The author proposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel pursue peace in exchange for integration with Europe, including EU and NATO membership and adoption of the euro. The author described the proposal as a historic opportunity and called for Israel to join an EU of 50 members. https://t.co/uwDPG8ffJk #Israël #Paix #UE #IL #EU
The post said preparations were underway to help Montenegrin businesses get ready for EU membership, in cooperation with the Chamber of Economy and me4eu. It said the effort aimed to strengthen companies, expand opportunities and improve competitiveness. https://t.co/HaByNGLNGC #CrnaGora #EUmembership #ekonomija #ME #EU
Politico: The BBC reports that "Jack Ross, the former Tory activist who appeared to offer to “broker” the hiring of contract killers, previously worked for CCHQ undertaking social media work until earlier this year. A party spokesperson said his membership has been suspended"
AFRICA DAILY REPORT — 25 OCTOBER 2026 1. Nigeria — Gunmen kill at least 40 people in Taraba state Importance: 10/10 — Critical Amnesty International reported at least 40 people killed after armed attackers raided Binnari village in northeastern Taraba state. Police initially confirmed 10 deaths; additional bodies were found on Saturday. Police said the assailants fired heavily and looted food from shops. The attackers' identity and motives had not been established. Source: Reuters, 24 October 2026 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gunmen-kill-least-40-people-northeastern-nigeria-amnesty-international-says-2026-10-24/ 2. Gabon — Offshore drilling rig sinks; five workers unaccounted for Importance: 10/10 — Critical Borr Drilling said its Prospector 5 rig sank off Gabon while preparing for a BW Energy drilling campaign. Five of the 115 people aboard were unaccounted for at the time of the announcement. The company said preliminary information indicated a seabed 'punch-through' during preloading that destabilised the rig. Search and rescue outcomes were not yet confirmed. Source: Reuters, 25 October 2026 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/borr-drilling-rig-sinks-offshore-gabon-five-personnel-missing-2026-10-25/ 3. DR Congo — Clinical trial begins for vaccines targeting Bundibugyo Ebola Importance: 10/10 — Critical A new clinical trial called TUMAiNi began in Bunia, Ituri province, to evaluate candidate vaccines against the Bundibugyo Ebola virus among contacts of confirmed patients. Congo's National Institute for Biomedical Research is leading the trial with World Health Organization support. The initiative comes amid an outbreak with more than 9,000 confirmed infections in the country. Trial launch does not mean an approved vaccine is available. Source: Africanews / Associated Press, 24 October 2026 https://www.africanews.com/2026/10/24/new-tumaini-ebola-vaccine-trial-launches-in-bunia-as-drc-struggles/ 4. Kenya — Survivor rescued from Nairobi building collapse as others remain missing Importance: 9/10 — Very High A man was pulled alive from the rubble of an unfinished multi-storey building in Nairobi's Eastleigh district more than 24 hours after its collapse. The interior minister initially cited seven missing people; the Kenya Red Cross said it had received 31 missing-person reports, still subject to verification. Teams used sniffer dogs and thermal sensors as concerns grew over construction oversight. Source: Associated Press, 24 October 2026 https://apnews.com/article/kenya-building-collapse-nairobi-search-acdba9d2a215da372a28086979f6f6d5 5. Nigeria — President Tinubu launches campaign for January 2027 election Political/electoral development — Neutral coverage President Bola Tinubu formally opened his re-election campaign in Kaduna. He argued that economic reforms are beginning to yield results despite high living costs. Opposition figures, including Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, are among his challengers; opponents dispute his account of the economy. Reuters identified the cost of living and insecurity as likely major election issues. The presidential vote is scheduled for 16 January 2027. Source: Reuters, 24 October 2026 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerias-tinubu-launches-re-election-campaign-economic-pain-tests-support-2026-10-24/ 6. Libya–Egypt — Tripoli offers talks over disputed Mediterranean maritime boundaries Political/diplomatic development — Neutral coverage Libya's UN-recognised prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah told Egypt's intelligence chief that Tripoli was ready to address Cairo's concerns about maritime boundaries and economic waters. Egypt had rejected a Libya–Turkey maritime agreement ratified by Libya's eastern-based parliament. Greece and Cyprus also oppose the accord. The dispute concerns overlapping maritime claims and potential energy exploration rights. Source: Reuters, 24 October 2026 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/libyas-dbeibah-says-ready-address-egypts-maritime-concerns-2026-10-24/ 7. Morocco — Draft 2027 budget outlines MAD 400 billion in public investment Importance: 9/10 — Very High Morocco's draft 2027 Finance Bill envisages MAD 400 billion (about $40.7 billion) in public investment. Planned allocations cover transport, telecommunications, energy, water, housing and social infrastructure. Public enterprises and establishments account for MAD 251 billion, central budget-related channels MAD 124 billion and local authorities MAD 25 billion. These are proposals for 2027, not completed spending. Source: Morocco World News, 24 October 2026 https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2026/10/343652/morocco-sets-public-investment-at-mad-400-billion-for-2027/ 8. Uganda — Ebola travel precautions tightened despite no active domestic outbreak Importance: 9/10 — Very High Uganda reinstated traveller locator forms and temporarily restricted transit for people with recent travel to DR Congo while investigating the journey of a woman later diagnosed with Ebola in Nigeria. Authorities say the woman had no symptoms when leaving Uganda and that the country has no active Ebola cases. The infection's origin remains unresolved, and officials are cooperating with Nigeria on travel-history and genomic investigations. Source: Daily Monitor, 24 October 2026 https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/ebola-uganda-restricts-border-transit-reinstates-locator-forms-5643842 9. Central African Republic — Three former hostages return to Bangui after ten months Importance: 8/10 — High Three people kidnapped in Bambouti during the December election period returned to Bangui on a UN flight after about ten months in captivity. They included a local official and two National Election Authority staff members. President Faustin-Archange Touadéra welcomed them. Africanews reported that UN peacekeepers had negotiated with the Azandé armed group for their release. Source: Africanews, 24 October 2026 https://www.africanews.com/2026/10/24/car-former-hostages-greeted-by-president-touadera-on-return-to-bangui/ 10. Uganda — Shortages constrain rollout of twice-yearly HIV prevention injection Importance: 8/10 — High An Associated Press report from Mbarara described high demand for lenacapavir, a twice-yearly HIV-prevention injection, but limited local supply. Health workers said funding cuts have also reduced outreach and early testing. Uganda is among the countries receiving doses through international programmes, but available supplies remain insufficient for everyone who could benefit. Source: Africanews / Associated Press, 24 October 2026 https://www.africanews.com/2026/10/24/hiv-prevention-jab-offers-hope-in-uganda-but-doses-are-hard-to-find/ #AfricaNews #AfricaDailyReport #TopNewsOfAfrica #AfricaToday #Kenya #Nairobi #Eastleigh #KenyaBuildingCollapse #NairobiRescue #SurvivorRescued #SearchAndRescue #MissingPersons #ConstructionSafety #Libya #Egypt #LibyaEgyptRelations #MediterraneanSea #MaritimeBoundaries #MaritimeDispute #EnergyExploration #AfricanDiplomacy #Nigeria #TarabaState #NigeriaSecurity #ArmedAttack #CivilianCasualties #HumanRights #AfricanPolitics #AfricanSecurity #WrldOrg
The author described the establishment of 16 MIL Alliance Chapters as an important milestone in global cooperation on media and information literacy, saying they brought members together to strengthen regional collaboration and advance thematic priorities.
Future Islands is an American synth-pop band based in Baltimore, Maryland, comprising Gerrit Welmers (keyboards and programming), William Cashion (bass, acoustic and electric guitars), Samuel T. Herring (lyrics and vocals), and Michael Lowry (percussion). The band was formed in January 2006 by Welmers, Cashion and Herring - the remaining members of the performance art college band Art Lord & the Self-Portraits - and drummer Erick Murillo. Future Islands came to prominence in 2014 with their fourth album Singles released by 4AD. Its lead single "Seasons (Waiting on You)" was considered the best song of 2014 by Pitchfork, and NME and its performance at the Late Show with David Letterman in March 2014, became the most-viewed video on the show's YouTube page. https://hvdommelen.nl/f/future.html
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Okey, this is NEW to me. NEW that I'm trying a fresh European social network, which I hope will succeed and NEW to me that I'm trying to write english analysis. I'm a geopolitics writer from Lithuania who has a dedicated reader base on facebook and growing my base on youtube. So this is just me trying to reach a bigger European audience. Hope you like it. Now with my post: Have you noticed that we've gone right back to early 2025? And how quickly regimes change their propaganda narratives whenever the situation shifts or they see an opportunity? We've just had two weeks that really felt like a repeat of early 2025. Suddenly, there's pressure to end the war AGAIN. Suddenly, concessions to Russia and excuses for its actions AGAIN. Pressure on Ukraine AGAIN. The same fake negotiators travelling to meet the fake tsar and sucking up to him AGAIN. Military aid to Ukraine being blocked AGAIN. New/same proposals to end the war AGAIN. And suddenly, kremlin propaganda is treating the americans as friends AGAIN. AND NOTHING... Nothing will change, because it always hits the same wall. russia demands territories that never belonged to it, that it does not control and that it cannot conquer. The Americans want Ukraine to accept this condition because trump simply wants the war to end, no matter the terms. Well... Ukraine refuses to be blackmailed. Once again. Okay, there is one small difference. In early 2025, trump was trying to show that he was delivering on his promises AFTER the election. In late 2026, he's trying to convince the next wave of voters that he's still relevant BEFORE the election. The really interesting part is that Ukraine is in a much better position today than it was in early 2025. Back then, Trump told Zelensky that he had no cards. Now he's asking Zelensky not to play the entire hand of cards he actually holds. YES, there was a bit of panic among all of us. It's certainly not pleasant when the USA starts throwing obstacles in Ukraine's way. The good thing is that these episodes have always been temporary. Because the whole world quickly finds out what the americans have done, and eventually they run out of room to manoeuvre. First, because it becomes embarrassing. Second, because they often end up creating problems for themselves. Every restriction on intelligence sharing, every starlink restriction and every suspension of weapons deliveries is seen around the world for what it is: blackmail. And after every trump-style act of blackmail, America suddenly starts losing economic partners and arms customers, while Europe accelerates the development of its own systems and works to free itself from dependence on the United States. And this latest attempt by trump to portray putin as the saviour of the US economy and Zelensky as the man to blame for high diesel prices? I'd say it has backfired spectacularly. Trump's approval rating has fallen to 31%. Meanwhile, Zelensky's approval rating has surged AGAIN, reaching 57% in polls towards the end of October. Well... as I've said before. Every time trump attacks Zelensky, and especially every time he starts shouting that Zelensky should be removed from office, Zelensky refuses to back down and stands up for Ukraine. And the Ukrainian people rally behind him. So, after all this déjà vu nonsense, trump himself revealed two days ago that musk had restricted starlink operations in Ukraine and had supposedly been asked to restore the connection. (The fact is, both of them had a hand in this.) And the news media quickly started reporting that everything was back to normal. BUT... no. Nothing has actually been fixed. Yesterday, trump once again started saying that if the restrictions are still in place, he will most definitely sort everything out. In other words, we're seeing the same stalling tactics as with the restrictions on intelligence sharing. In short, musk got angry because Ukraine is striking russian data centres. And trump is probably just as angry for exactly the same reason. Because these attacks undermine his election propaganda campaign. Speaking of data centres, today the Ukrainians struck a particularly SIGNIFICANT one. The target was a data centre belonging to russia's federal xax service. Why does this matter? It stores and processes tax records and other government information. If the damage is extensive, this could cause the russian authorities far more trouble than a disruption to online payments. Unfortunately, all we know so far is that the building's exterior was damaged. Whether the interior was affected remains unclear. Now, back to those boomerangs coming back to hit America after its blackmail tactics. European telecommunications companies are ALREADY discussing how to join forces and strengthen a common European mobile communications network. To make this possible, the European Commission decided earlier this year that, once certain agreements with foreign partners expire, some frequencies used by European satellites would be allocated to European companies rather than foreign ones. Well... put simply, spaceX and its starlink service could lose access to certain frequency bands in Europe. And the Americans are furious about it. Meanwhile, following all this starlink nonsense, the Ukrainians are joining forces with Finland's NOKIA and ICEYE to develop their own domestic satellite communications system. And this brings us to the main point: trump's blackmail tactics are coming back to hurt him and his best friend, the fake tsar, in a big way. russia will NOT get territories that never belonged to it and should never belong to it. Instead, it will ultimately destroy itself in this senseless war. By trying to pressure Ukraine, trump has effectively thrown a spanner in the republicans' works just before the elections. Europe has started calling trump what he is: a traitor. And Ukraine, together with Europe, is moving even further away from America's hostile administration while gaining greater independence. It will be a very strange period if, as we hope, America really does experience a Blue Wave in the elections. The Democrats, with a majority in Congress, will try to rebuild relations with Europe and help Ukraine, while a politically isolated president will probably obstruct their efforts out of spite over his election defeat. Either way, we still have a long way to go before the elections. And as the rift between Europe and America continues to widen, we're also seeing growing US pressure on Europe and attempts to interfere in our internal affairs. Returning to starlink, trump and musk are already publicly ranting that Europe will face consequences if it tries to restrict the activities of American companies on our continent. And this interference in European affairs is also clearly visible in Trump's comments about the protests taking place across Europe. I'll be publishing several detailed articles about that over the weekend. Meanwhile, several significant decisions concerning Ukraine were made in Europe this week: 1) Ukraine has been allowed to purchase weapons through NATO's procurement agency. In other words, procurement should become faster and more cost-effective. 2) EU leaders have expressed support for Ukraine's steps towards EU membership. More and more negotiating clusters are being opened. 3) The EU has also unanimously rejected the idea of territorial concessions. 4) There is also increasingly serious discussion about a new, additional €70 billion aid package for Ukraine for 2027. Once again, there are cautious references to those frozen russian assets. It's probably an unlikely option, but it would certainly be nice to see it happen. I won't try to come up with some magical conclusion. The point is simply that we shouldn't worry too much that some Trump might suddenly force Ukraine into capitulation or somehow make it accept concessions. And we shouldn't expect the war to end just yet, either. Not because we don't desperately want this nightmare of terror to end, but because russia simply isn't ready to stop fighting. All those Kremlin statements about being willing to negotiate are nothing more than an attempt to extract concessions in advance. So, once again, this is a good time to support Ukrainian soldiers' fundraising campaigns. Still, I can at least wish you all a good weekend. --------- P.S. I use capital letters for those that I respect, and small letters to those that I have no respect. You get it. Follow me for more in-depth articles about Europe, Ukraine, USA, war with russia, war with Iran, Middle East, China and all kinds of interesting geopolitics topics. The following ones will be about the ongoing protests/riots in Europe.
Pontifex maximus: “we live in a performance-driven culture that constantly compares and ranks people, sometimes ruthlessly” and a “misguided understanding of meritocracy ultimately fails to respect people,” meaning many members of the younger generation give up before even trying. “Quite a few young
The author said members of the Verkhovna Rada had called on Germany to reconsider its approval of cooperation between Rosatom and Framatome. They wrote that Germany was supporting Russia’s production of Russian-designed fuel assemblies in Lingen and called for the approval to be revoked immediately, citing security concerns. #Ukraine #Germany #Rosatom #UA #DE #RU
The author said Oleszki needed humanitarian aid, claiming around 6,000 people, including more than 180 children, were trapped there under Russian occupation without access to food, medicine or electricity. The author also thanked a large group of Members of the European Parliament for supporting the linked initiative. https://t.co/XYVkUFfvhY #HumanitarianAid #Oleszki #StandWithUkraine #RU #EU
The author said around 6,000 people, including more than 180 children, remained trapped in Russian-occupied Oleszki without access to food, medicine or electricity, and called for humanitarian aid. They also thanked a large group of Members of the European Parliament for supporting a link included in the post. https://t.co/sVtbQFe31D #HumanitarianAid #Oleszki #StopTheWar #RU #EU
The Comoros-flagged merchant ship Khoryv sank in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania this morning. Preliminary reports suggest the vessel may have been sunk by a drone attack. There were 13 crew members on board - 10 Ukrainian nationals and
European Parliament’s point man on Canada, Tobias Cremer, told Euronews that the planned “associate membership” should include an institutional framework formalising closer ties between the EU and Canada. #EUCandaRelations #TradeAgreements #GeopoliticalPartnership
Members of the European Parliament had a demonstration in Strasbourg to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe happening in Oleshky. Thankful to everyone who is contributing to make this Russian war crime visible!
Four members of the so-called Gang Suppression Force have been missing since Sunday. #ElSalvador #Haiti #GangViolence
Four members of the so-called Gang Suppression Force have been missing since Sunday. #ElSalvador #Haiti #GangViolence
Threatening physical harm or injury against members of Congress because of their performance of their duties is a felony under US law, 18 USC § 351. Elon Musk could easily be prosecuted for what he has done. But he won't be. After all, the US government is in his pocket
Important new US intelligence assessment leaked to WSJ concludes—largely backing the Poles and Balts—that Putin personally ordered the commencement of a new large-scale sabotage and terrorism operation targeting the European members of NATO.
The author said they were deeply saddened by the reported crash of a French Mirage 2000D fighter jet near Nancy. They offered condolences to those grieving a loved one and said their thoughts were with the family awaiting news, the crew’s fellow service members and everyone involved in the search. #Condoléances #Aviation #Sécurité #FR
Andrew Boff has left the Conservative Party after 53 years (so will now be an independent in the GLA) over his support for human rights. The leadership will not allow candidates to run if they publicly support continued UK membership of the ECHR, ratified since 1951 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
