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Mexico's government, led by President Claudia Sheinbaum, has announced a decree requiring social media and streaming services to block violent and sexual content for minors, in an effort to combat the increasing violence in schools related to the spread of violent cartel material on these platforms. #Mexico #geweld #socialemedia (translated)

Sander Sassen wrote that Rob Jetten's call for all possible support for Ukraine amounted, in his view, to prolonging a war of attrition. He argued that the front line barely moved, that the Russian economy had adapted, and that Western munitions stocks and political support were finite. According to Sassen, diplomatic solutions were wrongly dismissed as a sign of weakness. Sassen referred to Ukrainian estimates of more than 1.5 million Russian dead and wounded and to Western analyses, including those from CSIS, which he claimed spoke of hundreds of thousands of casualties and over one hundred thousand deaths in Ukraine. He argued that the war constituted a demographic disaster for both countries and that further pressure from sanctions and weapons would result in more casualties. Negotiations, according to Sassen, were not capitulation but the way to end the war. He claimed that a full Ukrainian recapture of the borders of 1991 was militarily unrealistic without direct NATO intervention, risking a war with Russia. He advocated for territorial compromises, likely along the current front line, security guarantees for the remaining Ukraine, and an end to mobilization. He noted that Ukrainian men were forcibly taken off the streets in this process. Sassen acknowledged that such compromises would feel unjust and could reward aggression, but argued that they were better than continuing the current bloodshed. He accused Jetten and like-minded individuals of blocking serious diplomacy and urged the Prime Minister to immediately pursue a diplomatic solution. #Oorlog #Diplomatie #Vrede (translated)

Covestro has announced it will cut 260 jobs at its site in Antwerp, while hundreds of employees are blocking access to the GSK sites in Wavre and Rixensart in protest against the announced layoff of 1,217 employees by the pharmaceutical group. #GSK #protestation #licenciements (translated)

I come around the bend and then you see the yellow flag. So you ease off the throttle and brake. But he is in a slow lap, so you don't want to react too abruptly. That can cause you to block or create something. I explained that to the stewards and they understood it," was Verstappen's explanation at Viaplay. #MaxVerstappen #Formule1 #SingaporeGP (translated)

"NATO has already called for calm, which is wise. Look: the rhetoric is intensifying in the Kremlin, but there is no plan to block Kaliningrad at all. So the threats are part of the broader Russian strategy to undermine support for Ukraine in Europe. We must not be swept along. These texts are a form of propaganda. But they achieve no results; here in Lithuania, there is no great debate about it. We have seen this before." "Those big words about the use of nuclear weapons are mainly aimed at undermining European support for Ukraine," Budrys says in conversation with this site. #Litouwen #RussischeDreiging #Afschrikking (translated)

Even over France where you HEAR NOTHING about in our large news bulletins from @NOS and @RTLnieuws Specifically about the riots in a large part of the country. The extreme-left movement LFI is reportedly involved according to intelligence services. La France Insoumise (LFI) is the largest extreme-left party in France. Jean-Luc Mélenchon founded it in 2016 after his split from the Socialist Party and the earlier Front de Gauche. LFI calls itself a "movement" and not a party. Key points: • Economic: higher minimum wage, retirement back to 60, price caps on basic goods, heavier taxation on wealth and high incomes, more public investments. • "Ecological planning": a state-driven climate transition. • Institutional: a new constitution (a "Sixth Republic") with less power for the president. • EU: disobedience to existing treaties if they block the program. There is no formal Frexit position, but the party is outspokenly critical of the EU. • Foreign policy: critical of NATO and very pro-Palestinian. I give you the bund spread: the interest rate difference between the French rate and the German rate on government debt. You see: the market no longer trusts it either. Fasten your seatbelts, this is not going away. Ps: The Netherlands can no longer be in a monetary union with France. #Frankrijk #LFI #Politiek (translated)

Russia has sent a document to NATO in which the alliance is accused of escalating military activities and taking provocative actions around Kaliningrad. The main point in the document is the warning that if NATO attempts to isolate or block Kaliningrad, Moscow will respond with its "full arsenal" of available weapons. #NAVO #Rusland #Kaliningrad (translated)

De spanningen in Noord-Ierland zijn opgelopen door een protestantse Oranjemars die voor het eerst in bijna dertig jaar door een katholieke wijk mag trekken, terwijl lokale bewoners de mars proberen te blokkeren ondanks een rechterlijke toestemming. #NoordIerland #Oranjemars #GarvaghyRoad