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The leader of Yemen's Ansarallah, Sayyed Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, issues an ultimatum If the Zionists do not stop violating the ceasefire deal in Gaza, by refusing to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, Yemen will resume naval operations against Israel. Yemen has informed the mediators in Qatar and Egypt that Israel has 4 days to comply, or the Red Sea blockade will resume.

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Massive blackout in Buenos Aires leaves more than half a million without power

More than 600,000 people were left without electricity Wednesday as massive power outage hits Buenos Aires and its southern suburbs – event the Casa Rosada was affected.

A massive blackout affected neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires City (CABA) and the southern suburbs of the capital on Wednesday amid sweltering temperatures. Several power on Wednesday left some 620,000 users without electricity in Greater Buenos Aires – including the Casa Rosada.

Meanwhile temperatures soared above 35 degrees Celsius, with the famous 'sensación térmica' heat index touching 44°C, with a yellow alert issued for "extreme temperatures." Electricity firm Edesur, which serves the southern part of Buenos Aires, stated on X that "a failure occurred in a high-voltage line," affecting multiple substations. The blackout followed another massive one recorded in the early hours of Wednesday.

By mid-afternoon, service had been restored to 70 percent of those affected, while around 200,000 customers remained without power, a spokesperson from the Energy Secretariat told the AFP news agency. At the peak of the outage, some 622,000 users had experienced the cut, said the spokesperson.

The blackout, which even affected the Casa Rosada presidential palace, hit more than a dozen neighbourhoods in the city's centre and south. Disruption was observed at dozens of intersections as traffic lights failed and traffic jams developed. Subte metro services were suspended, with some travellers left in carriages between tunnels.

A large part of the Barracas neighbourhood, in the south of the city, spent hours without electricity amid the sweltering heat. People stepped outside to cool off or sought shade on the street. Some shopkeepers set up petrol-powered generators at the entrances to their businesses. Petrol stations saw queues of people lining up with jerrycans to fill up. Gilda Ávila, an employee at a laundrette in Barracas, lamented that she couldn't use the washing machines.

"I have a ton of clothes to deliver. And in this heat, it's unbearable. Prices keep rising, and nothing gets better," said the 39-year-old woman. In 2024, electricity rates in Buenos Aires rose by 268 percent while inflation reached 117.8 percent, according to a report from the University of Buenos Aires and the scientific institute CONICET – the impact of the removal of large subsidies for public utilities. "This morning, we had to throw away a lot of merchandise," 35-year-old butcher Eduardo Marecos. "We pay nearly a million [pesos a month] for electricity, so going through this is awful."

milei promised we'll be "like Germany" in about 35 years or so, uh... guys.., is he pulling another scam?

Two companies are responsible for energy distribution in Buenos Aires and it's surroundings: Edenor and Edesur, both are born out of the "Shock Therapy" of the early 90s, part of the massive wave of privatizations carried out at the orders of the IMF. Therefore, the entire grid is privatized and there is little to no incentive to invest because money line goes down.

Privatization will be considered a crime against humanity in the future and all who carried out privatizations will be executed by firing squad.

Trump says he is considering tightening sanctions against Russia until a settlement is reached on Ukraine. He also called on Moscow and Kiev to immediately begin peace talks: Sit down at the table right now, before it's too late

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Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk; Tells Cabinet he has no authority to fire workers - Politico

President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.

According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.

The meeting followed a series of mass firings and threats to government workers from the billionaire Tesla founder, who helms the Department of Government Efficiency, that created broad uncertainty across the federal government and its workforce.

IDOGE’s actions have faced ferocious resistance in court and criticism from Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans.

The Trump-Elon split

Graphic design is my passion

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/united-states-quits-board-un-climate-damage-fund-letter-shows-2025-03-07/

The United States has withdrawn from the board of the U.N.'s hard-negotiated climate damage fund, dedicated to helping poor and vulnerable nations cope with climate change-fuelled disasters

The withdrawal is "effective immediately"

As of January 23, wealthy countries had pledged $741 million to the fund, according to U.N. data, with the United States putting up $17.5 million. It is unclear if it will now honour that pledge.

$17.5 million dollars and they are still withdrawing.

Russia has made a big breakthrough in Kursk. According to multiple Ukrainian sources, from various telegrams, war mappers and the Kyiv Post, the Ukrainians are effectively operationally encircled in Sudzha. Russia has taken complete control of one of the two main supply roads, and the other supply road is under complete Russian fire control. Air strikes from the Ukrainian Air Force over the past few weeks, including F-16s armed with GBU-39 small diameter glide bombs, were not enough to break the siege. The Ukrainians, of course, are blaming this on a new brigade of North Korean troops.

Blue on the maps is Ukrainian occupied territory.

How the Kursk front looked like a week ago, for comparison:

Chat, are nuclear bombs woke?

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029

Jdpon don stands in solidarity with the oppressed, while aim can’t drop those dipshits

South Korea air force jets accidentally drop bombs on homes, injuring 15

(The number right now is 29)

Normal country.

Update: a former Syrian state-affiliated telegram reactivated after some silence and appears to have announced a general uprising in the west and I’ve seen (likely fruitless) calls to both Russia and Iran to intervene on the side of the resistance

https://t.me/ASSYRIA11/47916

alleged announcement below

Would hate to be in an ambush, actually

https://t.me/Alomhoar/59777

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In Syria news, there have been protests up and down the west coast after attacks by anti-government forces on HTS patrols and checkpoints. Demonstrators against the Jolani regime were fired at with machine guns and helicopters, killing at least a half dozen that I've seen, but likely more. This has added fuel to the fire and a state of emergency has been declared to put down the dissent

https://t.me/DarEQuds/9456

https://t.me/arabiasocialism/20446

⭕ Alawite community representatives have called for peaceful protests along Syria’s coast following the use of helicopter strikes in a security operation in rural Latakia.

https://t.me/alakhbar_english/16643

⭕ Military Source: Massive military reinforcements are heading to Jableh and its outskirts to support General Security forces and restore stability to the area. (SANA)

https://t.me/alakhbar_english/16643

An attack on HTS “police” by the resistance

Cw blood gore and corpses https://t.me/Alomhoar/59725

An alleged statement by a resistance commander in the Coastal Shield Brigade stating "We have made an irreversible decision... We will liberate the entire Syrian coastline from Al-Nusra terrorist forces."

https://t.me/Alomhoar/59721

What appears to be another attack on HTS in Latakia

https://t.me/DarEQuds/9466

Shooting at demonstrators in Tartus

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/31153

Syria has already speedrunned the 2003-2006 consolidation stage of post-2003 Iraq straight into the free-for-all Call of Duty multiplayer stage of 2006-2007. It's basically open war in the entire south and now the coast. A Hezbollah-Iran-backed group called the Military Council for the Liberation of Syria has suddenly appeared and they've done quite a major operation today against the new Jihadi regime, killing tens of fighters and kidnapping many more. I just wish Assad wasn't a complete dumbass and was more effective in killing the Jihadi dreams earlier, look we're today for the sake of Allah.

Cool guy shit

Three US soldiers from Pacific NW accused of sharing classified military information with China

Three U.S. Army soldiers are accused of sharing top secret national defense material and other sensitive military information with a Chinese national and other unidentified buyers in China, according to unsealed court records.

very cool dudes alert

Pope Pancho lives another day

The leaders of Latin America have moved to block the appointment of Paraguay's foreign minister to the OAS General Secretariat. This is because Rúben Ramírez is seen as sympathetic to Trumpism and his presidency could become an ideological arm of Trump here.

The movement gained momentum after Brazil withdrew its support for Paraguay's candidacy and backed Suriname's bid for the OAS General Secretariat. Other countries, such as Chile and Uruguay, have embarked on supporting Suriname. With no votes, Paraguay had to withdraw its candidacy for the General Secretariat, overturning Trump's likely influence in the regional body. The withdrawal of the candidacy was confirmed by Paraguayan President Santiago Peña on X.

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As even some liberal news outlets have said, the US still finances and controls the OAS, this is more or less just a symbolic victory, just to show that the leaders can organize diplomatic stuff against Trump.

Trial against ousted president Pedro Castillo begins in Peru

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Besides the Endless Massacres there are news of the Resitance in the Coast , still ambushing the Al-Jolani Gangs

EDIT: Battles in Tartous

I have it in good authority through my job that the Trump admin has dropped ~150 white collar crime investigations/prosecutions since taking office. There were dropped essentially as a matter of policy and not due to lack of evidence. It seems that we are likely entering a new era of scamming and financial crimes.

What is happening in Syria is pure insanity, here's my little breakdown of the wider geopolitical situation from what I'm understanding from scrolling through Arab Facebook and Telegram today.

There are basically two opposing sides when it comes to how to do deal with the new Jihadi government in Syria. One side is pro-cooperation and consolidation of the new government, and the other side is pro-chaos and making it as hard as possible for the new regime to gain any legitimacy both internally in Syria and internationally. Here's how the situation currently looks if we're talking major regional players:

Pro-regime: Saudi, Qatar, Sunni Syrians, most other Arab states and Turkey

Pro-chaos: Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Hezbollah, SDF, minority Syrians and Israel

So we have a rare situation where the interests of Iran and Israel converge and they're both interested in making any effective ruling difficult for the Jihadis. The Israelis' partners in this clusterfuck are the Druze in Southern Syria, and some possible backdoor collaboration with Syrian Kurds in Eastern Syria. The Iranians still have good relations with former SAA members and are popular with Alawites and other Shia-adjacent groups in Syria, which is why they're backing them in Western Syria on the coast. Iranian and Axis media also seems to have shifted towards a more positive coverage of the SDF. I personally don't even have a take at this point, this is all developing way too quickly.