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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220644
title: NPR’s CEO just made the best case yet for defunding NPR
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After years of objections over its biases, the NPR board hired a CEO notorious for her activism and far-left viewpoints.

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221172
title: Kalshi CEO: Political betting could be ‘a trillion dollar’ market
author: ;Michael Ramsey
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Kalshi says it’s the first regulated exchange where people “can buy and sell contracts on the outcome of events."

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#Administration #Business #International #News #Policy #Foreign policy #Kalshi #NewsNation #Political Betting #sports betting #Trump administration #Trump Greenland acquisition

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guid: https://www.rt.com/news/614946-johnson-nato-alternative-delusion/
title: No alternative to NATO – ex-British PM
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<p><strong>Boris Johnson has urged European nations to increase defense spending</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Europeans should not be <em>“deluded”</em> that there is an alternative <em>“defense pillar”</em> to NATO, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. In an article in the Daily Mail on Friday, he argued that European countries should allocate more funds to defense.</p>
<p>The Atlantic reported this week, citing a conversation in the encrypted messaging app Signal, that US Vice President J.D. Vance said he hated <em>“bailing out Europe again”</em> by launching military action against Houthi rebels, ostensibly to protect European trade. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly also slammed <em>“pathetic European free-loading.”</em></p>
<p>In his article, Johnson pointed out that the US defense budget <em>“is the thick end of a trillion dollars a year, more than 12 times the UK defense budget, even though the US population is only about five times bigger than ours.”</em> He added that <em>“the US allocates about 3.5 per cent of its GDP to defense while the UK spends about 2.3 per cent.”</em></p>
<p>Just prior to taking office in January, US President Donald Trump called on European NATO allies to increase their military spending, calling on each member state to spend 5% of GDP on defense. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that British defense spending would rise to 2.5% by 2027, three years earlier than planned. Meanwhile, EU countries have announced their own defense strategy aimed at breaking security dependency on the US.</p>

            
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<p>Johnson opined in the Mail that there is no candidate for replacing America’s role on the continent. <em>“We must not be deluded into thinking we can create some European alternative defence pillar, as a substitute for Nato. Who would lead such a thing? France? Britain? Germany? You only have to ask the question to see the problem,”</em> he wrote. The former conservative PM hailed the defense budget boost announced by London, but called it <em>“only a start, and nothing like enough.”</em></p>
<p>America should be <em>“the hegemonic power of the Western world”</em> to stick up <em>“for freedom and democracy, especially in Ukraine,”</em> Johnson claimed.</p>
<p>According to Kiev, it was Johnson – then still prime minister – who convinced Ukraine to keep fighting and derailed its 2022 peace talks with Moscow. Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled that episode, saying that <em>“Western handlers... arrived and persuaded the Ukrainian leadership to continue armed resistance to the end, essentially to the last Ukrainian, with the goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.”</em> Currently, Moscow and Washington are engaged in talks aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict.</p>

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221504
title: Musk hits back at Walz over Tesla criticism: ‘Huge jerk’
author: ;Steff Danielle Thomas
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk responded to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) quip about celebrating the dip in Tesla stocks, calling the former vice presidential nominee a “huge jerk.” During an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Musk was asked about the market drop, recent vandalism at Tesla dealerships, and criticism of his work with President…

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#Administration #Business #Media #News #Policy #Technology #DOGE #DOGE Cuts #Fox News #Tesla stocks #Tesla vandalism #Trump administration

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1743254562
title: Five in Ukraine killed in drone strikes as Russia claims advances on ground
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Kyiv and Moscow have stepped up their aerial attacks as US pushes the warring parties to agree on a ceasefire.</em></p>
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<p>A Russian drone attack <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/russia-suffers-heavy-losses-in-donetsk-lavrov-scolds-ukraines-zelenskyy">has killed</a> at least four people and wounded 21 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, damaging high-rise buildings and triggering fires in a hotel and homes, the regional governor said, as Moscow claims to have made gains on the ground elsewhere.</p>
<p>Late Saturday, the mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, said at least one person was killed in a Russian drone attack. At least nine people were injured.</p>

<p>In Dnipro, the governor of the surrounding Dnipropetrovsk region, Sergiy Lysaksaid, “The massive attack caused large-scale destruction and fires. A hotel and restaurant complex, 11 private houses, garages, and a service station were on fire,” he said, adding that high-rises and cars were also damaged.</p>
<p>Pictures and videos posted online showed flames and large plumes of smoke wafting skyward. Others showed the shattered interior of a building, the badly damaged upper floors of a high-rise apartment block and streets strewn with smashed glass and building materials.</p>
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<p>On Saturday, during his evening address to the nation, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, “For too long now, America’s proposal for an unconditional ceasefire has been on the table without an adequate response from Russia … There could already be a ceasefire if there was real pressure on Russia.”</p>
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<p>On Saturday, Russian forces said they had captured the settlement of Panteleimonivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region and Scherbaky in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, areas already under partial Russian occupation, according to the Interfax news agency, which cited the Russian Ministry of Defence. Russian forces also captured the settlement of Veselivka in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, according to the Russian state-run TASS.</p>
<p>In the meantime, Russia’s Defence Ministry accused Ukraine of attacking its energy facilities in the past 24 hours. The ministry said Ukraine attacked power grids in the Belgorod region several times, leaving about 9,000 residents without a power supply.</p>
<p>Both Russia and Ukraine have stepped up their aerial attacks as US President Donald Trump pushes both countries to agree to a ceasefire after more than three years of ruinous war.</p>
<p>Moscow is preparing to launch a new military offensive in the coming spring to maximise the pressure on Kyiv and strengthen the Kremlin’s negotiating position in ceasefire talks, Ukrainian government and military analysts have said.</p>
<p>On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a “transitional administration” to be put in place in Ukraine and promised his army would “finish off” Ukrainian troops.</p>
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<p>Zelenskyy dismissed Putin’s call for a UN-run administration as the Russian leader’s latest ploy to delay a peace deal.</p>
<p>“Russia is making a mockery of peacekeeping efforts around the world. It is dragging out the war and sowing terror because it still feels no real pressure,” he said.</p>
<p>The United States, however, is continuing to try to negotiate a ceasefire in the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/russia-ukraine-black-sea-deal-what-is-it-and-will-it-work">Black Sea</a> and to end strikes targeting energy infrastructure in both nations.</p>
<p>While both have agreed to these truces in principle, their implementation remains unclear, and Russia and Ukraine continue to trade accusations that the other is seeking to derail them.</p>

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guid: https://www.rt.com/news/614945-eu-ukraine-sanctions-leyen/
title: EU to reject Russia-US Black Sea deal – von der Leyen
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<p><strong>The economic restrictions are “painful” for Moscow and “represent a powerful lever,” according to the European Commission president</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The EU will not lift its sanctions against Russia for as long as the Ukraine conflict continues, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said.</p>
<p>During talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday, Russia and the US agreed to move towards reviving the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which, according to the Kremlin, should include the removal of Western restrictions against Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial institutions involved in the international sale of food and fertilizers.</p>
<p>In her interview with French broadcaster LCI on Friday, von der Leyen made it clear that Brussels will not support the idea of a maritime truce between Moscow and Kiev put forward by the administration of US President Donald Trump.</p>
<p><em>“The sanctions are very significant; they are painful; they have an impact on the Russian economy, and they represent a powerful lever,”</em> she said when asked about the possibility of the EU fulfilling Russian demands to lift some of the curbs.</p>

            
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<p>According to the head of the European Commission, the restrictions <em>“will remain in effect until a just and lasting peace is established in Ukraine.”</em></p>
<p>However, she noted that <em>“when the war is over, the sanctions might be removed.”</em></p>
<p>Von der Leyen also said that for the conflict to end, <em>“security guarantees for Ukraine”</em> are needed as well as <em>“a solid defense industrial base and a deterrent force”</em> in the EU.</p>
<p>The Black Sea Grain Initiative, originally brokered in July 2022 by the UN and Türkiye, envisioned the safe passage of Ukrainian agricultural products in exchange for the West lifting its restrictions on Russian grain and fertilizer exports.</p>
<p>Moscow withdrew from the deal a year later, citing the West’s failure to uphold its obligations. The Americans and Russians now see its revival as a step towards settling the Ukraine conflict altogether.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, President Vladimir Putin asserted that the Russian economy has become the fourth largest in the world in purchasing power parity terms after those of China, the US and India, despite a record 28,595 sanctions being placed on it by Washington, Brussels and their allies. According to the Russian government’s data, the country’s economy grew 4.1% in 2024, surpassing the official forecast of 3.9%.</p>

             
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<p>Putin previously urged the Russian business circles against expecting the sanctions to be fully lifted, describing them as a mechanism of strategic systemic pressure on the country that the West intends to keep using.</p>

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1743251636
title: It’s not just Trump, the EU is also waging an anti-migration crusade
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2018-10-24T142908Z_546965751_RC1B47769530_RTRMADP_3_EUROPE-MIGRANTS-BOSNIA-1743260241.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>For months now, US President Donald Trump’s administration has been leading a well-publicised crackdown on migration. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have turned deportations into media spectacles, posting videos of chained deportees and releasing their names to spread fear.</p>
<p>Within the past few weeks, the Trump administration has expanded its deportation surge to include even foreign nationals with legal status in the country, including academics. The president has pledged to deport 11 million people – doubling the number removed under President Joe Biden and even surpassing President Barack Obama’s two terms, during which 5.3 million people were deported.</p>

<p>While the world’s attention is focusing on Trump’s anti-migration spectacle, the European Union is quietly carrying out its own crackdown. Its policies are far less visible, yet they are just as ruthless.</p>
<p>In the first nine months of 2024, EU states issued 327,880 expulsion orders, with 27,740 people forcibly removed between July and September. Deportations have intensified, as EU states have begun implementing the new Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was passed in December 2023 and entered into force in June 2024.</p>
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<p>Under its provisions, EU members are fast-tracking removals, expanding detention centres, and strengthening cooperation with third countries to facilitate deportations. However, it is not only member states that will be part of this.</p>
<p>Balkan countries that have to fulfill certain criteria to become part of the EU, through the EU accession process, are effectively being turned into a border zone for the EU. Unlike EU member states, Balkan candidate states had no say in shaping this pact, yet they are forced to implement it and abide by what can only be described as colonial blackmail.</p>
<p>Most recently, the EU made its expectations clear at the December EU-Western Balkans Summit, declaring that, “We need to strengthen our cooperation and strategic partnerships in migration management, which is a shared challenge and responsibility and a key priority.”</p>
<p>This is part of the EU’s broader strategy to externalise migration control and fortify its borders, but also to move away from any responsibility and accountability for violations of human rights and transfer them on to third countries.</p>
<p>A key part of this strategy is the creation of “return hubs” close to and outside the EU’s borders – places where unwanted people can be warehoused. This model, championed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is already in motion. People are being sent to the Balkans, Turkey and North Africa. Frontex, the EU’s border agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) play key roles in enforcing these removals.</p>
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<p>In practice, we can see what that looks like in Croatia, the EU member state bordering two Balkan non-member states – Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Croatia has played an important role in maintaining the EU border regime by normalising pushbacks, which over the years caused numerous deaths and injuries and represented a massive violation of fundamental human rights. Instead of establishing responsibility for this, the EU rewarded Croatia – along with Bulgaria and Romania – by allowing them to join the Schengen Agreement, which abolishes border control between member states.</p>
<p>The EU has also strengthened readmission agreements – bilateral deals that allow EU states to send people back to their country of origin or country of transit, pushing them to the edge of the EU or outside its borders, basically to offload migrants. As a result, the Balkans have become a dumping ground for people the EU wants to expel.</p>
<p>Croatian authorities have not published any reports on migration control since 2020, but Minister of Interior Davor Bozinovic said in January that border police prevented 71,000 “illegal entries” in 2024. The Bosnian Office for Foreigners reported that in 2023, Croatian authorities returned 4,265 people into Bosnian territory. Bosnia, with financial aid from the EU, removed 893 people to their countries of origin or countries that accepted them through interstate agreements, while 96 migrants left through the IOM’s controversial “voluntary return” programme, which scholar Jean-Pierre Gauci has described as “disguised deportation”.</p>
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<p>Currently, Croatia has four detention and return hubs located in Ježevo (near Zagreb), Tovarnik (by the Croatian-Serbian border), Dugi Dol (along the Croatian-Bosnian border) and Trilj (along the Croatian-Bosnian border).</p>
<p>NGOs and journalists have documented widespread rights violations inside these centres, including, inhumane living conditions and indefinite detention. It has also been a consistent practice of the local authorities to send foreign nationals to these centres for a few days and then to take them out and push them across the border with Serbia or Bosnia. There have also been cases of children and single women being detained in overcrowded men’s facilities.</p>
<p>Since the beginning of this year, Croatian police have intensified their activities along the eastern border. Their officers will be joined by colleagues from Slovenia and Italy under a newly signed agreement for joint patrols of the Croatian border. At the same time, border police have received more surveillance cameras and police vehicles equipped with surveillance technology.</p>
<p>After an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels earlier this month, Bozinovic declared that deportations are no longer a “taboo” topic in the EU and that the European Commission was looking into legislative proposals to speed them up.</p>
<p>Croatia’s non-EU borders are already dotted with unmarked graves of people who have perished while on the move to seek safety and security. The new pact will only intensify the brutality asylum seekers face at Croatia’s borders and in non-member states like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia and elsewhere.</p>
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<p>The new pact is allocating millions of euros for policies and technologies that will directly feed into the global politics of dehumanisation of people on the move. It is also empowering Frontex, which has long been accused of complicity in illegal pushbacks and human rights violations, to play an even bigger role in border control and deportations. Its annual budget for deportation-related expenses alone is 18 million euros ($19.5m).</p>
<p>As we write this, alarm bells are ringing across the EU. In Germany, solidarity groups are trying to stop the deportations of Palestinians. In Italy, the government is still looking for ways to send unwanted migrants to centres built for that purpose in Albania. Austria has temporarily halted family reunions for asylum claimants. France has introduced more strict immigration policies and started to deport more people, which led to a row with Algeria due to a high number of deportees.</p>
<p>It is now increasingly clear that Western countries, led by the EU and the US, are using migrants as scapegoats to justify militarised border control. The EU’s collaboration with Israel in developing advanced surveillance and AI technology is central to this strategy. The very systems used to track and control migrants today – drones, biometric databases and predictive policing – were tested in occupied Palestine before being deployed at European borders. Asylum seekers, Palestinians, and those in solidarity with them are the first targets, but they will not be the last.</p>
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<p>If we fail to challenge these policies, this machinery of control will continue expanding, ensnaring more and more people in its grip. The only way forward is to build transnational solidarity networks that resist these injustices and hold those in power accountable while exposing the flawed political and economic systems that allow for the global dehumanisation of disadvantaged communities. The alternative is to remain silent and allow a future where no one is safe.</p>
<p><em><strong>The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.</strong></em></p>

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220187
title: Congress must stop Biden’s VA mortgage bailout — before it’s too late
author: ;Tobias Peter; opinion contributor
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Left unchecked, the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase risks turning veteran homeownership into a costly, unsustainable entitlement, and taxpayers will be left holding the bag. 

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=884348
title: Horn of Africa, a new crisis on the horizon?
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<p><strong><em>Destabilizing the Horn of Africa is a strategy already known to the Anglo-American world to try to keep the region in a state of instability useful for commercial domination.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>South Sudan finds no respite</strong></p>
<p>In the Horn of Africa, two fragile peace processes are seriously threatened: internal power struggles in South Sudan and in the Ethiopian region of Tigray could turn into regional crises. In South Sudan, as was the case in 2013 at the beginning of the civil war, a competition is underway for the succession of the current president Salva Kiir, 73 years old. The latter seems to favor his son-in-law as his potential successor. Meanwhile, the Upper Nile region is shaken by clashes between the White Army, a Nuer militia, and the South Sudanese armed forces, with dramatic consequences, including the shooting down of a UN helicopter and the killing of a high-ranking general.</p>
<p>During the civil war between 2013 and 2018, the Armata Bianca fought alongside the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Opposition Movement (SPLA-IO), led by the current First Vice-President Riek Machar. Today, tensions between Kiir and Machar are rising again, raising fears of a return to violence in a country already badly tried by decades of conflict.</p>
<p>South Sudan is on the brink of another civil war, the top United Nations official in the world’s youngest country warned on Monday, expressing concern over the government’s sudden decision to postpone the latest peace effort.</p>
<p>Describing the situation in the country as “grave”, Nicholas Haysom emphasized that international efforts to reach a peaceful solution can only be successful if President Salva Kiir and his former rival turned vice-president, Riek Machar, are willing to collaborate and put the interests of the population above their own.</p>
<p>When oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict, expectations were high. However, the country slipped into a civil war in December 2013, fueled by ethnic divisions, with forces loyal to Kiir, a Dinka, fighting those loyal to Machar, a Nuer.</p>
<p>The conflict caused over 400,000 casualties before ending with a peace agreement in 2018, which led to the formation of a government of national unity with Kiir and Machar. The agreement called for elections in February 2023, which were subsequently postponed to December 2024 and then again to 2026.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-airstrike-nasir-civilians-military-58e424601f46e57400554097cccd0692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">current tensions</a> stem from clashes in the north of the country between government forces and a rebel group known as the White Army, believed to be close to Machar.</p>
<p>Earlier this month,<a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-un-chopper-fighting-nasir-db1ec0bdea98864b48a61b17f0092ee6" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> a South Sudanese general was killed</a> along with others when a United Nations helicopter, engaged in the evacuation of government soldiers from the city of Nasir – the scene of fighting in Upper Nile State – was hit by enemy fire. A few days earlier, on March 4th, the White Army had taken control of the Nasir military garrison, forcing government troops to surround <a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-tension-violence-fighting-upper-nile-c0083aec9f62e325bbf53eef94638e8c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the residence of Machar</a> in the capital Juba and arrest several of his associates.</p>
<p>Nicholas Haysom, the UN envoy for Sudan, has stated that tensions and violence are increasing, especially as the elections approach and the political competition between the country’s key figures intensifies. According to him, the lack of trust between Kiir and Machar prevents them from exercising the leadership necessary to implement the 2018 peace agreement and guide South Sudan towards a stable and democratic future; he also emphasized that the rampant spread of disinformation, propaganda and hate speech is further exacerbating ethnic divisions and fueling fear. “Faced with this worrying situation”, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-south-sudan-war-embassy-1b88f1d0b983a2ae5008ea6d5f95aa0a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Haysom</a>, ‘we can only conclude that South Sudan is at serious risk of relapsing into civil war’.</p>
<p>Haysom, who heads the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, which has almost 18,000 members, warned that a return to open conflict would lead to the same horrors the country experienced in 2013 and 2016. The United Nations is taking the risk of the conflict becoming increasingly ethnic very seriously. To avert a new civil conflict, the UN special envoy has stated that the peacekeeping mission is intensifying diplomatic efforts, collaborating closely with international and regional partners, including the African Union.</p>
<p>The common message from the regional and international community is an appeal to Kiir and Machar to meet to resolve their differences, respect the 2018 peace agreement, maintain the ceasefire, release detained officials and address tensions through dialogue rather than military violence.</p>
<p><strong>In Ethiopia, divisions within the TPLF and tensions with Eritrea continue</strong></p>
<p>A few kilometers to the east, in Ethiopia, <a href="https://www.nigrizia.it/notizia/etiopia-fra-la-pace-e-il-tigray-anche-la-crisi-permanente-del-tplf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an internal crisis in the Tigray</a> region risks fueling a wider conflict between the federal government in Addis Ababa and Eritrea. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), formerly the dominant party in Ethiopia and the main opponent of the government in the 2020-2022 war, is now divided into two factions: a conservative one led by President Debretsion Gebremichael, and a reformist one led by Getachew Reda, head of the Tigray Interim Regional Authority.</p>
<p>Debretsion’s faction controls a significant part of the Tigray armed forces and has progressively taken over local administrative structures, often by coercive means. It has also extended its influence over the media. Debretsion’s faction controls a significant part of the Tigray armed forces and has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkml1d206po" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progressively taken over </a>local administrative structures, often by coercive means. It has also extended its influence over the media and part of the government in the regional capital, Mekelle. This faction is believed to have links with Eritrea, while Getachew enjoys the support of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.</p>
<p>Relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea deteriorated after the <a href="https://igad.int/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Download-the-signed-agreement-here.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pretoria Agreement</a>, which ended the war between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF in 2022. Both countries accuse each other of supporting opposition groups, increasing the risk of a new regional conflict.</p>
<p>In an attempt to calm rising tensions in the turbulent Tigray region, Ethiopia’s prime minister announced his intention to appoint a new leader for the area, after which he fled to the capital Addis Ababa earlier this month following a power struggle within the TPLF.</p>
<p>In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed asked Tigrayans to propose via email who should be the new leader of the region and also announced that the mandate of the interim administration, initially planned for two years, will be extended for another year. Although Tigray now has the chance to choose its own leaders, Abiy is also sending a signal: “If the prime minister can appoint a president in the Tigray region, he can do so elsewhere too”.</p>
<p>Despite the signing of the peace agreement, Tigray continues to face difficulties, including delays in the disarmament of TPLF forces and serious humanitarian needs. The conflict in Tigray has caused the death of approximately 500,000 people. All parties involved – including neighboring Eritrea, which supported the government – have been accused of serious violations, including massacres of civilians and widespread sexual violence.</p>
<p><strong>The involvement of other states and the fragmentation of international commitment</strong></p>
<p>The risk of an expansion of the conflict is real. Uganda <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2025/uganda-to-send-troops-to-south-sudan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has already sent troops</a> to support the South Sudanese government, as it did in 2013, while Sudanese forces have intervened in several strategic areas. Over the weekend, militias of the Operational Support Force in South Sudan clashed with units of the SPLA/M-LNL, apparently involved in an operation to obtain weapons from the Sudanese Armed Forces.</p>
<p>The fragile implementation of the peace agreements is one of the main causes of the recent escalation. In South Sudan, President Kiir has removed several members of the government and arrested senior SPLA/M-NLA officers. On the other hand, it is already known that in Ethiopia many provisions of the Pretoria Agreement have not been implemented. Where international diplomacy is not working, the law of the strongest takes over.</p>
<p>Support for stability in the region appears increasingly fragmented, even in international cooperation, which is unable to guarantee effective interventions. In Ethiopia, there is a lack of credible actors who can guarantee respect for the agreements. At the recent emergency summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on South Sudan, only two presidents were present. The United States once played a central role in the peace process, but today powers such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and<a href="https://www.africaintelligence.com/eastern-africa-and-the-horn/2025/01/22/uganda-seeks-to-strengthen-security-ties-with-turkey,110365623-art"> Turkey are</a> exerting greater influence, often favoring individual sides rather than acting as neutral mediators.</p>
<p>Turkey has recently strengthened its relations with Uganda, a strategic move in the African context that draws a rather interesting diplomatic geometry.</p>
<p>Turkey and Uganda have had diplomatic relations since 1962, but it was only in the early 2000s that the bond between the two countries began to strengthen significantly. Today, cooperation between the two nations is solid and extends to various sectors, including trade, investment, security and education.</p>
<p>Trade and investment represent a fundamental pillar of the collaboration between Turkey and Uganda. Turkey has invested heavily in the Ugandan infrastructure and construction sectors, contributing to the realization of important projects such as hospitals, roads and bridges. The two countries have signed several agreements to encourage trade and investment, including a Bilateral Investment Treaty and an Agreement to avoid double taxation, both aimed at promoting the flow of capital and reciprocal trade.</p>
<p>Turkey has also made a significant contribution to Uganda in the education sector, offering scholarships to Ugandan students to study at Turkish universities. This initiative has strengthened the ties between the two countries and given Ugandan students the opportunity to access quality education. Furthermore, Turkey has opened several schools in Uganda through the Maarif Foundation, which provide both primary and secondary education, with the aim of offering Ugandan students a high level of education.</p>
<p>The collaboration between Turkey and Uganda also extends to the security sector. Turkey has provided military training and instruction to the Ugandan security forces, and the two countries have signed agreements to strengthen cooperation in this area. Turkey has supported Uganda in the fight against terrorism, providing equipment and assistance to the Ugandan security forces and intelligence services.</p>
<p><strong>A peaceful and diplomatic solution is needed</strong></p>
<p>With the situation continuing to worsen, high-level diplomatic intervention is needed to prevent further escalation.</p>
<p>More effective international coordination could contain the crisis. One possible strategy would be an informal division of tasks: influential actors such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia could focus on reducing tensions between governments, while European countries could support IGAD and the African Union in local mediation processes.</p>
<p>Then there is another path that must be considered: a fully African solution. The Confederation of Sahel States could offer authoritative regional mediation, and above all, far from the spasmodic Western control.</p>
<p>Who knows if the UN and other international agencies will consider leaving Africa to Africans.</p>
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<p>Following <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sleazy-dem-rep-crockett-scrambles-explain-hot-wheels-slur-against-gov-abbott">sleazy Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's</a> disheartening remarks about the Texas Governor's wheelchair-bound condition, <strong>GOP analyst Scott Jennings</strong> offered some words of advice to the far-left-leaning panel during Tuesday's edition of <em>CNN NewsNight</em>: </p>
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<p><strong><em>I don't know how Democrats appointed Jasmine Crockett as the unquestioned leader of your party, but thank God</em></strong><em>.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>And I think what she should do is go on TV twice as much -</em></strong> <em>maybe three times as much - because everytime she appears - makes these mistakes - says something radical - it only further divides her party from the other 80% of America who can't stand this - but the problem is - there's an audience for this.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>I heard Jimmy Kimmel's audience cheering on Tesla vandalism</em></strong><em>; I hear that The Daily Show's audience on a tax on Elon Musk; I hear the Human Right's audience cheering on an attack on a man in a wheelchair.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>And I realize this is what the left has become: an angry mob of people</em></strong> <em>who are cheering on attacks on a guy in a wheelchair and vandalism against people who bought a Tesla ... it's pathetic.</em></p>
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<p>On X, Jennings wrote that <em>Crockett</em> <strong><em>"will learn no lessons from the "Hot Wheels" episode because the Left's angry mobs eat this stuff up," adding, "Trust me: the unquestioned head of the Democratic Party thinks is a winning vector." </em></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Jasmine Crockett will learn no lessons from the “Hot Wheels” episode because the Left’s angry mobs eat this stuff up. Trust me: the unquestioned head of the Democratic Party thinks is a winning vector. <a href="https://t.co/egtZIbPyDV">pic.twitter.com/egtZIbPyDV</a></p>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1904862129091457446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2025</a></blockquote>

<p>Jennings is entirely correct: The far-left has chosen the path of hate and violence, while the latest polling data from NBC News and CNN shows the party has hit its lowest approval ratings on record: 27% and 29%, respectively.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Has there ever been such a level of coordinated violence against a peaceful company?</p><p>I understand not wanting to buy a product, but this is extreme arson and destruction! <a href="https://t.co/AIL8WPt0uv">https://t.co/AIL8WPt0uv</a></p>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1902778638824591396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Democrats believe <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rogue-soros-funded-ngo-plots-multi-city-assault-tesla-domestic-terrorism-escalates">communist revolutionary tactics of firebombing Tesla showrooms</a> and cars are socially acceptable in the era of Trump's law and order to win back votes - yet the imploding party is oblivious and tone deaf that the Overton Window shifted last year - and BLM-style color revolutions are no longer socially acceptable.</p>
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<p>The Sudanese army has said it seized control of a key market in Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city, building on a series of recent successes in its offensive against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).</p>
<p>But the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Saturday, “The joy of victory will not be complete until the last rebel is eliminated in the last corner of Sudan’s land.”</p>

<p>The announcement of the latest gain on Saturday <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/sudan-army-claims-taking-full-control-of-capital-khartoum">comes days after SAF also took control of most parts of the capital</a> in a potentially pivotal victory in the devastating two-year war that has caused the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/11/sudan-scene-of-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-african-union">world’s largest humanitarian crisis</a>.</p>
<p>The army said in a statement that its forces were now in control of the market in western Omdurman, Souq Libya, having seized weapons and equipment left behind by the RSF when they fled. Souq Libya is one of the largest and most important commercial hubs in Sudan.</p>
<p>The army already controlled most of Omdurman, home to two big military bases. It appears intent on securing control over the entire capital area, which is made up of the three cities of Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri, divided by branches of the River Nile. The RSF has not commented on the army’s advance in Omdurman, where the paramilitary forces still hold some territory.</p>
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<p>Al-Burhan said the following in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr: “The joy of victory will not be complete until the last rebel is eliminated in the last corner of Sudan’s land. We will not neglect the sacrifices of our martyrs. The war has done the worst to the nation and the people. We will not compromise or negotiate. Militias must lay down their weapons, and we thank the groups that fought alongside the armed forces. There is no retreat from defeating and crushing the terrorist Al-Dagalo militia.”</p>
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<p lang="ar" dir="rtl" xml:lang="ar">كلمة رئيس مجلس السيادة القائد العام للقوات المسحلة الفريق أول الركن عبد الفتاح البرهان بمناسبة عيد الفطر المُبارك<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#سونا</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#السودان</a> <a href="https://t.co/cgXiUh3R24">pic.twitter.com/cgXiUh3R24</a></p>
<p>— SUDAN News Agency (SUNA) 🇸🇩 (@SUNA_AGENCY) <a href="https://twitter.com/SUNA_AGENCY/status/1906045869008244965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></p>
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<p><em>Translation: Speech by the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. </em></p>
<p>The army senses that the recapture of Khartoum, which had been under RSF control for most of the war, will mark a shift in battlefield momentum that could spread to other areas.</p>
<p>Still, the conflict seems far from over as the warring sides remain in control of large swaths of land each while remaining engaged in fierce clashes.</p>
<p>Fighting is continuing in the huge <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/3/as-the-rsf-surrounds-darfurs-el-fasher-ethnic-killings-feared">Darfur region to the west of Sudan</a>, the Kordofan region in central and southern parts of the country, and Gezira state, a strategic agricultural hub located south of the capital.</p>
<p>Neither side has managed to strike a knockout blow to the other, and there is no sign of a political settlement or peace process in the near future, while each side continues to enjoy the support of its regional backers.</p>

<p>In the meantime, the Sudanese army has accused the United Arab Emirates of backing the RSF, a charge found credible by UN experts and US lawmakers. On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said it would hear a case filed by Sudan demanding emergency measures against the UAE for violating obligations under the Genocide Convention by giving direct support to the RSF and implicating it in genocidal acts allegedly perpetrated by the paramilitary group against the Masalit people of Darfur.</p>
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<p>The Gulf state has repeatedly denied the accusations, calling the ICJ case “<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/6/sudan-files-case-against-uae-at-top-un-court-over-complicity-in-genocide">nothing more than a cynical publicity stunt</a>“.</p>
<p>In January, the United States <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/sudan-rsf-tried-to-polish-its-image-but-its-crimes-are-being-recognised">accused the RSF of committing genocide</a> in Darfur.</p>
<p>The war in Sudan erupted amid a power struggle between the army and the RSF before a planned transition to civilian rule. It uprooted more than 12 million Sudanese from their homes and left about half of the 50 million population suffering acute hunger.</p>
<p>Overall deaths are hard to estimate, but a study published last year said the toll may have reached 61,000 in Khartoum state alone in the first 14 months of the conflict.</p>
<p>In another development, Al Jazeera Arabic reports that the army evacuated hundreds of freed civilian and military prisoners held by the RSF in several detention centres in Jebel Awliya, south of Khartoum, to the city of Al-Qatana in White Nile State.</p>
<p>Sudanese army commander Major General Mohamed Saleh Abu Halima said that the RSF detained approximately 4,700 prisoners under appalling conditions, where they suffered from malnutrition and a lack of healthcare, leading to the deaths of several of them in detention.</p>

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<p><strong>Many of Kiev’s key objectives were never met, according to its former envoy to the EU</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The recent negotiations between Moscow and Washington in Saudi Arabia were a total defeat for both Ukraine and the US, Konstantin Eliseev, Kiev’s former permanent representative to the EU, has said, arguing that his country’s critical points of concern were ignored.</p>
<p>In an interview with NV outlet on Friday, Eliseev weighed in on this week’s talks in Riyadh, which were aimed at restoring the 2022 Black Sea grain export deal. While Moscow has agreed in principle to start providing safe maritime corridors for Ukrainian food exports, it made clear that it would only support the deal if the West lifts sanctions on its financial institutions, particularly by reconnecting the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT payment system.</p>
<p><em>“Perhaps I’ll disappoint some people but we – and I mean we along with the Americans – lost these negotiations completely. I would say 5-0, one ball after another into our net. We lost. Let’s be honest,”</em> the former envoy said.</p>
<p>He argued that Ukrainian interests were left off the table entirely. Chief among his concerns was the absence of any guarantees related to the security of Ukrainian ports. <em>“The issue of ports was not protected from attacks in any way.”</em> </p>

            
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<p>He warned of a broader trend toward concessions to Moscow, citing early signals of sanctions relief. <em>“There are already hints about removing some Russian banks from [restrictions in] the SWIFT system,”</em> he said. <em>“And that is very bad.”</em></p>
<p>Eliseev added that Russia’s ability to strike Ukrainian targets from naval vessels was not restricted in the talks. He also noted the lack of inclusion of the principle of <em>“all-for-all”</em> prisoner exchanges, something Ukraine has long insisted on. Throughout the conflict, Moscow and Kiev have periodically engaged in POW swaps, with the exact number and composition always negotiated beforehand.</p>
<p>Another major concern was the exclusion of Ukraine’s EU backers from the negotiation process. <em>“Unfortunately – and with the silent backing of the Americans – the Russians have managed to push our European partners away from the negotiating table,”</em> Eliseev said.</p>
<p>While Moscow has insisted on sanctions relief as a precondition for the maritime ceasefire, the EU has rejected the possibility, insisting that restrictions will remain in place until Russia fully withdraws its troops from all territory claimed by Ukraine.</p>
<p>At the same time, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that there <em>“would be a long discussion about many things in terms of the proper way to bring Russia back into the international system,”</em> signaling that the issue of sanctions could be on the table.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Eid begins on Sunday, March 30 in Saudi Arabia. Here’s how to wish a blessed Eid in different languages.</em></p>
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<p>With the sighting of the new moon in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries, the first day of Eid will be celebrated on Sunday, March 30.</p>
<p>Other countries follow their own moon sightings, and those that began fasting on March 2 will announce tomorrow night whether Eid will fall on Monday, March 31.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">BREAKING NEWS: Eid Al Fitr 1446/2025 is tomorrow: Sunday, 30 March 2025</p>
<p>The Crescent for the month of Shawwal 1446 was SEEN in Saudi Arabia today subsequently tomorrow is the beginning of the month of Shawwal 1446 <a href="https://t.co/6om5sAl38D">pic.twitter.com/6om5sAl38D</a></p>
<p>— Inside the Haramain (@insharifain) <a href="https://twitter.com/insharifain/status/1906001740102517192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></p>
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<p>Eid al-Fitr, the “festival of breaking the fast”, is celebrated at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan by Muslims worldwide.</p>
<p>There are about 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide, approximately 25 percent of the world’s population.</p>
<p>Indonesia has the world’s highest Muslim population, with some 240 million Muslims living in the country. Pakistan is second with about 225 million Muslims, followed by India (211 million), Bangladesh (155 million), and Nigeria (111 million).</p>
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<p>Traditionally, Eid is celebrated for three days as an official holiday in Muslim-majority countries. However, the number of holiday days varies by country.</p>
<p>Muslims begin Eid celebrations by attending a prayer service shortly after dawn, followed by a short sermon.</p>
<p>The day is spent visiting relatives and neighbours, accepting sweets and extending Eid greetings as they move around from house to house.</p>
<p>The most popular greeting is “Eid mubarak” (Blessed Eid) or “Eid sa’id” (Happy Eid). Eid greetings also vary depending on the country and language.</p>
<p>The video and graphics below show Eid greetings in 13 different languages.</p>

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<p>Turkiye is witnessing its largest protests in more than a decade.</p>
<p>Millions have taken to the streets after the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu – who is seen as the biggest challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidency.</p>

<p>Nearly 2,000 people have been detained so far, including journalists.</p>
<p>But despite myriad official efforts to suppress news coverage, protesters keep pouring onto the streets.</p>
<p><strong>Contributors:<br></strong>Mehmet Celik – Editorial Coordinator, Daily Sabah<br>Onur Erim – Political Adviser and President, Dragoman Strategies<br>Ece Temelkuran – Author and Journalist<br>Amberin Zaman – Chief Correspondent, Al-Monitor</p>
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<p>Israel this week killed another two journalists in Gaza – Al Jazeera Mubaser’s Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour from the newspaper Palestine Today. The death toll of Palestinian media workers since October 7 now stands at more than 230. Tariq Nafi reports.</p>

<p>One year into Javier Milei’s presidency, Argentina is reeling from his radical economic policies and his escalating war on the press. Milei has targeted journalists, shut down the state news agency, and bypassed traditional media in favour of online platforms.</p>
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<p>As his government tightens its grip on information, Argentina’s media landscape is shifting. We hear from two journalists on opposite ends of the political spectrum about what Milei’s crackdown means for press freedom in Argentina.</p>
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<p>The ECCC forecast more ice pellets and freezing rain through the day Sunday with wind speeds of up to 20 km/h.</p>
<p>The freezing rain was expected wind down Sunday night, with a risk of thunderstorms overnight.</p>
<p>“<span>After the freezing rain moves out of southern (Ontario), a line of thunderstorms Sunday evening could bring strong wind gusts of 90 km/h to parts of (southwestern Ontario). This line of storms is expected to weaken as it moves eastward Sunday night,” the ECCC said on social media on Sunday morning.</span></p>
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<p>Temperatures are expected to reach a high of 17 C during the day but will plummet back to -7 C at night.</p>
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<p>Gina Ressler, a warning preparedness meteorologist with ECCC, said the precipitation was due to a quasi-stationary front pushing cold air from the north and warm air from the south, which was pushing precipitation across Ontario. Another storm system called the “Colorado Low” is forming and tracking across southern Ontario on Sunday.</p>
<p>The City of Ottawa said in a release Saturday afternoon that crews were clearing and treating sidewalks, priority roads and the city’s winter cycling network. Crews were also to remove snow in residential neighbourhoods when possible.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the city warned residents that a buildup of ice on sidewalks, roadways, trees and hydro wires could increase the risk of slippery travel conditions and power outages.</p>
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<p>Across eastern Ontario, the OPP said they responded to almost 70 collisions between midnight and 9 a.m. on Saturday.</p>
<p>The northbound lanes of Highway 416 were also closed between Highway 401 and Country Road 421 south of Spencerville for several hours on Saturday due to multiple collisions. According to the OPP, a northbound vehicle rolled into a ditch at around midnight. Another vehicle skidded out of the lane and struck the vehicle before entering the ditch.</p>
<p>Four people were transported to an area trauma centre with serious injuries and at least four others were transported to hospital with minor injuries, police said.</p>
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<p>On Sunday, Ottawa Fire Services said it had been called to Manotick Station Road and Pebblewoods Drive at about 5 p.m. because a vehicle had struck a hydro pole. Crews arrived to find the pole broken and lying across the car, and an occupant trapped inside. The vehicle was stabilized by firefighters before the person was extricated, the fire service said.</p>
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data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0330-storm-05.ot_294698584.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Zqm6LkTj6GEL2WIM924JLA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0330-storm-05.ot_294698584.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=4hBqc0UhDI5AwnOzhG54gg 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Snow storm" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0330-storm-05.ot_294698584.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=g9lEWVvQKWuCKGZFY6ApVQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0330-storm-05.ot_294698584.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=g9lEWVvQKWuCKGZFY6ApVQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0330-storm-05.ot_294698584.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=q12V_j_j9lEH2c6mJcn9Bw 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0330-storm-05.ot_294698584.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=UN6ZlniF1hbKUPj31qEpLQ" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Just over 11 centimetres of snow blanketed Ottawa overnight.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=RUmMELe4NSs464yHIhK0Xg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=JLhH_cBH1dTkF88EXZcMJw 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=59xl5pzYanz8GLyUcS2Tfg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=dT0nrNnSBeGdgIBbUH35Bw 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=KzTQAxJXo2qBgJZV6ph_Lw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=IvlZbaQeJhVvqVdqEgb66g 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=OAAM65hx8a78O-_swJKbwg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=dY0V9-mfRrD-R1ecOfFgHg 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=GUgkKFH0y6rTWuqjD8MfwA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=iAfksHNGxr4MjLTzexs-JQ 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Ottawa rain" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=t6vVW7tr-IBOtIya38uFiA" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=t6vVW7tr-IBOtIya38uFiA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=qKQNuVEzq9blsl-OVYrOow 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-06.ot_294718972.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=KgMGAwQXRetvTXiMStYxNw" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Ottawa’s downtown saw more rain than ice on Sunday, March 30, 2025, as freezing rain warnings lingered through the second part of the weekend storm. Despite the wet conditions, residents braved the weather, strolling through the streets, while city crews worked diligently to salt sidewalks and keep them safe.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Xygekw-Qd8ptSStRoGkrCw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=3Jgk8qEdi47vFGGzMjJWcA 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=szcFUrkKYmcM51OR4hJ74Q, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=ylcYmjWv30PqZMnTs1EDnQ 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=mrNI3NGrGsiPwxFav3GhTA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=VFLoWsyHyy3JiK_5KP4x2g 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=7acaoLhLbwl67IHWOwpm4g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=By2KFYh4HhjntQs_nhQaQA 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=43VObJ9t6w0QSOpZYFmIHQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=cEkgT6tudABwDcDTmJW9UA 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Weekend rain in Ottawa" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=-cerSwlaeOJNXhXi5b7DIg" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=-cerSwlaeOJNXhXi5b7DIg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=I5e7bnlfQyQt-qOavNyTmA 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-03.ot_294718968-e1743360433371.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=0cy37d1Soa574-o9Fasf0g" height="512" loading="lazy" width="987" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Ottawa’s downtown saw more rain than ice on Sunday, March 30, 2025, as freezing rain warnings lingered through the second part of the weekend storm. Despite the wet conditions, residents braved the weather, strolling through the streets, while city crews worked diligently to salt sidewalks and keep them safe.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=h68zM4dg2kqwCASZXIZQZg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=fCIeBBvmg8TArxYPAGyXCA 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=NJFu9i2ArFD5iTSQNPhc2w, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=WYXPx_zJlON5aNUo6KYAwA 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=WA3fGoediHVOQSmZflTUJQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=sbUvmfxsCavQdYxve68RkA 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=Cs8MwE7Qbr_YWtYaL7Rp5g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=ow8B0peZiIfz6PJ4nbSM3g 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=7OlhaNlmt6wenh-2TkYKhw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=WAThSoKY9YcKEqXi3WFJlw 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Weekend rain in Ottawa" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=6of0u0M7-2N6I9_Xcf8yUA" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=6of0u0M7-2N6I9_Xcf8yUA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=WTnLMcr-GPrNkYlII6UjSg 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0331-weather-07.ot_294718982.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=wPptPyfyNWmy9i1r_Aq_nQ" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Ottawa’s downtown saw more rain than ice on Sunday, March 30, 2025, as freezing rain warnings lingered through the second part of the weekend storm. Despite the wet conditions, residents braved the weather, strolling through the streets, while city crews worked diligently to salt sidewalks and keep them safe.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><p data-async><em data-olk-copy-source="MailCompose">Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our homepage and<span> </span>sign up for our newsletters so we can keep you informed.</em></p>
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title: US demands French contractors abandon DEI policies – media
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<p><strong>The French Economic Ministry has reportedly pushed back, saying the values of the Trump administration are not those of Paris</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Washington has requested that French companies working for the US government end all their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in order to comply with the policies of President Donald Trump, media outlets Le Figaro and Les Echos have reported.</p>
<p>An executive order <em>“concerning the end of unlawful discrimination and restoring merit-based employment opportunities”</em> signed by Trump is mandatory for <em>“all suppliers and contractors”</em> of the US government, regardless of their country of origin, the US Embassy told French companies in a letter obtained by Le Figaro.</p>
<p>The US president launched a campaign to eliminate DEI policies in all federal agencies. The fight against <em>“woke policies,”</em> such as the promotion of gender reassignment treatment among minors, was a key part of Trump’s campaign. He signed multiple executive orders rolling back DEI initiatives after taking office.</p>
<p>In an order dated January 21, a day after his inauguration, the US president called DEI <em>“an illegal, corrosive, and pernicious system”</em> that goes against <em>“our long-standing federal civil rights laws.”</em></p>

            
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<p>According to French media, each letter was accompanied by a <em>“form of compliance”</em> that the contractors had to fill in and send back within five days. The document required them to explicitly state they were <em>“in compliance with all applicable federal anti-discrimination laws”</em> of the US and to vow not to offer any DEI programs, Le Figaro said. Otherwise, the companies are reportedly encouraged to provide the embassy with <em>“detailed reasons”</em> for not filling in the form.</p>
<p>According to Le Figaro, it is unclear how many companies received the letter. The embassy has not confirmed sending it. It said, however, that <em>“measures were taken by the administration put an end to decades of waste, fraud, and abuse,”</em> adding that the diplomatic mission reviewed a total of 15,600 contracts, loans, and foreign aid programs.</p>
<p>The move reportedly sparked an uproar within the government of France. <em>“This practice reflects the values of the new American government. They are not ours,”</em> a senior French Economy and Finance Ministry official told Le Figaro, adding that Minister Eric Lombard would <em>“remind his counterparts within the American government of this.”</em></p>

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title: YF Blanchet en Conseil général à Sherbrooke afin de présenter sa plateforme – 29 mars 2025
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221578
title: Close call between Delta flight, Air Force jet reported near DCA
author: ;Sophia Vento
link: https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5221578-delta-air-force-close-call-dca/
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A Delta flight received an onboard alert that an Air Force jet was close by as it took off near Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on Friday afternoon, just months after the region experienced the deadliest aviation incident since 2001. The Minneapolis-bound Delta flight — with 131 passengers on board — was cleared for takeoff…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221643
title: Indiana Republican faces fiery crowd after defending Musk, DOGE
author: ;Filip Timotija
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Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) faced a fiery crowd during her two-hour townhall in Westfield, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, after defending tech billionaire Elon Musk and his work for President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  Spartz, who represents Indiana’s fifth Congressional District, was repeatedly drowned out by boos from the raucous crowd during her…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220382
title: Was the Atlantic’s Goldberg wrong in not immediately leaving the chat?
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content: The question is a nuanced one, without a simple answer.
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220442
title: Signal chat shows isolationist Vance as Trump flexes control abroad
author: ;Alex Gangitano
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The war plans group chat uncovered by a journalist at The Atlantic exposed some daylight between Vice President Vance and others in the administration, showing Vance’s hesitance about launching a military strike that President Trump has hailed this week as necessary and successful. It did little to stymie the relationship between the president and his…

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title: The ‘Signal Scandal’: Trump’s cabinet drops truth bombs on Europe
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<p><strong><em>Rather than blame the messenger, Europe’s leadership class should have a sober discussion about what they should do to address their real problems.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Rod DREHER</em></strong></p>
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<p>The Trump administration’s leaked—if you can call it that—discussions of war plans made headlines across the globe after <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-reveals-who-behind-signal-text-chain-leak?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a staffer</a> working for National Security Adviser Mike Waltz (inadvertently) added a magazine editor to the senior officials’ group chat.</p>
<p>While American media questioned how on earth this major <em>faux pas</em> could occur, European commenters have been scandalized by the brutality of Team Trump’s behind-the-scenes talk regarding Europe.</p>
<p>In the group chat, Vice President JD Vance cautioned his colleagues that a unilateral U.S. attack on the Houthi rebels of Yemen—this, to re-open the Red Sea trade route—would undermine President Trump’s get-tough approach to Europe. Vance pointed out that only 3% of U.S. trade travels through the Suez Canal, while 40% of European trade does.</p>
<p>Said Vance in the group chat:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mike Waltz then points out how weak Europe’s navies are, making a case that the United States is the only nation capable of carrying out this vital military mission to protect an economic lifeline to Europe.</p>
<p>Vance acquiesces, but remarks, “I just hate bailing Europe out again.”</p>
<p>Now, Europeans should not be prissy about what gets said in private among top government leaders about other nations. Can anybody doubt that some conversations about the United States in the august chambers of Whitehall or the Quai d’Orsay are quite spicy? Besides, none of this is remotely on the level of Obama senior diplomat Victoria Nuland’s <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamous 2014 telephone discussion</a> (intercepted and leaked by the Russians) with the then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, in which she dismissed potential European opposition to American plans to engineer a transfer of power there.</p>
<p>“F**k the EU,” the diplomat said.</p>
<p>This latest flap is a continuation of European <em>agita</em> over Vance’s brusque truth-telling about Europe’s weakness. The continental ruling class bristled vigorously over Vance’s Munich speech in which he told the gathered natsec worthies that it’s time for Europe to wean itself from the Pentagon’s teat, deal with their domestic challenges, and figure out how to shoulder more of their own defense. Trump signaled in his first administration that he was dissatisfied with Europe’s sponging on American defense capabilities, but most Europeans didn’t take him seriously. Well, in Trump 2.0, the reckoning is here.</p>
<p>What European elites hate about Vance and the administration he represents is that he reveals their own poverty. Why shouldn’t the great and rich nations of Europe be doing more to stand on their own two feet? Why should American taxpayers, over thirty years since the close of the Cold War, continue to subsidize Europe’s defense so European politicians can build generous welfare states while at the same time refusing to deal with the mass migration crisis, which is a clear and present danger to European stability and security?</p>
<p>Rather than blame the messenger—Vance and his colleagues—Europe’s leadership class should swallow hard and have a sober discussion about what they should do to address their real problems.</p>
<p>That said, it is troubling that Team Trump is so tone-deaf over how it treats its allies. Vance’s Munich speech was important and necessary. But Trump’s bizarre bullying of Denmark over Greenland makes no sense. Yes, it’s obvious that Greenland is becoming ever more strategically important as the Arctic sea lanes open, and the U.S. has a clear interest in acquiring that territory, if possible. But the idea that Washington can or should bully the Danes and the Greenlanders into surrendering to America is ugly and foolish.</p>
<p>Similarly, Trump’s weird provocations of Canada, America’s neighbor and staunch ally, are impossible to understand or support. The American president keeps saying that Canada should be the 51st state. It was funny, maybe, when he was trolling the smug twit Justin Trudeau, but Trudeau is gone now. Trump’s continued aggression towards Canada, both rhetorically and on trade policy, has had the effect of saving Trudeau’s despised Liberal Party from an election rout.</p>
<p>Before Trump’s anti-Canada campaign, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre stood to win the prime minister post in a landslide. Because of Trump, Poilievre is running even with Mark Carney, Trudeau’s successor. If Carney holds on to government for his party, the MAGA Khan will have done more than anybody else to condemn Canadians to more years of woke tyranny.</p>
<p>Trump does not seem to grasp that Americans aren’t the only people who have a right to be nationalist. The core aspect of Canadian national identity is, “We Are Not Americans.” What Canadian patriot, however conservative, could stomach being humiliated and punished by blustery Americans?</p>
<p>Similarly, as much as the European ruling class needs to sort itself out and reform, it is hard to understand how bullying, <em>à la </em>the Greenland gambit, will accomplish much more than making Europeans resent America.</p>
<p>Fat and comfortable European leaders cannot make reality go away simply because Team Trump is at times ill-mannered. On the other hand, if Trump really wants to put America First, he must understand that U.S. nationalism inevitably calls up nationalism in other nations. The surest way to catalyze anti-American nationalism abroad is to pick unnecessary fights for the sake of demonstrating your own dominance. It is confounding, and more than a little distressing, to watch electoral prospects for nationalist-conservative parties in Europe decline because Trump uses a hatchet when a stiletto is more useful.</p>
<p>For all that, the fact remains: the U.S. military attacked Houthi pirates on behalf of Europe because Europe is too feeble to defend its own vital economic interests. That—and not Team Trump’s Signal screwup, including its undiplomatic words about Europe—remains the real scandal here.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><strong><a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/dreher/the-signal-scandal-trumps-cabinet-drops-truth-bombs-on-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The European Conservative</a></strong></p>


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title: Pierre Poilievre pledges expanded tax write-off for travelling tradespeople – March 29, 2025
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221577
title: US Naval Academy latest school to nix affirmative action in admissions
author: ;Steff Danielle Thomas
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The United States Naval Academy in Anapolis, Md., recently joined a growing list of schools that will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission, court documents made public Friday show. The move follows an executive order issued by President Trump earlier this year that called for the shuttering of federal…

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guid: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/sunday-march-30-double-header-invitation
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Sunday March 30 Double Header Invitation: Peace Roundtable at 11am ET, and RTF Africa Event at 2pm ET

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Sunday March 30 Double Header Invitation: Peace Roundtable at 11am ET, and RTF Africa Event at 2pm ET

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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/trump-and-hegseth-shock-on-ukraine
title: Trump &amp; Hegseth Shock on Ukraine
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/sgc-JRj-nqk" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 12 February 2025, I was interviewed on the PBS NewsHour about the remarkable comments President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made earlier in the day about US policy toward Ukraine and Europe more generally. It is clear that the Trump administration is bent on radically altering US policy on Ukraine and fundamentally changing US relations with Europe.</p>
<p>Here is a link for the set-up piece followed by my interview.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hegseth-tells-nato-ukraine-membership-unlikely-as-trump-says-putin-will-discuss-ending-war" rel>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hegseth-tells-nato-ukraine-membership-unlikely-as-trump-says-putin-will-discuss-ending-war</a></p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-israel-lobbys-awesome-power
title: The Israel Lobby&amp;#039;s Awesome Power
author: ;John J. Mearsheimer
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/g8G9I1ZdEGU" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 13 February 2025, I talked to the Judge on “Judging Freedom” about the incredible influence that the Israel lobby wields in shaping US Middle East policy in ways that suit Israel’s interests, not America’s. We also talked about President Trump’s morally reprehensible plan to cause another Nakba and turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East. And of course we talked about the radical moves the Trump administration is making to settle the Ukraine war and reduce the US footprint in Europe.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-tectonic-plates-are-moving-in
title: The Tectonic Plates Are Moving in Europe
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/m5-L5pyXLZQ" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 14 February 2025, I was on “The Duran” with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We discussed the Trump administration’s hostile dealings with Ukraine and Europe, which are directly related to the administration’s efforts to work with Russia to end the Ukraine war. Momentous events in the world of international politics are taking place before our eyes.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/germany-and-genocide
title: Germany and Genocide
author: ;John J. Mearsheimer
link: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/germany-and-genocide
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fmearsheimer.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D-607160551%26version%3D9" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in response to Vice President Vance’s Munich speech on February 14 and his meeting with the head of the AfD that same day:</p>
<p>“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD.”</p>
<p>But, apparently that commitment is reconcilable with German support of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, to include going to great lengths to suppress protests of that genocide inside Germany.</p>
<p>And what does this say about Germany’s commitment to free speech?</p>

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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/talking-ukraine-on-the-deep-dive-259
title: Talking Ukraine on "The Deep Dive"
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/q7jhtoM-rcw" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 12 February 2025, I was on “The Deep Dive” talking with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis about Ukraine. Of course, this was the day Trump announced that he had spoken with Putin and Secretary Of Defense Hegseth gave his historic speech in Brussels. Danny and I, however, were not aware of what was coming that day when we were talking.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/talking-about-a-ukraine-deal-on-cnn
title: Talking about a Ukraine Deal on CNN
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<p>On 19 February 2025, I was on CNN International talking about the fundamental differences between Europe and the United States regarding how best to end the Ukraine war, and also talking about the likely Ukrainian response to the deal between Russia and the US that now appears to be emerging.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/turning-the-tide-in-ukraine-but-not
title: Turning the Tide in Ukraine, but Not in the Middle East
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/e4_6ax8RYrw" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 20 February 2025, I talked with Judge Napolitano on “Judging Freedom” about the remarkable changes taking place in US policy toward Europe, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the lack of change in US policy toward Israel.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/talking-ukraine-with-former-ukrainian
title: Talking Ukraine with Former Ukrainian Journalist of the Year: Diana Panchenko
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<p>On 24 February 2025, I was on Diana Panchenko’s podcast with Glenn Diesen and Pavel Shchelin. We discussed the origins of the Ukraine war, what is happening now, and where it is headed. The translation of the show’s title is “War &amp; Peace: Reloaded.”</p>
<p>Below is the English version:</p>
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title: Trump Understands What Needs to Be Done to End the Ukraine War
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/EkE5h6PB3pQ" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 27 February 2025, I was on Judge Napolitano’s show — “Judging Freedom” — where he and I concentrated on examining what Trump is doing with regard to settling the Ukraine War.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-shootout-at-the-white-house
title: The Shootout at The White House
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/44_6wejNGu4" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 28 February 2025, I went on the “Deep Dive” with LTC (ret.) Danny Davis almost immediately after the war of words took place at the White House between Ukrainian President Zelensky and President Trump + Vice President Vance. Danny and I offered our reflections on what happened and what would be the likely consequences.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/israel-and-nuclear-weapons
title: Israel and Nuclear Weapons
author: ;John J. Mearsheimer
link: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/israel-and-nuclear-weapons
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/ELyfYax3IgU" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 20 February 2025, I gave a lecture on “Israel and Nuclear Weapons” to the University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression. After making some introductory comments about nuclear weapons, I focused on 1) describing and analyzing Israel’s nuclear deterrent and 2) assessing how nuclear weapons factor into the Iran-Israel security competition.</p>
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title: Talking about the White House Showdown on Indian Television
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<p>On 3 March 2025, I was interviewed on CNN News18 in India about the controversial meeting Zelensky had with Trump and Vance on 28 February 2025. Zakka Jacob and I talked about what happened that day in the White House and what are its likely consequences.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.news18.com/videos/world/trump-zelensky-clash-john-mearsheimer-in-in-an-exclusive-interview-with-cnn-news18-s-zakka-jacob-9248447.html" rel>https://www.news18.com/videos/world/trump-zelensky-clash-john-mearsheimer-in-in-an-exclusive-interview-with-cnn-news18-s-zakka-jacob-9248447.html</a></p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/playing-hardball-with-zelensky-but
title: Playing Hardball with Zelensky, but Kissing Up to Netanyahu
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/XYzesWfrSms" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 4 March 2025, I talked with Judge Napolitano on “Judging Freedom” about why President Trump is so confrontational with President Zelensky, but so nice to Prime Minister Netanyahu.</p>
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title: If You Want To Fight The Machine, Don&amp;#039;t Move To The Right
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsOmttfZK0" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p>People in politics and media who oppose the status quo often drift rightward, especially in the US. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr are some clear recent examples, but you see it happen all the time.</p>
<p>This is because the Trumpian political wing offers mainstream power and influence to those with an “anti-establishment” streak, while mainstream progressive politics doesn’t offer anything close. If you’re a right wing “populist” you can get elected president, while anyone to the left of Kamala Harris sees their campaigns sabotaged with smears and rigged primaries.</p>
<p>We see a similar dynamic play out in independent media; you’ll see many solidly leftist commentators drifting to the right as they find bigger numbers in attacking liberal institutions than attacking the Trumpian faction, because anti-establishment sentiment is much more mainstream on the right. A much larger audience pool has been allowed to amass there for hostility toward establishment institutions — because the right poses no threat to real power.</p>
<p>And therein lies the key point. Anti-establishment figures in politics and punditry aren’t drifting rightward because the right has better arguments or is more solidly grounded in truth and morality, they’re drifting rightward because the so-called “populist right” has been allowed to flourish while its mirror on the left has not. Right wing “populism” has been allowed to flourish by the very power structures its proponents purport to oppose, while the authentic left has been systematically dismantled by generations of aggressive imperial operations (look up COINTELPRO for example). That’s why you see Trump backed by oligarchs, empire managers and DC swamp monsters and see Trumpism uplifted by the Murdoch press, while anti-imperialist socialism can barely even be said to exist anywhere in the US-aligned world.</p>
<p>So while the power and influence offered by right wing “populist” factions can be tempting, that power and influence only exists because those factions are supported and defended by the empire itself. Public discontent is being corralled toward establishment-friendly political structures so that it doesn’t head anywhere that can threaten the mechanics of the empire, while authentic opposition to capitalism, militarism and empire building is viciously subverted by any means necessary. Bernie Sanders and AOC play the same role on the other side of the aisle, by the way, as do ostensibly leftist media like TYT who herd people back into support for the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>Real opposition to real power is not permitted to ascend to the presidency of the world’s most powerful government. It is marginalized, smeared and subverted, and kept as small as possible. That’s why some who begin with sincere opposition to real power find themselves drawn to the right: it’s larger and offers more opportunities, because it is more aligned with the ruling power structures of our day.</p>
<p>It’s fool’s gold. It sells you power and influence so that you can fight the power, but after you’ve made that bargain you find yourself on the same side as the power. You sold out for nothing. You might as well have skipped the middle part and gone directly to collecting the big bucks whoring yourself out to mainstream politics and media defending the empire without pretending to be something else.</p>
<p>Staying true and authentic can be hard. It comes at a price. You don’t get to see your favorite politicians win elections and take important positions in government. You don’t get to amass tens of millions of loyal followers who hang on your every word. You lose friends and alienate family members with your positions on war and capitalism and imperialism and Zionism. You can’t even watch a movie or a show without being frequently disgusted by the empire propaganda you’ll see. It isn’t pretty. But at least it’s real.</p>
<p>It’s another one of those red pill vs blue pill deals. Do you want disconcerting truths or comforting lies? If you want to be true to what’s true, you don’t compromise your values to support political factions which help prop up the very power structures you oppose. You stay focused on the enemy. You keep throwing sand in the gears of the machine, hoping that if enough people throw enough sand it will eventually come crashing down, but self-assured that you’re going to keep throwing sand either way, win or lose.</p>
<p>Sure it’s hard. Sure it entails a lot of disappointments and losses. But at least it’s real. At least it stands a chance at beating the bastards, however small. As weak and pathetic as you can feel throwing haymakers at a globe-spanning empire some days, it sure beats the hell out of collaborating with it. And that’s exactly what you’d be doing by joining up with fraudulent political factions which claim to oppose the empire.</p>
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<p>I gave a lengthy interview to Der Spiegel on 25 February 2025 about the “shifting world order” — especially as it applies to Europe and trans-Atlantic relations. The interview was published on 7 March 2025.</p>
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title: Zionism Is Strangling Free Speech In Australia
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIGpat3EYM" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p>A Palestinian-Australian man has been criminally charged for voicing criticisms of Zionism during a protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He could spend months in prison.</p>
<p><span>The Age</span> <a href="https://archive.is/VbNm1" rel>reports</a> <span>that restaurant owner Hash Tayeh has been charged with four counts of “using insulting words in public” for repeatedly uttering the phrase “all Zionists are terrorists” at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne last year. According the The Age’s Chris Vedelago, the punishment for this crime of political speech is “up to two months in prison for a first offence and six months for three or more offences.”</span></p>
<p>“It is believed to be the first time that potential political speech has been deemed a criminal offence that breached the ‘insulting’ law,” Vedelago reports, adding, “The charges are normally levied for using abusive or obscene language against police officers.”</p>
<p>You really couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the authoritarian dystopia that Australia has become than a news report about a man getting criminally charged for normal political speech with a law that is normally used to jail people who speak impolitely to the police.</p>

<p><span>These charges for speech crimes against Zionism follow a controversial assertion</span> <a href="http://thejewishindependent.com.au/dreyfus-gives-universities-a-new-year-deadline-to-make-campuses-safe-for-jewish-students" rel>made last year</a> <span>by Australia’s attorney-general Mark Dreyfus:</span></p>
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<p>“The label Zionist is used, not in any way, accurately. When critics use that word, they actually mean Jew. They’re not really saying Zionist, they’re saying Jew because they know that they cannot say Jew, so they say Zionist or words [such as] Zeo or Zio.”</p>
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<p><span>Dreyfus might want to have a chat with outgoing Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who</span> <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-845165" rel>just made headlines</a> <span>by proudly proclaiming “I am a Zionist” at his final press conference on Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span>Trudeau is not Jewish, nor is genocidal war criminal Joe Biden, who</span> <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/10/09/remarks-by-president-biden-during-a-call-with-jewish-faith-leaders-for-high-holidays-2/" rel>is on record</a> <span>saying on numerous occasions some variation of “I’m a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”</span></p>
<p><span>Not all Jews are Zionists, and most Zionists are not Jewish. Zionism is a political ideology which upholds the western decision to drop an abusive</span> <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1725266652609356177" rel>apartheid ethnostate</a> <span>on top of a pre-existing civilization in historic Palestine and defend it by any amount of violence and tyranny necessary, and the majority of the people you see defending this status quo are westerners with no connection to the Jewish faith. The cult of Christian Zionism alone outnumbers the world’s Jewish population by about</span> <a href="https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/factsheets/factsheet-christian-zionism/" rel>two</a> <span>to</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country" rel>one</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>It is therefore wildly incorrect to conflate Zionism with Judaism, and it is also highly immoral. People who do this are assigning all Jews the blame for Israel’s abuses, when the blame actually lies with the state of Israel and its western backers. As much as Israel apologists shriek and moan about “antisemitism” when they really mean supporting Palestinians, the real antisemitism problem in our society is the way our ruling institutions keep lumping all Jews in with the abuses of a genocidal apartheid state and the western empire which supports it.</p>

<p><span>That’s all the</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/there-is-no-antisemitism-crisis-in" rel>imaginary “antisemitism” crisis</a> <span>is, in reality: people conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. If you declare that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and then Zionism starts butchering children by the tens of thousands in a genocidal onslaught, you are naturally going to see a rapid rise in “antisemitism” as you have defined it. It’s a fallacious narrative used to justify the strangulation of political speech we are seeing today.</span></p>
<p><span>We’re seeing that strangulation surge ahead in Australia with the</span> <a href="https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/antisemites-under-the-bed-full-blown-mccarthyism-hits-australia/" rel>McCarthyite witch hunt</a> <span>against pro-Palestinian voices, and in a decision by Australian universities to espouse a definition of “antisemitism” which is so speech-suppressing that it has been</span> <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.au/australian-universities-decision-to-adopt-contested-definition-of-antisemitism-is-an-attempt-to-stifle-freedom-of-expression-across-campuses-nationwide/" rel>denounced by Amnesty International</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>We are also seeing Zionism strangling free speech throughout the western world. German police are routinely</span> <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1898481083424890942" rel>assaulting pro-Palestine demonstrators</a><span>. Pro-Palestinian journalists are being persecuted with increasing aggression</span> <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/more-authoritarian-crackdowns-on-speech-thats-critical-of-israel-7b43af329641" rel>in the UK</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/another-journalist-arrested-in-another" rel>throughout</a> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/civil-rights-are-being-destroyed" rel>Europe</a><span>. In the US the Trump administration is working to</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-wests-support-for-israel-is-the" rel>stomp out pro-Palestine protests</a> <span>on university campuses while</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/06/state-department-to-use-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-students-who-appear-pro-hamas/" rel>using AI to compile lists</a> <span>of people suspected of expressing support for Hamas on social media.</span></p>

<p>Almost every day we’re seeing some new escalation in the western empire’s efforts to stomp out speech that is critical of Israel. Westerners need to understand that we have moved far beyond the point where Israel is a threat only to middle eastern lives: it’s a threat to us all, because the western governments who support it are stomping out our basic freedoms with increasing aggression in order to silence all criticisms of its abuses.</p>
<p>Even if you didn’t have enough compassion to oppose Israel and its western backers because of their genocidal atrocities in the middle east, at this point you need to start opposing them out of sheer self-preservation. This isn’t just about foreigners overseas anymore: it’s about you. Your rights. Your freedom to voice your political opinions.</p>
<p>Zionism is a threat to civil rights everywhere. Zionism threatens us all.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTF19-Nesf4" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p><span>Acting on orders from the White House, immigration agents have</span> <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza" rel>arrested a Columbia University graduate</a> <span>for deportation due to his leadership of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza last year.</span></p>
<p>Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is reportedly married to an American citizen and had had permanent residency in the US, but his green card has been revoked by the State Department as the Trump administration works to deport everyone they can possibly get away with deporting for criticizing Israel.</p>
<p>This is the equivalent of the Australian government revoking the permanent residency of my American husband Tim and deporting him because of our work criticizing the Gaza holocaust. The suffering that can be unleashed by a policy like this in the United States is hard to fathom.</p>
<p><span>This comes as we learn that the US government will be</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/06/state-department-to-use-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-students-who-appear-pro-hamas/" rel>using AI to compile lists</a> <span>of people suspected of expressing support for Hamas on social media, and as the Trump administration announces that funding will be killed for any schools which allow “illegal protests” in support of Palestinians on their campuses.</span></p>
<p><span>I have</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-wests-support-for-israel-is-the" rel>said it before</a> <span>and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in our society than Israel and the western governments who support it. Civil rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to shut down all criticism of Israel.</span></p>
<p>We’re now seeing escalations in western Zionism’s assault on civil rights on a daily basis. Pretty much every day I’m reading about at least one western government silencing criticism of Israel with some new authoritarian abuse. Zionism is the number one threat to free speech in our society.</p>
<p>Westerners need to understand that Israel and the west’s support for it are a direct threat to our personal freedom. This is about YOU now. If you didn’t have enough compassion to oppose Israel for its genocidal atrocities, you should at least now oppose it to protect yourself.</p>
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<p>Trump supporters are falling all over themselves trying to justify Trump’s assaults on free speech the same way Bush supporters fell all over themselves to justify the authoritarianism of the Bush administration. Republicans haven’t changed. They think they have but they haven’t.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>This happens as opposition to Israel becomes more urgently needed than ever. Israel</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/09/israel-cuts-electricity-to-gaza-ramping-up-collective-punishment/" rel>has cut off all electricity to Gaza</a><span>, which is expected to cripple Gaza’s water supply by killing power to critical desalination plants. Once again this genocidal apartheid state is targeting civilians with deadly force in order to advance its depraved agendas, but anyone who wants to criticize such things is being aggressively targeted by increasingly tyrannical measures throughout the western world.</span></p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>The most horrifying thing about</span> <a href="https://x.com/Tracking_Power/status/1898032589862052312" rel>all the footage</a> <span>of HTS thugs</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/08/over-1000-reported-killed-mostly-civilians-as-hts-syrian-forces-attack-alawites/" rel>massacring people in Syria</a> <span>is not the violence itself, it’s how happy its perpetrators are in the videos. Grinning. Laughing. Joking. It’s deeply disturbing how easily people can be turned into monsters.</span></p>
<p><span>I’ve been on the receiving end of shrieking vitriol ever since I started this gig for opposing the western empire’s regime change operations in Syria. Got a good dose of it last December when the operation</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/another-nation-absorbed-into-the" rel>finally succeeded</a><span>. Now look. Look where it landed.</span></p>
<p>Always oppose the empire.</p>
<p>❖</p>

<p><span>There’s a</span> <a href="https://x.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1897632322758828097" rel>video going around</a> <span>of young British men at some kind of pro-Ukraine event advocating sending British troops to Ukraine, and when the interviewer asks them if they themselves would volunteer to go put their own boots on the ground they act shocked and start stammering about how they’re conscientious objectors and are not physically fit enough.</span></p>
<p>It’s fascinating how often you’ll see this sort of response from western armchair proxy warriors when you suggest that they should go and fight in this military intervention they’re so keen on perpetuating. They often cannot seem to comprehend why anyone would think it’s a compelling point that they are pushing the continuation of a war that they themselves would never agree to fight in, which is just so very revealing. It shows that they see the idea of other people fighting and dying in a war as a completely different and unrelated category to the idea of themselves fighting and dying in a war.</p>
<p>It shows that they don’t view the people who fight in wars as fully human, with dreams and fears and families just like they have, who don’t want to die a violent death any more than they do. It’s genuinely never occurred to them to put themselves in the shoes of the people who are fighting and dying and getting their limbs blown off, and to think about what it would be like if the same thing were happening to them.</p>
<p>It’s like a video game to these people. They don’t see it as real in the same way their own lives are real. A war is something they watch unfold on social media and cheer and boo like a sporting event, not something involving real people who are just as capable of suffering and loss as they are.</p>
<p><span>A majority of Ukrainians</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/19/poll-majority-of-ukrainians-want-peace-talks-to-end-war-with-russia/" rel>now oppose the war</a> <span>and want a negotiated settlement as quickly as possible. If you want this horrific war to continue and yet you are not on front lines serving in the Foreign Legion, then you should definitely shut the fuck up. If you want Ukrainians to keep throwing their lives into a war against their will when you yourself are unwilling to do the same, then you have failed to mature as a human being on this planet. You lack a functioning empathy center in your brain, and it’s a major character flaw, and you should go fix it.</span></p>
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<p><span>President Trump has</span> <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782" rel>taken to social media</a> <span>to boast about his administration’s</span> <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza" rel>arrest</a> <span>of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil for leading Columbia University campus demonstrations against Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, proclaiming that “This is the first arrest of many to come.”</span></p>
<p>“We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said.</p>
<p><span>And judging from what I’m seeing online, and the responses I’ve been getting to</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/even-more-assaults-on-free-speech" rel>my criticisms</a> <span>of</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-wests-support-for-israel-is-the" rel>these abuses</a><span>, most Trump supporters seem perfectly fine with these measures. Many are actively defending them.</span></p>
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<p>Words can’t express how disgusted I am with Trump supporters who defend their president stomping out speech rights for Israel after spending years wailing about the loss of free speech in America. It’s beyond mere political differences. I don’t respect them as people.</p>
<p>Of all the pathetic, groveling, bootlicking positions anyone could possibly espouse, it’s hard to imagine one more egregious than twisting yourself into cognitive knots trying to find ways to excuse a president crushing free speech in your country to advance the interests of a foreign state after spending years yelling “America First” and whining about freedom of speech, just because that President happens to be a Republican.</p>
<p>If you are doing this, you’re just admitting that you don’t stand for anything, and you’re just drifting along with the herd and supporting whatever the man in charge tells you to support. You’re unthinking human livestock. A mindless, useless, pointless NPC. You have wasted all of your time on this planet, because you did not use that time to mature into a sovereign adult with basic intellectual agency and integrity.</p>
<p>Republicans have this adorable story about themselves where they believe they have changed since the George W Bush administration, but that’s not what I’m seeing on social media today. I’m seeing the same shitbrained, power-worshipping sheep who cheered on every authoritarian abuse rolled out by the Bush administration. That’s all this so-called “populist” movement calling itself “MAGA” turned out to be: all the same authoritarian bootlicking, but with more presents for Israel.</p>

<p><span>I saw a</span> <a href="https://x.com/mtracey/status/1897001824676405402" rel>tweet</a> <span>from Michael Tracey the other day, “GOP free speech: You can say ‘retarded’ again, but you can’t protest Israel.”</span></p>
<p>That’s the long and short of it, right there. When Trump supporters spent all those years yelling about the First Amendment, it turns out they weren’t talking about the need to stop the powerful from silencing inconvenient political speech — they just wanted to be allowed to say “retard” and “tranny” on social media. As long as they get those completely irrelevant concessions from the powerful, they’ll happily let their government set all kinds of speech-suppressing legal precedents, because they don’t actually have any values or positions which pose any kind of challenge to the powerful. They’re George W Bush Republicans LARPing as populist revolutionaries.</p>
<p>Someone who actually supports free speech says “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Trump supporters say “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death my government’s right to silence you as long as a Republican is in office.”</p>
<p>Worthless, spineless cucks. What an undignified way to live.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbTwgBptlM" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p>Muslims are not a threat to you.</p>
<p>Russia is not a threat to you.</p>
<p>China is not a threat to you.</p>
<p>Trans people are not a threat to you.</p>
<p>Immigrants are not a threat to you.</p>
<p>If you find yourself resisting anything I just said, that’s where they hooked you. That’s where your rulers duped you into blaming your problems on something other than them.</p>
<p>You will notice that I am not saying there are no enemies and nobody poses a threat to us; there absolutely are, and they absolutely do. It’s just that people are tricked and manipulated away from seeing the real enemies and the real threats where they are.</p>
<p>What poses a threat to you is the political status quo which robs your country of riches and resources to inflict military violence on innocent people overseas while strangling your civil rights and poisoning your planet. What poses a threat to you are the oligarchs and empire managers who uphold this status quo which is driving our species to authoritarian dystopia and extinction via environmental disaster or nuclear annihilation.</p>
<p>They want you blaming your problems on anyone else besides the actual source of your problems. They prefer to get you freaking out about their primary targets — the disobedient groups and nations they want to destroy to advance the interests of the empire — but if they can’t accomplish that then they’re happy to get you hating powerless groups who pose no real threat to you. Anything they can do to keep your eyes off your real oppressors: the billionaires, bankers, media barons, intelligence agencies, warmongers, ecocidal capitalists, military-industrial complex plutocrats, and all the empire lackeys in your official elected government.</p>
<p>They want us fighting each other, but we only pose a threat to each other if we buy into their bogus narratives of hostility and division. An immigrant is only threatened by a right winger because the right winger has been successfully duped into blaming his problems on the immigrant, and therefore elects empire lackeys who will make the immigrant’s life more difficult. But without that artificially manufactured enmity, it’s just two people being abused by the same pricks at the top.</p>
<p>Whenever I say stuff like this I’ll get people voicing objections like “No no Caitlin you don’t understand, we really truly ARE seriously dangerously threatened by The Trans Agenda” or whatever. But you’re not. That’s just you doing the thing I’m describing here. You’re just buying into the exact scam I’m talking about. You’re allowing your crosshairs to be moved from your oppressors to some irrelevant diversion in order to protect your oppressors.</p>
<p>At some point we need to stop falling for the scam. We need to wake up to the fact that we’re all just a bunch of normal people living in a highly abusive society, and that our abusers are benefiting immensely from our inability to see through their divide-and-conquer manipulations and unite against them.</p>
<p>Muslims are not a threat to you.</p>
<p>Russia is not a threat to you.</p>
<p>China is not a threat to you.</p>
<p>Trans people are not a threat to you.</p>
<p>Immigrants are not a threat to you.</p>
<p>The US empire is a threat to you.</p>
<p>Your own government is a threat to you.</p>
<p>Oligarchs are a threat to you.</p>
<p>Nuclear brinkmanship is a threat to you.</p>
<p>Ecocide is a threat to you.</p>
<p>War and militarism are a threat to you.</p>
<p>Tyranny is a threat to you.</p>
<p>Propaganda is a threat to you.</p>
<p>Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv. Your abusers are not some far away nation your own government doesn’t like, nor are they some marginalized group your government doesn’t care about. Your abusers are your government itself, and all its allies and assets around the world, and the network of oligarchs and empire managers who call the shots in this globe-spanning power structure from behind the scenes.</p>
<p>The sooner we get this straight, the sooner we can sort out all these problems we’re currently being duped into blaming on the wrong people.</p>
<p>__________________</p>

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<p>A press conference on the ultra-longevity carbon-14 (C-14) nuclear battery is held in Jiangyin, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 9, 2025. /Northwest Normal University</p>
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<p>In the latest step toward clean energy technology, a Chinese company said that it has developed a prototype of an ultra-longevity carbon-14 (C-14) nuclear battery, named Zhulong-1, making progress in the micro-nuclear battery innovation quest.</p>
<p>Wuxi Beita Pharmatech Co., Ltd., located in east China's Jiangsu Province, said it achieved the feat in collaboration with Northwest Normal University in northwest China's Gansu Province.</p>
<p>Nuclear batteries convert radioactive decay energy into electricity, differing fundamentally from conventional chemical batteries. Wuxi Beita has established a whole C-14 industry chain system, covering C-14 labeling products and labeling technologies, laying the foundation for developing Zhulong-1, according to the company.</p>
<p>Zhang Guanghui, technology leader of the battery project, who is from Northwest Normal University, told Xinhua on Wednesday that the core innovation of Zhulong-1 lies in the use of C-14, a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 5,730 years, which is paired with a silicon-carbide (SiC) semiconductor to generate power. As C-14 decays, it emits beta particles that interact with the semiconductor, producing a steady flow of electrons.</p>
<p>This approach addresses key technical challenges, including the preparation of high-specific-activity C-14 sources and the low energy conversion efficiency and stability of transducer devices, said Zhang.</p>
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<p>In a live demonstration at Wuxi Beita's laboratory, a Zhulong-1-powered LED has operated flawlessly for nearly four months, sustaining over 35,000 pulsed flashes. Researchers further validated its utility by integrating the battery with a Bluetooth chip, which successfully transmitted and received wireless signals.</p>
<p>The research team named the battery after Zhulong, the mythical Chinese dragon deity symbolizing eternal light and energy in China's ancient text Shan Hai Jing, reflecting both the richness of Chinese culture and the battery's enduring energy supply characteristics, said Cai Dinglong, head of the battery project.</p>
<p>The battery can operate steadily within a temperature range of minus 100 degrees Celsius to 200 degrees Celsius, with an energy density 10 times higher than commercial lithium-ion batteries and a degradation rate of less than 5 percent over a designed lifespan of 50 years, said Cai.</p>
<p>The Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted the battery tests.</p>
<p>Han Yuncheng, a researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Safety Technology, told Xinhua that tests indicate that Zhulong-1's core technological indicators, including power levels, energy conversion efficiency and stability, are advanced.</p>
<p>As a new generation micro-power solution, C-14 nuclear batteries have a wide range of applications in healthcare, the Internet of Things sector and space exploration.</p>
<p>Notably, they can power permanent implants like brain-computer interfaces or cardiac pacemakers and support networks of trillions of sensors for the Internet of Things, Zhang said.</p>
<p>In addition, in extreme environments, including the deep ocean, Antarctica, and on the moon and Mars, these batteries can serve as maintenance-free continuous power batteries, while they can also enable interstellar spacecraft to operate consistently, added Zhang.</p>
<p>The research team is already advancing a second-generation model, Zhulong-2. Cai said that efforts will focus on reducing production costs and shrinking the size.</p>
<p>"Zhulong-2 is expected to be launched by the end of this year or early next year, measuring only the size of a coin," he said.</p>
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<p><span>I did an interview with Isaac Chotiner of</span> <em>The New Yorker</em> <span>on 7 March 2025 about the war in Ukraine. It was my third interview with him on that conflict.</span></p>
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<p><em>And that the West has misunderstood Vladimir Putin.</em></p>
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<p><strong><span>By</span> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/isaac-chotiner" rel>Isaac Chotiner</a></strong></p>
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<p>The study was conducted by a research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Physics (IOP) and was published in the latest issue of the Nature academic journal.</p>
<p>Since the discovery of monolayer graphene in 2004, 2D materials have revolutionized our understanding of materials and driven breakthroughs in condensed matter physics and material science. Over the past 20 years, the family of 2D materials has expanded rapidly, including hundreds of experimentally accessible 2D materials and nearly 2,000 theoretically predicted materials.</p>
<p>However, the creation of 2D metals has been extremely difficult due to the strong metallic bonds between atoms in all directions, said Zhang Guangyu, a leading scientist on the IOP research team.</p>
<p>By developing an atomic-scale manufacturing method – the van der Waals squeezing method – the research team was able to create diverse 2D metals, including bismuth, tin, lead, indium and gallium.</p>
<p>"The thickness of these 2D metals is just one millionth of a piece of A4 paper and one 200,000th of the diameter of a human hair. If a 3-meter-long metal cube were pressed into a single-atom layer, it would cover the entire ground surface of Beijing," Zhang said.</p>
<p>International reviewers have hailed this work as a major advance in the study of 2D materials.</p>
<p>Du Luojun, a member of the research team, said that this achievement fills a significant gap in the 2D materials family and will promote theoretical, experimental and technological development.</p>
<p>"Just as 3D metals drove the copper, bronze and iron ages, 2D metals could propel the next stage of human civilization, bringing technological innovation in numerous fields, such as ultra-micro low-power transistors, high-frequency devices, transparent displays, ultra-sensitive detection and highly efficient catalysis," Zhang said.</p>

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<p>NASA and SpaceX launched a long-awaited crew to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, paving the way for the return of U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded on the orbital lab for nine months.</p>
<p>SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:03 p.m. from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four astronauts who will replace Wilmore and Williams. Both are veteran NASA astronauts and retired U.S. Navy test pilots who became the first to fly Boeing's Starliner capsule to the ISS in June.</p>
<p>However, problems with Starliner's propulsion system during the flight led to an extension of their planned eight-day stay, as NASA deemed it too risky for them to return on the craft. Starliner ultimately returned to Earth empty in September.</p>
<p>While Friday's Crew-10 mission is a routine crew rotation flight, it also marks a crucial step in bringing Wilmore and Williams back to Earth. They are scheduled to depart the station on March 19 after the Crew-10 astronauts arrive Saturday night.</p>
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<p>China has released a set of guidelines on labeling internet content generated or composed by AI technology, which will take effect on September 1.</p>
<p>Issued by authorities including the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the guidelines aim to promote the healthy development of the AI sector and help internet users identify false information.</p>
<p>With AI technology advancing rapidly in recent years, vast amounts of online content have been produced in various forms with AI assistance before being disseminated in cyberspace.</p>
<p>At the same time, concerns over AI misuse and the spread of false information have grown, prompting the need for standardized identification measures, according to the CAC.</p>
<p>The misuse of AI has sparked widespread discussions about regulation. In one instance, AI-generated images of a famous Chinese actor were used last year to defraud members of his fan base.</p>
<p>In response, the guidelines mandate that AI-generated content be labeled throughout its production and distribution process, requiring providers to add visible marks in appropriate locations.</p>
<p>The rules also prohibit any organization or individual from deleting, tampering with, fabricating or concealing these identifying labels, the CAC said.</p>
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<p>China launches new satellites with Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, March 15, 2025. /CMG</p>
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<p>China on Saturday launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket, placing a remote sensing satellite into space.</p>
<p>The rocket blasted off at 12:11 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and sent the Gaojing-3 02 satellite into the preset orbit.</p>
<p>The mission also launched the Tianyan-23 satellite.</p>
<p>It was the 564th flight mission of the Long March series rockets.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: U.S. sees surge in measles cases, Texas hit hardest
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<p>The United States has reported a total of 301 confirmed measles cases so far this year, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday.</p>
<p>The cases have been reported across 15 U.S. jurisdictions. Among the confirmed cases, 50 individuals have been hospitalized, and two have died.</p>
<p>Texas has seen a rise in measles cases since January, with 259 cases confirmed as of Friday. Thirty-four of the patients have required hospitalization. The Texas Department of State Health Services has warned that, due to the highly contagious nature of the disease, additional cases are expected in both the outbreak areas and nearby communities.</p>
<p>Measles is an extremely contagious viral infection that spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It typically causes symptoms such as fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and a rash that spreads across the body. In severe cases, it can lead to complications such as pneumonia, brain swelling and even death.</p>
<p>The CDC emphasizes that the best way to prevent measles is through vaccination. Two doses of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine are highly effective in preventing the disease.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: OpenAI and Musk agree to fast tracked trial over for-profit shift
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-15/OpenAI-and-Musk-agree-to-fast-tracked-trial-over-for-profit-shift-1BLmAaqL1te/img/2be94c924b6748b5a7727caaf87ea267/2be94c924b6748b5a7727caaf87ea267-250.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>OpenAI and Elon Musk have agreed to fast-track a trial over OpenAI's for-profit shift, the latest turn in a grudge match between the world's richest person and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman playing out publicly in court.</p>
<p>Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI jointly proposed a trial in December, according to a federal court filing on Friday.</p>
<p>The parties agreed to delay a decision on whether the expedited case will be decided by a jury or solely by the judge, said the filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.</p>
<p>The judge this month denied Musk's request to pause the artificial intelligence group's transition to a for-profit model but agreed to an expedited trial in the autumn, the latest turn in the high-stakes legal fight.</p>
<p>"We welcome the court's March 4 decision rejecting Elon Musk's latest attempt to slow down OpenAI for his personal benefit," OpenAI said in a blog post on Friday.</p>
<p>Musk cofounded OpenAI with Altman in 2015 but left before the company took off and subsequently founded the competing startup xAI in 2023.</p>
<p>Last year, the CEO of Tesla and owner of the X social media platform sued OpenAI and Altman, accusing OpenAI of straying from its founding mission – to develop AI for the good of humanity, not corporate profit.</p>
<p>OpenAI and Altman have denied the allegations, while Altman alleges that Musk has been trying to slow down a competitor.</p>
<p>At stake in the lawsuit is the ChatGPT maker's transition to a for-profit model, which the startup says is crucial to raising more capital and competing well in the expensive AI race.</p>
<p>OpenAI's last fundraising round, of $6.6 billion, and a new round of up to $40 billion under discussion with SoftBank Group, are conditioned on OpenAI restructuring to remove the nonprofit's control.</p>
<p>Friday's filing comes weeks after Altman, who has said OpenAI is not for sale, rejected a $97.4 billion unsolicited takeover bid from a Musk-led consortium with a "no thank you."</p>

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<p>This spring, the challenging task of afforestation at the edge of the Mu Us Desert in northern China takes on a futuristic feel, with drones soaring through the air, transporting seedlings across vast sand dunes, while intelligent planting machines carve through the sands, embedding saplings with precision.</p>
<p>"It only takes five seconds for these robots to plant a seedling in the desert," said Gao Fei, as he remotely operated the two planting machines.</p>
<p>Gao, who works with the Jintaiming Technology Group based in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, explained that these are the company's second-generation intelligent tree-planting machines. They can completely automate the tree-planting process, from loosening the soil with an auger and inserting the sapling to watering its roots, covering it with soil, and compacting it.</p>
<p>"Four such machines, still in the trial phase, were deployed this year. The production line for the machines has yet to be fully launched," Gao said, adding that the company holds independent intellectual property rights for the machines.</p>
<p>He went on to explain that the machines integrate advanced technologies to enable large-scale, round-the-clock tree planting without human intervention. The company is also investing in the development of other machines to accommodate different planting scenarios.</p>
<p><strong>Protecting the mother river</strong></p>
<p>The desert lies near the irrigated lands of the Hetao section of the Yellow River, China's second-longest river. Winding through Inner Mongolia with sweeping bends, the river stretches over 840 kilometers in the region. In addition to the Mu Us Desert, its banks border the Ulan Buh and Kubuqi deserts.</p>
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<p>Inner Mongolia has identified a total of about 15 million hectares of desertified land spread across areas governed by seven cities, which are the source and pathway of sandstorms that impact the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.</p>
<p>To mitigate sandstorms, ensure food security and protect the Yellow River – China's mother river – afforestation in Inner Mongolia serves as a key battleground for the country's ambitious Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program (TSFP), initiated in 1978 to combat desertification.</p>
<p>Yan Wei, director of the TSFP center in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, said that in the afforestation program in Otog Banner, where the robots are used, this year's target is to plant trees across 3,333 hectares of sandy land, with 60 percent of the work supported by various types of machinery.</p>
<p>There are 20 drones used for transporting seedlings in the program area, which improves the efficiency of transporting large amounts of the saplings in the complex terrain.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, the smart tree-planting machine can perform ten times the amount of work that a human laborer can do in a day, while its cost is just 30 percent of the labor cost, Gao said.</p>
<p>He added that machine-planted salix mongolia, a drought-resistant willow tree species, demonstrated a higher survival rate compared to those planted manually. The company remains optimistic about the market potential for intelligent planting robots.</p>
<p><strong>The 'green Great Wall'</strong></p>
<p>China's expertise and experience in building windbreaks on deserts have earned global acclaim. By using grass grids made of wheat straw to stabilize the sand, vast numbers of people from all walks of life have been mobilized to plant trees, expanding the "green Great Wall."</p>
<p>According to Ma Qiang, deputy director of the Inner Mongolia regional forestry and grassland administration, anti-desertification efforts must transcend administrative boundaries. He stressed that desertification prevention and control should be integrated with new energy initiatives, such as the development of wind and photovoltaic power projects in desert regions.</p>
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<p>When OpenAI recently urged governments to restrict Chinese-developed AI models like DeepSeek-R1, it wrapped its plea in familiar rhetoric: "security risks" and "unmanageable threats."</p>
<p>But this alarmism masks a pettier reality. Much like a child running to their father after a playground scuffle, OpenAI has turned to policymakers rather than competing fairly in the sandbox of innovation.</p>
<p>OpenAI's sudden concern for "security" is as hollow as a toddler's claim that "they started it!"</p>
<p>Consider this: GPT-4, its own flagship model, has been repeatedly flagged for spreading misinformation and racial biases. Yet OpenAI demands Chinese models be banned – while its own products face no such scrutiny. This isn't risk management; it's a tantrum thrown by a market leader rattled by superior competition.</p>
<p>The pattern is unmistakable. When TikTok charmed global audiences, the U.S. government cried "data theft" despite zero evidence. When Huawei pioneered 5G, it became a "national security threat." Now, OpenAI's appeal to regulators fits neatly into this tradition: If you can't win, get daddy to change the rules.</p>
<p>AI's greatest challenges – climate modeling, pandemic prediction, poverty alleviation – demand global collaboration. By framing Chinese innovation as a boogeyman, OpenAI risks repeating Cold War-era tech rivalries that stifled progress for decades.</p>
<p>The EU's AI Act and China's governance guidelines already agree on principles like transparency and human rights. Instead of bans, we need frameworks that bridge these efforts – because the "dad" of government intervention shouldn't pick winners but foster fair play.</p>
<p>OpenAI's PR team has backpedaled, claiming they only want to spread what they define as "democratic AI." But the subtext is clear: democratic means "dominated by us."</p>
<p>Media outlets have already mocked this hypocrisy, noting that OpenAI's "principles" evaporate when its market share is threatened. The real danger isn't Chinese AI – it's Western firms weaponizing politics to avoid competing.</p>

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<p><span>The US</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/16/yemen-us-airstrikes-kill-31-including-women-and-children/" rel>is bombing Yemen again</a> <span>after Houthi leaders announced that their blockade on Israeli shipping would resume due to Israel’s siege on Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span>Trump could have used</span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel" rel>Washington’s immense leverage</a> <span>over Israel to force Netanyahu to honor the ceasefire agreement and allow aid into Gaza. Instead he let the IDF lay siege to Gaza and started bombing Yemen for Israel, because he’s a warmongering Israel cuck.</span></p>
<p><span>Trump is bombing Yemen for Israel,</span> <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-bypasses-congress-to-send-israel-4b-as-it-blocks-aid-into-gaza/" rel>rushing weapons to Israel</a> <span>despite its flagrant ceasefire violations, and rolling out</span> <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-refuses-evidence-justifying-mahmoud-khalil-arrest_n_67d73274e4b0c332fd9c6c08" rel>authoritarian measure</a> <span>after</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/13/doj-deploys-antisemitism-task-force-to-four-us-cities-as-part-of-crackdown-on-pro-palestine-protests/" rel>authoritarian measure</a> <span>to stop Americans from criticizing Israel. Because that’s what you get when you vote for America First.</span></p>
<p><span>Do you want to know how much of a pathetic Israel lackey Trump is? Earlier this month his nominated hostage envoy Adam Boehler went on CNN and</span> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/09/adam-boehler-hamas-israel-talks" rel>proclaimed</a> <span>that the United States is “not an agent of Israel”. Days later, the White House</span> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-withdraws-nomination-hostage-envoy-2025-03-15/" rel>withdrew Boehler’s nomination</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>Known things:</p>
<p>1. Trump is a servant of Israel.</p>
<p><span>2. Trump is</span> <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/flight-logs-donald-trump-flew-195255328.html" rel>on the Epstein flight logs</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>3. Epstein</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/18/epstein-case-documentaries-wont-touch-tales-of-intel-ties/" rel>worked with Israeli intelligence</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>4. Epstein was</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/05/israel-blackmail-the-presidents/" rel>running a sexual blackmail operation</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>5. Trump</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/09/patrick-lawrence-the-epstein-follies/" rel>is obstructing the release</a> <span>of the Epstein files.</span></p>
<p>Question:</p>
<p>Exactly how many kids did Trump rape?</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>It’s cool how Republicans are finally dropping that phony “We’re populists fighting the Deep State” schtick and returning to their authentic “Anyone who opposes authoritarianism loves terrorists, let’s fight more wars in the middle east” roots.</p>
<p>Trump supporters would wipe their asses with the US Constitution and deport their own mothers if doing so would help their government send one more 2000-pound bomb to Israel.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>The other day I</span> <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1900344851285348848" rel>shared</a> <span>a</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/13/report-israeli-drone-kills-three-year-old-palestinian-in-gaza-city/" rel>report</a> <span>about Israel continuing its insanely evil practice of murdering children in Gaza with sniper drones, and I got</span> <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1901356026756292860" rel>multiple people in my replies</a> <span>commenting “Release the hostages!” as a response.</span></p>
<p>Israel supporters are the worst people in the world.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>I have no sympathy for Israelis, nor for Israel supporters who say they “feel unsafe”. This isn’t because I am uncaring, it’s because I know any sympathy I might point in that direction will be harnessed and used to murder Palestinians, start wars, and destroy free speech rights.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>When you proclaim that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and then Zionism murders tens of thousands of children, you are naturally going to see a rise in “antisemitism” as you have defined it. That’s all this whole “antisemitism crisis” narrative has been from the very beginning.</p>
<p>Zionism is not a religion, it’s a fucking political ideology. It’s always legitimate to criticize a political ideology. Saying it’s evil forbidden speech to express disdain for Zionism is the same as saying it’s evil forbidden speech to express disdain for white nationalism. Zionism is the political ideology which supports the west’s decision to drop an apartheid ethnostate on top of a pre-existing population and maintain that apartheid ethnostate by any amount of violence and abuse necessary.</p>
<p>You can’t butcher children by the tens of thousands with the backing of the most powerful war machine on the planet in the name of supporting this political ideology and then legitimately cry victim when people have something to say about it. That’s not a thing.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>People tend to bluff the opposite of whatever hand they’re holding; newbies do it in poker, and everyone does it with their ego. Conservatives are afraid of everything, so they posture as hypermasculine tough guys. Liberals are bootlickers who act like heroes of social justice.</p>
<p>You see this dynamic everywhere, on the personal level as well as political. The person who feels small acts big. The person who feels dumb acts like a know it all. You see some bloke acting like he’s better than everyone else and think “That guy needs to be brought down a few pegs,” but really he’s only doing that because he feels inferior to everybody; you can’t bring him down any lower than he’s already brought himself. They’re all just bluffing the opposite of the hand they believe they’ve been dealt.</p>
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<p>A Chinese research team has developed an AI tool that predicts the risk of liver cancer recurrence with 82.2 percent accuracy, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature.</p>
<p>Liver cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, has a postoperative recurrence rate as high as 70 percent. Accurately predicting recurrence has been a critical challenge.</p>
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<p>Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, led by Sun Cheng, have developed a scoring system named TIMES, which quantifies the spatial distribution patterns of immune cells within the tumor microenvironment to assess relapse likelihood. The system is the world's first liver cancer recurrence prediction tool integrating spatial immune data.</p>
<p>The study demonstrated that immune cell spatial organization, rather than just their quantity, determines clinical outcomes. By combining spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, multispectral immunohistochemistry and AI-driven spatial analysis, the team established a novel method for tumor microenvironment assessment. The system was trained using liver cancer tissue samples from 61 patients.</p>
<p>The researchers have made a free online version of TIMES available, allowing global users to upload pathological staining images for instant risk evaluation.</p>
<p>The team aims to provide a revolutionary decision-making tool to help doctors optimize personalized treatments, especially in resource-limited settings, Sun said, adding that they are actively collaborating with industry partners to standardize clinical applications.</p>
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<p>Researchers have identified a surprising mechanism that helps cells defend against cancer, a new study by the Sydney-based Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) said on Monday.</p>
<p>Telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, play a key role in aging and cancer prevention. Over time, these structures naturally shorten, signaling aging cells to stop dividing – a crucial safeguard against cancer, according to the study.</p>
<p>"Our data shows telomeres are much more active. They can acutely respond to stress and actively open up to turn on a cellular response that looks like aging. They do this to avoid cancer," said Tony Cesare of the Genome Integrity Unit at CMRI.</p>
<p>Cesare and his team worked with their collaborators at the University of Kyoto to understand the "active" role that telomeres can play in avoiding cancer.</p>
<p>Published in Nature Communications, the study revealed that telomeres do more than just passively shorten with age. They actively respond to stress by triggering cellular aging processes to prevent cancer from developing.</p>
<p>"Most people think of telomeres as a passive entity that shortens with cell division. This is a passive fail-safe used during aging," Cesare said.</p>
<p>By inducing cell cycle arrest or programmed cell death, telomeres help eliminate cells with chromosomal damage before they can divide uncontrollably, he said, adding this discovery introduces a previously unknown anti-cancer function of telomeres.</p>
<p>Beyond its significance for telomere biology, Cesare suggests that this breakthrough could open new avenues for cancer treatment – targeting telomeres to trigger cell death in cancerous cells may offer a promising therapeutic strategy.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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<p>An ultra-high voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission line connecting Hami in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to Zhengzhou in central China's Henan Province has set a new record by transmitting over 10,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity this year as of March 16, marking a year-on-year increase of 11.2 percent.</p>
<p>The Hami-Zhengzhou ±800 kV UHVDC transmission line is the first UHVDC project designed to transmit electricity from Xinjiang to central China.</p>
<p>The transmission line, which was put into operation in January 2014, passes through six provinces and autonomous regions, including Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan, with a length of 2,192 kilometers.</p>
<p>The project has improved Henan's electricity supply over the year and promoted Xinjiang's economic development.</p>
<p>Located at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, Hami boasts abundant wind and solar resources, making it a key area for renewable energy generation.</p>
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<p>German automaker BMW said on Monday that it will integrate Huawei's HiCar – the Chinese tech conglomerate's mobile app connecting devices with vehicles – into its locally produced new models in 2026.</p>
<p>BMW is teaming up with Huawei to develop smart applications based on the Harmony operating system for drivers of its vehicles using the tech conglomerate's devices in China, according to a company statement.</p>
<p>The German automaker is also working with its suppliers to achieve more "cross-cycle" cooperation and to "promote the deep integration of local Chinese (partners) into BMW's global innovation system," the statement added.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Reuters</p>

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<p>China's CERES-1 commercial rocket put eight satellites into a 535-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit on Monday.</p>
<p>The carrier rocket, CERES-1 Y10, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:07 p.m. on March 17 on a mission dubbed "Auld Lang Syne." It delivered five satellites, including the Yunyao-1 55-60 and the AIRSAT-06 and -07 satellites. </p>
<p>Yunyao-1 is a series of commercial meteorological satellites developed by Tianjin-based Yunyao Aerospace, aiming to form a constellation of 90 satellites. The recently launched satellites are equipped with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) occultation detection payloads to collect atmospheric temperature, humidity, pressure and ionospheric electron density data.</p>
<p>The constellation's objective is to establish a real-time global atmospheric and ionospheric detection system to enhance weather forecasting and support various industries. Yunyao Aerospace plans to provide meteorological forecast information, with updates every 20 minutes or better, for Belt and Road partner countries.</p>
<p>The Beijing-based rocket company Galactic Energy has carried out 17 launches, its <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-01-20/CERES-1-Soars-China-s-first-commercial-rocket-launch-of-2025-1AjZdPFlGxi/p.html">most recent mission</a> being China's first commercial launch of the year. The company is also developing two additional rocket types: the CERES-2, a solid-propellant carrier rocket with a payload capacity of 1.6 tonnes to a 500 km low Earth orbit (LEO), and the Pallas-1, a medium-to-large-sized reusable liquid launch vehicle with a lift-off mass of 283 tonnes and a payload capacity of 8 tonnes to LEO. The maiden flight for the CERES-2 is scheduled for June 2025. Meanwhile, the first Pallas-1 flight is expected to occur within the first half of this year.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqLjK95Wt3w" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p><span>Israel</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/17/israel-restarts-large-scale-bombing-of-gaza-over-100-killed/" rel>resumed</a> <span>its genocidal campaign of annihilation in Gaza early Tuesday morning, killing hundreds in a matter of hours, including many children. As of this writing, the death toll from this assault is</span> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-03-18-2025-0df87331efc6a7b1dfd99275f52868a5" rel>reportedly at least 413</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel is not even pretending that Hamas violated the ceasefire agreement it signed on to in January,</span> <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1901805676764029174" rel>saying</a> <span>instead that the decision to resume the onslaught was made because Hamas had been rejecting a</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-begins-choking-gaza-again" rel>significantly altered new agreement</a> <span>put forward by the Trump administration which would have allowed Israel to postpone moving toward a lasting peace.</span></p>
<p><span>“This follows Hamas’s repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as its rejection of all of the proposals it has received from US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators,” reads a</span> <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1901805678651388197" rel>statement</a> <span>from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></p>
<p>“Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength,” Netanyahu said.</p>

<p><span>Of course we all know Israel is not really acting against Hamas; Israel is acting against the entire population of the Gaza Strip. The plan to eliminate all Palestinians in Gaza has been</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/10/trump-says-no-right-of-return-for-palestinians-in-gaza-under-his-plan/" rel>openly confessed to</a> <span>by the president of the United States, who went as far as posting a freakishly disturbing</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/27/caitlin-johnstone-an-empire-being-honest/" rel>AI-generated music video</a> <span>on social media about the future of Gaza after its US-backed ethnic cleansing. Israel is simply making the enclave as dangerous and uninhabitable as possible so that everyone who lives there will be forced to either leave or die.</span></p>
<p><span>And this was all planned in advance. As soon as the Gaza ceasefire agreement was announced, the Netanyahu-aligned pundits in Israeli media</span> <a href="https://archive.md/JI94O" rel>were already saying</a> <span>they knew for a fact that the prime minister wasn’t going to allow the deal to move on to its second phase. After Netanyahu visited Washington and</span> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-will-return-to-israel-on-saturday-night-after-6-days-in-washington/" rel>stayed for nearly a week</a><span>, the Israeli outlet Haaretz</span> <a href="https://archive.vn/79y8U" rel>reported</a> <span>that the prime minister was planning to sabotage the ceasefire deal upon his return. Now here we are, watching Netanyahu completely torch the ceasefire after</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-gaza-ceasefire-is-being-sabotaged" rel>weeks</a> <span>of</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-admits-it-violated-the-ceasefire" rel>actively</a> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-begins-choking-gaza-again" rel>sabotaging it</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Not only was this all planned in advance — it was also propagandized for in advance. Israel and the western political-media class spent days pushing the</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-pushes-new-atrocity-narrative" rel>atrocity propaganda narrative</a> <span>that Hamas had murdered child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas in the early weeks of the Gaza onslaught — not just murdered them, but murdered them with their bare hands.</span></p>

<p><span>Public outrage was deliberately drummed up around this narrative, despite</span> <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/there-is-no-evidence-hamas-killed-members-of-the-bibas-family-israel-is-using-their-death-to-manufacture-consent-for-genocide/" rel>no evidence</a> <span>ever being presented to the public that it was true. Western landmarks like the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower were lit orange at night in a transparent</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-fetishizing-the-bibas-kids" rel>attempt to highlight the children’s whiteness</a> <span>for westerners who’ve been trained to ignore the deaths of darker middle eastern children. Israel supporters brayed for Palestinian blood as this babies-on-bayonets atrocity propaganda was pushed into their minds to manufacture consent for future atrocities.</span></p>
<p><span>And it was all a psyop. Zeteo’s Muhammad Shehada</span> <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/is-israel-weaponizing-bibas-children-deaths" rel>reported a month and a half ago</a><span> — weeks before the Bibas narrative was unfurled — that Israel’s narrative managers appeared to be gearing up to use the Bibas kids to justify future bloodshed by pretending they didn’t know whether the children were alive or not, swearing vengeance if they were dead. Hamas</span> <a href="https://archive.is/LnV6t" rel>reported</a> <span>back in November 2023 that the Bibas children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike along with their mother. In December 2023 it was</span> <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231201-hamas-says-offered-to-hand-over-remains-of-hostage-baby-family" rel>reported in the mainstream press</a> <span>that Hamas had offered to return their bodies to Israel but Israel refused, telling the press that “Israel will not address propaganda-based reports coming from Hamas”.</span></p>
<p><span>Lo and behold, the atrocity propaganda narrative about the Bibas children was rolled out a few weeks later when their bodies were returned by Hamas as part of the ceasefire agreement, just as Shehada had anticipated. And just last week, former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant</span> <a href="https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1900220100671586733" rel>admitted publicly</a> <span>that he had known the Bibas kids were dead the entire time, directly contradicting the feigned shock of Israel and its spinmeisters when the bodies of the children were returned.</span></p>

<p><span>To this day, Israel has presented the public with no evidence of any kind that the Bibas siblings were murdered by the bare hands of their captors, rather than by the same Israeli airstrikes that were</span> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153216" rel>killing women and children every day</a> <span>in the same area as common sense would suggest. Given Israel’s</span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/02/israel-gaza-lies-western-backers" rel>extensive history of lying</a> <span>about exactly this sort of thing, we can safely assume that the evidence was never presented because there isn’t any evidence.</span></p>
<p><span>They lied. They lied about murdered children in order to justify murdering children, just like they lied about beheaded babies on October 7 in order to justify</span> <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/11/20/an-a-z-of-the-children-israel-killed-in-gaza" rel>killing thousands of babies</a> <span>in Gaza.</span></p>
<p>When it comes to Israel, every accusation is a confession.</p>
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<p>The medical team from Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a 69-year-old woman with end-stage kidney disease on March 6. After blood flow was restored, the transplanted kidney turned pink and soon began producing urine.</p>
<p>On the sixth day post-operation, the patient was stable with good kidney function, and her 24-hour urine output peaked at 5,468 milliliters. Her serum creatinine level, a key biochemical indicator for assessing kidney function, dropped to normal by day three, indicating initial surgical success, according to the team.</p>
<p>Diagnosed with chronic renal failure eight years ago, the patient couldn't find a suitable kidney donor and had to rely on dialysis three times per week. As her condition progressed, dialysis-related complications emerged.</p>
<p>China has approximately 130 million chronic kidney disease patients, with millions of those in the end-stage renal disease phase continuously increasing each year.</p>
<p>The patient will face challenges like immune rejection, coagulation disorders and pathogen-caused infections in the coming days, according to the team.</p>
<p>At least four live pig-to-human kidney transplants have been reported to date, all in the United States. The patient who underwent the transplant last November is the longest-surviving recipient of a pig organ so far, while the fourth patient, transplanted in January this year, has survived for over a month.</p>
<p>Last year, Chinese scientists transplanted a gene-modified pig kidney into a macaque, and reported in December to have achieved organ function for more than six months, a benchmark for long-term survival.</p>
<p>The researchers from Xijing Hospital performed the first-ever transplantation of a gene-modified pig liver into a brain-dead patient last April. A month later, a team from the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a living human patient with severe liver cancer.</p>
<p>"Xenotransplantation could be a key way to solve the organ shortage problem and offer new hope for many patients," said Dou Kefeng, who led the Xijing hospital team.</p>

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<p>This is Trump’s genocide. Trump is just as culpable for what happens in Gaza as Netanyahu. Just as guilty as Biden was during the last administration.</p>
<p><span>Trump</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/18/trump-gave-israel-the-green-light-to-restart-large-scale-bombing-in-gaza/" rel>signed off on</a> <span>the</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/18/caitlin-johnstone-israel-lied-about-murdered-children-to-justify-murdering-children/" rel>reignition of the Gaza holocaust</a><span>. He spent weeks</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-gaza-ceasefire-is-being-sabotaged" rel>sabotaging the ceasefire</a> <span>and then gave the thumbs up to the resumption of the genocide. He did this while</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-is-bombing-yemen-for-israel" rel>bombing Yemen</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/17/trump-says-us-will-hold-iran-accountable-for-houthi-attacks/" rel>threatening war with Iran</a> <span>for Israel.</span></p>
<p><span>I don’t know why Trump has done these things. Maybe it’s all for the</span> <a href="https://x.com/mtracey/status/1837886438903357920" rel>Adelson cash</a><span>. Maybe Epstein recorded him doing something unsavory with a minor during</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/05/israel-blackmail-the-presidents/" rel>their long association</a> <span>and gave it to</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/18/epstein-case-documentaries-wont-touch-tales-of-intel-ties/" rel>Israeli intelligence for blackmail purposes</a><span>. Maybe he owed somebody a favor for</span> <a href="https://archive.is/OlA3X" rel>bailing him out of his business failures</a> <span>in the past. Maybe he’s just a psychopath who enjoys murdering children. I don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that he did it, and he is responsible for his actions.</span></p>
<p>Trump supporters will justify literally anything their president does using whatever excuses they need to, but they are only revealing how completely empty and unprincipled their political faction is. They are unthinking worshippers of power who go along with whatever the president tells them to. By continuing to support Trump even as he continues Biden’s legacy of mass murder in the middle east, they are proving themselves to be mindless stormtroopers for the empire in full view of the entire world.</p>
<p>You can still support Trump if you hate immigrants and LGBTQ people and want lower taxes for the obscenely wealthy, but there is no legitimate reason to support him on antiwar or anti-establishment grounds. He’s just another evil Republican mass murderer president.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>Republicans in 2002: We need more authoritarianism and more wars in the middle east. Anyone who disagrees is a terrorist supporter.</p>
<p>Republicans in 2025: We need more authoritarianism and more wars in the middle east. Anyone who disagrees is a terrorist supporter, and antisemite.</p>
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<p>By the way has anyone checked on the western Zionist Jews? How are their feelings feeling today? Are they feeling nice feelings or bad feelings? Are their feelings feeling safe or unsafe? We need wall to wall news coverage of this supremely urgent issue; no time to cover any other story.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>I write so much about the fake “antisemitism crisis” not only because it’s being used to destroy civil rights throughout the western world, but because it’s one of the most dark and disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed.</p>
<p>It’s been so intensely creepy watching all of western society mobilize around a complete and utter fiction in order to stomp out all criticism of a foreign state. It’s about as dystopian a thing as you can possibly imagine, all these pundits and politicians pretending to believe that Jewish safety is seriously being threatened by an epidemic of antisemitism which must be aggressively silenced by any means necessary. All to shut down opposition to the worst inclinations of a genocidal apartheid state and the complicity of our own western governments with its crimes.</p>
<p>And we’re all expected to treat this scam seriously. Anyone who says the emperor has no clothes and calls this mass deception what it is gets tarred with the “antisemite” label and treated as further evidence that we’re all a hair’s breadth from seeing Jews rounded up onto trains again if we don’t all hurry up and shut down anti-genocide protests on university campuses. They’re not just acting out a fraudulent melodrama staged to rob us of our rights, they’re demanding that we participate in it by pretending it’s not what it plainly is.</p>
<p>It’s not just tyranny, it’s tyranny that orders people to clap along with it. It’s such a disgusting, evil thing to do to people. Such psychologically dominating abusive behavior. The more you look at it, the creepier it gets.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>The anti-imperialist left is what MAGA and right wing “populism” pretend to be. We ACTUALLY oppose the empire’s warmongering — not only when Democrats are in power. We ACTUALLY want to defeat the deep state — we don’t applaud billionaire Pentagon contractors like Elon Musk taking power. We ACTUALLY oppose the establishment order — because the establishment order is capitalist. We ACTUALLY stand up to the powerful — we don’t offload half the blame onto immigrants and marginalized groups.</p>
<p>The anti-imperialist left is also what liberals pretend to be. We ACTUALLY support the working class. We ACTUALLY stand up for the little guy. We ACTUALLY want justice and equality. We ACTUALLY support civil rights. We ACTUALLY oppose tyranny.</p>
<p>Everything the human heart longs for lies in the death of capitalism, militarism and empire, and yet both of the dominant western political factions of our day support continuing all of these things. This is because westerners spend their entire lives marinating in power-serving propaganda which herds them into these two mainstream political factions to ensure that they will pose no meaningful challenges to our rulers. All political energy is funneled into movements and parties which are set up to maintain the status quo while pretending to support the people, with the illusion of political freedom sustained by a false two-party dichotomy in which both factions serve the same ruling power structure.</p>
<p>Of course, what mainstream liberalism and right wing “populism” have to offer that anti-imperialist socialism does not is the ability to win major elections with successful candidates. This is because generations of imperial psyops have gone into stomping out the anti-imperialist left in the western world, and because only candidates which uphold the status quo are ever allowed to get close to winning an election. This doesn’t mean mainstream liberalism or right wing “populism” are the answer, it just means our prison warden isn’t going to hand us the keys to the exit door.</p>
<p>At some point we’re going to have to rise up and use the power of our numbers to force the urgently needed changes we long to see in our world. Everything in our society is set up to prevent this from ever happening. That’s all the two mainstream political factions are designed to do. That’s why they both have phony “populist” elements within them which purport to be leading a brave revolutionary charge against the establishment, while herding everyone into support for the two status quo political parties. And that’s why the anti-imperialist left is everything they pretend to be.</p>
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<p>Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago.</p>
<p>Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico in the early evening, just hours after departing the International Space Station. Splashdown occurred off the coast of Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle, bringing their unplanned odyssey to an end.</p>
<p>Within an hour, the astronauts were out of their capsule, waving and smiling at the cameras while being hustled away in reclining stretchers for routine medical checks.</p>
<p>It all started with a flawed Boeing test flight last spring.</p>
<p>The two expected to be gone just a week or so after launching on Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule on June 5. So many problems cropped up on the way to the space station that NASA eventually sent Starliner back empty and transferred the test pilots to SpaceX, pushing their homecoming into February. Then SpaceX capsule issues added another month's delay.</p>
<p>Sunday's arrival of their relief crew meant Wilmore and Williams could finally leave. NASA cut them loose a little early, given the iffy weather forecast later this week. They checked out with NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov, who arrived in their own SpaceX capsule last fall with two empty seats reserved for the Starliner duo.</p>
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<p>Wilmore and Williams ended up spending 286 days in space – 278 days longer than anticipated when they launched. They circled Earth 4,576 times and traveled 121 million miles (195 million kilometers) by the time of splashdown.</p>
<p>"On behalf of SpaceX, welcome home," radioed SpaceX Mission Control in California.</p>
<p>"What a ride," replied Hague, the capsule's commander. "I see a capsule full of grins ear to ear."</p>
<p>Dolphins circled the capsule as divers readied it for hoisting onto the recovery ship. Once safely on board, the side hatch was opened and the astronauts were helped out, one by one. Williams was next-to-last out, followed by Wilmore who gave two gloved thumbs-up.</p>
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<p>Wilmore and Williams' plight captured the world's attention, giving new meaning to the phrase "stuck at work" and turning "Butch and Suni" into household names. While other astronauts had logged longer spaceflights over the decades, none had to deal with so much uncertainty or see the length of their mission expand by so much.</p>
<p>Wilmore and Williams quickly transitioned from guests to full-fledged station crew members, conducting experiments, fixing equipment and even spacewalking together. With 62 hours over nine spacewalks, Williams set a record: the most time spent spacewalking over a career among female astronauts.</p>
<p>Both had lived on the orbiting lab before and knew the ropes, and brushed up on their station training before rocketing away. Williams became the station's commander three months into their stay and held the post until earlier this month.</p>
<p>Their mission took an unexpected twist in late January when President Donald Trump asked SpaceX founder Elon Musk to accelerate the astronauts' return and blamed the delay on the Biden administration. The replacement crew's brand new SpaceX capsule still wasn't ready to fly, so SpaceX subbed it with a used one, hurrying things along by at least a few weeks.</p>
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<p>Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong-2, or Snow Dragon-2, opened its decks to the public on Tuesday at Lyttelton Harbor in Christchurch, New Zealand, attracting around 600 visitors, including local officials and members of the public.</p>
<p>Currently on China's 41st Antarctic expedition, the Xuelong-2 is making its second stop in Christchurch on this voyage.</p>
<p>As part of the visit, Chinese and New Zealand Antarctic researchers held an academic seminar aboard the vessel, discussing polar marine biology, chemistry and geology.</p>
<p>During its port call, the Xuelong-2 conducted personnel rotations and resupplied before continuing its mission in the Ross Sea for an oceanic survey.</p>
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<p><span>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has</span> <a href="https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/1902388250053861589" rel>published</a> <span>an explicit statement of genocidal intent toward the people of Gaza, threatening civilians in the enclave with collective punishment in the form of “total devastation” if they do not find a way to overthrow Hamas and free all Israeli hostages.</span></p>
<p><span>Katz’s statement</span> <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1902384311128510919" rel>reads as follows</a><span>:</span></p>
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<p>“Residents of Gaza, this is your final warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza, and the second Sinwar will bring upon it total ruin. The Israeli Air Force’s attack against Hamas terrorists was only the first step. What follows will be far harsher, and you will bear the full cost.</p>
<p>“Evacuation of the population from combat zones will soon resume. If all Israeli hostages are not released and Hamas is not kicked out of Gaza, Israel will act with force you have not known before.</p>
<p>“Take the advice of the U.S. President: return the hostages and kick out Hamas, and new options will open up for you — including relocation to other parts of the world for those who choose. The alternative is destruction and total devastation.”</p>
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<p><span>When Katz says “Take the advice of the US president,” he is referring to</span> <a href="https://x.com/POTUS/status/1897408268982464524" rel>a statement</a> <span>made by President Trump earlier this month which made essentially the same threat addressed “to the People of Gaza,” saying, “A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD! Make a SMART decision. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!”</span></p>
<p><span>When I</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trumps-demented-gaza-threats-and" rel>criticized the US president</a> <span>for these remarks which explicitly threaten Gaza’s civilians, I got a deluge of Trump supporters telling me he wasn’t</span> <em><strong>really</strong></em> <span>talking about “the people of Gaza” as he said, but was rather speaking only about the ones who are actively holding hostages. Katz’s statement makes it abundantly clear that they were wrong, and that those of us who called a spade a spade at the time were correct.</span></p>
<p><span>The Israeli defense minister is simply following Trump’s position and reiterating what everyone who isn’t a blinkered partisan hack knew Trump was saying two weeks ago. He is doing this in exactly the same way Benjamin Netanyahu followed Trump’s position on ethnically cleansing Gaza last month by</span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/netanyahu-committed-to-trumps-plan-to-take-over-gaza" rel>enthusiastically endorsing</a> <span>the plan Trump put forward to</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/10/trump-says-no-right-of-return-for-palestinians-in-gaza-under-his-plan/" rel>permanently remove</a> <span>all Palestinians from the enclave. Trump puts forward the plan, and Israeli officials put it into action.</span></p>
<p><span>So you’ve got both the US and Israeli governments openly threatening the entire population of the Gaza strip with the</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment" rel>war crime of collective punishment</a> <span>if they don’t somehow kick Hamas out of Gaza, and additionally announcing the intent to inflict “total devastation” upon that population if they do not.</span></p>

<p>This is about as explicit an admission of genocidal intent as you can possibly come up with.</p>
<p><span>In its genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, South African prosecutors</span> <a href="https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1745437807605113296" rel>compiled a mountain of evidence</a> <span>of Israeli officials announcing the intent to commit genocide in Gaza, such as Netanyahu describing Gaza’s population as “Amalek” in reference to a Bible story about a people who were completely annihilated on the orders of God, or former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant describing Palestinians in Gaza as “human animals” while declaring a “total siege” on the enclave.</span></p>
<p><span>Al Jazeera’s Raz Segal and Penny Green</span> <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/14/intent-in-the-genocide-case-against-israel-is-not-hard-to-prove" rel>wrote the following</a> <span>regarding the ICJ case last year:</span></p>
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<p>“The crime of genocide has two elements — intention and execution — both of which have to be proven when accusations are made… Intention is usually harder to prove when accusations of genocide are made; the petitioner has to be able to prove “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such,” in the language of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. But in Israel’s case, intention too has been laid bare by an ample amount of evidence — as the South African legal team pointed out.”</p>
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<p>And Katz’s statement is probably the most clear and explicit admission yet. It’s hard to imagine a clearer declaration of genocidal intent than delivering a video statement addressed to a civilian population threatening them with “total devastation” if they don’t do as they’re told.</p>
<p>We may be sure that these statements by Katz and Trump have been added to files held by those who hope to successfully prosecute these monsters for war crimes one day. We may also be sure that they will be recorded in what will eventually be seen as one of the darker chapters in our civilization’s history.</p>
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title: How sleep struggles are shaping China&amp;#039;s health industry
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-21/How-sleep-struggles-are-shaping-China-s-health-industry-1BUEGdc7jaw/img/b89ca425f99d43f8bcd7d40d10b40727/b89ca425f99d43f8bcd7d40d10b40727-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>For four years, Tony Ma struggled with chronic sleep disturbances – difficulty falling asleep, frequent nighttime awakenings and shortened sleep duration.</p>
<p>A recent PhD graduate from China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), one of the country's top law schools, Ma had spent countless late nights working on his thesis, a habit that severely disrupted his circadian rhythm. His sleep deprivation persisted until he sought help earlier this year at the First People's Hospital of Yinchuan in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.</p>
<p>After doctors ruled out psychological causes such as depression and anxiety, they prescribed traditional Chinese medicine sleep aids and tailored lifestyle adjustments. Following a month of treatment, Ma finally regained the ability to sleep soundly.</p>
<p>Ma's story reflects a growing awareness across China: sleep disorders are increasingly recognized as medical issues requiring professional care. On social media platforms, thousands now share their own experiences visiting sleep clinics – detailing their diagnoses and recovery processes – a phenomenon that has generated widespread public discourse on sleep health.</p>
<p>Lei Haichao, head of the National Health Commission, recently announced that sleep and mental health clinics are expected to be available in every prefecture-level city across China by the end of 2025. Many public hospitals have already initiated such services in recent years.</p>
<p>Sleep disorders have emerged as a significant public health concern in China. The 2025 China Sleep Health Survey Report, released by the China Sleep Big Data Center, reveals that adults aged 18 and above average between 7.06 and 7.18 hours of sleep per night, with nearly half (48.5 percent) experiencing sleep disturbances.</p>
<p>Notably, women are more affected than men, and the prevalence of sleep issues increases with age. Additionally, younger individuals tend to go to bed later, with 57.3 percent of those born after 2000 and 49.4 percent of those born in the 1990s falling asleep after midnight.</p>
<p>Sleep disorders encompass various conditions, including insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea and circadian rhythm disorders. Accurate diagnosis often requires polysomnography and other specialized tools.</p>
<p>Highlighting the health risks associated with sleep disorders, Dr He Guohua, chief neurologist at Changsha Central Hospital in central China's Hunan Province, told CMG that these conditions can lead to cognitive impairments such as memory decline and slowed reactions, adversely affecting daily life and work efficiency.</p>
<p>"They may also cause metabolic disruptions, elevating risks of chronic conditions like hypertension and obesity, increasing the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, and weakening the immune system – heightening susceptibility to infections and tumors," said the doctor.</p>
<p>Reflecting growing public awareness and demand for treatment, China's sleep health industry is experiencing rapid growth. According to the report mentioned above, the market size expanded from 261.63 billion yuan (roughly $36 billion) in 2016 to 495.58 billion yuan (roughly $68 billion) in 2023, reflecting an 8.6 percent year-on-year increase. Projections suggest the market could surpass the one-trillion-yuan threshold by 2030.</p>
<p>Heightened awareness has spurred expansion in the sleep aid market, including melatonin supplements, non-invasive ventilators, and oral appliances. The pursuit of better sleep quality has also driven demand for products like noise-canceling earplugs, smart sleep-monitoring wristbands and sleep-assisting apps. Industry reports indicate a shift toward greater intelligence, specialization and cross-sector integration in the sleep health sector.</p>

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<p><span>The Gaza holocaust has reignited with as much sadistic fury as it ever saw under the Biden administration. More than five hundred people have</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/20/israeli-attacks-kill-110-more-palestinians-in-gaza-as-idf-expands-ground-offensive/" rel>reportedly been killed</a> <span>by Israeli bombardment since the onslaught resumed early Tuesday morning, including at least 200 children and 112 women.</span></p>
<p>I will admit to having been hopeful. I know it’s illegal to express hope online, but I really did hope that by some miracle peace would find some way forward in Gaza in spite of the frenetic efforts by Trump and Netanyahu and their cohorts to sabotage it. I had hope, and now I have grief.</p>
<p>Now this constant mass atrocity has been fully reanimated. And the people who rule over us are actively supporting this, while working to imprison, fire, silence and deport anyone who opposes it.</p>
<p>This is a broken civilization. A warped and twisted dystopia. The waking nightmare we are witnessing in Gaza is the result of everything that we have become as a society. Those dead and mutilated children on your social media feed are the fruit on the tree of the western world.</p>
<p>Please understand that this is personal now. This isn’t only about some strangers in the middle east. It’s also about you. It’s about your rights. It’s about your freedom to speak out against the criminality of your rulers. It’s about the kind of society you want to live in. It’s about the kind of future you want for your children.</p>
<p>We are not separate from what’s happening in Gaza, as hard as we might try to make ourselves feel that way. Gaza is here. The waves of blood are lapping at your doorstep. The dead and mutilated children are strewn about your living room and kitchen. They were placed there by the powerful people who run your government and its allies.</p>
<p>There’s no getting away from it. Gaza has been brought right to you and laid at your feet.</p>
<p>And it’s up to you how you’re going to respond to it.</p>
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<p>Tesla is recalling nearly all Cybertrucks in the United States to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving, the company said on Thursday, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck.</p>
<p>The recall covers just over 46,000 vehicles built from November 2023 through February 27 of this year, Tesla said in a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.</p>
<p>While Tesla does not break out deliveries of its Cybertrucks, the recalled vehicles represent a vast majority of the Cybertruck vehicles on the road, based on analyst estimates.</p>
<p>The recall could prove to be a setback for Tesla, whose stock has lost about half its value this year as the electric vehicle maker grapples with rising competition, an aging lineup, and backlash against CEO Elon Musk's controversial role overseeing cuts to federal spending in the Trump White House.</p>
<p>Tesla is recalling the cars because of the risk of a stainless steel exterior trim panel detaching from the vehicle, causing a potential road hazard and raising the chances of a crash, it said.</p>
<p>"Recalls of the entire production for a physical item such as body panels focus attention on quality issues that Tesla has avoided for many years," said Sam Fiorani, vice president at research firm AutoForecast Solutions. "Reputations take a long time to build and can be tarnished very quickly."</p>
<p>Demand for the unconventional EV pickup had already shown signs of weakness toward the end of last year, following several delays.</p>
<p>Analysts have also pointed to a change in sentiment toward the EV maker from existing customers and potential new buyers, as reactions toward the brand such as protests at Tesla stores across the U.S. and sales boycotts emerge.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Reuters</p>

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title: China&amp;#039;s semi-invasive BMI helps patient &amp;#039;speak&amp;#039; Chinese
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-21/China-s-semi-invasive-BMI-helps-patient-speak-Chinese-1BUQ2OFbo9W/img/d6f06403b8dd498c8007a563fcec4378/d6f06403b8dd498c8007a563fcec4378-750.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>A Chinese semi-invasive brain-machine interface (BMI) research team has successfully completed multiple cases of full cortical BMI implantation, enabling an aphasic patient to output Chinese language and paralyzed patients to control computers and robotic arms.</p>
<p>According to a Thursday press conference held by the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR), as well as the Capital Medical University-affiliated Xuanwu Hospital and NeuCyber NeuroTech (Beijing) Co., Ltd., clinical evidence from the first cohort of patients implanted with the system demonstrated that over 98 percent of the BMI channels remain functional after the surgery.</p>
<p>The NeuCyber Matrix BMI System, a joint innovation by CIBR and NeuCyber, is a wireless BMI system featuring a thin, flexible nano-fabricated film microelectrode. It has a flux of 128-channel in semi-invasive device and is integrated with a compact micro-circuit for recording and processing electrocorticography (ECoG) signals.</p>
<p>According to the CIBR, for the first time, an aphasic patient has been able to output Chinese language through the semi-invasive BMI system, regaining the ability to communicate. The paralyzed patients are also successfully adapting to the system and using it to control external devices, compensating for their loss of motor function.</p>
<p>CIBR Director Luo Minmin said that to accurately interpret patients' ECoG signals, the system uses three key technologies. The first is a high-integration micro-host designed to process high-flux, low-power signals. The second is new-generation wireless short-range communication technology, which is used for low-power, high-bandwidth data transmission. And the third is a real-time, accurate and multi-scenario algorithm, which can decode fine movements and the Chinese language accurately.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, a team led by Xuanwu Hospital President Zhao Guoguang performed the world's first wireless Chinese-language BMI implantation surgery on a patient who had lost the ability to speak due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).</p>
<p>Assisted by a neurosurgical robotic system, the team precisely implanted the NeuCyber Matrix BMI System on the dura mater of the left side of the patient's brain – the region responsible for language processing.</p>
<p>The surgery took a semi-invasive approach, positioning the electrode outside the dura mater to capture high-quality neural signals with minimal trauma, unlike invasive BMI surgery, which implants electrodes inside the brain.</p>
<p>A coin-sized control and signal transmission device was also embedded into the surface of the patient's skull, enabling efficient neural signal transmission and wireless power supply through near-field communication technology.</p>
<p>The patient began language decoding training on March 14, following the surgery. After just three hours, their real-time decoding accuracy for 62 commonly used words had reached 34 percent. That accuracy level has since improved to 52 percent, according to Zhao.</p>
<p>Aided by an adaptive error correction algorithm that is based on a large language model, the patient has already regained basic Chinese-language communication abilities. The system has decoded sentences such as "I want to drink water," "I want to eat," and "I'm in a great mood today. I'd like to take a walk with my family." The decoding latency for a single Chinese character is now below 100 milliseconds.</p>
<p>"BMI technology can help speech-impaired patients regain their communication abilities," said Li Yuan, business development director at NeuCyber NeuroTech (Beijing) Co., Ltd.</p>
<p>"With synthetic speech technology, what they want to say can even be heard," Li added.</p>
<p>Zhao said the surgery results suggest that semi-invasive BMI technology can provide a novel, long-term, stable language recovery solution for more aphasic patients, expanding the boundaries of this technology in the field of neurological disease diagnosis and treatment.</p>
<p>He said his team will continue to explore BMI-powered clinical practices for intractable epilepsy, spinal cord injury, stroke, ALS and aphasia.</p>

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title: Graphics: Which countries in Asia are most prepared for AI?
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<p>The Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2025 is set to take place from March 25 to 28 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, with discussions on artificial intelligence (AI) application and governance at the top of the agenda. In the following graphic, CGTN analyzes which countries in Asia are most prepared to utilize AI.</p>
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title: China&amp;#039;s 8,600-car carrier sets construction speed record
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<p>A Chinese car carrier with a maximum capacity of 8,600 vehicles sails at sea. /VCG</p>
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<p>A Chinese car carrier with a maximum capacity of 8,600 vehicles was officially delivered on Thursday, setting a national record for the fastest hull assembly and adjustment cycle for massive car carriers, China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) announced.</p>
<p>Independently developed in China, the newly delivered vessel measures around 200 meters in length and has a beam of 38 meters. It is a duel-fuel carrier powered by fuel oil and liquified natural gas, with 14 decks for vehicle parking that allow for the efficient load and transport of up to 8,600 passenger cars, trucks or buses.</p>
<p>The hull assembly and adjustment timespan for the vessel was only 200 days, the fastest in China for the construction of a car carrier.</p>
<p>"With our integrated construction technology and optimized roll-on/roll-off system design, we have overcome efficiency bottlenecks, allowing us to break this record. The vessel is of excellent performance, high energy efficiency and broad adaptability for different vehicle types. Looking ahead, we have (received orders for) other car carriers, including the 9,000-vehicle model and the 10,800-vehicle model, which is the largest," said Li Zhizhong, production director of CSSC's Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding.</p>
<p>The shipbuilder aims to deliver 28 vessels this year. So far, it has delivered seven new ships, averaging one delivery every 11 working days, said Li.</p>
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title: Regeneration beyond Earth: Planaria joins China&amp;#039;s space lab
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-21/Regeneration-beyond-Earth-Planaria-joins-China-s-space-lab-1BViQRNeb8A/img/78e17c121fef46b4b2ca3582a3994389/78e17c121fef46b4b2ca3582a3994389-1280.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>China's space station is set to welcome a new life form – planaria – following previous experiments involving zebrafish and fruit flies, according to Zhang Wei, a researcher at the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in his recent interview with Youth.cn.</p>
<p>"This year's launch of Shenzhou spacecraft will carry dozens of planarian segments into space," Zhang said.</p>
<p>Planarias are flatworms with amazing regeneration abilities. There are many different species that inhabit freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. When cut, they can regrow complete heads or tails, making them ideal models for studying tissue regeneration.</p>
<p>The new experiment will utilize the "life ecosystem experiment cabinet" on the space station's "small universal biological cultivation module." Researchers will observe the regeneration process in different planarian segments in orbit, collecting and analyzing samples at key stages.</p>
<p>By using planaria as model organisms, the experiment aims to study how the space environment affects their regenerative patterns and physiological behavior, Zhang explained.</p>
<p>"We'll explore the molecular basis of these changes and investigate how gravity influences cell proliferation, migration and differentiation, enhancing our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of regeneration," Zhang said.</p>
<p>In addition, the zebrafish previously sent into space will be part of an upgraded experiment in future missions.</p>
<p>"With a genetic similarity of 87 percent to humans, zebrafish studies could provide insights into countering health issues caused by microgravity and may even offer new strategies for treating osteoporosis on Earth," said Wang Yifeng, deputy chief designer at the Payload Operation and Control Center of the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization.</p>
<p>During the Shenzhou-19 mission, fruit fly experiments focused on the combined effects of microgravity and weak magnetic environments. Analysis of over 20 days of in-orbit video footage revealed that microgravity significantly altered fruit fly activity and courtship behavior patterns. This finding offers fresh insights into how organisms adapt to extreme environments.</p>
<p>(Gong Zhe contributed to the story.)</p>

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title: Robots on bikes to 200-day cargo ships: 10 things from China this week
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<p><em>From the government's special initiatives to boost consumption to numerous innovation-linked developments, here are ten things that happened in China that caught readers' attention this week.</em></p>
<p><strong>1. Special initiative to boost consumption</strong></p>
<p>China unveiled a plan on special initiatives to increase consumption, part of a larger effort to make domestic demand the main driver of economic growth. The plan aims to vigorously boost consumption, stimulate domestic demand through high-quality supply and other measures, increase spending power by raising earnings and improve the consumption environment.</p>
<p>Days after the plan was announced, two prominent global banks also indicated that Chinese consumer sentiment was recovering. Deutsche Bank said that 54 percent of respondents it polled this quarter say they feel financially better off, while HSBC Bank upgraded China's GDP growth forecast to 4.8 percent based on expectations of stronger consumer spending.</p>
<p><strong>2. Industrial output exceeds expectations in Jan-Feb 2025</strong></p>
<p>Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment beat expectations in January and February, showing signs of resilience. Industrial output was up 5.9 percent year-on-year during Jan-Feb, while retail sales were up 4 percent. Exports rose 3.4 percent to $535.25 billion, while fixed asset investment expanded by 4.1 percent in the same period.</p>
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<p>Key takeaways from China's Jan-Feb economic figures. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Also in Jan-Feb, China's railway passenger trips marked a 4.7 percent year-on-year increase, reaching 726 million during the first two months of 2025 and hitting an all-time high, China's railway operator said.</p>
<p><strong>3. Global business leaders arrive for CDF 2025</strong></p>
<p>Global business leaders are arriving in Beijing for the China Development Forum (CDF) 2025, set to be held in Beijing on March 23-24. The premier platform for dialogue between the Chinese government, global businesses, academia and international organizations, the CDF this year is themed 'Unleashing Development Momentum for Stable Growth of Global Economy', and comes just over a week after China's national Two Sessions.</p>
<p>Ahead of the CDF, business delegations have been meeting with China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao. During his meeting with Merlin Swire, CEO of John Swire &amp; Sons, the Commerce Minister highlighted China's vast consumer market potential and reaffirmed the government's commitment to high-level opening-up, improving the business environment, and expanding market access in sectors such as telecommunications, healthcare and education.</p>
<p><strong>4. 8,600-car carrier ship sets construction speed record</strong></p>
<p>In a remarkable achievement elevating the country's world-leading ship-building credentials to new heights, a Chinese car carrier cargo ship was delivered having taken just a record 200 days for its hull assembly and adjustment, as per the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Measuring 200m by 38m, it is a duel-fuel carrier powered by fuel oil and LNG with 14 vehicle decks that can allow the transport of 8,600 passenger cars, trucks or buses.</p>
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<p>The record-breaking Chinese car carrier ship with a maximum capacity of 8,600 vehicles sails at sea. /VCG</p>
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<p><strong>5. First 1-tonne payload cargo drone completes maiden flight</strong></p>
<p>Also in the high-tech cargo space, China's first large cargo drone capable of carrying payloads of up to one tonne completed its maiden flight in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province. The unmanned TP1000 has a maximum range of 1000km with a full 1000kg load and is expected to enter operational service in 2026.</p>
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<p>China's TP1000 large cargo drone completed its maiden flight in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province, March 15, 2025. /CMG</p>
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<p><strong>6. BYD unveils fast-charging battery with 2km/s charging speed</strong></p>
<p>In the New Energy Vehicles (NEV) sector, Chinese auto-maker BYD unveiled a new fast-charging battery capable reaching a top charging speed of 2km/s, enabling it to provide a 407km driving range on just a five-minute charge. Deployment of this charger and related infrastructure will enable BYD to offer 'oil-electric parity', meaning it will be possible to charge NEVs at comparable times to conventional internal-combustion engine cars. BYD also said it would build over 4,000 fast-charging stations across China.</p>
<p><strong>7. New AgiBot humanoid robot rides bike, performs delicate tasks</strong></p>
<p>Coming to the field of robots, the 1.3m AgiBot Lingxi X2 humanoid robot unveiled in Shanghai has gone viral for being able to perform movements requiring dexterity and grace, such as riding bicycles and self-balancing scooters or sewing using needles and thread. Videos show it picking items off a shelf and removing plugs from their sockets.</p>
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<p>The AgiBot Lingxi X2 rides a bicycle in Shanghai. /AgiBot</p>
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<p><strong>8. CUMT unveils space mining robot for asteroids and the moon</strong></p>
<p>Robots for space are also on the anvil. Experts at the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) have introduced a multifunctional space mining robots. The six-legged robot has three wheels and three claw-legs meant to enable it to operate in a microgravity environment. The claws essentially allow the robot to cling and grip surfaces and objects to anchor itself while drilling and collecting samples.</p>
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<p>China's space mining robot in action. /CMG</p>
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<p><strong>9. China-led team achieves quantum-secured communication across 12,900 km</strong></p>
<p>A global research team led by Chinese scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China has achieved quantum-secured communication over 12,900 km between China and South Africa using the Jinan-1 micro-nano satellite and compact ground stations. Pulses forming a quantum key were sent from a rooftop in Beijing to another in Cape Town enabling real-time quantum key distribution.</p>
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<p>One half of the team that achieved long-distance quantum-secured communication using their ground transmitter. /CGTN</p>
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<p><strong>10. Top universities to expand undergraduate enrollment to focus on AI</strong></p>
<p>With AI increasingly being touted as the biggest disruptor since the Internet, several of China's top universities have declared plans to expand undergraduate enrollment this year to focus on national strategic priorities and cutting-edge technologies. Tsinghua, Peking, Renmin and other universities will expand their undergraduate intakes in areas such as AI, renewable energy and integrated circuits.</p>
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<p>Glaciers are essential to Earth's ecosystem. They serve as freshwater reservoirs, regulate sea levels and support biodiversity. More than 2 billion people rely on glaciers and seasonal snowmelt for drinking water, agriculture and hydropower.</p>
<p>Glaciers act as nature's water towers, storing about 70 percent of the world's freshwater. Their seasonal meltwater supports rivers, forests and farmlands.</p>
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<p>The Lhegu Glacier in Qamdo City, Xizang Autonomous Region, southwest China. /VCG</p>
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<p>However, rising global temperatures are accelerating <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-12-10/Expert-Greenland-is-losing-up-to-10-000-tonnes-of-ice-per-second--1poZkGFb8GY/index.html">glacier melt</a>, and rapid glacier loss is already affecting communities worldwide.</p>
<p>Scientists warn that by 2050, one-third of the world's glaciers could disappear, severely impacting water security and ecosystems.</p>
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<div readability="7" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-21/World-Day-for-Glaciers-Protecting-Earth-s-cold-storage--1BVsGJgDIAM/img/6fb780c1a699453eb7e427176cb72339/6fb780c1a699453eb7e427176cb72339.jpeg" alt="The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland, September 14, 2024. /VCG" layout="responsive"><div readability="11" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
<p>The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland, September 14, 2024. /VCG</p>
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<p>To address this crisis, the United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation (IYGP) and established March 21 as World Day for Glaciers.</p>
<p>In addition, 2025-2034 has been declared the "Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science," aiming to raise global awareness of glaciers' critical role in climate and hydrological systems while tackling the urgent challenges posed by accelerated glacier melt.</p>
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<p>The Shoesmith Glacier has lost an ice mass equivalent to a 10-story building in Antarctica, March 1, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">The Shoesmith Glacier has lost an ice mass equivalent to a 10-story building in Antarctica, March 1, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>China has made significant efforts to monitor and protect its glaciers. Currently, there are 48,571 glaciers in western China, covering a total area of 51,800 square kilometers, with an estimated ice volume of 4,300-4,700 cubic kilometers. These glaciers are mainly distributed in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, particularly in the Himalayas, Hengduan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains and Qilian Mountains. The Kunlun Mountains system has the highest number of glaciers, with 8,922 in total.</p>
<p>However, climate change is taking its toll. Over the past 50 years, glacier area in China's arid western regions has shrunk by 18 percent. By the end of this century, more than 70 percent of these glaciers may disappear, according to Wang Feiteng, a researcher at the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.</p>
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<p>The Muzart Glacier in Zhaosu County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China. /VCG</p>
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<p>In response to the accelerating glacier retreat, China has taken <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-16/China-s-Xizang-glacier-protection-regulation-to-take-effect-1w6BvAVBLGM/p.html">various measures</a>, with the most crucial being energy conservation and emission reduction.</p>
<p>Scientists are using satellite technology and on-site measurements to track glacier changes. In recent years, researchers have tested innovative methods like covering glaciers with reflective materials to slow down melting. In 2023, a trial on the Tianshan No. 1 glacier showed promising results in reducing ice loss.</p>
<p>Additionally, China has established several nature reserves focused on glacier conservation, such as the Qomolangma, Sanjiangyuan and Qilian Mountains national nature reserves. These protected areas help reduce <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-02/Andean-glacier-retreat-unprecedented-in-human-civilization-study-says-1vJVIdOY0tq/p.html">direct human impact</a> on glaciers.</p>
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<p>The Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina, November 19, 2024. /VCG</p>
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<p>International organizations are also intensifying glacier protection efforts. The IYGP will bring together experts and policymakers to promote conservation strategies. Governments are also investing in climate adaptation measures to mitigate the impact of glacier loss.</p>
<p>The Global Glacier Casualty List project was founded in 2024 through a collaboration between Rice University, the University of Iceland, the Iceland Glaciological Society, the World Glacier Monitoring Service and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.</p>
<p>This project has identified 18 glaciers worldwide that are at risk of disappearing but hold significant scientific and socio-economic value. Among them, China's Dagu Glacier has been selected as the only representative from the country.</p>
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<p>"Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential in glacier monitoring, change prediction and disaster early warning," Wang added. AI has shown promising applications in predicting <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-10-06/Explainer-Glacial-lake-floods-a-growing-unpredictable-climate-risk-1nGflH6VkrK/index.html">glacial lake floods</a>, optimizing meltwater management and assessing avalanche risks. Scientists look forward to building a global intelligent glacier monitoring network to enable real-time tracking and data sharing. AI could also support green and low-carbon development, helping to slow glacier retreat and contribute to global ecological sustainability.</p>
<p>Protecting glaciers is crucial for future generations. Through global cooperation, scientific research and sustainable policies, these vital freshwater sources can be safeguarded.</p>
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<p>The Shenzhou-19 crew members on board China's space station completed their third series of extravehicular activities (EVAs) at 8:50 p.m. Beijing Time, China Media Group (CMG) reported on Friday.</p>
<p>Astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze worked for about seven hours to complete multiple tasks, including the installation of space debris protection devices and extravehicular auxiliary facilities, as well as extravehicular equipment inspection. They were assisted by the space station's robotic arm and a team on Earth.</p>
<p>Cai and Song, the two crew members assigned to undertake spacewalk duties, have since returned to the Wentian lab module safely. Cai has now carried out five extravehicular missions, more than any other Chinese astronaut to date, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).</p>
<p>The Shenzhou-19 crew has been in space for nearly five months, and various space scientific experiments and tests are progressing smoothly. The crew is scheduled to return to Earth in more than a month.</p>
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