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French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating has plunged to just 21%, hitting its lowest point in years, according to an Ifop poll for Le Journal du Dimanche.

In September 2024, just 25% of respondents approved of his performance—a low point not seen since the 2018 Yellow Vest protests. By December it had fallen to 24%, and in January 2025 it dropped another three points.

During his second term Macron has faced a political crisis and difficulties in forming a government. Rising national debt and a growing deficit have also fueled public dissatisfaction with his economic policies.

Critics argue he prioritizes Ukraine over France, further alienating voters who see him as out of touch.

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#Throwback to 2024, when Estonia’s Kaja Kallas casually suggested carving Russia up into “small states” after the Ukraine conflict.

But sure, NATO isn’t using Ukraine as a proxy to break up Russia—that’s just “Kremlin propaganda”, right?

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❗️Trump announced a 25% emergency tariff on Colombian goods, along with a travel ban and immediate visa revocations for Colombian officials, after two deportation flights were denied landing.

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🔸 The resource curse: How Ukraine lost trillions’ worth of West-coveted natural wealth

🔸 Winners and losers from Trump’s tariff wars

🔸 Dugin: why Trump will DESTROY the liberal international order

🔸 Which country could buy Greenland? Spoiler: It’s not the US

🔸 ‘This is our land’: Lebanese woman confronts Israeli Forces

🔸 Belarusian president votes in election

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🇨🇳China releases superior AI model that’s free, fast and better for humanity than US rivals

Advanced large language model DeepSeek R1 outperforms OpenAI’s o1, GPT-40, and Meta’s* Llama 3.1 in math, reasoning, coding, and problem-solving.

🔸 Facing US chip restrictions, DeepSeek R1 relies instead on its superior compute efficiency.

🔸 It’s also free to run locally, with API access priced at a fraction of competitors’ rates.

🔸 The model generates responses in a process akin to human reasoning, making it highly adept at solving scientific problems, and ideal for researchers engaged in data analysis, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling.

🔸 Unlike commercial "black box" AI models, DeepSeek R1 is open source, allowing users to study and build on it.

🔸 DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng has told media that he prioritizes research and innovation over profits, and ultimately aims to create artificial general intelligence (AGI).

🔸 If he succeeds and an open-source AGI is born, humanity could be saved from a privatized, weaponized, and monopolized AI like the kinds being pushed by Silicon Valley.

If open-source AGI succeeds, perhaps it could save humanity from privatized, weaponized and monopolized AI wiping us out?

* Banned in Russia for extremism

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🇯🇴🇪🇬 Jordan and Egypt oppose Trump's plan to resettle Palestinians

"Security in the Middle East is only possible through the establishment of an independent state for the Palestinians, not through their relocation," Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said.

"Egypt stresses the unacceptability of any violation of Palestinian rights, whether through settlements, occupation, or the temporary or long-term displacement of Palestinians from their land," the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Earlier, NBC News reported, citing an unnamed official, that the Trump administration is still grappling with how to rebuild Gaza and where to relocate some 2 million Palestinians at this point.

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⚠️ 19 dead, 9 injured in Bolivian bus crash

An accident with a Panamericana bus happened in Cerdas, Potosí, reports El Deber. Rescuers fear that the death toll could rise.

The bus, which was traveling from La Paz to Villazón, overturned due to its high speed and the driver's inexperience.

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❗️ Israel allows Palestinians to return to northern Gaza on Monday

The decision comes in exchange for an agreement to release three Israeli hostages by Friday and three more on Saturday, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said.

📹 Social media footage shows people celebrating their imminent return to their homes.

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'The calmest election in the history of Belarus' — Interior Minister

Ivan Kubrakov said that Belarusian citizens abroad failed to distort the peaceful situation in the country and thanked their compatriots for maintaining order during the elections.

🗳 According to the preliminary results of the CEC, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko won the election by gaining over 86% of the vote.

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Trump administration discusses deportations with El Salvador — reports

According to CBS, the so-called "safe third country" agreement would allow US immigration officials to deport non-Salvadoran migrants to the Latin American country and deny their asylum claims in the US.

Currently, the US only has a "safe third country" agreement with Canada, which allows them to exchange asylum-seeking migrants who have crossed the US-Canada border.

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