Libya
Worst fighting in years broke out in capital Tripoli between forces loyal to rival govts, raising prospect of a return to full-blown war. Fighting 26-27 Aug raged across Tripoli as forces aligned with Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR)-appointed PM Bashagha failed to take control of capital and oust Tripoli-based govt of PM Dabaiba; 32 people reportedly killed and 159 injured. Flare-up followed days of escalating tensions between rival factions.
W sprawie reparacji rządzący zachowują się tak, jakby był to temat, którym od czasu do czasu można okładać Niemcy. Politycy PO z kolei zachowują się często raczej jak adwokaci interesu Niemiec. Nie pozostawiają wątpliwości, że jeśli do władzy dojdzie ekipa Donalda Tuska, to temat zostanie zakopany na wieki. Logiczni są tylko Niemcy. Unikają trudnego dla nich tematu jak ognia i wspierają tych w Polsce, którzy reparacji nie chcą.
Nie należy wykorzystywać sprawy reparacji do polaryzowania Polaków.
Nie chciałbym dziś na tych łamach rozstrzygać, czy współczesnej, demokratycznej Polsce należą się odszkodowania za ogrom bestialstwa i zniszczeń, jakich dokonali Niemcy podczas drugiej wojny światowej. Raczej wesprę się posiadaną wiedzą, jaka wynika z publikowanego przez nas w czwartek sondażu: Polacy są w tej sprawie podzieleni niemal na pół. Czyżby dlatego, że ktoś kwestionuje nasze, polskie straty? Nie sądzę, żeby się taki znalazł, poza kompletnymi ignorantami i ludźmi złej woli.
The Syrian army air defences confronted an Israeli missile aggression on some points in Damascus countryside and shot down a number of the missiles.
“about 9.18 p.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an air missile aggression from the direction of Lake Tiberias in northern occupied Palestine, targeting some points southeast of Damascus” a Military source said on Wednesday.
These direct and indirect losses are estimated at 107.1 billion dollars, according to SANA.
Syria stressed that the practices of the United States, whose forces are illegally present on Syrian territory, along with the theft and illegitimate trafficking carried out by terrorist groups and the separatist QSD (Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF) militia, have caused huge losses and destruction in the sector of extraction, supply, distribution and investment of oil, gas and mineral wealth since 2011.
The system was brought back to Russia to strengthen its defence, according to al-Souria Net.
An Israeli space intelligence firm said Russia had reshipped the advanced S-300 air defence system from Syria to Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine continued.
Nikolas Granger also met the Department of Foreign Relations of the AANES, according to North Press.
US Senior Representative to Northeast Syria Nikolas Granger met on Wednesday with a delegation of the Kurdish National Council in Syria (ENKS).
Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart affirmed the necessity to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, according to SANA.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Tuesday that at least 154,398 Syrians arrested between March 2011 and August 2022 are still in detention or have been forcibly disappeared by the parties to the conflict and the controlling forces in their country, Anadolu has reported. That figure includes 5,161 children and 10,159 women.
How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous
In policy circles, discussions about artificial intelligence invariably pit China against the United States in a race for technological supremacy. If the key resource is data, then China, with its billion-plus citizens and lax protections against state surveillance, seems destined to win. Kai-Fu Lee, a famous computer scientist, has claimed that data is the new oil, and China the new OPEC. If superior technology is what provides the edge, however, then the United States, with its world class university system and talented workforce, still has a chance to come out ahead. For either country, pundits assume that superiority in AI will lead naturally to broader economic and military superiority.