The Kyiv Independent’s Natalia Yermak speaks to James Rubin, a former diplomat who led the Global Engagement Center in 2022-2024, about how deeply the Russian propaganda influences U.S. politics and why the center’s closure “disarms” the country in the information war.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Amnesty International criticized Indonesia’s government Tuesday, saying it suppresses free speech with crackdowns on public protests, targets journalists and rights activists and uses spyware against dissidents.
The French Joint Defense Staff has shared details on how French military instructors are training Ukrainian troops at a military training base in western Poland as part of the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine).
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to soften the impact of his automotive tariffs, the White House said.
Spanish PM says ‘no hypothesis being ruled out’, after energy providers concluded cyber-attack was not to blameSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has vowed to “get to the bottom” of the unprecedented power cut that hit the Iberian peninsula on Monday, as energy operators in Spain and Portugal ruled out the possibility of a cyber-attack.The blackout, which plunged cities into darkness and left tens of thousands of travellers trapped on trains, is thought to have led to the deaths of at least five people in Spain. A family of three died from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning after using a generator in the north-west of the country, while a woman died in Valencia after her oxygen machine failed. Another woman died in Madrid in a fire started by a candle. Continue reading…
Do you like sleeping, eating and scrolling? Me too. What if I told you this was also a way to protest capitalism?Somewhere in Zhejiang province, China, a woman is living my dream. She gets up in the morning and then, almost immediately, goes back to bed. She lies prostrate all day long, scrolling, eating some food, opening some packages, showering at 2am, then snoozing again. As a longtime sleep enthusiast – and the mother of a child who thinks that 5am is a good time to start the day, all systems go – I think this sounds like bliss.The woman in Zhejiang is known as @jiawensishi – and also “rat person”. I am not being rude; that’s what she calls herself. There are lots of rat people out there: it’s a whole trend in China. You might have heard of the “lying flat” movement a few years ago, when young people lazed around displaying symptoms of mild depression, and some thinkers, including the novelist Liao Zenghu, theorised that it was a passive-aggressive resistance movement, rebelling against the demands of materialism and capitalism. Well, “rat people” are a rodenty reboot. Continue reading…
BERLIN (AP) — A man who worked for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been charged with spying for China for more than four years, authorities said Tuesday.
Russian forces persist in efforts to establish a buffer zone in the Sumy region, targeting civilian infrastructure in resettled villages.
The body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, was returned to Ukraine without several internal organs and was listed in official documents as an “unidentified man.”
“Russia could stop the killing and the bombing at any time, so there’s absolutely no need to wait until the 8th of May,” European Commission spokesperson Anita Hipper said.
