Vladimir Putin is stuck in his military campaign against Ukraine and could be preparing for another attack, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with The Guardian.

The Kremlin is currently waging a hybrid war against Europe while testing NATO's red lines.

Zelenskyy warned that Russia could open a second front against another European country before the war in Ukraine ends.

"I believe so. He can do that. We must forget about the general European scepticism that Putin first wants to occupy Ukraine and then may go somewhere else. He can do both at the same time," he said.

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Since the national security law was implemented, Hong Kong police have issued a series of international arrest warrants for individuals residing abroad. So far, none of the 34 individuals placed on the wanted list have been turned in. Nevertheless, they are under intense pressure, even if they live in a democratic country like Canada, as alleged transnational repression by China spreads.

Tay and five other pro-democracy activists living abroad -- Tony Chung Hon-lam, Chung Kim-wah, Carmen Lau Ka-man, Victor Ho Leung-mau and Chloe Cheung Hei-ching -- were charged under the law and subjected to bounties the same day. Tay, who spoke out via his online platform HongKonger Station, is accused of inciting secession and for colluding with foreign forces, two of the four crimes that became punishable under the vaguely worded law. The two others are subversion and terrorist activities.

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"Transnational repression is not only real, but aggressive and sophisticated," Tay said. According to the couple, relatives who still live in Hong Kong were also affected, as Tay's cousin and his wife were taken in by the police and asked to assist with the investigation against Tay.

Dennis Kwok Wing-hang, a former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker who was placed on the wanted list and hit with an HK$1 million bounty before Tay, has also felt the heat in Canada. Despite being a Canadian citizen, Kwok told Nikkei in Tokyo in late October that he has moved to the U.S. with his family because he feels safer there.

Kwok was virtually forced to flee Hong Kong in November 2020, and became stateless at one point, as his passport was canceled by the city. He was subsequently able to reinstate his Canadian citizenship, which he had surrendered to run for office in Hong Kong in 2016.

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Explaining the situation in Canada, Kwok said that many "in the Chinese community have been reading up a lot of pro-Beijing propaganda news." This, he said, has "colored" their views. He argued that unlike in the U.S., "United Front" activities promoting Chinese influence and interests have been "very successful for decades" in Canada.

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For the "first time, democratic countries feel that authoritarian regimes are reaching into their own territories, affecting what [their own] citizens can do within their own borders," said Kwok, who has co-founded a think tank in the U.S. called the China Strategic Risks Institute. Whether the pressure is coming from China, Russia or Iran, he believes such campaigns have given democratic policymakers a wake-up call.

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Kwok called on Western governments to do more. "You're talking about democracy activists, dissidents, that are residing lawfully in those countries, that are [under] direct pressure," he said. "We need a lot of policy response in that respect."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52774830

Beijing officials call China’s current deflationary malaise “involution” — a destructive cycle of intense, self-destroying business competition sparked by excess capacity. Yang Zhifeng calls it something else: “twisted.”

Deflation signals a lopsided economy where supply dwarfs demand. That hurts companies, which in turn hurts workers. As consumption weakens, businesses spend less, economic activity slows, debt burdens rise, which then causes more deflation. The downward loop, known in economics as a deflationary spiral, feeds on itself once entrenched.

The trend also carries global implications: cheap Chinese exports can depress prices abroad, strain relations with trading partners, and create knock-on effects for multinational companies. Global institutions are sounding the alarm, with the International Monetary Fund projecting that consumer inflation in China will average zero this year — the second-lowest of nearly 200 economies it tracks. The Bank of Korea warned in July that China could export deflation to its trading partners.

And the problem could be even worse

And the problem could be even worse than they realize. China’s official CPI figure — which offers limited item-level detail and is shaped by a complex methodology that isn’t transparent — has hovered around zero since early 2023, occasionally posting modest gains. Bloomberg News analyzed prices for dozens of products in 36 major cities as well as both official and private data across China to get a sense of how much cheaper things have become on the ground. We looked at items in categories like food, groceries, consumer goods and services, as well as housing costs and price changes for specific car brands.

The analysis showed that prices are unmistakably dropping. Among 67 items tracked by Bloomberg News, prices on 51 dropped over the last two years. Economists say that official inflation measures may only partially capture the reality. Many key data series have quietly disappeared in recent years, and the National Bureau of Statistics has never offered the sort of granularity more common in the US, where inflation trackers go so far as to publish the cost of indoor plants and pet food. An outdated methodology for calculating rent changes in the CPI likely led to its overestimation in the past few years.

The NBS didn’t reply to a faxed request for comment.

Former IDF military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who was released to house arrest last week after being detained over the Sde Teiman video leak, was hospitalized on Sunday morning after medics were called to her home over what was later confirmed to have been a suicide attempt.

On Sunday night, Police Commissioner Danny Levy confirmed that Tomer-Yerushalmi had been hospitalized following an attempt to end her own life. "Her life isn’t rosy,” he said of the disgraced prosecutor, after a protester was detained outside of her home.

The police chief also addressed the allegations against Tomer-Yerushalmi, saying that “if she committed the offense, this affects how the army looks, how soldiers behave. We send our kids to an organization where they should be sure that nobody is leaking things, and that’s why we’re probing it,” he added.

Mashhad, home to around 4 million people and Iran’s holiest city, relies on four dams for its water supply. Esmaeilian said consumption in the city had reached about “8,000 litres per second, of which about 1,000 to 1,500 litres per second is supplied from the dams”.

Authorities in Tehran warned over the weekend of possible rolling cuts to water supplies in the capital amid what officials call the worst drought in decades. The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has cautioned that without rainfall before winter, even Tehran could face evacuation.

In the capital, five major dams supplying drinking water are at “critical” levels, with one empty and another at less than 8% of capacity, officials say.

The previous one: https://www.the-sun.com/news/15337505/two-trains-crash-slovakia/

Ex 620 crashed into the rear of REX 1814.
Based on what I could gather from local news, REX 1814 "drove onto a rail where it wasn't supposed to be" and "possibly one of the trains crossed a red light".
In both cases was cited lack of ETCS.

Anyway, procrastination is useful sometimes. If I wasn't 1 and a half hour late, I could have been on either of these 2 trains (most likely the REX).
Like this, I just ended up on a later one with 170 minute delay.

Two top leaders at the BBC resigned on Sunday amid an escalating scandal over impartiality and bias that plunged Britain’s public broadcaster into one of its biggest crises in recent years.

The BBC’s most senior executive, director general Tim Davie, and the chief executive of the news division, Deborah Turness, both quit after the leak of a deeply critical memo that, among other things, revealed that the BBC had misleadingly edited a speech by Donald Trump to make it appear that he had directly called for violence on January 6.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38756605

from +972’s Sunday Recap
from +972Magazine [published in #Israel]
Nov. 9, 2025

The Israeli army’s top legal official is being hounded over her role in leaking a video of Israeli prison guards raping a #Palestinian captive inside the Sde Teiman detention facility last year, a scandal that has split the nation. Yet both sides of the debate ignore her complicity in the genocide, Ori Goldberg argued — a reflection of #Israel’s moral decay.

Also:

• How to end Israeli apartheid
• In a tent in central Gaza, a women’s film festival is born
• The genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline
• PODCAST: What happened to the Palestinian popular struggle?

Jeffrey Epstein associate, serving 20 years for sex-trafficking crimes, is now in minimum-security federal prison in Texas

A Palestinian man who was dismissed from his job in Gaza after the war broke out is suing the European Union for allegedly breaching Belgian law.

He had been evacuated to Cairo after the war broke out with the assistance of the EU and continued to work there, as did other colleagues in the West Bank.

But he was dismissed this year after the EU decided to close the office in Rafah due to the war.

In the claim submitted to a Brussels tribunal, his lawyer, Selma Benkhelifa, states that Baraka “does not criticise the decision to close the Rafah office” as “the security situation justifies this”.

However, she states that his EU counterparts, who also worked for EUBam in Rafah, “were not dismissed, they were transferred elsewhere” to continue work, giving alleged grounds for “discrimination on the basis of his nationality.”

Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.

A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood.

The report, by Stand.earth, a Canadian environmental non-profit, claims that a subsidiary of Drax Group received hundreds of truckloads of whole logs at its biomass pellet sites throughout 2024 and into 2025, which were likely to have included trees that were hundreds of years old.

Power to be cut for as much as 16 hours a day across most of Ukraine while repairs are carried out

Power will be cut for between eight and 16 hours across most regions of Ukraine on Sunday, state transmission system operator Ukrenergo has said, after Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure reduced the country’s generating capacity to “zero”.

Moscow, which has escalated attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure in recent months, launched hundreds of drones at energy facilities across the country from Friday into Saturday, which killed at least seven people, according to Ukrainian officials.

The Russian attacks have disrupted electricity, heat and water supplies in several Ukrainian cities, with state power firm Centerenergo warning generating capacity “is down to zero”.

Last week, 7,000 people – including Tom Cruise – descended on the West Sussex town for an event that divides local opinion