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"China's foreign ministry urged Washington on Friday to stop "misleading the public" on bilateral tariff negotiations: "The United States and China are not engaged in consultations or talks on the tariff issue" www.reuters.com/world/beijin...

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China doesn’t want to be left out - it’s just seized an uninhabited Vietnamese island. Important detail: it’s just a few km from the island of Thitu, home to the Philippines’ most important military base.

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I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

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More from #GeorgiaProtest

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And he didn’t even say thank you…

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Sanctions on Russia: a bipartisan bill adds tariffs on nations buying Russian oil, gas, uranium, per Sen. Lindsey Graham. Senate will pass it overwhelmingly if Russia doesn’t seek a fair, just, lasting peace.

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 Zelensky: During the meeting with President Macron, we discussed the path to a complete, unconditional ceasefire and the need to put pressure on Russia. I spoke about the consequences of Russian attacks on Kryvyi Rih, Sumy and Kyiv. There is a critical need for air defense.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky: The steps needed to establish a full and unconditional ceasefire and develop further security guarantees are the main topics of our conversation with Keir Starmer. We have summarized the results of the meetings in Paris and London.

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Ever get the sense he’s not actually running anything?

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Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analysts and soldiers told the Kyiv Independent.

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We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

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👀👀👀👀👀

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Kyiv, Ukraine. Children mourn their classmate and friend Danylo, who was killed in a Russian missile attack. They brought his portrait and flowers to what remains of his bombed-out home. The pain Russia inflicts on Ukrainian families every day is unbearable. We will never forget. 💔🇺🇦

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X is bad.

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⚡️❌ There was no continuation of the meeting between Zelensky and Trump, — RBC-Ukraine source. "But they discussed the main thing."

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🇺🇸🇮🇹✈️ Trump leaves Rome after Pope Francis' funeral, — AFP 🇺🇦 Whether a second meeting with Zelensky took place is unknown.

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Zelenskyy met one-on-one with Macron to discuss further peace efforts and commented on his Trump talks, calling it a "good meeting."

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Good. We need more pumped hydro to balance the renewables.

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⚡️ Potentially ‘historic’ meeting, Zelensky says after talks with Trump. "Good meeting. We discussed a lot one on one. Hoping for results on everything we covered," President Volodymyr Zelensky said after meeting U.S. President Donald Trump in the Vatican on April 26.

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GeoConfirmed UKR. Damage to a building by a drone, reportedly used by deputy Chechen representative in the Zaporozhzhia and Kherson oblasts, Murad Saidov. 45.11014, 33.62417 4J6F+3M3 Mykhailivka GeoLocated by @blinzka.bsky.social Geolocation: bsky.app/profile/blin...

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UK political funding laws are not just a disgrace. They're actively anti-democratic. They openly encourage foreign wealth, which is not answerable to the laws of this country, to buy influence over people who should be responsible only to our own democracy. Labour's failure to act is indefensible.

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⚡️ Update: Ukraine downs 66 of 114 Russian drones overnight, Air Force says. Russia launched 114 attack and decoy drones against Ukraine overnight, as well as an Onyx anti-ship missile and two Kh-31P anti-radar missiles, the Air Force said on April 26.

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Given this mainly about mutual recognition of conformity assessment, there are lots of examples of non single market countries (and non FTA countries!) getting better arrangements than UK eg US, Australia, Israel, Canada, New Zealand. Not a matter of legal principle, just EU not wanting to do it.

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Possibly the news photo of the decade.

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North Korea is officially involved in the war against Ukraine. For the first time, the Kremlin confirmed that DPRK troops are engaged in combat with Ukrainian forces. Russia’s Chief of General Staff Gerasimov praised the North Korean soldiers for their “high level of professionalism” during battles

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BREAKING: A fire and a massive explosion rocked a port in southern Iran, injuring at least 115 people, state television reported.

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Apparently Trump doesn’t own a black suit

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Trump holding court as other dignitaries wait to be seated…unsurprising behaviour #popefuneral

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Staffers from DOGE are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal government, multiple sources tell CNN.

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Truly evil people

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It's amazing the shit I took for giving this obvious prognosis in 2016 -- back before you were allowed to say it, and now it still gets me banned, because I told the truth too early on national TV and that makes it hard for officials to feign ignorance!

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Virginia Giuffre, prominent Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse survivor and accuser of Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41. cnn.it/3EyC309

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A good question. I think not any more but he, and "Blue Labour" colleagues, did play a role in the formation of Morgan McSweeney's politics. And he is important. I wrote about it here: samf.substack.com/p/answering-...

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❗️The missile that killed 12 Ukrainians in Kyiv yesterday contained at least 116 components — most of them, sadly, made in the U.S., Zelensky said.

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I kind of thought that the phase where the US government started arresting judges would take a bit longer, but there you are. eu.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

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‼️🇺🇦🇮🇹 It was important for me to be here [strike place in Kyiv], military meetings are planned, one of them will be dedicated to air defense. If I don’t make it to Rome, Ukraine will still be represented there at a high level, — Zelensky about his visit to Rome

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‼️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Security guarantees from the US were discussed in London, these guarantees should be at least as high as between the US and Israel, — Zelensky.

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President Zelenskyy agrees with Trump that Ukraine lacks the weapons for a military retake of Crimea, but other levers of influence exist. He stresses Ukraine is open to any talks in any format, but only after a genuine, unconditional ceasefire.

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This raises some very serious questions about system architecture

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⚡️ Full text of US peace proposal at odds with Ukrainian, EU positions. Reuters published the full text of a U.S. peace proposal presented by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, offering the clearest look yet at the Trump administration's plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

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www.rusi.org/explore-our-... “The Defence, Security & Resilience Bank…represents a decisive step toward achieving Europe’s strategic autonomy in an increasingly unstable world. European governments must rise to the challenge and act with urgency. Britain must take this opportunity and lead”

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🔴‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’ Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

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BREAKING: The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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I've been saying. Trump has no intention whatsoever of stepping down or ever not being president of the United States. He sees himself outlasting Xi. I'm sorry to say that he's not going anywhere without a fight.

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‼️ Putin and Witkoff's meeting discussed the possibility of resuming direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, — Putin's aide Ushakov 🤔"Also, today's conversation allegedly allowed for further convergence of positions not only on Ukraine, but also on other international issues."

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