Taiwan’s Foxconn says 4 workers arrested in China
The Apple components producer said four Taiwanese employees were arrested for “breach of trust” in Zhangzhou, where the firm’s largest iPhone factory is located.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council claimed the case was “quite strange”, and cited Foxconn as insisting the four people had done nothing to harm the company, instead suggesting police corruption was to blame.
#Taiwan #China - Boost
Gunmen kill 20 miners in Pakistan’s Balochistan province
Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack which also left at least six more injured, it took place in a region where the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) and Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) are active.
Attackers allegedly used rockets, grenades and heavy weaponry in their attack during the early hours of Friday morning, seemingly targeting workers from Pashtun-speaking areas of Balochistan.
The incident comes two days after gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying Pakistan army personnel, killing two officers.
#Pakistan - Boost
‘Project Dehumanization’: West consistently enslaving people - State Duma chairman Volodin
Russia’s State Duma chairman Vycheslav Volodin has laid into the moral depravity encouraged by Western cultures that he says is attacking traditional values
“The US and Western countries have always been obsessed with the idea of world domination, for a long time maintaining their hegemony through robbery, violence, colonial and aggressive policies,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Millions of people - including in the West - are forced to battle against values imposed on them, he added. “A man must remain a man. What do you think?”
#Russia - Boost
⚡️Respecting states, people, sovereignty key to peace - Putin
Universal peace and development can only be ensured by taking into account the opinion of each state and people, with respect for their sovereignty, the Russian president said.
Moscow is ready to discuss the parameters for a new world order he added.
#Russia #Turmenistan - Boost
❗️Putin lands in Ashgabat ahead of meeting with Iranian president & commemoration
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Turkmenistan for the 300th birth anniversary of poet & philosopher Magtymguly Pyragy. On the sidelines of the event he will hold talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
#Russia #Turkmenistan - Boost
The Afghan national accused of an Election Day plot in the US was working for the CIA
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack in the US worked for the CIA in Afghanistan, according to a new report.
He was nabbed in Oklahoma on Monday over the alleged terror plot, he was employed as a security guard for the spy agency but was not a CIA informant, NBC News reported. It means Tawhedi should have been heavily screened before entering the country, according to NBC sources.
#US #Afghanistan - Boost
Tesla’s Robotaxi Day, Musk’s reputation is on the line — Bloomberg
The EV maker has bet the company’s future on robotaxi’s success — Tesla reveals its long-awaited driverless prototype. This is a do or die moment for the company, the Cybercab is a new business model for Tesla.
A successful unveiling would help quell the doubts around Musk’s autonomous driving strategy because they've had gaffes in the past. Tesla is behind some of its competitors when it comes to deploying driverless cars.
#ElonMusk #Tesla - Boost
Gov. Whitmer's bizarre social video as a 'Dorito Dominatrix'
US Gov. Gretchen Whitmer bizarre video where she feeds Doritos to left-wing influencer as ‘communion’ is raising BIG questions. Some said it was a stunt that imitated the Catholic sacrament of Holy Communion.
In the short clip, posted on podcaster Liz Plank’s Instagram account, the influencer was seen on her knees opening up for a Dorito in her mouth, like she was begging for it.
Is this supposed to get votes?
#US - Boost
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸EX-CIA BIN LADEN UNIT CHIEF ON ALLEGED IRANIAN PLOT TO KILL TRUMP
‘The Iranians are not stupid people. They have their hands full…if they do kill Donald Trump, and they blame it on the Iranians, then we’re off to war with Iran.’
-Dr. Michael Scheuer, the former Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station at the CIA, on the alleged Iranian Trump assassination plot, used to manufacture consent for war against Iran
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❗️UPDATE: The death toll from the Israeli strikes in the center of Beirut is now 22 people, 117 injured
#Israel #Beirut
The art of the nickname: Trump breaks down how he renames someone
“It’s a lot TAMPON TIM… and you can’t just stutter it through… it’s really a lousy word to say, but it’s quite accurate.”
#Trump - Boost
Italy claps back at Israel’s attack on Irish Peacekeepers in Lebanon
The Israeli military “repeatedly” fired at UNIFIL headquarters, injuring two members of the peacekeeping force.
Defence Minister Guido Crosetto: “The hostile acts committed and repeated by Israeli forces against the base...could constitute war crimes...because it was not a mistake."
#Italy - Boost
‘Lieutenant Dan’ successfully survived Hurricane Milton after riding it out
Many people tried to get him to evacuate, but he stayed on his boat.
‘Lieutenant Dan’ on Milton: “I’m not afraid of nothing! God has my back”.
#HurricaneMilton - Boost
⚡️Israeli strikes on Beirut killed 18 people and wounded 92 — Lebanon’s Health Ministry
#Israel #Beirut
Russia takes out US-made Patriot battery
Russian forces have destroyed elements of a US-made Patriot long-range air defense system in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Wednesday.
The Russian military released footage of the purported strike, showing a Patriot battery it claims was stationed near the settlement of Pashena Balka, roughly 20km southwest of the regional capital, Dnepr.
The battery included four missile launchers, the associated radar set, and an engagement control station, according to the ministry.
#SMO #US - Boost
Russia & China wrap up first naval drills in Pacific Ocean
The exercises ran from September 20 to October 10.
Footage: FSB
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ICYMI: Netanyahu 'coming over to help with the storm', confused old man says
Can we even call him President any more?
#Biden #US - Boost
❗️Putin in Turkmenistan: New economic & political centers emerge in Global South & Global East
“These new centers try to preserve and strengthen the sovereignty, as well as social and cultural identity,” President Putin said.
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Amazing northern lights beam over Russia
All over the Baltic Sea coast and Kursk region there were shades of purple, turquoise, pink and green.
Cosmonaut Ivan Vagner captured a view of the northern lights from the ISS during another magnetic storm a little earlier.
#NorthernLights - Boost
’There Will be no REMATCH!’: No second debate for Harris v. Trump
Former President Donald Trump shut the door on debating Vice President Kamala Harris for a second time before Election Day.
“I won the last two debates,” Trump declared in a lengthy, all caps post on social media, which came after a last-ditch attempt by Fox News to arrange another debate.
Many US political pundits agree that another debate may not really sway voters minds.
#Tump #Harris - Boost
Harris takes the lead among suburban voters over Trump— Reuters poll
Kamala Harris has erased Trump’s middle class lead. Suburbanites, who make up about half of the US electorate and are as racially diverse as the nation at large, are key. Before Biden dropped out, Trump was leading him 43% to 40% among suburbanites in Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted in June and July.
Households that earn between $50,000 and $100,000, roughly the middle third of the nation - Trump trails Harris 43% to 45%, according to the poll.
#Tump #Harris - Boost
Israeli police arrested a Grayzone journalist and still have him in custody — social media
Jeremy Loffredo an online journalist for the Grayzone media outlet reported on the attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in the last video he recorded before being arrested, according to social media reports.
He was among four journalists beaten, kidnapped, blindfolded, detained, and sent to an Israeli military base, according to Grayzone.
The other 3 have been released. He remains in Israeli custody as of now, his X account has been locked, as his phone taken.
#Israel - Boost
Hurricane Milton will push 2024 insured losses over $100 billion — Fitch Ratings
Hurricane Milton could cause up to $50 billion in losses for Florida property owners. Insurers estimated losses over $100 billion in 2024 alone, Fitch Ratings said in a report.
On Thursday morning, the Category 3 storm cut a destructive path, killing at least 10 people and leaving millions without power.
But the state appears to have avoided the "worst-case scenario" outlined by analysts, since they thought Milton would cost $100Mln alone, making total yearly costs double.
#HurricaneMilton - Boost
❗️Diddy sex trafficking trial set for May 5, 2025 - NYT
#Diddy #US - Boost
NATO holds annual nuclear drill — alliance chief
NATO will begin its annual nuclear exercise on Monday hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands, alliance Secretary General Mark Rutte said. F-35A fighter jets and B-52 bombers will be among some 60 aircraft from 13 nations taking part in the Steadfast Noon exercise, NATO said.
"We seek to deter any adversaries, in particular Russia, in several different ways, including conventional deterrence," Rutte said in Brussels.
#NATO #Russia - Boost
⚡️Exclusive: Israel's oil facilities & energy infrastructure will be targeted if Tel Aviv attacks Iran
A source in Tehran has told RT that any attack by Israel will be met in kind. Iran will answer by targeting three oil refineries and power plants.
RT has learned that in the event of Israel attacking nuclear facilities - and if the fallout affects civilians - Iran will change its nuclear doctrine and be forced to give a mirrored response.
#Iran #Israel - Boost
❗️EXCLUSIVE: Iran will revise nuclear doctrine if Israel strikes its facilities — Source to RT
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Musk's X doesn’t meet gatekeeper standards for EU tech rules — Reuters
Elon Musk's X will not be a gatekeeper for the landmark EU tech rules known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA). X, formerly known as Twitter, had previously told the Commission that even though it met the number of users to be a gatekeeper, it does not qualify for the other criterion.
The DMA requires gatekeepers to make their messaging apps interact with rivals, let users decide which apps to pre-install on their devices and are not allowed to favor their own services over rivals or risk fines as much as 10% of their annual global turnover.
The European Commission, will announce their decision on their investigation into X, next week.
#ElonMusk - Boost
Zelensky claims once again that Ukraine faces military shortage — Bloomberg
"We need your support before winter arrives," Zelensky pleaded in Paris after a meeting with Macron.
What happened to all this talk of ceasefire?
#Ukraine - Boost
⚡️Israel hits Ras el-Nabaa and Al-Basta neighborhoods with airstrikes in central Beirut — local media
#Israel #Beirut
