🇮🇹⚰️❗️ — 📰 Columbus Informazione, quoting Corriere della Sera: Silvio Berlusconi is Dead.

He died at the age of 86 at the San Raffaele in Milan.

https://t.me/columbusinformazione/21069

🇭🇺✡️💸📃 — 📰 Reuters: Billionaire George Soros hands control of empire to son Alex

— "Billionaire financier George Soros is handing control of his massive empire to his son Alexander, a Soros spokesperson said on Sunday.

The spokesperson confirmed the details from an interview with Soros published in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.

A hedge fund manager turned philanthropist and major backer of liberal causes, Soros, 92, said he previously didn't want his Open Society Foundations (OSF) to be taken over by one of his five children.

But speaking of his decision to turn over the foundation and the rest of his $25 billion empire to his 37-year-old son, who goes by Alex, the elder Soros said: "He's earned it."

Also interviewed by the newspaper, Alex said he's "more political" than his father and that he plans to continue donating family money to left-leaning U.S. political candidates."

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https://archive.is/vE87A

🇺🇸📞🇨🇳 — 📰 Reuters (June 9, 2023): Blinken to be in Beijing for talks on June 18
— " U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week for long-delayed talks aimed at stabilizing tense relations, and a U.S. official said he is expected to be there on June 18.

Reuters reported on Wednesday that Blinken would travel to China in the coming weeks, citing an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

An official on Friday said Blinken would be in Beijing on June 18, but gave no other details."

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https://archive.is/76sZS

🇰🇷❌🕵️‍♂️ — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: 77 industrial spies nabbed in 3-month crackdown: police
— "A total of 77 people have been arrested in connection with 35 industrial espionage cases during an intensive crackdown, police said Sunday.

The National Police Agency (NPA) conducted the crackdown on industrial espionage activities from Feb. 1 to May 31.
Out of the 77 arrests, 27 cases involved corporate espionage within local companies, while eight cases were related to the leaking of technology secrets abroad, including China, according to the NPA.

Comparatively, last year's intensive crackdown only reported one instance of overseas technology leak.

One of the suspects apprehended was a South Korean national working for a Chinese corporate entity affiliated with a local company, the NPA said. The suspect was arrested for leaking confidential business information while transitioning to a Chinese firm."

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https://archive.is/eTu7L

🇰🇵🤝🇷🇺 — 📰 Yonhap News Agency: North Korean leader vows stronger strategic ties with Russia in message to Putin
— "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has voiced his willingness to build closer strategic ties with Russia in his congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow's key national holiday, state media said Monday.

In the message sent on the occasion of Russia Day, Kim said friendly relations between the North and Russia are a "precious strategic asset" and his country will make efforts to ceaselessly develop such cooperative ties, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Russia Day is celebrated on June 12 to mark the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1990."

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https://archive.is/cICmH

🌐🪖📃 — 🌐 NATO: Germany Kicks off the largest multinational air force deployment in NATO history
— "German-led multinational exercise Air Defender 23 is the largest air force deployment in NATO's history. From June 12-23, the goal is to exercise air operations with Allied and Partner air forces. The focus is on optimizing and expanding cooperation among participating nations.

“With exercise Air Defender 23, we are opening a new chapter in transatlantic history,” said Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz, Chief of the German Air Force at a press conference for German and American journalists in the United States in early April.

The exercise - which Germany started to plan in 2018 - is based on a collective defence scenario also known as Article 5 scenario in which Allies deploy their air forces to Germany to fight against hybrid occupation forces from a fictitious opponent.

In coordinated combined operations, the Allied air forces demonstrate they are capable of defending NATO territory with swift decisive action. The exercise's large scale operations involve almost 10,000 personnel and more than 250 aircraft from 25 nations and NATO."

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https://archive.is/P9vsF

🇺🇸🇹🇼✈️📃 — 📰 The Messenger: The US Is Preparing Evacuation Plans for American Citizens in Taiwan
— "The U.S. government is preparing evacuation plans for American citizens living in Taiwan, three sources told The Messenger.

The planning has been underway for at least six months and “it’s heated up over the past two months or so,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the planning.

The official said a “heightened level of tension” had driven the preparations. “It’s nothing you wouldn’t read in the news,” he told The Messenger. “Forces building up. China aligning with Russia on Ukraine.”"

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https://archive.is/jIYSl

🇺🇳❌🤖 — 🇺🇳 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: I call on experts to take action and declare artificial intelligence an existential threat to humanity that is no less than the threat of nuclear war

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: We hope that Ukraine's counterattack will succeed in forcing Putin to negotiate