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), that <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/02/theres-one-federal-investigative-agency-that-neither-trump-nor-elon-musk-can-touch-it-just-opened-an-investigation-into-doge/">it has opened an investigation</a> into Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for it tapping into the computers that run the payment system of the U.S. Treasury.</p>
<p>Today, at 2 p.m., Warren has convened a forum in the Senate Dirksen Office Building in Washington, D.C. to investigate the consequences of President Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the federal agency that has returned over $21 billion to Americans who have been scammed by mortgage lenders, credit card companies, megabanks and other financial predators. You can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/s8iNPldj7D8">watch the livestream of the forum here</a>.</p>

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Who Benefits Alongside Elon Musk If He Succeeds in Killing the CFPB: the Megabanks on Wall Street that Underwrite His Tesla Stock Offerings

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<p>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and </a><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Russ Martens</a>: February 28, 2025 ~</p>
<p><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Bank-Logos-Thumbnail.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Bank-Logos-Thumbnail.jpg" alt width="150" height="93" data-sanitized-class="alignright size-full wp-image-15711"></a>On June 29, 2010 when the electric vehicle company, Tesla, <a href="https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-announces-pricing-initial-public-offering">launched its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq Stock Market</a>, its underwriters were trading powerhouses on Wall Street: Goldman, Sachs &amp; Co., Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and Deutsche Bank Securities. Over the next dozen years, Tesla would utilize these investment banks and others to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2020/12/08/yet-another-stock-offering-will-further-pressure-teslas-already-pathetically-low-roe/">raise billions more in secondary stock offerings</a> of Tesla shares.</p>
<p>It was a very happy marriage. The Wall Street megabanks made big fees on the underwritings and Musk was able to cash out tens of billions of dollars for himself in Tesla stock sales.</p>
<p>That happy, mutually beneficial relationship turned sour when Musk borrowed $13 billion from a consortium of the megabanks to help fund his purchase of the social medium platform, Twitter, in 2022. (Musk has since renamed Twitter as “X.”)</p>
<p>The banks <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/musks-political-ascendancy-stirs-hopes-redemption-x-banks-2024-11-15/">got stuck with these loans after Musk torpedoed the reputation of Twitter, lost major advertisers</a>, and tanked its value. On February 14, the Financial Times reported that the bank lenders have now been able to sell all but $1 billion of that debt tied to Musk’s purchase of Twitter – ostensibly because of Musk’s First Buddy status with the President of the United States.</p>
<p>Musk may be the richest man in the world <em>on paper</em>, but monetizing that paper into hard cash is another matter. The 10K (Annual Report) filed by Tesla on January 30 of this year with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) carried this loud, shrill alarm bell:</p>
<p><strong><em>“If Elon Musk were forced to sell shares of our common stock, either that he has pledged to secure certain personal loan obligations, or in satisfaction of other obligations, such sales could cause our stock price to decline.</em></strong></p>
<p>“Certain banking institutions have made extensions of credit to Elon Musk, our Chief Executive Officer, a portion of which was used to purchase shares of common stock in certain of our public offerings and private placements at the same prices offered to third-party participants in such offerings and placements. We are not a party to these loans, which are partially secured by pledges of a portion of the Tesla common stock currently owned by Mr. Musk. If the price of our common stock were to decline substantially, Mr. Musk may be forced by one or more of the banking institutions to sell shares of Tesla common stock to satisfy his loan obligations if he could not do so through other means. Any such sales could cause the price of our common stock to decline further. Further, Mr. Musk from time to time may commit to investing in significant business or other ventures, and as a result, be required to sell shares of our common stock in satisfaction of such commitments.”</p>
<p>The non-bold type immediately above raises highly problematic questions. According to the 2024 Proxy filed with the SEC, as of March 31, 2024, Musk owned 20.5 percent of the shares outstanding in Tesla. (<a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465924053333/tm2326076d15_def14a.htm">See page 151 of the proxy</a>.) According to the proxy, that includes common stock and “all shares of common stock subject to options or other convertible securities held by that person or entity that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of March 31, 2024.”</p>
<p>No other single entity, including mutual funds or institutions, comes close to Musk’s ownership in Tesla. As of yesterday’s closing price on Nasdaq, Musk’s 715,022,076 shares that he owned as of March 31 of last year, have a current market value of $201.6 <em>billio</em>n, representing the largest portion of Musk’s wealth.</p>
<p><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Tesla-2024-Proxy-Showing-Share-Ownership.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Tesla-2024-Proxy-Showing-Share-Ownership.jpg" alt width="553" height="332" data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16607"></a></p>
<p>Most ultra wealthy people try to diversify away from heavily concentrated stock positions. But for some unexplained reason, Musk wanted to concentrate his wealth deeper into a single stock position.</p>
<p>Now we learn from Tesla’s 10K SEC filing that Musk was borrowing money from banks (which potentially took part in one or more Tesla stock offerings) so he could buy more Tesla shares in the secondary stock offerings – notwithstanding that this could be interpreted as an insider trying to push up the stock price.</p>
<p>While the banks may now be off the hook for the bulk of the loans they made to Musk to enable his purchase of Twitter, Tesla’s SEC filing suggests that the banks’ personal loans to Musk – for his purchases of Tesla stock in secondary offerings – are still outstanding and are collateralized with (wait for it) Tesla stock, which is on a sharp downward track.</p>
<p>Bloomberg News <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tumbling-tesla-shares-leave-investors-103000445.html">reported this morning</a> on the dramatic slump in Tesla’s share price, writing this:</p>
<p>“Shares of the Elon Musk-led electric-vehicle company are down about 40% from their late 2024 high, a reversal that accelerated in recent days after data showed Tesla’s European car sales nearly halved in January. This week’s roughly 17% decline in the share price suggests the slowdown in Tesla’s mainstay auto business is starting to unnerve traders. That’s bad news for a stock whose fortunes have been driven by investor enthusiasm as much as fundamentals.”</p>
<p>Donald Trump and Elon Musk share a common belief in a transactional model, devoid of compassion, that defines their personal and business lives. It can be summed up as “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours; defy me and you become my target for retribution.”</p>
<p>Trump verbalized this model on February 18 when he explained why the Associated Press, after more than a century of being part of the White House Press Pool, and receiving 59 Pulitzer Prizes, has now been banned by Trump. Trump stated:</p>
<p>“[The Associated Press] has been very, very wrong on the election on Trump and the treatment of Trump and other things having to do with Trump and Republicans and conservatives. And they’re doing us no favors. And I guess I’m doing them no favors. That’s the way life works.”</p>
<p>Trump, <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6145972/#:~:text=In%20The%20Dangerous%20Case%20of,be%20assessed%20from%20observed%20behaviour.">disturbingly, frequently refers to himself in the third person</a>. Equally disturbing, Trump appears to be unaware that it would be corrupt for a news outlet in a democracy to be doing “favors” for an individual it has been assigned to cover objectively in its news reports.</p>
<p>The Associated Press <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277682/gov.uscourts.dcd.277682.1.0_1.pdf">has now filed a federal lawsuit</a> “to vindicate its rights to the editorial independence guaranteed by the United States Constitution and to prevent the Executive Branch from coercing journalists to report the news using only government-approved language.” AP had earned Trump’s wrath by refusing to change its style-guide to reflect Trump’s demand to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. That nonsensical demand was seen as sending a message to the press that it should see all things, big and small, as Trump wanted them to be seen.</p>
<p>The back scratching between Trump and Musk is crystal clear. Musk <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?committee_id=C00879510&amp;committee_id=C00887901&amp;committee_id=C00891291&amp;committee_id=C00894162&amp;contributor_name=musk%2C+elon&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2026&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024&amp;min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&amp;max_date=12%2F31%2F2026&amp;min_amount=1000&amp;max_amount=100000000">gave more than a quarter of a billion dollars</a> to bolster Trump’s presidential campaign, making Musk the largest enabler of getting a 34-count convicted felon installed in the Oval Office. Trump is now scratching Musk’s back by giving him and his minions of coders and software engineers unprecedented access <a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-wyden-secure-independent-treasury-and-congressional-watchdog-investigations-into-doges-unprecedented-access-to-the-federal-governments-payment-systems">to tap into classified data stored in the U.S. government’s computers</a> – notwithstanding the dangerous threats to national security this presents.</p>
<p>One of Musk’s top priorities has been to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the federal agency that investigates predatory financial firms that swindle seniors, students, military families, and others. To date, the CFPB has returned more than $21 billion to victims of financial abuse over its 15 years of existence.</p>
<p>On February 7, Musk Tweeted: “<a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887979940269666769?lang=en">CFPB RIP</a>,” with a graphic of a tombstone.</p>
<p>A 404 Error message now appears on the front page of the CFPB website and its social media pages have been deleted at X (Twitter), and Facebook. The entire video playlist on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@cfpbvideo/playlists">CFPB’s YouTube channel</a> has been deleted. That channel previously had hundreds of videos educating the most vulnerable Americans on how to avoid being scammed by financial predators.</p>
<p>Multiple federal lawsuits have been filed against this unprecedented and outrageous attack on a federal agency that fights against scam artists. Notable among them was a lawsuit brought in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The <a href="https://www.nteu.org/-/media/Files/nteu/docs/public/cfpb/CFPBDismantle.pdf">lawsuit</a> charges that these actions against the CFPB violate the separation of powers principles embedded in the U.S. Constitution that assign specific powers to the legislative branch (Congress) and specific powers to the Executive Branch (the President).</p>
<p>The CFPB was created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, duly passed by both houses of Congress, and signed into law by President Obama. The legislation sought to address the megabanks on Wall Street collapsing the housing market and U.S. economy in 2008 through egregious acts of corruption and tricked up accounting.</p>
<p>On February 14, the federal judge assigned to the CFPB case, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Judge-Amy-Berman-Jackson-Order-in-CFPB-Case.pdf">issued the following order</a> that included this directive, among others:</p>
<p>“…it is hereby ORDERED that until the resolution of plaintiffs’ motion for temporary restraining order [Dkt. # 10], which, with the parties’ consent, will be deemed to be a motion for preliminary injunction, the following orders shall remain in place:</p>
<p>“It is ORDERED that Defendants, including their officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, (hereafter collectively, ‘Defendants’) shall not delete, destroy, remove, or impair any data or other CFPB records covered by the Federal Records Act (hereinafter ‘agency data’) except in accordance with the procedures described in 33 U.S.C. § 44. This means that defendants shall not delete or remove agency data from any database or information system controlled by, or stored on behalf of, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the term ‘agency data’ includes any data or CFPB records stored on the CFPB’s premises, on physical media, on a cloud server, or otherwise.”</p>
<p>Notwithstanding that order, the video playlist on the CFPB YouTube channel has not been restored as of this morning.</p>
<p>Musk’s involvement in the ransacking and attempted shutdown of the CFPB may stem from mixed motives.</p>
<p>The CFPB was in the process of <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-and-wells-fargo-for-allowing-fraud-to-fester-on-zelle/">suing some of Musk’s major stock underwriters</a>, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, for “failing to protect consumers from widespread fraud” on the payment network, Zelle.</p>
<p>On February 12, Jamie Dimon, the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, held a profanity-laced Town Hall with his workers, where he called the Trump-fired Director of the CFPB, Rohit Chopra, a “son-of-a-bitch.”</p>
<p>Wall Street has had its guns out for the CFPB since its inception because it maintains a complaint database, with detailed complaint narratives direct from consumers, which can be searched via a keyword by other regulators and journalists to spot patterns of fraud by a specific financial institution.</p>
<p>This morning, that database shows that complaints <em>with narratives</em> against Goldman Sachs have not occurred since December 23, 2024. <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/?dateRange=All&amp;date_received_max=2025-02-21&amp;date_received_min=2011-12-01&amp;has_narrative=true&amp;page=1&amp;searchField=all&amp;searchText=goldman%20sachs&amp;size=100&amp;sort=created_date_desc&amp;tab=List">The graphic below appears above that stale data</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CFPB-Complaint-Database-Notice-of-Technical-Difficulties.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CFPB-Complaint-Database-Notice-of-Technical-Difficulties.jpg" alt width="735" height="126" data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16608"></a></p>
<p>This past week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee and the other Democrats on that Committee, <a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/ahead-of-cfpb-forum-banking-committee-releases-new-analysis-revealing-precipitous-drop-in-consumer-complaints-processed-after-trump-musk-attack-on-american-consumers">released a new analysis</a> showing that since the Trump-Musk attack on the CFPB, the agency is processing 80 percent fewer complaints. Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee also provided a list of <a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/trump-musk_attack_fact_sheet.pdf">38 CFPB enforcement cases</a> against big corporations that have now seen their investigations frozen. One of the investigations that is now in limbo is the Zelle case against Wall Street megabanks JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo – all of which have been a Tesla underwriter at one time or another.</p>
<p>According to Senator Elizabeth Warren, Elon Musk may have another direct reason to want to kill the CFPB. At a forum she convened this past week on the attacks on the CFPB, she revealed that Musk plans to create a payment system called “X Money” on the former Twitter social media platform he now owns. That would put that product directly in the cross-hairs of the CFPB.</p>
<p>Senator Warren said this at the forum:</p>
<p>“Elon Musk wants to offer a new ‘X Money’ feature on his social media platform. But some other apps are already out there—and Musk would have to compete against them. By seizing control of the agency, Musk can now root through all the CFPB’s confidential data that DOGE has accessed on these potential competitors.</p>
<p>“As Musk launches his new app, he faces oversight from the CFPB. His plan seems to be to eliminate the watchdog, which would leave him free to scam and steal however he wants.</p>
<p>“And that is why I invited Musk to this hearing today. Congress and the public deserve answers about why he is trying to kill the CFPB—and answers about what he would gain personally if he is able to shut the agency down.</p>
<p>“No surprise: Musk is a no-show. He’s too afraid to show up in person and defend his actions. He hides behind a gusher of silly tweets. But Elon, in case you’re watching from your bunker, or your Oval Office, it’s not too late. We’re going to be here for another hour and a half. We saved a seat for you and we all have plenty of questions.”</p>
<p>Musk never appeared at the forum.</p>

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<p><span>In light of the increased wave of mass propaganda weaponizing well-meaning but soft minded conservatives against a mixture of Russia, China, Iran and even India, we thought it a wise idea to update and re-issue our film under the title</span> <a href="https://rumble.com/v6c6qzg-five-eyes-nato-and-the-ugly-truth-of-csis.html" rel>‘Foreign Interference: Five Eyes, NATO and the Ugly Truth of CSIS’.</a></p>
<p><span>This 21 minute film is a sequel to the 10 min short video ‘</span><a href="https://rumble.com/v2roj70-who-is-our-enemy-russia-china...-or-something-else-a-canadian-patriot-film.html" rel>Russia, China or Something Else… Who’s our Real Enemy?’</a> <span>featuring an assessment of inside jobs, foreign and domestic terror operations which have been found to be nurtered, created and deployed by our very own ‘patriotic intelligence agencies’ over the last 40 years.</span></p>
<p>Check out the new release, and help by sharing it widely among your network, organize group viewings and don’t let your friends drink CIA/MI6 Kool Aid.</p>
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<p><strong><span>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of</span> <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/" rel>The Canadian Patriot Review</a><span>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of</span> <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/" rel>the Rising Tide Foundation</a><span>. He has written the four volume</span> <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" rel>Untold History of Canada series</a><span>, four volume C</span><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" rel>lash of the Two Americas</a> <span>series and</span> <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press" rel>Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a><span>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media</span></strong></p>
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Breaking History Ep. 82: World in Review (Trump&amp;#039;s Gaza Gambit and the Real Cause of Canada&amp;#039;s Drug Problem)

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<p>In this week’s episode of Breaking History, Gordon and I tackle the dynamics behind Trump’s plan to ‘transform the Gaza in a new riviera’… is it ethnic cleansing? Is this the restoration of a new Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem? Or is there possibly a sane agenda behind it?</p>
<p>Without settling on any one answer, we float several hypotheses.</p>
<p>Additionally, we unpack the recent crackdown on the largest drug hub in Canada, and the fact of major City of London-Wall Street and Canadian banks behind the international narco-terror networks and discuss the importance of the announced creation of America’s first Sovereign Wealth Fund.</p>
<p>Click below to watch the full show:</p>
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<p><span>This Sunday February 9 at 2pm Eastern Time, I’m happy to announce that the Rising Tide Foundation will be hosting Colonel Towner Watkins who will deliver a lecture on the topic of the murder of JFK and the involvement of CIA/NATO/Gladio operations behind the assassination and its cover up. (</span><a href="https://rumble.com/c/c-4232602" rel>Follow Colonel Towner Watkins channel here</a><span>)</span></p>
<p>Click on the link below to access the live event Sunday Feb. 9 at 2pm ET:</p>
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<p><span>In this special Canadian Patriot Podcast, I was pleased to chat with Mike Holmes about the upcoming conference sponsored by the United Conservative Party of Alberta dubbed ‘</span><a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/" rel>An Injection of Truth Part 2: Healing Humanity</a><span>’. This event will take place on March 3 and will feature such speakers as</span> <strong><a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/#bio_davidson" rel>Dr. Gary Davidson</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/#bio_rancourt" rel>Dr. Denis Rancourt</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/#bio_martin" rel>Dr. David E. Martin</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/#bio_speicher" rel>Dr. David Speicher</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/#bio_bridle" rel>Dr. Byram Bridle</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/#bio_liu" rel>Dr. Joanny Liu</a><span>, and</span> <a href="https://aninjectionoftruth.ca/#bio_buckley" rel>Mr. Shawn Buckley</a><span>.</span></strong></p>
<p>Click below to watch the full podcast</p>
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New Release: Canada&amp;#039;s Potential Eurasian Future: A Vision for the 21st Century and Beyond (107 pages full color)

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<p><span>As the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the</span> <em>Canadian Patriot Review</em> <span>and co-author of the four volume book series</span> <em>‘The Untold History of Canada’,</em> <span>I am proud to present the following report as a blueprint for Canada’s survival throughout the 21st century and beyond.</span></p>
<p>This report begins with the presentation of several strategic mega projects which will allow us to return to the path of pro-scientific and technological progress which was abandoned during the post John F. Kennedy era of “post industrialism” and “consumerism”.</p>
<p>It features historic precedents that once animated the best traditions of Canada’s past which have been erased from memory, and it features a solution to the false synthetic nationalism created by the British Empire over the course of two centuries which has used Canada as a chess piece in a great game.</p>
<p>However, I am also aware that his report will also feature a large number of cognitive dissonances for many Canadian readers due in part to my generally positive view of Russia, China, and India which form the bedrock of the multipolar alliance.</p>
<p>My additional assessment that Canada has been manipulated as a weapon on a larger global game board by forces centered in the City of London (which have also worked fervently to infiltrate and destroy the U.S. republic from within over many generations) is another difficult pill for many Canadians (and Americans) to swallow, which may cause a number of negative emotions.</p>
<p>My chapter on the manipulation of First Nations groups throughout Canada’s history by imperial social engineers will also likely anger and disturb some readers.</p>
<p>I honestly wish my research and discoveries hadn’t led me to those conclusions, but if we love truth more than our comfort blankets, then I encourage all readers to push through those negative emotions and cognitive dissonances, as I can guarantee that a bitter truth is absolutely better for our survival in the long run than a sweet lie.</p>
<p>The appendix of this booklet features an in-depth assessment of why Russia, China and even India have been so demonized in the minds of many Canadians and Americans over recent years, which has less to do with any evidence of ill-intent and much more to do with those nations wielding national power in opposition to globalist forces seeking to reduce world population under a system of total enslavement.</p>
<p>Click below to purchase a full color copy of Canada’s Potential Eurasian Future: A Vision for the 21st Century and Beyond as a Paperback, Kindle or PDF</p>
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title: Open vs Closed Systems Course: Lecture 2 (On Plato vs Aristotle)
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<p>In this second of a 10 part series of lectures for Russia's Nasha Zavtra publishing and the Academy for International Cooperation, I introduced the battle of Plato vs Aristotle as a theme shaping two opposing paradigms over the past two millennia.</p>
<p>Watch lecture one here:</p>
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<p><strong><span>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of</span> <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/" rel>The Canadian Patriot Review</a><span>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of</span> <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/" rel>the Rising Tide Foundation</a><span>. He has written the four volume</span> <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" rel>Untold History of Canada series</a><span>, four volume C</span><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" rel>lash of the Two Americas</a> <span>series and</span> <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press" rel>Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a><span>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media</span></strong></p>

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