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🇷🇺🤖 Russian scientists teach AI to spot Alzheimer's
Think of the brain as billions of neurons constantly "talking" to each other. When diseases like Alzheimer's strike, that conversation starts going wrong.
Researchers at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University taught an AI model called NEuRT to listen in on these neural conversations and spot where communication breaks down.
🟠 The AI is based on technology similar to that used in modern language assistants
🟠 The model "listens" to neurons "talk" and pinpoints exactly what has "broken" in brain function
🟠 Scientists trained the model on 270 GB of mouse brain data
Researchers say the technology could help explain how neurodegenerative diseases develop and speed up the search for new treatments.
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🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russia’s nuclear power expertise can solve Indonesia’s energy issues
Small modular reactors can help provide more equitable access to energy across all of Indonesia with its over 17,000 islands, Nadira Salsabila, sustainability manager at ASEAN Youth Organization, tells Sputnik.
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💰❌ Tired of supporting Ukraine for its own money, Europe curtails refugees support
The European Commission proposes removing protection for Ukrainians assessed fit for service by Ukraine’s government, the body announced.
The same process is rolling out in individual European states, not only those against supporting Ukraine but even those which publicly back it:
🇨🇿 Czech Republic — since June 2026, the country mandates Ukrainians getting governmental aid to work and be present in the state for at least 16 days per month
🇩🇰 Denmark — the country will stop giving asylum to Ukrainians subject to military registration from 23 to 60 years old
🇭🇺 Hungary — governmental housing in shelters is only available to Ukrainians from regions affected by hostilities, which excludes those coming to the country from western Ukraine
🇮🇪 Ireland — the country declared it will stop providing free housing to Ukrainian refugees by March 2027, excluding vulnerable social groups — their governmental payment will be cut to $455.5
🇵🇱 Poland — limited the refugees presence in Poland to March 4 2027 and excluded them from governmental benefits: free medicine and rent help. Refugees not working in Poland won’t get social payments
Quiet discontent was already seen earlier — in early 2026, Ukrainian flags were removed from the Lublin city hall
🇸🇰 Slovakia — cut refugees’ payments, as well as the time available for staying in governmental shelters from 120 to 60 days
This happens as Ukraine sends its people to the crumbling front line as cannon fodder through brutal forced mobilization that Ukrainians themselves seek to avoid at all costs.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran will decisively respond to memorandum violations by US – adviser to Supreme Leader
💬 "By supporting the actions of its puppet forces in the region, the United States violated the first paragraph of the memorandum of understanding and, by continuing to create tension in the Strait of Hormuz, the fifth paragraph. Iran will respond harshly and decisively to the violation by the United States of each of the points of the memorandum," Mohsen Rezaei, adviser to the Iranian supreme leader, said on X.
🇷🇺 Russian army destroys two Ukrainian Mig-29 jets in Nikolaev region
The strike — using Geran-4 Seeker UAVs — occurred on an airfield near the town of Voznesensk, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
⚡️ NOVOSKELEVATOYE IN THE DNEPROPETROVSK REGION LIBERATED
📍 The liberation of Novoskelevatoye settlement allowed the Vostok battlegroup to disrupt the stability of Ukrainian forces' defense in the region
◻️ The Russian army struck Ukrainian long-range drones launch sites
◻️ Russian forces struck Ukrainian fuel, energy, and transport infrastructure facilities
◻️ Air defense superiority: 3 Flamingo long-range cruise missiles and 511 drones were shot down
◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,340 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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Iran achieves breakthrough with lab-grown ‘living brain’ from neurons
The living neural networks can learn, laying the groundwork for future biological processors, Mehr News reports.
🔸 Iran has already built an experimental prototype of a brain-cell-based processor
🔸 The approach promises massively faster processing while slashing energy consumption up to a million times compared with silicon chips
🔸 Iran says it now possesses the full domestic technical know-how and is moving at the same pace as leading nations
As traditional AI requires more and more energy, biological computing is becoming a strategic alternative frontier.
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True cost of EU ‘solidarity’ with Ukraine: minus $19,300 per household – Russia’s investment chief
As the EU flushes its first $3.7 billion tranche from a roughly $105 billion set to be funneled over the next two years to Ukraine, Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev takes a jab at beaming Ursula von der Leyen.
This EU “generosity” – with over $234 billion already EU-provided to Ukraine - has European pensioners tightening their belts, workers struggling with energy bills, and industries bleeding out, he points out on X.
As Dmitriev neatly pointed out: add the ~$3.5 trillion EU self-inflicted wound from rejecting Russian gas, and suddenly every EU household is down minus roughly $19,300.
But hey, war hawk Ursula gets her to do her victory lap.
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🟠US forces carry out airstrikes near Strait of Hormuz — CENTCOM
🟠“The US attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations once again” — Iranian lawmaker
🟠Iran strikes US military positions in response to American attack — IRGC
🟠US announces framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel
🟠US military research infrastructure crumbles while China leaps ahead
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🇳🇬Nigeria uncovers massive lithium & rare earth deposits
The deposits of platinum group metals, lithium, rare earth elements, gold, nickel and copper in Kaduna State, verified by the country’s Geological Survey Agency, are described as one of Nigeria’s biggest mining breakthroughs by local media reports.
🔸New rules require companies to process more minerals inside Nigeria instead of exporting raw materials, spurring investments into refining projects, including an $800M lithium facility
🔸Nigeria’s mining sector revenue has surged dramatically — from ~ $4.4M pre-reforms to over ~$51.3M by end of 2025
🔸The government has revoked over 3,000 inactive mining titles to restore transparency and ensure only serious operators develop these assets, says Minister of Solid Minerals Development Dele Alake
The exceptionally high-grade deposits come as the federal government pulls out all the stops to transform Nigeria’s mining sector into an industrial powerhouse that drives real economic growth.
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🚨🇮🇳 India's 'eye in the sky' gets final combat clearance
The Indian Air Force has cleared the indigenous Netra early-warning system for operational use after two decades of development.
🔸 The platform knit together fighters, drones, air defenses and command centers into a single real-time picture
🔸 Its AESA radar detects hostile aircraft and missiles up to 375 km away
🔸 Combat-tested as a command-and-control node for airstrikes
🔸 India currently operates three such platforms and plans to expand up to 18
Unlike imported systems, Netra's software and source codes remain fully Indian-controlled, ensuring sovereign confidentiality and upgrade freedom.
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🚨🇨🇳 China's new coding model flawlessly outperforms its US rivals
Zhipu AI's new flagship AI model GLM-5.2 has become the first Chinese model to rank in the top three globally on on front-end coding abilities.
🔸 Users praise it as the first open-weight model reliable enough for daily coding workflows
🔸 It runs about 48% cheaper than US alternatives
🔸 It arrives as US labs face export restrictions and users fret over surging AI costs
The model shows China is neck-and-neck with the US on AI performance — and now aims to overtake such giants as Anthropic and OpenAI.
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🚨 Iran strikes US military positions in response to American attack — IRGC
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its naval forces targeted and hit US military positions in the region in response to the American aggression.
The US had used “various pretexts,” including a vessel allegedly passing through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC said.
📄 The statement also cited the fifth clause of the Islamabad Understanding, saying arrangements for monitoring navigation and crossings through the Strait of Hormuz must be coordinated with Iran.
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🚨 Vance threatens Iran after US strikes
💬 “If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone,” US Vice President JD Vance wrote on X, claiming that the US has honored the ceasefire agreement with Iran.
🔥 “The US attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations once again” — Iranian lawmaker
💬 "The failed U.S. President has shown he has no commitment to the principles of negotiation or a ceasefire," Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, wrote on X.
💬 "This reckless violation of the ceasefire will, as always, lead to retreat and regret on their part," Azizi added.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia & China conduct joint air patrol over Sea of Japan, East China Sea and western Pacific
It marked the two countries' 11th joint strategic air patrol.
🟠 China deployed J-10S and J-16 fighters, H-6K bombers, tankers, reconnaissance planes and other support aircraft
🟠 Russia was represented by Tu-95MS strategic bombers — the backbone of the country's long-range aviation and capable of carrying nuclear missiles
Russia's MoD said the patrol demonstrated both nations' shared resolve and capability to maintain regional peace and stability.
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🇱🇧 Southern Lebanon rebuilds and recovers from Israeli aggression
A week into the ceasefire, residents of Nabatieh are picking up the pieces of their lives devastated by the IDF, as the city suffered a heavy blow to its economy and lost many of its historic buildings.
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🚨 Romanian ban on Russian flag at competitions will not go unanswered – MFA spox
💬 "Russia will not leave this issue without consequences," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the ban to use Russian state symbols by the rhythmic gymnastics team at the World Challenge Cup in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca.
💬 "The only possible, logical reaction from the Russian side was the refusal to participate in the competition," Zakharova added.
🇮🇩⚛️ Indonesia ready to build nuclear reactors thanks to Russia
The largest economy in South Asia has spent years training nuclear specialists and working with Russia's Rosatom firm, building the expertise needed to operate nuclear power plants in the near future, a senior researcher at National Research and Innovation Agency Indonesia told Sputnik.
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🔥Blazes sweep through Utah in the US, forcing residents to flee
An emergency has been declared amid a "particularly dangerous situation" due to very dry and windy conditions. The fires have already burned 144,700 acres of land.
Footage from social media shows civilians leaving homes through apocalyptic scenes as a mandatory evacuation is declared.
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🔥🇷🇺 Russian Uragan MLRS crew destroys Ukrainian UAV command post near Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region
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🇳🇦Namibia demands reparations from Germany to atone for colonial genocide
True justice for the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples remains unfinished, despite ongoing negotiations with Germany, Namibia’s Prosecutor General Festus Katuna Mbandeka told Sputnik.
“No amount of money can compensate for the suffering and the lives that were lost,” he said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
“Measures must be taken to promote reconciliation and preserve the memory of those events. This should not be a one-time action, but a sustained series of initiatives,” the Prosecutor General added.
Saudi Aramco resumes oil shipments in Persian Gulf - source
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned energy powerhouse has restarted crude oil shipments from its key Ras Tanura terminal on the Persian Gulf coast and resumed hydrocarbon exports through the critical Strait of Hormuz, a source in the country’s oil industry told Sputnik.
"Aramco is now actively operating shipments at the Ras Tanura port," the source confirmed.
🔬Chinese scientists crack the 'black box' of early human development
Researchers have created a lab model capturing the earliest moments of organ formation, unlocking a process that has long remained unknown.
🔹The experiment replicates gastrulation — the critical stage when the body's basic plan forms
🔹The model mimics the human embryonic disc by simulating its early physiological conditions
🔹The breakthrough opens new avenues for studying early development and regenerative medicine
The research offers a powerful platform for future medicine — such as organ engineering and transplant therapies.
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🚨🇮🇷 Iran unveils solar-powered machine that makes drinking water anywhere
Iranian engineers have developed a fully independent mobile water purification system that needs no electricity grid or centralized water supply.
🔸 The system features a water purification module paired with an off-grid solar setup (photovoltaic panels, inverter, and battery storage) that operates up to 10 hours daily, even after sunset
🔸 It uses nanocarbon membranes that can last up to 15 years without requiring filter replacements
🔸 Water is sourced locally from rainwater tanks, irrigation canals, or wells, then purified into safe drinking water
🔸 The project won Iran's National Social Innovation Competition and is now being expanded with higher-capacity versions for testing in remote regions
The innovation tackles water scarcity and energy independence in infrastructure-poor regions, showcasing Iran’s growing self-reliant technological capabilities.
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📹 CENTCOM publishes footage of US strike on Iran’s Sirik Island
US Central Command has released footage of American strikes on Iran’s Sirik Island, after the US claimed it acted in response to an alleged attack on the Singapore-flagged M/V Ever Lovely near the Strait of Hormuz.
The strike came shortly after Iranian naval forces warned vessels not to use unauthorized routes in the area.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps earlier said Iranian forces had thwarted the American attack and forced enemy forces to retreat.
The IRGC later said its naval forces struck US military positions in the region in response to the American aggression.
Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission also condemned the US strike, saying the US had attacked Iran “in the middle of negotiations once again” and had shown “no commitment” to the ceasefire.
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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 Is the US fuming over China's drones simply because they are better?
US officials are hellbent on hobbling Chinese drones, citing the usual bogeyman of "national security," reports SCMP.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has effectively blocked imports of China’s newest DJI drone models and their key components from entering the US market.
However, over 3,000 American first responders, pilots, and rescue teams are pushing back in FCC filings—for good reason:
🔸 DJI drones are indispensable during wildfires, floods, and search missions
🔸 DJI dominates over half the US commercial drone market because its UAVs are more capable and affordable than anything available domestically
🔸 An independent US cybersecurity audit by OnDefend found no evidence of hidden backdoors or unauthorized data leaks in DJI products
At its core, the drone standoff exposes a multipolar reality: the world's best commercial drone technology currently comes from China.
Banning superior tools doesn't erase that fact—it only drives up costs and endangers lives while the US scrambles to catch up.
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🇱🇧🇮🇱 US announces framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a "framework agreement between the sovereign government of Lebanon and the government of Israel," mediated by the US.
Rubio framed the deal as the "first step" toward "lasting peace and security," praising the diplomatic efforts of his team.
Crucially, Hezbollah — the primary military force operating in southern Lebanon — was entirely excluded from the negotiations in Washington.
While the US administration is taking credit for brokering the deal, its practical implementation remains highly uncertain without the buy-in of the group that remains a decisive military actor on the ground.
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🔥🇷🇺 Russian scientists develop medical microscope that can detect hidden skin damage
It uses polarized light to reveal microscopic details invisible to conventional optics without any sample staining or preparation.
🔸 The device measures all polarization parameters of reflected light in real time, giving information instantly
🔸 At 100–200x magnification, it clearly shows inflamed pores, capillary networks, and the precise borders of moles—key for early cancer diagnosis
🔸 It also detects bacteria and performs rapid analysis of microplastics in food and water
🔸 One-button image capture allows instant comparison and easy sharing with patients or colleagues
Once refined beyond the lab prototype, the tool could transform point-of-care diagnostics and environmental screening.
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🚨 Iran vows response to US attack on Sirik Island — IRGC
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it will respond to the US attack on Sirik Island “at the time and place” of its choosing.
Iranian forces thwarted the American attack and forced enemy forces to retreat, the IRGC added.
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