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British Steel plans to close its two blast furnaces and steelmaking operations in Scunthorpe, putting up to 2,700 jobs at risk in a move unions called “devastating”.
The company, which is owned by China’s Jingye, said it would immediately start consultations with its workforce and unions on redundancies stemming from the planned closures alongside a reduction of steel rolling-mill capacity.
The closures affect between 2,000 and 2,700 workers out of a workforce of about 3,500, British Steel said, and will bring an end to steelmaking in Scunthorpe after 160 years of production.
The proposals, which were condemned by the unions Unite, GMB and Community, will leave the UK as the only G7 country without the ability to make steel domestically from scratch, after the Indian conglomerate Tata announced last September that it was closing its two blast furnaces at Port Talbot in south Wales with the loss of 2,500 jobs.
The German submarine U-778 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Germany’s Kriegsmarine during World War II. She completed only one combat patrol and did not sink any Allied ships. On May 8, 1945, she was surrendered to the Allies in Bergen.
On December 4, 1945, while being towed offshore for scuttling as part of Operation Deadlight, U-778 sank prematurely before reaching the designated scuttling ground. She went down at approximately 55°32′N 7°7′W, about 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) northeast of Malin Head, resting at a depth of around 70 meters (230 feet).
🇺🇸Looks like we’ll be bombing Iran soon guys 👍
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France
-Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling EU funds
-sentenced to 4 years in prison, with 2 years suspended
-banned from holding Public Office for 5 years
-fined 100.000€
-disqualifies her from running in the 2027 French Presidential Election
Iranian Leader Khalmeni
"We Muslims belong to some of the wealthiest countries and communities in the world. If the Islamic world wants to take advantage of this, it needs to take fundamental action, which is increasing unity.”
🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Fox News denies the Reuters report that the US-Ukraine mineral deal could be signed today.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦Trump is reported to announce the signing of the Ukraine-US mineral deal at his address to congress tonight.
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🇩🇪 Merz: Germany will set up a €500 billion fund to rearm
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And so the trade war begins.
China has retaliated with tariffs on US goods.
Canada has also put 25% tariffs on US goods in retaliation to trumps 25%
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/china-rejects-additional-us-tariffs-vows-to-take-countermeasures.html
Air support over Khe Sanh during the siege of 1968
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Illustration of trenches in the current Russo-Ukrainian War made by the "South China Morning Post".
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🇺🇦 5 Russian soldiers were captured in the Pokrovsk direction
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On March 29, 1973, the last U.S. combat soldier left Vietnam, marking the official end to the Vietnam War. Master Sergeant Max Beilke departed Vietnam at the Tan Son Nhut Air Base to return home to Minnesota, and he was the last soldier to enter the aircraft to depart the country. The conflict had lasted roughly nineteen years, and at its conclusion, approximately 2.7 million Americans had served in the conflict, including almost 60,000 killed, 150,000 wounded, and over a thousand missing in action.
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🇸🇻Nayib Bukele posted a new video on his Instagram of international criminals gangsters and terrorists being flown in to be held in his maximum security prison.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran will not allow anyone to address it using the language of force and will never submit to the language of threats," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦Also reports from the White House that there’s „no movement on the mineral deal yet“
All we can do is wait and see
🇺🇦 Published footage of a himars strike on a 152mm Malva Spg and a gathering of Russian infantry
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The Đorđe Martinović incident occurred on May 1, 1985, when Đorđe Martinović, a 56-year-old Serb farmer from the Kosovar town of Gnjilane, arrived at a local hospital with a broken glass bottle lodged in his rectum. Initially, Martinović claimed that he had been attacked by two Albanian men while working in his field, but after interrogation by a Yugoslav People's Army colonel, he reportedly confessed that the injury was self-inflicted during a botched attempt at masturbation. According to one forensic analysis led by Slovenian doctor Janez Milčinski, Martinović had positioned a 500 ml bottle upside down on a stick or stake driven into the ground, intending to lower himself onto it for sexual gratification; however, he slipped, causing the bottle to break inside him under the force of his body weight. This explanation contrasted with an earlier medical team’s conclusion at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, which included doctors from multiple Yugoslav republics, who determined that the injuries were too severe and sudden to be self-inflicted, suggesting instead that at least two or more individuals had brutally inserted the bottle.
The incident quickly escalated into a major controversy, known as the "Martinović affair," and significantly worsened ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Serb and Albanian populations. Serbian nationalists seized on Martinović's initial claim of an Albanian attack, portraying it as evidence of deliberate persecution aimed at driving Serbs from Kosovo, a narrative amplified by the newspaper Politika, which alleged the attackers were Albanians seeking to seize Martinović’s land. This storyline resonated deeply with historical grievances, drawing comparisons to Ottoman-era impalement and elevating Martinović to a symbol of Serb victimhood, as reflected in poetry and art that likened his suffering to historical atrocities like the Jasenovac concentration camp. Serbian intellectuals and writers rallied around the incident, with figures like Zoran Gluščević comparing the plight of Kosovo Serbs to fascist persecution, while a petition declared Martinović’s case emblematic of the entire Serb nation’s struggle in Kosovo. Conversely, Albanian communities and some Yugoslav authorities dismissed it as a fabricated or self-inflicted incident, with claims of a coerced confession adding to the dispute. The conflicting narratives fueled mutual distrust and resentment, amplifying local tensions into a broader ethnic conflict that contributed to the rising nationalism and eventual disintegration of Yugoslavia in the years that followed.
Future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz:
Our defense policy must be "whatever it takes."
🇺🇦 The LAV apc in service with 36th marine brigade.
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🇱🇧🇮🇱❗️Hezbollah mourns Radwan commander Khodr Hachem who was assassinated today in his village in the Tyre district.
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🇺🇦 We are currently producing about a third of the weapons we need, our goal is at least 50 percent - Shmyhal
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🇵🇱 "The US decision was made without informing and consulting with NATO allies and within the framework of the Ramstein format - a group that is engaged in supporting the fighting Ukraine," Polish Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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