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Christian Thiels
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"Iran launched attacks on sites in Bahrain, Kuwait, which both sounded alerts and fired air defenses in response. Jordan also reported shooting down five missiles that Iran shot at an air base hosting U.S. forces." @apnews.com
apnews.com/article/iran...
#Iran update Jun 9, 2026
Christian Thiels
Christian Thiels
Golda Barmherzig, a teenage girl of 15 years, full of hopes and dreams for her future - brutally murdered by German Nazis. One of an estimated 1.5 million children that fell victim to the Holocaust.🕯️
"If enacted, the package will reshape how Europe builds, buys and trusts its digital infrastructure. How far it goes will be decided in the negotiations ahead, at the European Parliament and among member states."
@rusi.bsky.social
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"Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing makes most advanced chips designed by companies such as Nvidia, AMD and Apple,so any increase in pricing could ripple through to the cost of AI infrastructure, and potentially the prices customers pay"
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
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"Beijing has built three new permanent platforms in the East China Sea since AMTI’s August 2025 survey of Chinese oil and gas activity in the area."
@csis.org
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"Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan sounded alerts and fired air defences early on Wednesday, as the United States and Iran traded attacks after the downing of an American helicopter a day earlier."
@euronews.com
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"Masked crowds gathered in various parts of Belfast on Tuesday evening, setting houses, a bus, cars and barricades on fire."
@cnn.com
edition.cnn.com/2026/06/09/e...
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheGathering as announced by @robcrank68.bsky.social. I'm contributing a classic: The gathering of the society of male Mandarin Ducks at our lake.
#birds #wildlife #photography #nature #ECK #birdsky #ducks
Christian Thiels
The United States has launched airstrikes on Iranian military sites after blaming Tehran for the crash of an American Apache attack helicopter, prompting new Iranian attacks across the region and rais...
For Europe, technology dependence is a strategic liability. The European Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package offers solutions, but can it hold its resolve?
“These cases involved executions, kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks and beatings and were framed by the perpetrators as punishments for alleged collaboration with Israel, looting humanitarian aid, theft"
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/hama...
The Iranian regime is attempting to use calibrated force in an attempt to extract concessions from the United States.
isw.pub
Institute for the Study of War
In a rare interview, a senior executive at TSMC discusses the AI boom, the geopolitics of chips and what it means for the price of electronics.
www.bbc.com
Anti-immigrant protesters in the UK have taken to the streets on Tuesday, after a 30-year-old man believed to be from Sudan was charged with attempted murder following a knife attack in Northern Irela...
China has constructed three new oil and gas platforms in the East China Sea over the past year, drawing formal protests from Japan. But tracking data of Chinese mobile drilling rigs and survey ships s...
US forces carried out strikes against Iran on Wednesday in what President Donald Trump said was retaliation for the downing of an American helicopter by the Islamic Republic a day earlier.
A new United Nations report says militants and police units in Gaza publicly beat, maimed and even executed dozens of Palestinians during Hamas’ war with Israel in acts amounting to war crimes.
10 June 1928 | A Polish Jewish girl, Golda Barmherzig, was born in Będzin.
In August 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from ghetto in Będzin. She did not survive.
