"Epstein Class" Sen. Ossoff Slams US Government as Elite Rule

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Keir Starmer’s Director of Communications, Tim Allan, has resigned after five months, a day after the PM lost his Chief of Staff.

Senator Jon Ossoff:

You're seeing what I'm seeing, right?

The President posting about the Obamas like a Klansman.

Scholz: Germany Needs Strategic Missiles, Not Nuclear Arms

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

AI reduces the cost of intelligence, creating abundance by orders of magnitude. What used to take a year can now take a day, an hour, or be done in real time.

Moore’s law was slow — now progress is a million times every 10 years. Engineers now say, “why don’t we just train an AI model on all of the world’s data?”

The definition of abundance is you look at a problem so big and you say, 'you know what? I'll do it all.'

I'm going to cure every field of disease. I'm not going to just do cancer, are you kidding me? That's insane. We'll just do all of human suffering.

UK PM Keir Starmer told staff to “go forward with confidence” after losing two senior aides amid fallout over Epstein-linked controversy.

“We must prove that politics can be a force for good… We go forward from here.”

Taiwan’s Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun rejected U.S. calls to shift 40% of Taiwan’s chipmaking to the US, saying it is “impossible.”

She said the island’s semiconductor ecosystem “cannot simply be relocated.”

India and France are close to a ~€300m deal for 100–150 SCALP cruise missiles for the Indian Air Force, after their combat use by Rafale jets against Pakistan.

Source: ANI

Polish Lt. Gen. Piotr Blazeusz says Poland is actively planning for scenarios where the U.S. does not come to help:

You always need a main plan and branch plans.

You don’t discuss the details, but you always have different plans shelved.

Facing its worst labor shortage in decades, Russia is turning beyond Central Asia to South and East Asia, especially India, to fill millions of jobs.

Moscow says it needs 11 million more workers by 2030, has eased migration rules, and issued 56,000 work permits to Indians last year, up from about 5,000 in 2021.

Source: Bloomberg

U.S. military forces carried out a routine boarding of the Aquila II in the Indian Ocean without incident, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán:

I remember that in 1999 the then President of the United States, President Clinton, called me and asked me to open a second front and to attack the Serbs from Hungarian territory, firing through Vojvodina all the way to Belgrade.

The fact that you did not end up in a war at that time required that the Hungarian government of the day say no to a direct request from the American President.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s Australia visit on Monday drew thousands of protesters in Sydney and nationwide, as activists challenged restrictions, calling for the arrest of Herzog for Israeli Genocide in Gaza.

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Europe urgently needs to cut reliance on US payment giants like Visa and Mastercard, amid fears their dominance could be weaponised if transatlantic ties worsen.

The head of the European Payments Initiative said Europe lacks a cross-border alternative and warned:

“We are highly dependent… we need action urgently.”

Source: FT

Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar calls for Keir Starmer to resign.

Downing Street:

Keir Starmer has a clear five-year mandate from the British people to deliver change, and that is what he will do.

Chinese Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Sentenced to 20 Years

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Reporter: Should Türkiye have nuclear weapons?

Turkish FM Fidan: ...

Reporter: You can say “No comment.”

Turkish FM Fidan: ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

In the previous 12-day war, one night we received a phone call from Marco Rubio.

He said, “Tell the Iranians. Anything could happen in the next few hours.”