🇨🇳📊🇮🇳 — 🇷🇺 Russian digital newspaper VZGLYAD reported in an article ennoscriptd "Why does Russia need friendship between China and India?", published in May 13, 2024, that "In 2024, Beijing took another leading position in the Indian system of external coordinates — China overtook the United States and became India's main trading partner.

(...) In fiscal year 2024 (that is, from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024), bilateral trade amounted to $118.4 billion — about $100 million more than India traded with the United States. These are not just dry accounting numbers. And some experts began to say that this economic relationship could lead to a reduction in conflict between the two countries.

(...) The lion's share of Chinese-Indian trade turnover (just over 100 billion out of 118.4) will be exports from China. And these imports largely drive Indian economic growth. Thus, China accounts for 44% of Indian imports of equipment for the telecommunications industry and smartphones, 77% of imports of laptops and PCs, and 75% of lithium-ion batteries. A significant share of precursors for the Indian pharmaceutical industry is also imported from China.

(...)

Indian authorities tried to turn the situation around. Numerous import substitution programs were launched and protectionist measures were introduced. However, without results — over five years, India's trade deficit in the Chinese direction grew from 53.5 to 85 billion dollars."

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🇪🇺🚀📹 — The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing for the launch of the Ariane 6 launch vehicle

➡️ Arianespace's new rocket was initially scheduled to launch in 2020, but due to technical problems the first flight date kept slipping, which, coupled with the end of Ariane 5 rocket operation in 2023, created a space launch crisis in Europe and forced ESA to use the services of SpaceX for its key launches.

🇬🇫 The Ariane 6 prototype arrived at the French Guyana space center back in February of this year, where it continues its preparations for the first flight, which should take place in June-July.

➡️ Compared to its predecessor Ariane 5, the new rocket will be more powerful and cheaper.

➡️ The cost of launching missions with Ariane 6 is estimated to be half that of similar missions using Ariane 5.

➡️ The new rocket will be supplied in two versions:

🔴A62 is a light rocket equipped with two solid propellant boosters and is designed to launch two small satellites: communications devices, television broadcasting, and Internet access. Capable of transporting up to 5 tons to GPO and 10.35 tons to LEO;

🔴 A64 is a heavy version of the rocket, equipped with four accelerators, and will be used to launch large scientific and military satellites and various types of spacecraft into orbit. Capable of transporting up to 11.5 tons to GPO and 21.5 tons to LEO.

🚀 It is also worth noting that Ariane 6 is not reusable, which makes it a weak competitor to the Falcon-9 in the commercial market.

➡️ The reason for this decision is that the development of the rocket began long before the success of SpaceX's reusable rockets.

🌖✨ Sun unleashes massive X8.7 solar flare, biggest of current cycle, from super-active monster sunspot (video)

https://www.space.com/sun-solar-flare-sunspot-ar3664-x88-class-may-14-2024

🔹Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, MİT Başkanı İbrahim Kalın ve Adalet Bakanı Yılmaz Tunç'u Beştepe'ye çağırdı.

🔹President Erdoğan summoned National Intelligence Organization Director İbrahim Kalın and Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç to Beştepe.

Gazeteci Altan Sancar 🔹

Ankara Emniyet Müdürlüğü’ne dair gelişmeler çok su kaldıracak gibi görünüyor. Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan konuyu bizzat takip ediyor. Durum ‘darbe girişimi’ olarak görülüyor. Çok sert bir karşılık bekleniyor.

Journalist Altan Sancar 🔹

The developments regarding the Ankara Security Directorate are likely to raise a lot of water. President Erdoğan is personally following the matter. The situation is seen as a 'coup attempt'. A very harsh response is expected.

🇹🇷📞❗️ — 🇷🇺 RIA Novosti: The Turkish President held an emergency meeting with the heads of intelligence and the Ministry of Justice after warning of an impending coup.

As Türkiye writes, the warning came after high-profile dismissals of police officers who may be associated with the criminal organization Ayhan Bora Kaplan.

According to the leader of the Turkish nationalist party, Bahçeli, who warned Erdogan, everything points to a possible repeat of the coup attempt that occurred in Turkey in 2016.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/245553

👤🚫🇨🇳🪨 — 🇺🇸 President Biden through @POTUS on 𝕏:

"I just imposed a series of tariffs on goods made in China:

25% on steel and aluminum,
50% on semiconductors,
100% on EVs,
And 50% on solar panels.

China is determined to dominate these industries.

I'm determined to ensure America leads the world in them."

#Sanctions

🔗 President Biden (@POTUS)

👺❌🏦 Crypto Investment Firm BlockTower Capital Suffers Losses in Hack

BlockTower Capital’s main hedge fund has been compromised and partially drained by fraudsters, according to people familiar with the matter, who declined to be identified discussing sensitive information. The company has $1.7 billion in assets under management, according to data provider PitchBook.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/crypto-investment-firm-blocktower-capital-suffers-losses-in-hack

https://archive.ph/7tqWH#selection-1601.0-1601.300

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🇸🇻💞💰🌋⚡️ El Salvador has mined a total of 474 Bitcoin worth $29 million using volcanic geothermal energy since 2021.

The new additions, 473.5 bitcoins worth some $29 million since September of 2021, were powered by a small amount of geothermal energy generated by the country's imposing Tecapa volcano, touted as a green way to accumulate the well-known cryptocurrency, which is not regulated by any central bank.

The country has allocated 1.5 megawatts (MW) to cryptocurrency mining out of the 102 MW produced by the state-owned power plant.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-mined-nearly-474-bitcoins-adding-state-crypto-holding-last-three-2024-05-14/

https://volcano.energy/en/home/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-mines-bitcoin-volcanic-energy

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🇰🇵🔄🎃 North Korea laundered $147.5 mln in stolen crypto in March, say UN experts

North Korea laundered $147.5 million through virtual currency platform Tornado Cash in March after stealing it last year from a cryptocurrency exchange, according to confidential work by United Nations sanctions monitors seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

The monitors told a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee in a document submitted on Friday that they had been investigating 97 suspected North Korean cyberattacks on cryptocurrency companies between 2017 and 2024, valued at some $3.6 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/north-korea-laundered-1475-mln-stolen-crypto-march-say-un-experts-2024-05-14/

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🇸🇰 JUST IN: Slovakia’s prime minister injured in shooting

Media reports say Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital. The incident took place in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometres northeast of the capital, according to the news television station TA3. A suspect has been detained, it said.

https://apnews.com/article/slovakia-prime-minister-shooting-robert-fico-handlova-bdaaf0bba01035a700145a67d871a482

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