Latvia will close the airspace near its borders with Belarus and Russia starting at 6:00 p.m. on September 11 and keep it closed until at least September 18, Defense Minister Andris Spruds said.

Practically all carmakers have been laying off people (and are investing in AI) of late. Legacy brands like Nissan, Chinese-owned Volvo (which cut 3,000 jobs back in the spring), Porsche have laid off thousands of employees. New players like China’s BYD has stumbled repeatedly, shelved a large plant over Trump’s tariff concerns, closed a Brazilian project amid allegations of “slavery-like” labor conditions, and failed to secure approval for a $1 billion India facility over New Dehli’s national security concerns.

Finland planning attack on Russia, claims former Russian president and Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev

A senior security official in Moscow has accused Finland of laying the ground for an attack on Russia by Nato, in comments that echo President Putin’s justifications for the invasion of Ukraine.

Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and prime minister who is now the deputy head of Russia’s national security council, issued his warning after a visit to Russia’s 830-mile border with Finland.

“After joining Nato, under the guise of defence measures, Helsinki is pursuing a confrontational course in preparation for war with Russia, apparently preparing a springboard for an attack on us,” Medvedev wrote in an article that was published by Tass, a Russian state news agency.

Finland planning attack on Russia, claims former Russian president and Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev

A senior security official in Moscow has accused Finland of laying the ground for an attack on Russia by Nato, in comments that echo President Putin’s justifications for the invasion of Ukraine.

Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and prime minister who is now the deputy head of Russia’s national security council, issued his warning after a visit to Russia’s 830-mile border with Finland.

“After joining Nato, under the guise of defence measures, Helsinki is pursuing a confrontational course in preparation for war with Russia, apparently preparing a springboard for an attack on us,” Medvedev wrote in an article that was published by Tass, a Russian state news agency.

And?

This is the original agency report with the same flaws. So what? The article contradicts itself, your paraphrased summary is misleading, it’s a clickbait headline.

Yes, and

… the number of gang-related shootings and murders decreased in 2024 and are on course to slow again in 2025.

OP’s paraphrased summary doesn’t reflect the real content.

Not that this isn’t a serious issue, but this is a clickbait title and an article that contradicts itself by a questionable source.

Several African organizations - like Somalia’s Nile Foundation (which is fighting youth unemployment in its country) or the “Friends of Russia in Madagascar” - are actively promoting the so-called Alabuga Start World, located in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone where the Iranian Shahed drones are assembled. The promotion has been mainly running on these organizations’ social media accounts like Facebook or Tiktok, portraying Russia as a career opportunity for young African women. But it’s unclear (to the best of my knowledge) whether the organizations know about the fact that these women are building Russia’s suicide drones (at lower pay and under worse conditions than advertised).

What we can say is that the drone factory has been attacked by Ukraine. Russia exploited these attacks for its own propaganda in Africa, portraying Ukraine and ‘the West’ as evil.

What claim? The Media Bias Fact Checking is only one source of information and you post the majority of article from a single source, and the vast majority of you 20 or so posts are form the Middle East Eye.

You’ll find information about this media outlet across the web, they even have a Wikipedia page. They don’t disclose their ownership and it’s unclear where the funding comes from.

The Media Bias Fact Checking is only one source. It does not mean they are always right, of course. You post almost all your articles from one source, and all convey the same narrative.

The ‘Middle East Eye’ is a very questionable news source (that is banned even in some Middle East countries) with obscure ownership and a very selective approach in its topics and content. It may not be wrong to post articles by them once in a while, but OP is posting almost exclusively form this highly biased source.

We’re speeding towards a new age of fascism in the western world.

There are several more than worrying trends in the “Western world”, but other countries are far ahead. Russia Is fascist, China turned to fascist rule, just to name two prominent examples.

In the areas of Ukraine that Russia has managed to occupy, Ukrainian children are now being being dragged off to the far reaches of Russia to be brainwashed, trained to die with the Russian army invading Europe: Video (3 min)

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Do you even recognize that you post the same comment no matter what the issue is? You are just repeating one and the same argument whatever one says.

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This is - among others - what is understood by propaganda and what I’d call an agenda: Repeat your own single argument, not matter what others have commented.

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You can criticize Israel’s genocide, but this article is about something else. OP picked and chose some details out of context to provide a desired narrative, a ‘method’ that is unfortunately widespread here.

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An important detail that others have already said is that the EU collaborates with a lot of non-EU and also with non-European countries. Here is a list of the EU’s Science and Technology Agreements with non-EU countries.

It has also been said that these countries must contribute financially for the projects they apply, another point that is important in this context that you didn’t mention.

What ‘stood out most’ to you and the way you represented it is a detail out of context that ends up in an article reflecting a completely distorted reality.

If you read the stats and you come up with such an (edited) title, it is clear that OP has an agenda. This is not about information or instigating a discussion because they are interesting in something, it’s just to spread someone’s propaganda.

Then it’s clearly off-topic, no? Just read the post.

This is about the Russian government’s surveillance of its citizens. It has nothing to do with EU nor the US.

Maybe it is just me but I feel this is a strange article. I came across a handful of ‘European correspondent’ articles and literally all of them -this one included- have no research, they seem to just citing secondary sources and link to similar reports. (And I feel also the headline a bit strange.) But maybe I am mistaken, I just don’t know what to do with this report.