Ukraine's 114th Territorial Defense Brigade mobile fire group downs a Shahed-136 drone using twin-mounted Soviet-era Maxim machine guns.

🇨🇳 China Creates Bureau to Oversee Overseas State Assets

China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) launched a new bureau on Wednesday to guide state-owned enterprises in their international operations. The bureau will also handle restructuring of overseas assets, risk prevention, and crisis management abroad.

State-owned firms account for 64.6 per cent of China's outward foreign direct investment stock, which reached US$174.38 billion in 2024, a 7.1 per cent increase year-on-year. Chinese investments in Venezuela's energy and mining sectors have faced uncertainty following the US seizure of former president Nicolas Maduro in January, while US Treasury general licences for transactions with Venezuela explicitly exclude Chinese firms.

The new bureau will be divided into four divisions covering international operations, risk prevention, supervision and governance, and crisis management. It will be led by Zhu Kai, previously director of SASAC's bureau of international cooperation. China's latest five-year plan for 2026–2030 also directs authorities to strengthen security reviews of overseas investments.

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@asianomics

“If we don’t punch them in the face, they’ll punch us”: President Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine will respond in kind to all Russian attacks.

The president said that only a reduction in attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector will lead to a decrease in attacks on Russia.

“We use our weapons. We defend ourselves. And if we don’t punch them in the face, they’ll beat us, and they won’t even take us into account. They won’t even understand what war is. And that’s why we need to respond to them,” the president said.

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Merz: I believe Trump himself did not assume that a country like Iran could be completely wiped out.

In my firm conviction, that would not have happened. It was part of his strategy in dealing with Iran.

We did not discuss any withdrawal of U.S. soldiers, nor any restriction on the use of military infrastructure maintained by the American armed forces in Germany.

There are stationing agreements in place, and the federal government has no reason to doubt that the American forces have acted within the framework of these agreements in recent weeks.

🇪🇺🇭🇺 European Commission demands urgent explanations from Hungary after leaked Szijjártó-Lavrov conversations

European Commission spokeswoman said that recordings of telephone conversations between the Hungarian and Russian foreign ministers raise “an alarming possibility that a member state is coordinating with Russia, thus actively working against the security and interests of the EU.”

She added that the Hungarian government must urgently explain the situation, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will also raise this issue at the leadership level.

Getting closer to seeing Israeli soldiers themselves the receiving ends of our FPVs

Власти Дагестана не смогут самостоятельно ликвидировать последствия паводка из-за масштабов стихии, считает глава МЧС РФ Александр Куренков

"Несомненно, масштабы стихии, а также собственные возможности региона не позволяют самостоятельно ликвидировать последствия чрезвычайной ситуации", - сказал Куренков на заседании правительственной комиссии в четверг.

Он отметил, что значительный ущерб был нанесен агропромышленному комплексу в регионе.

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From the leaked photos today

Major General Yousef Ahmed Al-Hunaiti, Commander of the Jordanian Army, presents gifts to former Israeli Army Commander Herzi Halevi after his bombing of Gaza and Lebanon.

Curse you, curse the Arabs and curse your fake Islam from Morocco to the Arab Gulf. From Africa to Indonesia

🇺🇦 Sumy, Starokostyantyniv, Kupyansk are hero cities - Zelensky presented honorary awards to communities holding out under Russian strikes

Also awarded:
• Donetsk region - Druzhkivka, Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk and Slovyansk;
• Zaporizhzhia region - Hulyaipole and Orikhiv;
• Kharkiv region - Kupyansk;
• Dnipropetrovsk region - Marhanets, Nikopol and Pavlohrad;
• Khmelnytskyi region - Starokostyantyniv;
• Sumy region - Trostyanets and Sumy.

Halevi the butcher of Gaza and Lebanon in Qatar

On 8 April 2026, Israeli airstrikes hit areas near the Belgian embassy in Beirut while Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot was present.

He described the day as “one of the bloodiest in recent times” for Lebanon.

Israel’s former military Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

علی، تو واقعا چهلمت رو تو کلیسای من گرفتی!؟😳

نصر الله

The greatest man the whole Shia community has witnessed in the past 100 years only after Imam Khomeini

A man that the community will suffer punishment by God for letting his blood be spilled without repercussions