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Ukrainian officials confirm the information about the signing of a memorandum on the so-called resource deal with the United States of America. In particular, the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko confirmed the information.novosti2 (Военное обозрение)
Despite widespread international condemnation, Israeli attacks in a single day struck tents, schools, and refugee camps across Gaza.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) — The military-civilian builders in the DPRK have attained the huge goal for the capital city construction, set forth by the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, year after year without fail, while upholding the WPK…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
The DRC is currently in talks with the US over a mineral deal, and the parties have recently agreed on a way forward for its development, according to the Congolese presidency.Sputnik Africa
NEW DELHI, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-two Naxalites were arrested in three different search operatien.people.cn
Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
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German officials say that operating the Taurus system effectively would require involvement from German military personnel, something Berlin is reluctant to authorizePavel Morozov (Pravda English)
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA) – "Iran considers Russia as a strategic partner. Iran-Russia ties are closer and stronger than ever," according to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Friday.Mehr News Agency
Defold: cross-platform game engine
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Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.Defold Foundation
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It has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the name of national security.Michel Chossudovsky
The Yemeni Armed Forces have launched 78 missile and drone attacks against Israel and US warships despite the intense western attacksthecradle.co
arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud
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US President Donald Trump, while speaking to reporters at the White House, said Washington and Beijing could reach agreements on trade within the next three or four weeks.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
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The SBU-organized Konstantinovka massacre is part of a pattern of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Kiev regime. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact…Strategic Culture Foundation
Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry
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Chris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Order—and the cybersecurity industry’s silence is enabling a dangerous precedent.Forbes
The International Class-oriented Trade Union Movement, the workers, and the militant unions all over the globe honor with struggles the 139th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886.WFTU (Labor Today)
From UE News | Photo Courtesy of ueunion.org | UE News Reuse Policy Twelve UE locals, representing over 30,000 graduate workers at both private and public universities, released a statement today urging colleges and universities to form a “Mutual Aca…S.M. Cifone ATU Member (Labor Today)
Blue Collar Empire joins several books in recent years to highlight the US’s staunch anti-communist stance on the world stage (The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins immediately comes to mind) and the various means by which it manipulated foreign union…M. Drezner IBEW Member (Labor Today)
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Columbia University refused to retract its statement calling pro-Palestine protests “intimidation.” Now, the Trump administration is using it against Mohsen Mahdawi.Meghnad Bose (Drop Site News)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China and Cambodia set a model for equality, mutual trust and win-win cooperation between countries of different sizes.en.qstheory.cn
Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Thursday that building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future is a choice of history and the people.en.qstheory.cn
I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
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Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.www.bugsink.com
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Thursday agreed to build an all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era, and designated 2025 the China-Cambodia Year of Tourism.en.qstheory.cn
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk is a witness and promoter of the China-Cambodia friendship.en.qstheory.cn
Author of a masterful study on the CIA and the cultural Cold War, British historian Frances Stonor Saunders provided a detailed account for The Independent of the CIA’s covert role in sponsoring Abstract Expressionist painting in the United States.Frances Stonor Saunders (Voltaire Network)
In a rare high-level meeting in Tehran, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman that Tehran and Riyadh can lead the region through unity and cooperation, urging deeper bilateral ties and a joint respon…Iran Press
ECB lowers interest rates by 25 basis points-english.news.cn
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On March 18, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed a 30-day mutual pause on strikes against energy infrastructureTASS
As detailed in his book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and the new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, Premiere magazine writer Tom O’Neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year invest…John Potash (CovertAction Magazine)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United States launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port in the western Hudaydah governorate, killing at least 38 people and injuring over 100, according to reports from regional media outlets.Tasnim News Agency
This brings the total number of soldiers deployed in the South to 6,000, while another 4,000 are in the process of being recruited, amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire.Al Mayadeen English (Lebanese army deploys 1,500 additional troops along southern border)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said that the Zionist war machine committed horrific massacres last night by targeting displaced persons' tents in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis and Gaza City, killing dozens, most of them wom…www.saba.ye
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), expressed concern over Israel's ban on international media eQNN Team (Quds News Network)
GOV.UK One Login system built by Government Digital Service faces claims of critical vulnerabilities since 2022 launch.Didi Rankovic (Reclaim the Net)
According to estimates, in January-March 2025 the GDP amounted to Br59.4 billion in current prices, up by 3.1% in comparable prices year-on-year.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that hostilities across the Gaza Strip continue to have devastating effects on civilians, including death, displacement, and destruction of critical infrastructure. UDAILY YEMEN
Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 40 martyrs and 73 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks.The Palestinian Information Center
What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
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Hi there! This is Oleg from Luden.io. We decided to have a deep and meaningful conversation about Lua programming language with Ivan Trusov, lead programmer of the video game Craftomation 101. It…Oleg Chumakov (Luden.io)
Biden’s 2024 airstrikes on Yemen displaced 531,000 people and hit civilian infrastructure months before Trump’s first strike. Few noticed.Robert Inlakesh (MintPress News)
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Provinces of China. It sounds straightforward enough, but this is China we are talking about. Nothing here is ever that simple. Sure, there are provinces, butGareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
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Palestine Legal has received an unprecedented surge in requests for legal support over the past year and a half, with an additional surge in requests since the start of this year.Danya Zituni (Palestine Legal)
The Venezuelan government has condemned the maneuvers initiated by the Guyanese government in partnership with ExxonMobil in the Stabroek block, located in areas without agreed maritime boundaries between Guyana and Venezuela.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
The attention that France is paying to tactical details like the local terrain near the Romanian-Moldovan-Ukrainian trijunction suggests that its talk about an intervention in Ukraine is more serious than some think.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
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Hanoi, Apr 17 (Prensa Latina) Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today expressed gratitude for receiving the torch accrediting Ethiopia as the host of the V Summit of the Alliance for Green Growth and Global Goals 2030 (P4G) in 2027.Ana Luisa Brown (Prensa Latina)
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On Wednesday, former presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution, Luisa Gonzalez, once again insisted on denouncing irregularities during the runoff ofteleSURenglish
I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
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And the results surprised meChris Dalla Riva (Can't Get Much Higher)
Europeans and Africans mutated after domesticating the lactating herbivore, it's been thought. And some East Asians got their gene from a species that didn't eat dairyRuth Schuster (Haaretz)
Alahednews - Fastnews - An “Israeli” drone strike targeted Umm al-Tut, South Lebanon.english.alahednews.news
In the lead-up to Saturday’s indirect talks with the U.S., mediated by Oman, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has launched a round of high-level diplomacy—meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, and Rus…David Shavin (EIR News)
White House innovation czar Michael Kratsios has mentioned technology able to “manipulate time and space”RT
ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser
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Witkoff met with Putin, creating a wave of discussions about new methods of Trump's foreign policy negotiations.Кристофер Блэк (New Eastern Outlook)
Last week, alternative video-sharing platform BitChute announced they would no longer allow UK-based users to view content on their site. The opening of their official statement makes the reason qu…OffGuardian
Tehran expects the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to remain neutral and professional in its approach to the indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington, says head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.PressTV
WASHINGTON, April 17 (YPA) - The US Treasury Department announced that the United States imposed new sanctions on the International Bank of Yemen on Thursday.International news agencies quoted the statement as saying that the United States also imposbasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
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The role that Turkey will play is of particular significance, both as a NATO member and as a regional power. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and…Strategic Culture Foundation
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Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers
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The successful IRS free tax filing program is being wound down, thanks in large part to Intuit’s copious spending in Washington.Daniel Boguslaw (The American Prospect)
The trade war initiated by US President Donald Trump could cost Germany 290 billion euros ($330 billion) by 2028, equivalent to an annual loss of 1.Sputnik International
Delegations from Russia and Pakistan, led by Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Pakistan's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arms Control and Disarmament, Tahir Andrabi, participated in the 15th meeting of the Bilateral Advisory...Sputnik India
The purpose would be to push through a ceasefire for lifting martial law, finally holding elections, and ultimately replacing Zelensky.Andrew KORYBKO (Oriental Review)
Majed Mohammed Al-Ansari, Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesman, spoke to RT to discuss diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine conflictOdysee
by Mike Whitney. There were no negotiations. What actually happened was more like a late-night comedy sketch than a meeting of diplomats negotiating a nuclear enrichment deal.Réseau International
Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness
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Circular breathwork induces altered states of consciousness similar to psychedelics, predicted by decreases in CO2 saturation. Acute physiological and psychological dynamics during breathwork in turn predict sustained mental health benefits.Nature
Finkelstein and Hedges assess the current state of the genocide in Palestine as well as how the media and the universities have all but abandoned their principles in servitude to the Zionist agenda.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Medical sources said at least 35 people have been killed in the Israeli regime’s attacks on Gaza since early on Wednesday, while more devastating strikes have been reported in the recent hours.Tasnim News Agency
Trump told Israel “No,” or at the very least “Not yet,” on plans for an attack against Iran, according to a report from the New York Times.Rachel Blevins
The Trump administration’s recent investigation of 60 schools for “antisemitic discrimination” appeared to target campus protests. But, a closer look shows it was driven by pro-Israel groups’ use of civil rights law to push a broad right-wing agenda.Amira Jarmakani (Mondoweiss)
Progressives' support for a multilateral world often ignores how much the emerging new world is similar to the old one, a point also missed by Jeffrey Sachs in speaking of a "new international order," writes Asoka Bandarage.Consortium News
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