Korea's military faces officer shortage amid record exodus - The Korea Times
According to data obtained from the Ministry of the National Defense by Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), the number of voluntary resignations among officers and noncommissioned officers with 10 to 20 years of service reached an all-time high last year.A total of 1,821 personnel in that category left the military in 2024, up from 960 in 2021. As of the end of September this year, 1,327 had already filed for voluntary discharge.
The number of officers taking leave has also increased sharply, from 2,252 in 2021 to 3,412 last year, with this year’s figure already at 3,401.
Korea's military faces officer shortage amid record exodus
South Korea’s military is confronting a deepening personnel crisis as record numbers of mid-ranking officers — the backbone of its command structur...Bahk Eun-ji (The Korea Times)
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Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics“Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday, as new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics, endangering mi…UN News
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So super ebola is gonna come from the US.
American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Including Beatings and ‘Threats of Rape’
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with “extreme brutality” on Monday, including beatings and “threats of rape,” after being taken by Israeli forces from international waters while aboard the Conscience Freedom Flotilla.
In a video statement published to social media, Schnall – a Los Angeles-born photojournalist who had been reporting from the flotilla for Drop Site News – recalled the “extreme brutality” she allegedly experienced during her captivity.
“Any flotilla member who upset the Israeli guards was subjected to twisted and tightened handcuffs and some received beatings,” she said. “I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways.”
The journalist continued, “Many comrades, understandably, do not want their identity made public when recounting this treatment. During the evening, the men were tormented by guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened with pepper spray. Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”
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Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with "extreme brutality," including beatings and "threats of rape."Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
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Israeli captives felt like they were going to get raped because their guard stared at them for a few seconds.
Palestinian captives should not feel like they were going to get raped because their guards yell at them that they are going to rape them.
American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Including Beatings and ‘Threats of Rape’
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with “extreme brutality” on Monday, including beatings and “threats of rape,” after being taken by Israeli forces from international waters while aboard the Conscience Freedom Flotilla.
In a video statement published to social media, Schnall – a Los Angeles-born photojournalist who had been reporting from the flotilla for Drop Site News – recalled the “extreme brutality” she allegedly experienced during her captivity.
“Any flotilla member who upset the Israeli guards was subjected to twisted and tightened handcuffs and some received beatings,” she said. “I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways.”
The journalist continued, “Many comrades, understandably, do not want their identity made public when recounting this treatment. During the evening, the men were tormented by guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened with pepper spray. Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”
American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Inclu ...
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with "extreme brutality," including beatings and "threats of rape."Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
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Venezuela's Maduro calls Nobel Peace laureate Machado a 'demonic witch'
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Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows [Jack Poulson and Wyatt Reed | October 13, 2025]
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37318212
The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighborhood. Known as ‘Site 81,’ the U.S.-built facility houses a hyper-secretive intelligence base.When Iran struck a series of targets in the heart of north Tel Aviv with ballistic missiles on June 13, Israeli authorities immediately cordoned off the area to prevent journalists from filming the damage. “The building on this compound was just hit,” Trey Yingst of Fox News reported as he arrived that evening at the site of HaKirya, Israel’s Defense Ministry headquarters, and the nearby Azrieli Center. But within seconds, Israeli police officers arrived to aggressively shunt Yingst away from where he was standing, just north of the HaKirya Bridge on the west side of Menachem Begin Road.
That day, Iranian missiles struck the north tower of the Da Vinci apartment complex roughly 550 meters southwest of Yingst’s location. The Grayzone has determined that the building sits immediately south of the “Canarit” / “Kannarit” Israeli Air Force towers and above an underground military intelligence bunker jointly administered by the US and Israeli militaries. According to an analysis of leaked emails, public documents, and Israeli news reports, the location is host to a highly secretive, electromagnetically shielded intelligence facility known as “Site 81.”
Israel aggressively censors information relating to its urban military and intelligence facilities while simultaneously accusing its adversaries of engaging in ‘human shielding’ – a practice of protecting military targets with civilian populations that is prohibited by international humanitarian law. While the existence of a U.S. Army project to expand Site 81 to a 6,000 square-meter facility was widely reported from government records circa 2013, the specific location remained unknown...
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How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon
For the early Zionists, settling Palestine meant settling the largest possible territory that vaguely overlapped with their biblical vision of the holy land.
Maps presented by the World Zionist Organization to the Paris Conference clearly show that Zionists sought to include in their territory southern Lebanon, including the Litani River and up to the coastal city of Saida - an estimated 60km from the current border.
Zionists, like all European settlers, were also keen to secure the most fertile land and fresh water sources. Eastern boundaries of the proposed map included large swathes of Syrian and Jordanian territory that fully engulfed Lake Tiberias and the Jordan River. French counter-proposals forced the Zionists to confine their activities after WWI to what is now referred to as historic Palestine.
Initial ambitions to colonise southern Lebanon were shelved but never extinguished. During this latest war, Michael Freund, who previously served as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deputy communications director, claimed that “historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel”. He cited the Book of Joshua as mentioning “Sidon explicitly as being promised to the Jewish people”. Freund also listed several shrines in the south as Jewish and evidence of the right to the land.
The invocation of religious sites as justification for colonial conquest is an old and debunked Zionist trope. Freund was not alone in reviving it. One of Israel’s pseudo-archaeologists, Zeev Erlich, was embedded in the Israeli army during the recent invasion of Lebanon. Israeli troops burned and destroyed parts of the shrine. Before withdrawing, they demolished the surrounding historic buildings of the village’s old quarter, the very place they claimed as theirs.
How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon
Domestic haggling over the disarmament of Hezbollah is overshadowing the long-term and regional dimensions of Israel's warMiddle East Eye
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Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan opposition, led by former presidential candidate María Corina Machado, the far-right extremist who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, used the UN General Assembly (UNGA) as a lobbying platform, courting the Trump administration and sympathetic foreign governments to support a coup to depose President Nicolás Maduro. She has been part of multiple calls for US interventions in Venezuela, including to, in her words, secure the “total asphyxiation of the Venezuelan economy.”
The opposition organized demonstrations in front of the Secretariat Building to denounce Maduro and call for the world to intervene. Pedro de Mendonça, Press Director for Machado’s campaign, hosted a protest saying, “Maduro is not the legitimate president of Venezuela, but the head of the Cartel of the Suns and the Tren de Aragua.” Mendonça called for “a free Venezuela and a secure West” through an “international coalition.” This is as direct a call for intervention as you could get. Machado retweeted it.
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup | naked capitalism
The so-called opposition, with a much-needed rebranding assist from the Nobel Committee, proposes total economic surrender to US oligarchic interests.Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism)
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Ceasefire Sparks Fresh Calls for Global Media Access to Gaza
Ceasefire Sparks Fresh Calls for Global Media Access to Gaza
Press groups are also demanding justice for the more than 200 journalists slaughtered in Palestinian territory over the past two years.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
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Katie Porter's meltdown proves candidates can't be shamed into quitting anymore
Katie Porter’s video meltdowns won’t make her quit her California governor campaign
In the digital era, candidates have no incentive to drop out; given the ocean of information, any attention is now good attention.Christian Schneider (MSNBC)
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What ever happened to Nicole the fediverse chick?
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UK arms received by Israel reach record high value in 2025
Last week, FactCheck revealed that Israel imported over £400,000 worth of arms from UK companies in June 2025 – the highest monthly amount since these records began in January 2022.
The exact nature of the items wasn’t specified in the data, but they were listed under a category that includes bombs, grenades, torpedoes, missiles, and ammunition.
And we can now exclusively reveal that September was the second highest value month on record, with over £310,000 worth of UK munitions under this same category arriving in Israel.
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Israel dismissed the Commission’s report as “distorted and false” and said the expert panel were acting as “Hamas proxies”.
The UK government told us it does not “export bombs or ammunition for IDF use in military operations in Gaza or the West Bank”.
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Aaand this is why UK has been so adamant to quell protests against Israel’s genocidal actions: money
Enjoy the MMOG of capitalism, where only a few griefers using exploits get to win.
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
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Here in South Australia we are starting to see the effects and it's pretty chilling.
The algae bloom affecting many of our suburban beaches (which is most of Adelaide) and a lot of country ones are seeing huge numbers of dead marine life being washed up.
Anything from leafy sea dragons to fish, stingrays, and sharks. The foam created on some days covers whole sections of beach.
While apparently it's safe, there are warnings that you may experience breathing issues and rashes so your supposed to bring your inhaler and rinse off after you have been in. On windy days it can affect you even if your walking close to the beach.
As we head into summer the damage to local seaford providers (the seafood is fine to consume but people are wary) and cafe owners will be huge and is already starting to take effect.
Because our beaches are so close, people would go down after work for a dip or have a drink at the suburban pubs and cafes.
abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/sa-…
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jessica Haynes (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
From the Abstract:
"Our analysis reveals three critical success factors: (1) higher carbon prices per capita are essential for carbon reduction, (2) the necessity of penalties on carbon price per capita from EUR 20–EUR 100, and (3) expanded market coverage maximizes impact. To address global disparities, we propose a Uniform Carbon Pricing Mechanism under the Global Carbon Resilience Framework (GCRF), based on carbon price per capita tiered pricing: EUR 100/t (developed), EUR 30–50 (developing), and EUR 5–15 (least-developed countries). This balanced system supports vulnerable regions while cutting emissions, proving that fair carbon pricing is crucial for climate goals and economic stability."
Those points look sane, to me.
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Forty-two killed as bus crashes on South Africa mountain pass
N1 crash: Forty-two Zimbabweans and Malawians killed after bus veers off road in South Africa
The dead were nationals of Zimbabwe and Malawi returning home, officials say.Khanyisile Ngcobo (BBC News)
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India and Canada reset ties after strain of Sikh leader's murder
Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties
Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.Neyaz Farooquee (BBC News)
German club condemns fan behaviour after tourists attacked
Dublin: FC Schalke 04 fans' behaviour condemned after tourists attacked
The incident on Abbey Street was said to have happened on Saturday, as supporters marched through the city centre.Mike McBride (BBC News)
Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan tells BBC
Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan says
In an exclusive interview with BBC Panorama, the king says a two-state solution is the only answer.Fergal Keane (BBC News)
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At least 27 people killed in fierce clashes between Hamas and clan members
Gaza City clashes between Hamas and clan members leave 27 dead
At least 27 people have been killed in one of the most violent internal confrontations since Israeli troops withdrew.Rushdi Abualouf (BBC News)
Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary electionsJon Henley (The Guardian)
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Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say
Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say
Overflowing rivers swept through entire villages, triggered landslides and swept away roads and bridgesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Trump’s stance on Gaza shifted after Israel’s attack on Qatar — a close ally where he and his family have key business deals.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
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Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist"
Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist" - LGBTQ Nation
The politicians held signs that said "genocide" and "recognize Palestine" while Trump spoke.Daniel Villarreal (LGBTQ Nation)
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Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50903066
Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables
Carmakers accused in huge UK lawsuits of cheating diesel emissions tests
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50902884
Owners of diesel vehicles made by Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Nissan, Renault and the Stellantis-owned brands Peugeot and Citroen between 2012 and 2017 allege the companies cheated emissions tests.The manufacturers are accused of using unlawful "defeat devices", which detected when vehicles were being tested and ensured nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions were kept within legal limits under test conditions.
Powering the deadly EV boom: 30,000 Chinese migrant workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44006161
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Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry, which has sprung up in the last decade. Just as critical minerals crisscross the globe before they’re incorporated into cutting-edge products, so too do some of the people who make the world’s green dreams a reality.
[According] to more than a dozen of these Chinese workers and their family members, as well as Indonesian labor leaders who have negotiated factory conditions with top Chinese executives [it was found] that, even following fatal accidents at the smelters, efforts to improve working conditions have been slow, hindered by a lack of oversight from companies, governments, and international labor groups that were dependent on U.S. funding terminated by the Trump administration. We also obtained an internal company review of a nickel smelter expansion that shows facilities are likely spreading pollution and illness well beyond factory walls. Despite the challenges, new nickel processing plants continue to emerge in Indonesia and hire from China.
Before joining Indonesia’s nickel rush, most of these Chinese men had spent almost all their lives in their home country, working in declining steel factories. [...] they had never before owned a passport or boarded a flight. Their leap into the nickel refining industry has helped create entire towns on remote islands in Indonesia, and it’s made them an unlikely backbone of the world’s green energy transition.
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Nickel is a crucial component of EV batteries and energy storage systems. More nickel in an EV battery pack means longer mileage and improved performance from a single charge.
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Indonesian workers, the Chinese companies that run the nickel factories, and international labor and environmental organizations have been attempting to improve working and living conditions. But the few changes that have taken place have come slowly. And such efforts have been hamstrung by the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which terminated almost all international grants from the U.S. Department of Labor. Those grants funded various initiatives to improve labor rights, occupational safety, and health, including in Indonesia.
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“Tsingshan [Holding Group, a Chinese metal and stainless steel giant Tsingshan that was among the first companies to set up production in Indonesia in the early 2010s] started to snatch up economically strained factory workers nonstop in droves,” said Jiahui Zeng, an anthropologist studying eastern Indonesia’s nickel belt at Tsinghua University in China. “For Chinese nickel workers, migration is pushed by family pressure, such as buying an apartment in a better school district for their children or preparing for a son’s marriage.” But these pressures make Chinese workers extremely vulnerable.
“Terrified of losing their income, they are reluctant to organize and wary of speaking out in Indonesia,” she added.
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[Chinese migrant worker] Wong recalled the instructor telling them there were more than 40 accidents in the industrial parks [in Indonesia] each year that resulted in severe injuries and even deaths. [...] “I didn’t understand much at the time,” said Wong.
But before long, Wong had two close calls of his own. First, he burned the back of his right hand when metallic liquid from the furnace splashed at the exit of the waste tunnel as he was walking past. And one night after heavy rain, soon after he clocked out and left the furnace, Wong stepped on what he thought was a puddle, only to find out that it was a neck-deep pond. Not knowing how to swim, he was only able to save himself by grabbing a nearby pole and pulling himself out of the water.
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Some workers he knew weren’t so lucky. An Indonesian colleague suffered severe injuries to his fingers after disregarding safety protocols to manually fix a glitch in the pouring chain. Another Chinese worker walked onto the top of an electric furnace in wet working boots and was instantly electrocuted into unconsciousness.
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[A] review showed workers at the nickel-processing facilities, as well as residents nearby, were increasingly seeking care for respiratory diseases like tuberculosis, acute pharyngitis, and acute rhinitis. Despite the industrial park being operated by multibillion-dollar corporations, the villages surrounding it still lacked wastewater drainage systems and access to clean water. In six villages outside the complex, a quarter of the residents live less than 30 feet from polluted water sources, and 41% of the residents have symptoms of dry cough.
In 12 nearby villages, the number of children with signs of stunted growth due to malnutrition and gastrointestinal infections increased by 50% in two years. “Officials and agencies know about all this,” an environmental consultant and author of part of the report, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution at work, told Grist. Hardly any of the health and environmental risks were present before the construction of the Morowali Industrial Park [in Indonesia] they said.
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Yet as eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry grows, Chinese migrant workers still don’t have a seat at the table in discussions about their careers and safety.
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Chinese migrant workers drive Indonesia’s nickel industry for EVs - Rest of World
Over 30,000 Chinese workers travel to Indonesia’s remote islands to work in nickel smelters, fueling the global EV transition while facing dangerous conditions.Kate Bubacz (Rest of World)
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I guess if it looks like something commissioned by the oil industry, people assume it is. The headline looks like something a bot would link me to try to convince me how "an electric car is the same as an f150 in the end".
Mining nickel looks like it sucks and there's some real consequences to it, but I feel like I'm hearing about it for an other reason.
Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.
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It’s back! The 2027 Chevy Bolt gets an all-new LFP battery, but what else?
255 miles of range, new infotainment, but where did all the torque go?Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns
cross-posted from: lemmings.world/post/35384425
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Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns
"We can’t simply wait and assume that a potential Russian attack won't come before 2029," German intelligence chief Martin Jaeger said. "We’re already under fire today."Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
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Germans say Russia plans to invade any day, likely tomorrow.
uh huh, Germany to annex poland when?
lots of fucking cretins in this thread smdh
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Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50900195
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Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.
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Worked for a chinese company and here to tell you- that is their approach, always has been.
Wouldn't be surprised if everything the "western execs" saw was a charade put on especially for them that falls apart as easily as Elon's cybertrucks on closer inspection. Don't believe everything you see at an expo or read in The Telegraph.
India and Canada reset ties after strain of Sikh leader's murder
Relations hit rock bottom in 2023 when Canada's then PM Justin Trudeau accused India of being linked to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claims Delhi denied. Both countries suspended visa services and expelled each other's top diplomats.After the meeting of their foreign ministers in Delhi, the two sides announced a series of measures, including starting ministerial-level discussions on bilateral trade and investment.
"Reviving this partnership will not only create opportunities for enhanced economic cooperation but also help mitigate vulnerabilities arising from shifting global alliances," a joint statement said.
Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties
Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.Neyaz Farooquee (BBC News)
China's exports to US drop in September, while rise in global shipments hits a 6-month high
China’s exports to the United States fell 27% in September from the year before, even though growth in its global exports hit a six-month high.Shipments to Southeast Asia grew 15.6% year-on-year in September. Exports to Latin America and Africa were up 15% and 56%, respectively.
https://apnews.com/article/china-trade-trump-tariffs-exports-4d65b77167ed9193244942923f0eef8d
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Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech
Trump’s speech at Israel’s Knesset, its parliament, was briefly interrupted by lawmakers who were expelled from the plenum after shouting slogans during Trump’s remarks.
The Jerusalem Post identified those protesting as Aymen Odeh, an Arab Israeli and member of the Hadash alliance and Ofer Cassif, a far-left politician who is also a member of the Hadash coalition.
Odeh held up a sign that said “Recognize Palestine,” when he was ejected from the room. He later said in a social media post on X that he is calling for recognition of a Palestinian state as “the simplest demand, a demand that the entire international community agrees on… There are two peoples here, and neither is going anywhere.,” the post read in Hebrew, and that was translated by Grok on X.
Cassif also posted on X that their protest was “to demand justice,” accusing the Israeli government of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech
President Trump’s speech at Israel’s Knesset, its parliament, was briefly interrupted by lawmakers who were expelled from the plenum after shouting slogans during Trump’s remarks.Laura Kelly (The Hill)
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Apparently being anti-genocidal and want to recognize the shit ~~ tgg he stay ~~ that is still going
on… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: my far scarred fingers cannot type and autocorrect saves a bunch of my fuck ups haha thanks @yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de! For catching that friend 🫡
Japan wraps up unexpectedly successful World Expo
Japan wraps up unexpectedly successful World Expo
It had feared scant media and public interest would make the expo a flop. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs
Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause
One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery companies, Krone, has been forced to pause exports of large equipment to the US because of “alarming” and little-known new tariffs that are hitting hundreds of products from knitting needles and hair dryers to combine harvesters.
Among the products on the steel derivatives list drawn up in consultation with US manufacturers, Donald Trump is taxing 407 specific products ranging from tiny embroidery stilettos to cooker hoods, barbecues, fridges, freezers, dishwashers, hair curling tongs, grills, elevators, bridge and railway structures, agriculture equipment and wind turbines.
It has meant that since 18 August, companies such as Krone and the construction company Liebherr in Germany have to provide an unprecedented level of detail to customs border authorities certifying the origin, weight and value of any steel in their products right down to nuts and bolts.
Asked what his US customers were saying, he said: “Many of them are surprised. When they saw Mr Trump talk about tariffs, they got the impression that the foreign companies are paying these tariffs, but what they now figure out is that it is the customer who pays.
Dutch government seizes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
BRUSSELS — The Dutch government has granted itself the power to intervene in company decisions at Dutch-based Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia.
The highly unusual step, announced late Sunday, grants the country the power to “halt and reverse” company decisions — meaning Nexperia cannot transfer assets or hire executives without Dutch government approval, according to national media.
The move is a significant escalation in relations between the Netherlands and China and could inflame wider trade tensions between Beijing and the European Union, with Europe caught in the middle of a tit-for-tat chips war between the U.S. and China.
Dutch government seizes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
The move could inflame wider trade tensions between Beijing and the European Union.Pieter Haeck (POLITICO)
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Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting
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If you are familiar with Azure there is the project PandaCap by @lizard_socks@lemmy.world which is a self-hosted reader for activity-pub, ATProtocol, RSS/Atom and integrated with DeviantArt and other art sites.
ASP.NET Core Identity is backed by an in-memory database (since 11.1.0); the only allowed login method is via Microsoft account, but DeviantArt and Reddit accounts can be added in user management (which will connect these accounts to Pandacap's main database).
Does this literally mean I need a Microsoft account to run this on my own machine, or is that only for deploying on Azure?
I see, thanks for the explanation!
I've been working on a frontend/browser client for "exploring" activitypub instances in my spare time, and CORS basically requires me to have some sort of separate server process that can fetch and auth using my account(s). I'm unsure of how much sense it would make to try to bolt my client on top of your software, but at least now I know I can try without needing to involve a Microsoft account.
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