As a follow-up of the Oslo meeting on 20 October and in consultation with Ukraine, 🇫🇮President Alexander Stubb and 🇳🇴Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre today held a phone call with President Putin.
Finland and Norway are firm supporters of 🇺🇦Ukraine.
Press release👇
www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...
Villy Søvndal EU 🇪🇺: Trump’s betrayal goes far beyond Ukraine 🇺🇦.
It goes far beyond Europe.
An American 🇺🇸president is helping a dictator to tear down the very order.
Putin want a meeting with Trump and XI to decide Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 future.
"If you’re not on the table, you’re the menu".
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"Dear Americans 🇺🇸, help us defend the freedom our nations built together. The best way to do so, don’t vote for Trump and his friends in the midterm election".
Worth listening and repost.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Europe is counting on you, US 🇺🇸!
Vote blue 💙 up and down the ticket, take your country back!
🚨🚨This could be a turning point.
Amid #Starlink crisis, #Finnish tech giants #ICEYE and #Nokia signed a letter of intent with #Ukraine's Defense Ministry yesterday formalizing a partnership aimed at developing Ukraine's own #satellitecommunicationssystem.
kyivindependent.com/amid-starlin...
Zelensky 🇺🇦: "I have always asked the US 🇺🇸 president to broker an energy ceasefire, at least on energy, so that people have light. Russia can still sell its oil if it wants to.
Putin refuses an energy ceasefire.
He also blames Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the diesel prizes going up, that’s untrue".
“Look in the mirror, 🇺🇸”. No matter how many times you say “this is not who we are as a country”; right now it IS. 🇺🇸 has twice elected a corrupt, selfish bully who abandons allies, deals with enemies, rejects science and medicine, attacks other countries, harms the vulnerable and pardons criminals.
Zelensky 🇺🇦: "It’s simpler to talk about prices and connect them to Ukraine 🇺🇦 when everyone in the world understands that prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz.
Worth listening 👇
This is one of the Hornelund brooches crafted by a highly skilled Danish goldsmith.
It was unearthed in 1892 by a labourer ploughing fields in Hornelund. It was part of a valuable hoard that included a second gold clothing brooch & a thick gold arm ring.
🕰️c950-1000AD
🏛️📷 National Museum of Denmark
Vase of flowers, 1700, by Dutch flower artist Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750); admired for botanical detail & realism, a wilted blue iris, drooped tulip & freshly cut stalk missing bloom suggest transience.
Daughter of Professor of Botany Frederik Ruysch; pupil of Willem van Aelst.
Mauritshuis Den Haag
🚨🚨 WOW
It sounds legally and politically as a very complex proposal but in principle I am in favour of #canada becoming an associate member of the #EU.
Have to love Carney 💯🫶🎯
Carney 🇨🇦: "America is trying to break us so they can own us.
That will never, ever happen".
Carney is one og the worlds strongest leaders.
You should be proud, Canada 🇨🇦❤️.
Happy independence day tomorrow, Ukraine 🇺🇦💙💛.
Well done by our leaders from, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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Norge 🇳🇴 gir 85 nye milliarder til Ukraina 🇺🇦 neste år.
Norge 🇳🇴 fortsetter å støtte Ukrainas forsvarskamp. Ukraina går en tøff vinter i møte. Nå gir vi et tydelig signal om at Norge fortsetter å stille opp, både sivilt og militært, sier Støre til pressen søndag.
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/ExL...
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.?
Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
🚨🚨Good news: #AI detectors, human and otherwise, are about to get their biggest boost ever with new EU "watermarking" requirements that came into effect this month. Big tech is also falling in line. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/arti...
🚨🚨The #EU has collected €1.4 billion in revenue from immobilized #Russian central bank assets and will channel the proceeds to #Ukraine, @ec.europa.eu announced yesterday. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
⚠️ We have fined Google €890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act, by promoting their own services and restricting customer access to alternatives on Google Search and Google Play.
More information: link.europa.eu/vrNJTx
On International Criminal Justice Day; a reminder of the imperative of holding Russians leaders to account for their war crimes in Ukraine.
Let’s never forget the victims of Russian atrocities in Bucha, Irpin, Izium, Mariupol, Izium, Kherson, Hostomel and many other places
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
The Norwegian Government has decided that Norway will join the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine🇺🇦🇳🇴
Holding Russia accountable for crimes committed against Ukraine is a key priority for Norway 🇺🇦🇳🇴
Press release👇
#RuleOfLaw#WarCrimeswww.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...
Lviv today: It’s telling that Western media worldwide are quicker at advertising protests against the Ukrainian government while it’s happening in several cities than reporting on a daily basis about a democratic country at war against China-enabled Russia.
🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🚀 Ukraine and nine European countries have officially created the Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition, - Elysee Palace.
The leaders of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom have agreed to combine the defense industrial base…
🚨🚨Europeans are increasingly pessimistic about the state of the world, but their belief in the #EU is riding high.
A #Eurobarometer survey found 74 % of citizens reckon their country has benefited from being part of the EU. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Vulgar and self-aggrandizing
Exhibit # 250:
Trump wants his face on a new $250 bill
Patricia Solimene, the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, was involuntarily reassigned after resisting efforts to advance the $250 Trump bill
@anntelnaes.bsky.socialsubstack.com/pub/anntelnaes
🚨🚨 @hrw.org condemns Russia's unlawful property seizures in occupied Ukraine along with pressure on residents to obtain Russian citizenship, nationality-based discrimination, and restrictions on Ukrainians' travel to Russian-occupied territories. kyivindependent.com/human-rights...
Trump: “only complete and total surrender”
Iran: “nah”
Trump: “Ok then no nukes ever! We want the nuclear dust!”
Iran: “we’re keeping it”
Trump: “ok!!!! We have a deal”
Foxnews crowd:
⚡️Ukraine strikes Russian FSB headquarters in occupied Kherson Oblast, killing and injuring nearly 100 troops.
The strike also destroyed a Pantsir-S1 air defense system valued at up to $20 million, Zelensky said.
🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸
Friedrich Merz has proposed to grant "associate EU membership" to Ukraine. It would include:
- Participation in EU institutions without voting rights
- Step-by-step access to EU-funded programmes
- Mutual assistance under Article 42.7
- Snap-back mechanism in case of backsliding
Full story.
Archaeologists discovered a 7,300-foot-high cave in the Pyrenees filled with green mineral fragments, likely malachite used for early copper processing. The site also held hearths, jewelry, and child remains, showing repeated prehistoric use over thousands of years