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Apple boss hails China ties
China, USA

Apple boss hails China ties

Tim Cook has praised the company’s nearly 30-year-long relationship with the country, both as a market and a manufacturing hub © Getty Images / VCG US iPhone maker Apple and China have “grown together” over the past three decades, and the relationship between the company and one of its largest markets has become “symbolic,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the China Development Forum in Beijing on Saturday. In his first visit to China since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Cook said the company would soon celebrate the 30th anniversary of operating in the Chinese market. “We could not be more excited… Apple and China… grew together and so this has been a symbiotic kind of relationship,” Apple CEO stated, as cited by the Financial Times. During his speech,...
Occupied Palestine: Massive wave of protests sweeps across
ZIO-NAZI

Occupied Palestine: Massive wave of protests sweeps across

An estimated 630,000 people demonstrated against the Nazi regime’s proposed judicial reform Hundreds of thousands of Zionist took to the streets across the Nazi entity on Saturday to protest against the Nazi regime controversial push to overhaul the judicial system. The organizers of the massive demonstrations – which took place in cities including the Nazi occupied Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, and Tel Aviv – announced on Friday a ‘Week of Paralysis’ to resist what they called an “attempt to turn Israel into a dictatorship.” According to figures provided by the organizers, a total of 630,000 people attended the rallies. In Tel Aviv alone, which was the main venue for the activists, around 200,000 protesters gathered, local media said. https://twitter.com/i/st...
Serbian president predicts future of EU
Ex-Yugoslavia, Serbia

Serbian president predicts future of EU

Ukraine will begin talks to enter the bloc by June, a move beneficial to the US, Aleksandar Vucic has claimed Aleksandar Vucic attends a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, October 3, 2022 ©  AFP / Attila Kisbenedek With a battlefield victory “impossible,” Ukraine will begin negotiations to enter the EU this summer, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told a local media outlet on Sunday. Ukraine will join a group of EU countries under the “direct influence” of the US, he stated. “Ukraine will not easily win in the military sense, it is almost impossible,” Vucic told Serbian broadcaster RTV Pink. Faced with this realization, he continued, “decisions will be made” in Brussels and Kiev around June “about the immediate star...
Honduras severs diplomatic relations with Taiwan
China, Honduras

Honduras severs diplomatic relations with Taiwan

Just 13 nations still officially recognize the island, though many more including the US engage with its government Foreign ministers of Honduras and China shake hands in Beijing upon establishing diplomatic relations between their two countries ©  AFP / Greg Baker Honduras has ended diplomatic relations with Taiwan after decades of engagement with the contested island territory, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday. The move comes less than two weeks after President Xiomara Castro revealed that Tegucigalpa would establish relations with Beijing. “The government of Honduras recognizes the existence of just one China in the world, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the only legitimate government that represents all of China,”&n...
US becoming a ‘banana republic’
USA

US becoming a ‘banana republic’

The Republican frontrunner also says the “deep state” stepped up its attacks against him when he promised to end the conflict in Ukraine Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, Texas, March 25, 2023 ©  AP / Evan Vucci Former President Donald Trump told his supporters on Saturday that President Joe Biden is turning the US into a “banana republic,” and promised to throw the “repulsive political class the hell out of office” if re-elected next year. Trump, who is reportedly facing arrest over campaign finance charges in New York, held his first campaign rally ahead of the 2024 election in Waco, Texas, on Saturday. Speaking to a crowd of several thousand people, Trump reiterated his long-held belief that the c...
West building WWII Axis-style alliance
Russia

West building WWII Axis-style alliance

The push to create a “global NATO” resembles the actions of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s, the Russian president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin participates in an annual extended meeting of the Board of the Russian Interior Ministry in Moscow on March 20, 2023. ©  Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP Western countries are seeking to put together new global alliances reminiscent of those forged by the Axis powers prior to World War Two, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking in an interview with Russia 1 TV aired on Saturday, the Russian leader dismissed claims that Moscow and Beijing are forming a military bloc that could threaten the West. He described the cooperation between the two as “transparent,” adding that...
Nuclear activists blast Russian announcement
Russia

Nuclear activists blast Russian announcement

The civil group ICAN said that deployment of Moscow’s atomic weapons in Belarus would be an “extremely dangerous escalation” FILE PHOTO: A Russian Iskander-M missile launcher. ©  Sputnik / RIA News Russia’s decision to place tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus significantly increases risks of a nuclear stand-off amid the Ukraine crisis, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) said on Saturday.   In a statement on Twitter, the activist organization, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for its efforts to achieve a universal ban on nuclear arms, said that it “condemns this extremely dangerous escalation which makes the use of nuclear weapons more likely.”   It added that, given the Ukraine conflict, “the li...
Kenyan police ban opposition demonstrations
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Kenyan police ban opposition demonstrations

The country’s law enforcement has said it will not let violent protests from last week happen again Supporters surround opposition leader, Raila Odinga's vehicle on the streets of Mathare North during a demonstration against the cost of living and President William Ruto's administration. ©  John Ochieng / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Police in Kenya have banned a protest planned for Monday in Nairobi. The proposed demonstrations by opposition leader Raila Odinga are illegal, according to Police Inspector General Japhet Koome. What the government called unauthorized protests in several Kenyan cities last Monday turned into riots, killing one university student and injuring several others. Protesters hurled rocks at riot police outside government...
Russian company unveils ChatGPT competitor
Russia

Russian company unveils ChatGPT competitor

The new AI tool is geared towards business and government projects, Sistemma has said ©  Getty Images / MF3d Moscow-based company Sistemma has created its own competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which runs entirely on domestic servers and in the Russian language. The project was unveiled on Sunday on the IT company’s official site. The AI is called SistemmaGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) and is based on the company’s own developments, along with Stanford University research. The chatbot is intended for Russian businesses and government agencies. Sistemma claims that its AI can write high quality texts and possesses “encyclopedic knowledge.” The company also claims that the chatbot can “create tutorials, write essays, programming code, resumes ...
Washington’s chronic disinterest in conflict exit strategies doesn’t bode well for Ukraine
Russia, Ukraine, USA

Washington’s chronic disinterest in conflict exit strategies doesn’t bode well for Ukraine

The US has started or inserted itself into multiple wars in recent years – none of which ended in peace and stability Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English. rachelmarsden.com FILE PHOTO: US Air Force servicemen load passengers aboard a plane during the evacuation from Afghanistan on August 24, 2021 ©  Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen / US Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images "We've said it before and we’ll say it again today that if coming out of this meeting, there’s some sort of call for a ceasefire, well, that’s just going to be unacceptable," US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on “FOX News Sunday" referring to the meeting in Moscow between...