🇻🇪🗳 María Corina Machado rejects proposals to repeat elections.

“We went to elections with the rules of tyranny. Proposing a new election is a lack of respect for Venezuelans and July 28.”

https://news.1rj.ru/str/worldconflicts/36582

@FelipeChannel

🤝😳🏦💸💰The main donors of the World Health Organization #WHO from 2020 to 2021:

https://x.com/wolff_ernst/status/1824040299791864187/photo/1

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸🇻🇪🗳 Reporter: "President, do you support new elections in Venezuela?"

Biden: "I do"

https://news.1rj.ru/str/worldconflicts/36594

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸⁉️🇻🇪 — The White House has clarified that Biden misunderstood a question about the elections in Venezuela, which led to confusion about his stance. The administration reaffirms that there are no changes in its position regarding the South American country.

🇺🇳🇨🇩🦠❗️ — On August 14, 2024 AD, the Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared monkeypox in Central Africa outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

In a post on his X/Twitter account, he said:

The emergence of a new clade of #mpox, its rapid spread in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the reporting of cases in several neighbouring countries are very worrying.

On top of outbreaks of other mpox clades in DRC and other countries in Africa, it’s clear that a coordinated international response is needed to stop these outbreaks and save lives.

🔗 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros)

🇹🇼📈❗️ — M6.3 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Taiwan

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China has banned the export of metallic antimony.

Antimony is a key material with many military applications, such as high explosives, missile propellants, and infrared guidance. The antimony required by the US military industry is mainly imported from China. In terms of civilian use, antimony is still one of the key raw materials for photovoltaic cells and photovoltaic glass.

China's restrictions on antimony exports will not only hit the US military industry, but also make the Western photovoltaic industry even more hopeless.

At present, China holds 32% of antimony reserves, but 80% of production. In addition, Bolivia and Russia also have relatively large antimony reserves. Of course, the United States can find antimony reserves in other countries, but establishing production lines requires time and technology, and is not an easy task.

BTW: China has banned the export of gallium and germanium for over a year. How is the progress of production lines for these two metals in the United States? any update? how about rare earths production line?

🔗BeijingDai

🇭🇷 Croatia to Reinstate Mandatory Military Service Amid Rising Regional Tensions

Starting next year, Croatia will reintroduce compulsory military service for men as part of its strategy to enhance defense readiness.

The Balkan country, which abolished mandatory basic training before joining NATO in 2009, will now implement two-month service periods to build “much better, stronger, and higher-quality defense forces,” according to Defense Minister Ivan Anusic in an interview with local broadcaster RTL.

🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇨🇳❌🇨🇳 — Chunqian Publications: Xi Jinping calls class struggle a “leftist mistake.”

➡️ Thus, Xi Jinping openly rejects Marxism.

🔗 Chunqiao Publications (@ChunqiaoPub)

🇨🇴❌🌹🇧🇷🇻🇪 — The former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana strongly criticized the leaders of Colombia and Brazil, Gustavo Petro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, respectively, for their “support” of Nicolás Maduro following Venezuela's presidential elections.

“Gustavo Petro and Lula missed the opportunity to go down in history as democrats by disregarding the popular will and supporting the coup by @NicolasMaduro in Venezuela. Democracy must be respected.”

Andrés Pastrana A (@AndresPastrana_) on 𝕏 🖇

#BREAKING

🥇📈🚀GOLD reach a fresh new All Time High, over $2500/oz!

@FelipeChannel

🦠World Health Organization:

Monkeypox virus is spreading faster than before.

🇱🇾 Is Libya on the brink of a new civil war?

With two rival governments at either end of the country, ongoing political ruptures and now, fresh military mobilization, there are fears Libya could be heading toward more violence and fighting.

In a statement, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya said it was monitoring "with concern the recent mobilization of forces in various parts of Libya."

The organization, known as UNSMIL, urged "all parties to exercise maximum restraint and avoid any provocative military actions that could be perceived as offensive."

On Thursday, the Delegation of the European Union to Libya expressed similar concerns. 

"The use of force would harm stability in Libya and lead to human suffering. It should be avoided at all cost," it said in a statement. 

Longtime Libya watchers were more direct, suggesting that, after around four years of relative calm in the country, civil war might be about to break out once again.

The warnings came in response to last week's large mobilization of militias affiliated with one of Libya's two rival administrations.

Since 2014, Libya has been split in two, with opposing governments located in the east and west of the country. A UN-backed administration known as the Government of National Unity, or GNU, is based in Tripoli in the west, and its rival, known as the House of Representatives, is based in the east, in Tobruk.

At various times over the last decade, each government has tried — and failed — to wrest control from the other.

The government in eastern Libya is supported by former warlord-turned-politician Khalifa Haftar, who controls various armed groups in his area. It was Haftar's forces that appeared to be moving toward Tripoli late last week. In 2019, Haftar attacked the city but was eventually forced to sign a cease-fire in 2020.

🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/is-libya-on-the-brink-of-a-new-civil-war/a-69963648

🦠 So far in 2024, 17,541 mpox cases have been reported in twelve African countries, with 517 fatalities, according to data from the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

🦠 However, the WHO assures that only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the number of deaths exceeds 500 and the authorities of that country have recognized 548 deaths, the AFP agency reported.

🇩🇪☢️ Germany blew up the cooling towers of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant today.

It was in operation between 1981-2015.

After Fukushima, Angela Merkel took the decision to close down all Germany’s nuclear power plants by 2022.

Today, none are left

@CIG_telegram