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Gabriele Segre's article analyzes how the new anatomy of geopolitical power is no longer based on traditional military strength, but on the ability to control strategic resources and critical points, highlighting a multipolar world where even minor actors can influence global balances through economic and technological levers. (translated)

L’anatomia della potenza

Il buongiorno di oggi ce lo danno l’hub di Wildberries di Kotovsk, nell’oblast’ di Tambov e la raffineria è a Kstovo, nell’oblast’ di Nižnij Novgorod. Il grande centro WB copre circa 108.000 mq, è entrato in funzione nel 2025 e, a pieno regime, era progettato per stoccare fino a 54 milioni di articoli. È pertanto un hub molto grande, soprattutto per la distribuzione nella Russia centrale. Fu già fatto oggetto di un attacco lo scorso 18 luglio. L’incendio però fu spento rapidamente (alle 04:08 ora di Mosca secondo Wildberries/RWB) e la struttura riportò danni, ma non “critici” secondo le informazioni rese pubbliche. Dal 23 luglio il centro aveva ripreso l’operatività in forma limitata, accettando nuovamente consegne e riattivando selezione e spedizione delle merci. Il rogo, stavolta, stando alle immagini, sembra molto vasto. La raffineria è invece la Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez (spesso abbreviata NORSI). Con una capacità di lavorazione di circa 17 milioni di tonnellate di greggio annue, è indicata come la quarta maggiore raffineria russa e il secondo produttore nazionale di benzina. Produce anche diesel e carburante per l’aviazione. La sua importanza non dipende soltanto dal volume: rifornisce un’ampia area della Russia centrale e produce derivati essenziali sia per il mercato civile sia, secondo lo Stato maggiore ucraino, per le esigenze delle forze armate russe. L’impianto era già stato colpito altre volte. Il 24 giugno 2026 era stata danneggiata l’unità primaria di distillazione CDU-5, pari a circa un quarto della capacità produttiva: 12.000 tonnellate al giorno. Secondo fonti industriali citate da Reuters, la raffineria aveva sospeso le attività; la borsa SPIMEX interruppe temporaneamente le vendite dei suoi prodotti diesel e benzina. Secondo quanto riportato nei canali Telegram, nella zona della raffineria si sono verificate numerose esplosioni. #Wildberries #Russia #Energie

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Netherlands, together with Germany and other EU countries, is in talks about establishing a return hub in Rwanda for rejected asylum seekers, while critics are concerned about human rights and the suitability of Rwanda as a partner. (translated)

‘Nederland wil samen met Duitsland en andere landen een terugkeerhub voor afgewezen asielzoekers in Rwanda’
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France, which faced the worst forest fires in its recent history this summer, is again seeking advice on fire prevention, much to the frustration of critics who wonder why previous recommendations were not followed, while the damage to homes and the tourism sector is significant. (translated)

Frankrijk vraagt alwéér advies over bosbranden, critici zijn het zat: ‘Waarom is er niets gedaan?’
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Rita Flores, a former member of Pussy Riot, has claimed that she was forced to work as an informant for the Russian security service FSB and that she collected information about critics of the Kremlin under the threat of kidnapping and murder, before she was able to flee Russia this summer with the help of her lawyer. (translated)

Voormalig Pussy Riot-lid claimt gedwongen informant te zijn geweest voor Russische veiligheidsdienst
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The Russian army published a shocking video on Telegram in which a drone attacks an unarmed Ukrainian civilian on a bicycle in Donetsk, provoking controversy and criticism, and later deleted the clip due to negative reactions from the media. (translated)

Imagini șocante din Donețk: Armata rusă a publicat pe Telegram momentul în care o dronă elimină un civil ucrainean pe bicicletă

Israel's plans to build around 1,200 homes in settlements in the West Bank have generated strong criticism from Western allies, who consider the decision unacceptable and warn that it undermines hopes for a two-state peace solution. (translated)

Israelul provoacă furia aliaților occidentali cu planul de extindere a coloniilor în Cisiordania

The Israeli far-right Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, announced the construction of a section dedicated to hanging Palestinians convicted of terrorism, in a controversial action that has sparked international criticism and which excludes Jewish extremists from this punishment. (translated)

„Secția condamnaților la moarte”. Locul unde urmează să fie spânzurați palestinieni, prezentat de ministrul israelian care a îndemnat la zeci de „asasinate țintite pe noapte”

BREAKING: Liegebeest Petra de Sutter schorst Gentse onderzoeker omdat hij kritisch was tov liegebeest Jason Arday https://t.co/eFVFIruUZ8 https://t.co/gCFf8WhgPI #BreakingNews #Research #Criticism

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The Spanish government wants to move five hundred underage girls from Ceuta to the mainland as part of a plan to address the reception crisis, but faces strong opposition from the conservative Partido Popular, which views the proposed action as illegal deportation. (translated)

‘Rassenrealist’ die affaire-Arday aanzwengelde wordt geschorst door Gentse universiteit

Lazio, come specificato nella giornata di ieri, Bamba Dieng avrebbe dovuto sostenere dei controlli medici approfonditi al ginocchio prima di avanzare con le firme. I primi test svolti in mattinata hanno evidenziato alcune criticità: la trattativa adesso è a forte rischio. A breve, la decisione definitiva della Lazio. #Lazio #calciomercato #BambaDieng

Nord Italia, attenzione. Dalla siccità ai temporali forti il passo sarà molto breve. Già domani una giornata da tenere d'occhio. Nei prossimi giorni il Nord Italia riceverà finalmente piogge importanti, ma bisogna raccontare bene che tipo di pioggia rischia di arrivare. Non parliamo di una pioggia tranquilla, continua e ben distribuita, quella che dopo settimane secche sarebbe la più utile per suoli, fiumi, agricoltura e falde. Il segnale modellistico mostra invece una fase più instabile e perturbata, con accumuli anche abbondanti soprattutto tra Alpi, Prealpi, alte pianure e settori esposti del Nord-Ovest e del Nord-Est. Localmente, dove i fenomeni insisteranno di più, gli accumuli potranno raggiungere anche 120-150 mm. Questo significa che potremo passare in pochi giorni da una condizione siccitosa a rovesci e temporali localmente molto intensi. Quando il terreno è secco, duro e stressato da settimane di caldo, non tutta l’acqua riesce a entrare subito nel suolo. Una parte può scorrere rapidamente in superficie, aumentando il rischio di allagamenti improvvisi, grandinate, colpi di vento e criticità locali. Il Nord ha bisogno di acqua, ma avrebbe bisogno soprattutto di piogge regolari, distribuite e assorbibili. Se invece arriva sotto forma di temporali violenti e concentrati, può aiutare il bilancio idrico solo in parte e creare problemi dove i fenomeni colpiscono con maggiore forza. Le precipitazioni arriveranno già nella giornata di domani e stasera analizzerò la situazione in un successivo post che vi consiglio di seguire con attenzione. #NordItalia #Meteo #Maltempo

An artificial island built by China in the South China Sea has generated international tensions, as critics suspect that it will have military purposes, contrary to official statements claiming its use for civilian purposes. (translated)

Tensiune mondială din cauza unei insule artificiale. Criticii susțin că va fi folosită în scop militar

Nick Kyrgios, one of the harshest critics of Jannik Sinner regarding doping, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for cocaine, casting doubt on his position as a champion of purity in tennis. (translated)

Kyrgios, il "nemico" di Sinner sospeso per cocaina: tutte le volte che aveva attaccato Jannik sul doping (e non solo)

In the process related to the death of Diego Armando Maradona, the forensic doctor Carlos Cassinelli reported that the doctors ignored critical signs, such as swelling and respiratory difficulties, that could have prevented his death, which occurred in 2020 due to heart failure, emphasizing that Maradona suffered for about twelve hours before dying. (translated)

Morte Maradona: “I medici ignorarono i segnali d’allarme, nessuno andò a vedere da cosa derivasse quel gonfiore”. La testimonianza al processo

🚨🇷🇴ROMANIAN SENATOR: “THIS WAS A COUP D’ÉTAT” Romanian Senator Andrei Dîrlău is making an extraordinary accusation about the annulment of Romania's 2024 presidential election. He alleges that multiple institutions — including the presidency under Klaus Iohannis, Romania's Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) and the Constitutional Court — were involved in what he describes unequivocally as a: “COUP D’ÉTAT.” His argument is explosive. Dîrlău says the election was cancelled because those in power “didn't like the result” and argues that the process that followed leaves Romania's current political leadership without democratic legitimacy. And Romania's election annulment didn't go unnoticed internationally. JD Vance subsequently used Romania as a central example in his criticism of the state of European democracy. Whatever your view of the original decision, cancelling a presidential election is one of the most consequential actions a democracy can take. It therefore demands an extraordinary level of evidence and transparency. What evidence justified overturning the vote? Who made the decisions? What role did each institution play? And ultimately: Were Romania's democratic institutions protecting an election — or overriding the will of its voters? A serving Romanian senator is now calling what happened a coup d'état. That allegation cannot simply be waved away. Romania deserves answers. @andrei_dirlau #Romania #Coup #Democracy

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Hello everyone, the code for Aracne2 has been on GitHub for a few months now — a modular CMS for editing and publishing TEI corpora. A companion volume, published by FedOA Press, covers its origins, architecture and features in detail. Code (MIT): https://github.com/orazionelson/aracne2 Site and documentation: https://orazionelson.github.io/aracne2/ Volume: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-439-1 The underlying idea is to take a corpus from raw transcription to a citable digital edition without forcing the person editing the text to become a sysadmin as well. In brief: – schema-aware XML editor, with validation per document and across a whole collection; – staged editorial workflow with versioning and a clean split between working copy and published copy; – named entities linked to authority files (Wikidata, VIAF, GeoNames, ORCID, GND and others); – bibliography with BibTeX/CSL-JSON/Zotero import and DOI resolution; – facsimiles and zones for text-image alignment; – XSLT-driven public site generator, with configurable indices and search portals; – LOD and OAI-PMH for harvesting, deposit to Zenodo, Dataverse, Internet Archive and git forges; – audit log and fixity, plus policy pages aimed at projects preparing for a CoreTrustSeal review. Architecturally, there are two distinct data layers: PostgreSQL for platform state (users, roles, plugins, audit), eXist-db for TEI documents, stored natively and queried in XQuery. Python/FastAPI backend, Vue 3 frontend, fully containerised. Every integration is a plugin that mounts without a restart, so a deployment can stay minimal or grow along with the project. The AI side is there but optional and can be switched off: in-editor assistance (explaining validation errors, normalising bibliography, tagging named entities), local RAG over the TEI P5 Guidelines, and a read-only MCP server that lets an external assistant query the corpus. Anyone who cannot or would rather not send their texts to a cloud service can run the whole thing locally with Ollama. Aracne2 is the third iteration of a line of tools that began in 2008 with MaRa, the scripts written to mark up the Angevin Registers, continued with Aracne (2016-2026, built entirely on eXist-db), and arrives at this rewrite. The FedOA Press volume reconstructs that trajectory at length. It is all free: you can download it and try it locally with a handful of commands. Aracne2 is open to experiment and ready to be put to the test on new projects — reports, criticism and proposals are all welcome.

GitHub - orazionelson/aracne2: A modular CMS for editing and publishing TEI corpora — Python/FastAPI + Vue 3 + eXist-db
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The Pentagon has signed a contract worth nearly 23 billion dollars with Raytheon to accelerate the production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, in the context of a shortage caused by the war in Iran and criticism from the Democratic opposition and experts. (translated)

Pentagonul a semnat un contract de 23 miliarde de dolari pentru rachete de croazieră Tomahawk

Dit land en 99% van z'n media 🙄: "Toen die media door het succes van De Stikstoffuik niet meer om het boek heen konden, was hun reactie voorspelbaar: ze produceerden lange stukken waarin critici alle ruimte kregen om het boek neer te sabelen en de auteur verdacht te maken, terwijl mij niets gevraagd werd. Niet één van deze media die tekeergingen tegen het boek heeft me om een interview gevraagd of wederhoor toegepast. Een ingezonden stuk waarin ik inging op de kritiek in de Volkskrant, werd door hun opinieredactie geweigerd. Sommige ‘betere boekhandels’ verbanden het boek uit hun schappen, en weigerden zelfs het voor klanten te bestellen." #Media #Boek #Critici

Approximately 13,000 people have been displaced on the island of Flores in Indonesia due to a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7, which has caused the death of over 50 people and left many homes destroyed, while authorities are facing criticism from survivors for the lack of emergency aid. (translated)

Indonezia: Aproximativ 13.000 de persoane au fost strămutate în urma unui seism devastator