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The US-led mediation efforts to declare a permanent truce in the Manbij and Kobani regions were unsuccessful.

The US-led mediation efforts to declare a permanent truce in the Manbij and Kobani regions were unsuccessful due to Turkey's approach in dealing with the mediation efforts and its evasion to accept key points. These points included the transfer of remaining Manbij Military Council fighters and civilians wishing to move to safer areas within north and eastern Syria, as well as the resolution of the issue concerning the transfer of Suleiman Shah's remains to their former location. Despite US efforts to stop the war, Turkey and its mercenary militias have continued to escalate over the last period. SDF Media Center

🇲🇱Biggest Lithium plant in Africa, unveiled in Mali:
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Yesterday, Mali Inaugurated , the largest lithium production mine in Africa, and the fifth in the world, the new "Lithium Mali SA" plant opened its doors in Goulamina, in the Bougouni region, Mali. The ceremony took place under the chairmanship of the President of the Transition, Army General Assimi GOÏTA, accompanied by members of the government, the president of the National Transitional Council (CNT), and in the presence of local and traditional authorities. The Chinese Ambassador to Mali, CHEN Zhihong, as well as the Chairman and CEO of the Ganfing company, Wang Xiao SHEN, also attended this event.

In his speech, the President of the Transition, HE General Assimi Goïta, stressed the importance of this new infrastructure for Mali, emphasizing that this project, the result of profound reforms in the mining sector, constitutes a major step forward in the exploitation of the country's natural resources. The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces expressed his satisfaction to see this project, eagerly awaited by Malians, particularly those in Bougouni and its surroundings, come to fruition. Concerning the expected economic benefits, the General announced an initial turnover of 680 billion FCFA, which will stimulate the national economy. The dividends from the mine, estimated at 71 billion FCFA, will be shared between the State (30%) and the private sector (5%). An investment of 25 billion FCFA is also planned for community projects, such as roads, health centers, schools and energy infrastructure. This project will create thousands of jobs, thus contributing to a significant reduction in unemployment and better employability of young people. The President of the Transition praised the "strategic and sincere" cooperation between Mali and China, thanking the Chinese company Ganfing for its commitment to respect Malian laws and support the socio-economic development of local communities.

This project required an investment of more than 300 billion FCFA and should generate more than 150 billion FCFA each year for the Malian state.

If anyone wants a good source going through the recent drone/UAV/UAP hysteria in the USA, the twitter account I'll link below goes through it video by video, ID'ing the objects using geolocation techniques and FlightRadar24. Spoiler alert: it's all civilian or military aircraft. On some occasions it's stars our out of focus lights.

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Whoever's running this PsyOp, you can shut it down now lol. The American people are more ignorant than you estimated.

Now trump is getting in on the drone hysteria

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Chrystia Freeland bailing on the Trudeau show. He asked her to leave her role as finance minister and take another cabinet position, she said no and took some pot shots on the way out the door. She was definitely the number two in the Trudeau government, the wheels are really coming off.

I can imagine her winning her seat again maybe, but she's delusional if she thinks she can distance herself enough from the current government to get the leadership role of the LPC. edit: actually, she might be able to become leader of the LPC because liberal voters might try to mix things up with a naturally governing girlboss (this is a riff on the liberals as canada's natural governing party, not transphobia or whatever), but she's got way too much trudeau government stink on her to be PM.

She's done as much to continue the war in ukraine as anyone in the west. What a shit.

Scholz lost the vote so his government is now finally gone. Only 207 of 733 voted for him and 394 against. This doesn't come as a shock or anything this just makes it official elections are in 60 days in feb. Based on the newest poll SPD is going to lose quite a bit and get between 15-17%. CDU/CSU is going to be the biggest party with 31-35% greens might actually also lose after mentions of a Green-Black (Greens and CDU) coalition are around. AfD looks to double their % from the elections up to 20% maybe even higher.

No idea if what the greens in Belgium did had any influence since there a city government was decidedly won by the left and greens formed a gov. coalition with right-wing freaks.