Italy’s Meloni signs deal to ‘relaunch’ ties with China - DW

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is in Beijing to boost ties as concerns of a trade war with Europe grow. The two countries agreed to collaborate on green technology, including electric cars and renewable energy.

Previously, the South Koreans did not supply anything to Ukraine

That’s a lie, isn’t it?

The feed still works (probably), there just hasn’t been any new bulletins since April 20th: https://bulletins.hexbear.net/

Egypt to back South Africa genocide case against Israel at world court ^[SCMP]

From what I’ve heard Egypt cracked down pretty hard on the protests and I’m under the impression no one expects the government to do the right thing unprompted so this was kind of surprising.

I somehow completely missed that Ukraine is now using civilian planes to bomb Russia. You’d think the international “rules based” order people would have something against this but they predictably do not.

A Ukrainian Sport Plane Drone Just Flew 800 Miles Into Russia To Blow Up An Oil Refinery ^[forbes]

Presumably nothing will come from this (because nothing good ever happens) but it would be great if China could start prying Europe away from the US.

France’s Macron Calls for Reset of Economic Ties With China

Debated whether I should post this here or in /c/the_dunk_tank.

From crisis to prosperity: Netanyahu’s vision for Gaza 2035 revealed online

Decided to check the google trends for this “overcapacity” the news has been trying to push and the region stats really reflect the target demographic.

US first quarter annualized GDP growth comes in at 1.6%, lower than the expected 2.5%. At the same time inflation rises to 3.5%.

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