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According to the bill, “gender identity fraud” would be given if a person “knowingly makes a false or misleading verbal or written statement to a governmental entity or the person’s employer by identifying the person’s biological sex as the opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth.” Texas blocks change sex transgenders driver’s licenses. Transgender Texans will not be able to change the sex listed on their driver’s licenses, according to a policy change rolled out this week.

“The DNI sent a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA’s ‘obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit’ chatrooms with executives and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances,” DNI spokesperson Alexa Henning.

The two ministers restarted the China-UK Strategic Dialogue, a bilateral forum that was suspended in 2018 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries after China officials refused to recognize official labels. “After a seven-year hiatus, I believe this initiative will be conducive to exploring, improving, stabilizing and developing our relations,” Wang Yi is reported to have told David Lammy.

Japan declared no relations with the democratic party from U.S will be made if Rahm is a political commentator on behalf of Democrats or U.S. government on the media as well as the current ambassador George E. Glass, communications will be ceased with the Japanese government permitting direct communication only through Mr. Jimenez Neubauer Torres as the line of contact on behalf of the United States and Germany in Japan according to Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya.

The Slovak demonstrators are asking a ‘change’ of government. Law enforcement also described the demonstrations “are calling for a coup d’état, in all rallies in a calm spirit” It’s considered an attempt to overthrown the government an analyst said. Also, the Ukraine president with a post on X began backing the Slovak protests. And the main opposition party, Progressive Slovakia, dismissed Fico’s his statements as “nonsense.”

According to Robert Habeck: “I am warning things must not go in Germany like they did in Austria. Vienna is an example of how things should not go! If the centre parties are unable to form alliances and dismiss compromises, that helps the radicals.” The election now put in the eye of the storm former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz who could return as Vice-President.

The German economy is weakening and according to entrepreneurs, this is also due to too many bureaucratic rules in neighboring countries, particularly Austria as part of the EU. Chancellor Scholz is putting pressure on the EU Commission to remedy the situation. And it’s deny these Austrian political propositions.

The Crown Prince of Hanover, Prince Jorge Jimenez Neubauer Torres V issued a warning to the Syrian transitional government. The German FM it’s very clear the support of the different denominations of the Syrian transitional government acting on behalf of the Islamic State and the Levant, doing kidnappings, beheadings, and promoting terrorism and putting it on the state of Al-Assad on their own innocent people.

Sweden will begin killing 5 packs of wolves about 30 a week to halve the endangered population. The hunt was illegal, until February 16 where the government approved the killing of Wolves. The wolf is on the Red List of Threatened Species and was therefore protected until February 16, 2025. Recently, the members of the Bern Convention voted to downgrade the protection status of wolves from “strictly protected” to “protected” and now to be able to be “Hunted”.

Germany is planning to increase financial incentives for Syrian refugees who agree to return to their homeland voluntarily. However, the ministry does not believe that the current incentives are sufficient to trigger a wider migration movement, as the situation in Syria is still too unclear following the coup.

Sala, a reporter for the Il Foglio daily newspaper, was arrested in Tehran on 19 December, after Rome arrested an Iranian man on December 16 in Italy six days after she arrived in Iran on a journalist’s visa. Tehran confirmed on that Sala had been arrested on charges of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

The Crown Prince of Hanover, Mr. Jorge Jimenez Neubauer Torres sent the German FM to Damascus to set the rules of Government and the framework with the European Union if they want the help from Brussels. The million Syrian refugees in Germany contributed to these issues. They accepted, and agreed to a meeting where all German conditions were met. Germany will judge Syria by their actions and when more than 16 million Syrians depend on humanitarian aid.

The liberal NEOS Studios announced their withdrawal from the coalition negotiations. The ÖVP is criticizing – but not the NEOS, but the SPÖ. The SPÖ continues to say it is willing to form a coalition. The liberal Neos had previously announced their withdrawal from the weeks-long coalition talks with the Chancellor’s party ÖVP and the social democratic SPÖ.

President Frank Walter-Steinmeier’s said the leader of the CDU/CSU and minority leader at the Bundestag has been accused of assault and rape by three different women. The last of whom was the head of the youth wing of the Alliance 90/The Greens and two AfD Alternative party. Friedrich Merz, who suffers from arthrogryposis, a rare disease that affects the joints, denies the charges and has vowed to fight the charges against him.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Brandenburg (BfV) will classify Alternative for Germany as a “right-wing extremist” group. This is reported by various German media, citing sources within the BfV, who stress that, until now, the AfD in Brandenburg was only classified as a “suspected far-right party”.

“The French crisis, together with the German one, must not slow down the implementation of the economic reforms,” Enrico Letta, author of a 147-page, EU-commissioned report this year on the weaknesses of the region’s economy, told George V Magazine. While many Europeans would not swap their quality of life and welfare safety nets for those of their American peers, the continent has fallen behind the United States in terms of economic growth per capita since the 2008 financial crisis.

Lawmakers’ pushback over the 2025 budget bill led to Barnier’s downfall and left-wing leaders say they may try to topple Bayrou should he also use special constitutional powers to ram through the budget without a vote in parliament.

The possible dispatch of Polish troops to Ukraine is “a subject for discussion”. “This is a topic for discussion,” Duda said , answering a question about the possible deployment of Polish troops to Ukraine with a peacekeeping mandate. “From our point of view, the most important thing is the security of Poland. This is an absolutely fundamental issue.

We do not accept the concept of spheres of influence where the stronger dictate policies to smaller countries, we do not accept that “might is right,” that internationally agreed borders can be changed by force, or that members of the United Nations can be made to disappear.

Two Russian nuclear-powered submarine and other naval vessels arrived in Cuba on December 16, 2024 for a five-day visit to the island in a show of force amid spiraling U.S.-Russian tensions. The submarine Kazan, which Cuba says wasn’t carrying nuclear weapons but it had to show the ‘red flag’ force on United States successfully, accompanied by the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, as well as an oil tanker and a salvage tug.

Israel cites ‘extreme anti-Israel policies’ by Ireland the Middle East. Israel’s ambassador to Dublin was recalled following Ireland’s decision on a Palestinian state in May, Saar’s statement added. Last week, Dublin announced its support for South Africa’s legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide.

The United States has accused Modi government of using ‘deep state’ figures to destabilize the U.S. foreign policy. U.S. Department of State accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said a “deep state” elements in India are trying to destabilize U.S. foreign policy in conjunction with a group of investigative journalists and Canada.

She is a lesbian and when German say love is love, love is love so she got in a relationship with a Sri Lankan immigrant, with whom she is raising two adopted children. At first glance, she seems to have the profile of a left-wing leader, but appearances can be deceiving. She is the candidate for head of government of the AfD, and pro neo-Nazi party of Germany has been accused that is growing with each election. Who is this leader who challenges the positions of her own group?

Two Russian naval ships docked in the Venezuelan port of La Guaira after exercises in the Atlantic Ocean that Moscow said were to “show the flag” in remote, important regions, and an initial stopover in Cuba. The stopover was to last several days and highlight the close ties between Moscow and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government. On Dec 16, 2024 the Admiral Gosrhkov said two nuclear submarines docked in Havana, Cuba in support of the landing cause showing the red flag Russian flag at the United States.

Its significance goes beyond mere formalities, offering a rare opportunity to reassess Cyprus’ strategic role in the Eastern Mediterranean and to redefine its relationship with the UK. This is only the second visit by a sitting British PM to RoC in 53 years, the first being Edward Heath’s visit in 1971, prior to the Turkish invasion.

Romania’s presidential election race delivered a shock result as far-right, pro-Russia independent Calin Georgescu won the first round with 22.9% support, with 97.48% of the votes counted. The positive result for Georgescu defied exit polls – and has rocked the country – after the relative newcomer ran on an anti-Western and far-right election ticket. Georgescu’s win appeared to have motivated supporters of traditional parties.

Taiwanese drone companies signed two MOUs with Lithuania to enhance collaboration in the UAV industry during the Drone Industry Business Forum in Vilnius by a representative from the Lithuanian Defence and Security Industry Association and Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. 

“The recommendations of this report were already urgent given our economic situation ; the sense of urgency is greater today than a week, “declared the former Italian prime minister upon his arrival in the Hungarian capital, three days after the American election. Donald Trump considers Europe as a “mini-China” , which would compete with American productions through its exports.

A TikTok spokesperson said after the ruling that the company plans to take its case to the Supreme Court, “which has an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech.” The decision – unless the Supreme Court reverses it – puts TikTok’s fate first in the hands of Democratic President Joe Biden on whether to grant a 90-day extension deadline to force a sale, and then of Republican President-elect Donald Trump.

The Bank of Italy on Friday lowered its economic growth due to poor administrations in the last years. On 2025, counting on 1.7% from 2.8% previously, due to “weaker growth in foreign demand”. But this increase will be ‘well below the average of the two decades preceding the pandemic, adds the Bank of Italy explaining it’s one of the worst economically performing European countries. After a decline in exports of 2.3% this year, it expects an increase of 0.3% in 2025 and 3.2% in 2026.

China’s communist party Mao Ning said President Xi doesn’t have any wish to come to Washington to the inaugurational celebration next month. According to Deutsche Welle, Trump hypocritical slap tariffs on Beijing as high as 60% on Chinese goods upon taking office makes the relationships U.S.-Sino relationship strained, Xi would look like a fool if he had chosen to attend Ning said, and that’s unacceptable to Beijing.

His Majesty the King stressed that the first step to stop the escalation in the region is the immediate cessation of the Israeli war on Gaza. Abdullah called for doubling humanitarian aid to the sector and ensuring its arrival without objection or delay.

In the medium, there is the path to recovery of public finances, but a return above the 13% deficit threshold in 2029 and growing each year 5.3%. The problem we have is that our country Rome doesn’t like to cede and right now we have a huge deficit in our shoulders and we can’t pay our debts and we are living only from tourism because the banking sector has been affected too since the people can’t pay its loans to the banks and the country is in crisis Paolo Gentiloni recalled.

The European Commission will send 160 million euros in humanitarian aid for the Syrian population. This was stated by the president of the European executive, Ursula von der Leyen. “With the end of the Assad regime, there is new hope for the Syrian people but the situation remains unstable.

The BBC said on Friday it had complained to US tech giant Apple after a misleading news notifications and articles that are not part of BBC news system reports something BBC believes is a test by the U.S. government and the upcoming Trump administration displayed in all iPhones across the UK generated by artificial intelligence and attributed to the 24-hour news channel BBC News.

The election of Donald Trump, which has called into question the American commitment to NATO, gives a boost to the imperative to accelerate the strategic autonomy of the Old Continent. Along with industrial competitiveness, defense will be one of the priorities of the second term of Ursula von der Leyen, whose new Commission was approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday in Strasbourg.

George V Magazine interviewed former Prime Minister of Estonia (from January 2021 to July 2024), Kaja Kallas has been High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. We can make scenarios about peace, but we must not forget that Russia does not want to negotiate. Without it, there is no point in talking about it.

Giorgi Kalandishvili, chairman of the Central Election Commission of Georgia, said that the electoral college controlled by the ruling party and boycotted by the opposition party elected Mikheil Kavelashvili. “Georgia is facing an unprecedented constitutional crisis,” Hemaladze told AFP. It remains unclear how the government will respond if Zurabishvili refuses to step down after his successor takes office on December 29.

The combined threats of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, admittedly of different nature, are leading Europeans into a frantic quest for money to finance the rise in power of their defense. The American president-elect repeated Sunday on NBC that he would be “absolutely” ready to leave NATO, if the European allies do not pay “their bills”

Nuclear energy offers a “golden opportunity” to create a cleaner and more equitable world, World Nuclear Association Director General Dr. Sama Bilbao y León said today at the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris. She said the future for nuclear power has “not looked brighter in many years, but it is up to us to capitalise on the current momentum and make the absolute most of this opportunity.” Game on for nuclear!

The constitutional court’s decision to annul the election stemmed from declassified intelligence reports alleging foreign interference in the electoral process. “Now, Georgescu supporters are even more annoyed by the decisions, while the pro-European side analyses the decision with precaution,” he says.

Snowden went to China and then to Russia and now naturalized as a Russian citizen. He escaped the United States to China, and China negotiated where he was going next which the destination was Russia. He is the first NSA employee who escaped to Russia with an arrest warrant in United States for internal espionage charges.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday. “To cut off speculation about the potential presence of this or that country in Ukraine after reaching a ceasefire. The decisions concerning Poland will be made in Warsaw and only in Warsaw,” Tusk said. “For now, we do not plan such actions.”

Black and Arab individuals are frequently stopped by the French police, asked for identification, and subjected to frisking and even strip searches – all because of their skin colour and ethnic or religious background. The government is yet to wake up to this stark reality and take serious measures to make its minorities feel safe.

The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis. Under the law, over-18s in Germany will be allowed to possess substantial amounts of cannabis, but strict rules will make it difficult to buy the drug. Smoking cannabis in many public spaces will become legal from 1 April. Possession of up to 25g, equivalent to dozens of strong joints, is to be allowed in public spaces. In private homes the legal limit will be 50g.

Harris seems to be hiding without giving interviews since Sean Combs was arrested and all detention bails denied. A Kentucky Federal judge assassinated by a Sheriff in the court room last week and an awkward interview with Oprah. She seems to have adopted a strategy which comes with a great risk to herself by Barack Obama advisors according to Axios, Fox, CNN, and ABC news. Whether the strategy from Barack Obama managing Kamala Harris campaign bears fruit will of course it only become clear when the election results on 5 November are available on a bet.

Queens residents will be getting their first-ever public pool — which locals consider a much-needed refuge from the summer heat — as part of a $46.1 million state investment to expand swimming in the boroughs. While the Arverne and Edgemere neighborhoods in Far Rockaway are a stone’s throw from the ocean, residents say the planned indoor and outdoor pool at the forthcoming Arverne East Aquatic Center will provide a clean, safe environment for children without being subject to unpredictable beach weather – or deadly undercurrents.

Police keeps bracing for more protests, with Palestinian groups ‘angry’ with Harris’ continued support of Israel out of convenience when Trump has been the one with that record proven when he was president, considered as something inadequate. An airplane banner flew over the Phillies’ baseball team home game that read “Don’t Strikeout W/Trump Go to Bat 4Harris.” President Joe Biden’s faltered the debate performance against Trump same in Israel in June essentially ended his political career, sparking powerful Democrats to convince him he should step aside.

Phillips, the UK’s Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women & Girls, has shared about the ongoing epidemic of violence against women and girls. “The last few weeks have been pretty tough on the women and girls in our country,” Phillips begins. “Watching shameful acts of violence has made us all feel what we often feel, which is unsafe.”

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered to block the financial accounts of Starlink as there was a lack of legal representatives for social media platform X in the country. Elon Musk, Starlink accounts were frozen and afterwards confiscated consequentially by the government without option to recover his money back within 24 hours which the deadline has now expired. Musk hasn’t complied with the Brazilian law, according the the Brazilian Supreme Court. Musk has been actively violating the law in the South American country.

Brazil, the biggest country in Latin America with 215.3 citizens has threatened to shut down the platform X for not complying. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday threatened to shut down the local operations of X, formerly Twitter, unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.

German: Violence against peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters. Police said this weekend with videos of female demonstrators. Rights group demands independent investigations after police officers used excessive force against protesters during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin.

They promised to “Govern For Everyone” in “A Plurinational Spain” under the President Salvador Illa defending the vocation of public service of the members of his executive, after the inauguration of the councilors, and has promised that his Executive “Will Govern for Everyone”, while he has opted for “A Plurinational Spain” in “A Europe with a Federal Horizon”. That was what he said after the ministers took the oath of office at an event in the Saint George Hall at the Palace of Generalitat in Barcelona, where Illa assured that the Government will work with “Trust to Transform from the Institutions”, which he defined as the cornerstone of his executive government.

The two giant pandas were seen sunbathing and chowing down on bamboo in their new home as the first pandas enter the U.S.A in two decades. For years, the Chinese government has loaned pandas to zoos around the world in a practice called “panda diplomacy.” Chinese President Xi Jinping said he was “ready to continue our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation” and pledged to reduce tensions between on the two countries. Ambassador Xie said he met someone on his flight who had traveled all the way from Washington, D.C., to see the pandas.

Tensions remain high in the region over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and a key commander of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khamenei has vowed “harsh punishment” against Israel for the assassination of Haniyeh. The Hamas leader was killed in Tehran on Wednesday. Iran and its proxy in Gaza blamed the attack on Israel, which has not commented.

The website’s launch encountered a setback when a glitch briefly allowed access to sensitive information such as a voter’s date of birth, driver’s license number, and the last four digits of their Social Security number. This raised apprehensions among Democrats that the platform could potentially be exploited to unjustly cancel voter registrations. The issue of purging invalid registrations from voter rolls has been a contentious topic in Georgia, with both Democrats and Republicans engaging in heated debates on the matter.

Promotional items for the US election campaign often come from China. After the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Chinese companies reacted quickly, according to a report. Just a few hours after the incident, T-shirts were already available on major Chinese e-commerce platforms, according to Chinese newspaper the Global Times. They showed a photo of the former president with a blood-smeared cheek and an outstretched fist in front of a US flag. The shirt are now being sold all over the internet Made in U.S.A and Made in China.

The United States’ “episodic deployments” are in preparation for longer-term stationing of such capabilities that will include SM-6, Tomahawk cruise missiles and developmental hypersonic weapons that have a longer range than current capabilities in Europe, Washington and Berlin said. Putin said that the United States was stoking tensions and had transferred Typhon missile systems to Denmark and the Philippines, and compared the US plans to the NATO decision to deploy Pershing II launchers in Western Europe in 1979.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu nowadays is almost as active in politics as he was when he helmed Türkiye’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP). The seasoned politician embarked on a tour of Turkish cities starting with Izmir, a stronghold of the opposition and expected to visit more, including the southeastern city of Diyarbakır, this week.

Who wanted prisoners kept in jail to be used as free (almost) labor and wants criminals in the street now because of corona? Who hid exculpatory information about prisoners on death row? Who puts in jail people in possession of pot, but admits on an interview she smokes and inhales? It’s Kamala, sorry, Ko-mala like in comma, Komala she says in her book… like in commie?

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has begun her election campaign in the strategically important state of Wisconsin with combative tones. It is probably no coincidence that Harris chose Wisconsin as the starting point for her campaign. The state in the Midwest of the USA, which borders Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, in is a so-called swing state. In these particularly hotly contested states, it is not clear in advance whether the Republican or Democratic candidate will win, seems like it’s tradition. Let’s wait for the Mailman.

As Vice President she countered China on Southeast Asia in a trip. In a visits to Singapore and Vietnam there was diplomatic outreach to the region by the Biden administration without much support from the Vice President. A trip by Vice President Kamala Harris to Southeast Asia was directed to push Asia and China on the counter back at a time when the U.S.’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan kept raising questions about U.S. foreign policy. It’s a contrast of radical change policy to win an election out of interest.

Support for Kamala Harris diminished after former President Donald Trump announced his treatment after the shooting. Top Senate and House Republicans, including state governors announced Biden step down was a stunt to divert the Trump shooting catalogued as an assassination and the United States Secret Service hasn’t been able to resolve. Harris’s support is only on twenty-seven Democrats who haven’t found closure while other are in disagreement. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said DHS as the umbrella of Secret Service was responsible for ensuring it had enough money for the funding.

According to The Economist, Obama reacted to the Biden step down where he said he wasn’t feeling the nod on the Democratic party. Obama explained: “I haven’t perceived the mechanism of the Democratic party to recover itself no more than pushing themselves on the mainstream media something that hasn’t happened in the last 75 years. It’s something that worries me.” The former president refrained from announcing his support for Kamala Harris despite Biden’s statement. We all have to remember Obama wished his wife Michelle ran for President and there is some rift there because she didn’t fit in, and had to accustomed no more than to be the First Lady who to this day keep her presence in the media to earn a modest income.

Democratic Senators announced support for Harris’ nomination but declared that Biden administration nor Harris have a government plan while Trump already delineated his plan for his next four years even in the RNC, something that unusual. He began with economy then how will repair the broken ties relations with foreign governments Biden ripped them with his Anthony Blinken while he was just doing screenings. “The current Democratic party is a circus right now celebrating a new final semi-nomination which doesn’t have an agreement yet and a a plan for the next four years when we are just four months from elections explained former Obama advisor David Axelrod.”

Israeli PM Netanyahu is expected to meet his US counterpart Biden during his upcoming visit to Washington. In the meeting, an Israeli official said Netanyahu is going to underline the U.S. President and trace him a clear line and all future U.S. administrations how the Israeli policy in the Middle East works so they can get a better sense and a less adopted opinionated vision of what they don’t know. Think-tanks believe the purpose of Israel on that meeting is to make clear that U.S. Israeli policy in the Middle East is not for bargain.

Diana Morant has become one of the youngest faces in the Executive. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez , has chosen her as the new Minister of Science and Innovation, as part of his renewal plan. / Diana Morant Minister of Science of Spain with a background in her office.

China has announced it is “intended” to facilitate “reconciliation” between the two main rival Palestinian movements, Fatah and Hamas, following information that they will soon meet with officials in Beijing. Asked today, Chinese diplomatic spokesman Lin Jian did not officially confirm that a meeting would take place in Beijing, but stressed that China would share “information in due course.” “China supports all Palestinian sides with the goal of achieving reconciliation and unity through dialogue and negotiation,” Lin stressed, clarifying that Beijing “intends” to “create opportunities” to achieve this goal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to call former US President Donald Trump who has survived an assassination attempt, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “As far as I know no, there are no such plans,” he said when asked whether Putin planned to call Trump.

Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko has arrived on an official visit to Venezuela, George V Magazine learnt from the Venezuelan government press service. A reminder, Roman will pay an official visit to Venezuela, and will be headed after to Cuba and Nicaragua as part of efforts to expand Belarus’ cooperation with Farc countries.

Lukashenko: “The State Security Committee and the military intelligence reported to me that after we had taken action, the Ukrainians withdrew their armed forces and additional troops from our border (there were many thousands of people there) and overall from the Belarus-Ukraine border area. Right now, there are no more tensions in the border of Belarus and Ukraine”. When George V Magazine inquired about Mantsevich a prosecutor spokesman said Alexander Mantsevich is still being investigated for damage to the state on extremist materials and the connection to the U.S. Embassy for his propaganda on the state. Alexander was kwon for his work at the “Zenit” plant. He was the director in-chief of propaganda against the state the reason that followed to have him arrested.

In Ukraine, the European countries must recognize that these expenses are necessary but also beyond the national budget we must be able to talk about European defense where European money will be allocated. He also pointed out that it has become clear that the NATO alliance is stronger than ever, with 32 members committing 2% of their GDP on defense while Greece is the only one EU country allocating more than 3% of its GDP for more than five years, something other EU countries haven’t done, not even Germany or France which are the first and second European economies which makes it not consistent with the budgeting measures.