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Beijing will grant exemptions to its licensing requirements provided that purchasers promise to use the chips only for civilian purposes, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
Iran’s energy minister has warned that authorities may reduce water pressure to zero during some nights in Tehran as the city faces a worsening water crisis. President Masoud Pezeshkian says dam reservoirs supplying the capital have dropped to their lowest levels in 60 years, with some holding less than 10% capacity. Tehran, home to over nine million people, is enduring its sixth consecutive year of drought, threatening both drinking water supplies and hydroelectric power generation.
Published on 08/11/2025 – 8:29 GMT+1 •Updated 8:32 US Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for one year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continues into its 38th day. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made the offer to reopen the government on Friday as Republicans have refused to negotiate on demands to extend health care subsidies. It was a much narrowed version of a broad proposal Democrats laid out a month ago to make the health tax credits permanent and…
“This purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100 percent fake news,” Leavitt told the newspaper. U.K. taxpayers are being “forced to foot the bill for a Leftist propaganda machine,” Leavitt said. In response, a spokesperson for the BBC told media outlets that the broadcaster’s editorial guidelines and standards committee explicitly considered differing views and opinions of its coverage. “While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully,” the spokesperson said.
Drone footage shows the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, now at the center of fighting in the Donetsk region. Some areas display damaged buildings from ongoing clashes. Russia says its forces have surrounded Pokrovsk and thwarted a Ukrainian operation to reopen logistics lines into the city. Ukraine denies there’s a blockade, describing the fighting as ongoing, with its forces inflicting heavy Russian losses. The city has become a focal point as Russian and Ukrainian forces battle for control of key positions along the eastern front, part of a months-long struggle shaping the war’s next phase. Pokrovsk, which had a prewar…
Transition troubles Technically, securing exemptions or appointing a state-backed manager to the refineries shouldn’t be an issue. That said, the worst-case scenario — where the refineries cease operations — would play out very differently for the two countries. For Bulgaria, where the Russian-owned refinery provides up to 80 percent of the country’s fuel needs, it would leave Sofia without supplies “by the end of the year,” said Martin Vladimirov, a senior analyst at the Center for the Study of Democracy think tank. Washington’s decision to blacklist Lukoil and Rosneft has sent EU countries where Russia’s two largest oil companies are…
Published on 08/11/2025 – 12:19 GMT+1 A Russian drone struck a tower block in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro overnight into Saturday, killing two women and leaving a dozen people injured, according to Ukrainian authorities. A fire broke out and several apartments were destroyed in the nine-story building in Dnipro, emergency services said. Emergency responders say they recovered the bodies of two women and added that two children were among those injured. The attack on Ukraine’s fourth-largest city was part of a large Russian missile and drone incursion across the country that targeted energy infrastructure. The Kremlin fired a…
“We were informed by China that they will enable the resumption of supplies from Chinese factories from Nexperia,” Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof told Bloomberg. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
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Ziobro, who has been in Budapest since late October, denies all the charges. The former minister accused Tusk of acting to preempt corruption charges against himself. Tusk “knows that we were conducting, under my supervision, investigations into suspected corruption in which he may have been involved,” Ziobro told broadcaster TV Republika after the parliament’s action. PiS has stood firmly behind its former minister, attacking the government for exacting political revenge on the minister and accusing the administration of a lack of ethics in going after Ziobro, who has been undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer. “The prosecution has been taken over…