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  • China's advancements in autonomous technologies are raising alarms in the West as the country expands its reach into space, deep sea exploration, and the Arctic, aiming for greater autonomy in critical sectors.
  • In the UK, a report highlights a significant increase in arrests for “grossly offensive” social media posts, bringing concerns over freedom of expression to the forefront as police focus on online speech while other crimes remain unresolved.
  • Poland is on high alert following extensive damage to a key rail line, which officials suspect was a major act of sabotage orchestrated by Russia, raising tensions amid ongoing conflicts related to the Ukraine war.
  • A study suggests that ultraprocessed foods are linked to rising rates of precancerous colorectal tumors in young people globally, prompting discussions about dietary impacts on public health amid a backdrop of rising obesity rates.
  • Ethiopia has confirmed cases of a deadly Marburg virus outbreak, following reported symptoms that resemble Ebola, thereby raising urgent health concerns in the region as officials work to address the situation.

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  • China's Expanding Space And Arctic Reach Raises Western Concerns an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    China's Expanding Space And Arctic Reach Raises Western Concerns As the world moves closer to The Matrix, China is moving closer to Star Wars. The country's drive to gain autonomy in critical technologies has pushed it deeper into space, the deep sea and the Arctic, according to a new article from the South China Morning Post. After the Yinhe incident and later exclusion from Europe’s Galileo programme, Beijing built the BeiDou navigation system, now a 64-satellite network used over a trillion times daily. This move from dependence to autonomy now defines its national strategy. Recent five-year plans highlight deep-sea, polar and aerospace projects as “forward-looking

  • Britain's Speech Gulag Exposed: 10,000 Arrested Last Year For Social Media Posts 2 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Britain's Speech Gulag Exposed: 10,000 Arrested Last Year For Social Media Posts Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A damning study complete with an interactive map has revealed that UK police arrested nearly 10,000 people in 2024 for “grossly offensive” social media posts—equivalent to 30 arrests every single day—while knife crime, burglary, and sexual offences go unsolved. This Orwellian crackdown, driven by vague “communications” laws, has turned Britain into an international embarrassment, with forces devoting more manpower to policing opinions than protecting citizens. Compiled from Freedom of Information requests to 39 police forces, the data shows 9,700 arrests in 2024 alone under the Communications

  • Poland Suspects Russia In "Unprecedented Act Of Sabotage" Of Rail Line 3 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Poland Suspects Russia In "Unprecedented Act Of Sabotage" Of Rail Line EU and NATO leaders are currently pointing the finger at Russia for what could be one of the single biggest acts of sabotage on European soil since the Ukraine war began. A train track linking the Polish cities of Warsaw and Lublin was destroyed in an "unprecedented act of sabotage" on Sunday. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared that the now damaged railway is "crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine." In invoking Ukraine aid, he's clearly letting suspicion fall on Moscow - though no arrests have been made in the early investigation. But photos suggest

  • "You Can't Handle the Truth": UK Health Watchdog Reportedly Refuses To Release Data On Vaccine Deaths 3 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    "You Can't Handle the Truth": UK Health Watchdog Reportedly Refuses To Release Data On Vaccine Deaths Authored by Jonathan Turley, The United Kingdom’s public health service is reportedly refusing to release data on the potential relationship between the COVID vaccine and excess deaths. The reason? It would upset people to know the truth. The question is whether British citizens have become so passive and yielding that they will support their government, keeping them from learning the facts about vaccines and allowing them to reach their own conclusions. The UK has long embraced speech controls and censorship to protect citizens from unacceptable views or what one criminal defendant was told

  • Climate Scientists Claim That Global Warming Is Going To Cause A New Ice Age? 4 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Climate Scientists Claim That Global Warming Is Going To Cause A New Ice Age? In the past, climate change has been consistently ranked as a "top concern" for people all over the world. However, that priority has shifted in recent years according to a revealing study published in October by global research firm Ipsos.    The change has been dramatic. In 2025, public concern over climate change has fallen sharply behind concerns of war and economic instability, with geopolitical turmoil and the cost of living crisis.  Ipsos' 2025 Global Consumer Awareness Survey, which was published in collaboration with the Forest Stewardship Council


The Guardian

  • Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries 13 hours ago by Kat Lay global health correspondent
    Global development, Global health, Nestlé, Children, Society, Food & drink industry, Obesity, Africa, World news

    Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutrition Nestlé is still adding sugar to most baby cereals sold across Africa, according to an investigation by campaigners who have accused the company of “putting the health of African babies at risk for profit”. The food firm was accused of “double standards” over the researchers’ findings, which come at a time when rates of childhood obesity are rising on the continent, prompting calls for Nestlé to remove all added sugar from baby-food products. Continue reading...

  • Nicki Minaj to spotlight plight of Nigerian Christians in UN speech arranged by White House 17 hours ago by Maya Yang
    Nicki Minaj, Trump administration, US news, Music, Culture, US politics, Nigeria, World news, Christianity, Religion, Africa

    Rapper to give address on Tuesday after supporting Trump’s post condemning Nigerian government The US-based Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj will work alongside the White House to highlight claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria. Minaj is expected to deliver a speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, according to a Time journalist who first posted about the collaboration on Sunday, adding that it was arranged by Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to Donald Trump. Continue reading...

  • Eswatini confirms receiving over $5m from US to accept deportees 18 hours ago by Agence France-Press in Mbabane
    Eswatini, US immigration, Africa, World news, US news

    Trump administration struck largely secretive deals with at least five African countries to accept migrants Eswatini has confirmed for the first time that it had received more than $5m from the United States to accept dozens of people expelled under Washington’s aggressive mass deportation drive. The tiny southern African kingdom has taken in 15 men since Donald Trump’s administration struck largely secretive deals with at least five African countries to accept migrants under a third-country deportation programme fiercely criticised by rights groups. Continue reading...

  • ‘His role is to recruit’: the Sheffield-based propagandist for Sudan’s RSF militia a day ago by Kaamil Ahmed
    Sudan, UK news, Darfur, Sheffield, TikTok, YouTube, X, Indigenous peoples, Social media, World news, Africa

    Abdalmonim Alrabea has appeared in hundreds of videos in which he expresses support for paramilitary group accused of committing genocide A British citizen based in Sheffield appeared in a TikTok live broadcast laughing along while a notorious fighter from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group boasted about participating in mass killings in the city of El Fasher. The video, broadcast on 27 October, is just one of hundreds posted to social media in which 44-year-old Abdalmonim Alrabea expresses support for the RSF and the ethnically targeted atrocities it has committed in Sudan’s western Darfur region. Continue reading...

  • Ethiopia confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus 3 days ago by AFP in Nairobi
    Ethiopia, Africa, World news, Tanzania

    Africa CDC says at least nine cases have been detected of Ebola-like illness, which kills up to 80% of those infected Ethiopia has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the south of the country, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said. The Marburg virus is one of the deadliest known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea and has a 21-day incubation period. Continue reading...


South China Morning Post

  • Google CEO warns no firm ‘immune’ if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom era fears an hour ago by Reuters,Agence France-Presse

    Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said no company would be unscathed if the artificial intelligence boom collapses, as soaring valuations and heavy investment in the sector fuel concerns of a bubble. Pichai said in an interview with the BBC published on Tuesday that the current wave of AI investment was an “extraordinary moment” but acknowledged “elements of irrationality” in the market, echoing warnings of “irrational exuberance” during the dotcom era. There has also been much debate among...

  • ‘We need stability’: China and Germany strive to reset trade ties in Beijing 3 hours ago by Carol Yang

    Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng and German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil tried to find common ground after a financial dialogue in Beijing on Monday, with both officials saying the two countries should strengthen ties and support open, rules-based global trade. Klingbeil’s trip marked the first visit to China by a German minister since the new coalition government took office earlier this year and came at a delicate time for Sino-German relations, with Berlin gripped by supply chain anxieties...

  • US national security focus throws a spanner in the workings of global trade 3 hours ago by Samuel Porteous

    Regardless of the outcome of the challenge to US President Donald Trump’s powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act now before the Supreme Court, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has made clear the administration will continue to use national security rationales to enact its disruptive trade measures. It was not always thus. Nations have always had national security interests. Major powers have always engaged in espionage targeting adversaries – even allies. But since the...

  • Why Trump won’t let Thailand keep tariff, border talks separate 6 hours ago by Maria Siow

    Thailand’s insistence that trade negotiations with the US can proceed separately from talks over a fractious border dispute with Cambodia has been met with deep scepticism given Washington’s increasing use of economic policy as a political instrument and US President Donald Trump’s personal stake in the ceasefire deal. Bangkok announced on Saturday that tariff talks with the United States would “remain separate from border issues”, a pledge government spokesman Siripong Angkasakulkiat said...

  • Ex-US Treasury chief stepping back from public roles over Epstein emails 7 hours ago by Reuters

    Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers said on Monday he will step back from all public commitments, days after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate his and other prominent Democrats’ ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers, a former president of Harvard University, where he is a professor, told the university’s student newspaper that the move was to allow him “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me”. The...


New York Times

  • Trump Bows to Reality on Epstein Files Vote, in a Rare Retreat 4 hours ago by Annie Karni and Tyler Pager
    United States Politics and Government, Law and Legislation, Polls and Public Opinion, Sex Crimes, Republican Party, House of Representatives, Justice Department, Epstein, Jeffrey E (1953- ), Johnson, Mike (1972- ), Massie, Thomas H, Thune, John R, Trump, Donald J, Senate

    Faced with a mass defection on a bill to demand the release of the Epstein files, the president rushed to avoid an embarrassing loss, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on the G.O.P.

  • Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails 7 hours ago by Vimal Patel
    Human Trafficking, Harvard University, Colleges and Universities, Epstein, Jeffrey E (1953- ), Summers, Lawrence H

    New emails showed that Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.

  • House Is Expected to Vote on Tuesday to Release Epstein Files 2 hours ago by Annie Karni
    House of Representatives, Epstein, Jeffrey E (1953- ), Boebert, Lauren

    Ahead of what was likely to be a unanimous House vote that Republican leaders had toiled to avoid, G.O.P. lawmakers embraced the Epstein transparency bill.

  • Trump Has the Power to Release the Epstein Files. Why Doesn’t He? 10 hours ago by Luke Broadwater
    United States Politics and Government, Sex Crimes, Child Abuse and Neglect, Republican Party, Justice Department, House of Representatives, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Bondi, Pamela J, Epstein, Jeffrey E (1953- ), Khanna, Ro, Massie, Thomas H, Trump, Donald J, Maxwell, Ghislaine

    The president has reversed himself and encouraged lawmakers to vote for compelling the Justice Department to turn over investigation documents, but he never really needed their approval.

  • Palestinian Voices Absent from U.S.-Run Center Planning Gaza’s Future 2 hours ago by Aaron Boxerman, Adam Rasgon, Natan Odenheimer and David M. Halbfinger
    Israel-Gaza War (2023- ), International Relations, Palestinians, Defense and Military Forces, Humanitarian Aid, Civil-Military Coordination Center (Kiryat Gat, Israel), Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Trump, Donald J, Netanyahu, Benjamin

    U.S. and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in central Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians.


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