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The EU foreign ministers confirmed today in Luxembourg sanctions against approximately 1,600 individuals and entities supporting Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and discussed increased pressure on Russia and further military support for Ukraine. #Ukrajina #Rusija #sankcije (translated)

Only this week the Russians launched around 1450 aerial bombs, 75 missiles of various types, and more than 1640 attack drones, of which about 60 percent are jet-powered - Only this week the Russians launched around 1450 aerial bombs, 75 missiles of various types, and more than 1640 attack drones, of which about 60 percent are jet-powered - stated Zelensky. #Harkiv #rat #Ukrajina (translated)

Zdeněk Šarapatka thanked his supporters and stated that their support helped him get back on his feet after the results of the Senate elections. According to him, the campaign in Prague 5 and 13 was not a fair competition about topics, but a contest over billboards. He claimed that one of the candidates was running a concurrent campaign for the Senate and the Prague City Hall, transferring funds between them, including money from a company building houses. According to Šarapatka, the state supervision office did not respond to the violations of the rules. The candidate, he claimed, received 14,606 votes out of a total of 45,782. Šarapatka also criticized the ODS, which, according to him, despite an agreement with his TOP 09, fielded its own candidate, thereby reducing the chances of defeating Václav Láska. He stated that their candidate hardly presented political positions during public appearances and instead relied on a romanticized story about the students' relationship with the school principal. He added that the students of the candidate's school, according to Šarapatka, got involved in the campaign, even though the principal was balancing on the edge of the education law. The candidate received 12,162 votes out of 45,782. As an earlier example of the split with ODS, Šarapatka mentioned its member Benda, who, according to him, appointed Matocha and Xaver Veselý to the Czech Television Council. He claimed that part of ODS contributed to his failure in the election despite the party agreements at that time. He also recalled that six years ago, at ODS's request, he supported its candidate in the second round of the Senate elections in Mělník, whom he claimed he had not seen publicly appear in the Senate since then. Šarapatka stated that he would not make the same mistake again. According to him, the result meant that there would be no amendment to the lustration law nor security clearances for government members and their deputies, and that there would be no qualified fight for a free Czech Radio and Czech Television. At the same time, he urged his supporters to keep going. #politika #volby #Senát (translated)

Max Hübner reported that according to the official results of the second round of the presidential elections in Krakow, Łukasz Gibała, an independent candidate, received 62.12% of the votes (161,184), while Monika Piątkowska from the Civic Coalition received 37.88% (98,306). He wrote that Gibała won in all districts of the city. He also assessed that a difficult week awaited Donald Tusk's coalition and that "attacks" would not be enough to cure the political hangover. https://t.co/V6lJl1mcjd #Kraków #wybory2023 #prezydent (translated)

The author claimed that countries condemning Ansar Allah for what they described as defending Yemen against Saudi aggression had refused to condemn the US bombing of a school in Minab, which they said killed 168 children. They also said those countries continued doing business with Israel, helping fund what they described as genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/uHZCZVTgGp #Yemen #Gaza #HumanRights #YE #SA #US #IL #PS

Adonis Georgiadis told Mrs. Yamali that, according to recorded phone calls, the interested parties first called 166, even though there was no ambulance service there, and that the recordings documented a wait of 25 minutes. He accused her of presenting a misleading photo of an old, decommissioned ambulance instead of the one that was dispatched, and that she transmitted inaccurate information. He asked her to investigate the complaint before broadcasting it, noting that she could have contacted the mayor to verify which ambulance appeared. He requested an explicit denial and urged her to check what she had stated. He added that if she insisted on what he characterized as lies, he would use every available institutional means to defend the National Health System and the trust the public has in it. He clarified that he was not saying this as a threat, but to distinguish journalistic criticism from lying. #Δημοσιογραφία #ΕΣΥ #Αλήθεια (translated)

The author asked why the recipient had not condemned what they described as a US bombing of a school in Minab that killed 168 children this year, a US bombing of a children’s sports hall in Lamerd, and Saudi and UAE bombings of hospitals, schools and civilian infrastructure in Yemen, which they said were backed by the West. #Yemen #HumanRights #WarCrimes #US #SA #AE #YE

The boycott of Babiš's products stated that the election results confirmed the warnings of experts, analysts, and political scientists. He claimed that after entering the governing coalition, the preferences of SPD began to decline and that Tomio Okamura's party suffered a significant defeat. According to the author, no SPD candidate advanced to the second round of the senatorial elections. In the municipal elections, the party only defended 166 of the original 492 council seats, losing 326. He added that SPD was also losing support in poorer areas where it previously thrived, and he claimed that even Okamura's own voters were beginning to lose faith in him. He concluded the post with a wish for the downfall of political opponents, whom he derogatorily labeled. https://t.co/39epAeaGiZ #volby #politika #SPD (translated)

Profile from the court - tennis information recalled that just over four months earlier, Qinwen Zheng had cried at a press conference after losing to Maja Chwalińska in the first round of Roland Garros. As noted, the Chinese player had dropped out of the top hundred of the WTA rankings at that time and mentioned that she needed a new start, at one point ranking 160th. The author assessed that the last few weeks had brought a revival for the Olympic champion. He observed that her improving form was already visible during the US Open, and then Zheng won the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing in front of her home crowd. According to the post, she was to occupy the 23rd place in the rankings starting the next day. From the court, he congratulated her determination. #zkortu #tenis #WTA #sport (translated)

Achieving the largest result in the history of the support auctions of the Estonian Artists' Union, during which 162 works were sold and 2.3 million euros were raised, helped artists who were faced with a 700,000 euro fraud damage and highlighted the strength of the Estonian art scene. #EestiKunst #Kunstioksjon #Kultuuriajalugu (translated)

Christer Sfeir wrote about his visit to Pézenas in southern France and described the Hôtel de Flottes de Sébasan, a stone house from the 16th century. According to local tradition, Anna of Austria, the queen of France and mother of Louis XIV, had stayed there during a visit, he wrote. Sfeir recounted that Anna was a Spanish princess who married Louis XIII in 1615 when she was 14 years old. After 23 years without children, she gave birth to her son Louis in 1638. When the king died five years later, the then four-year-old son became king and Anna regent. Sfeir wrote that the royal family was forced to flee Paris during the Fronde and that the rebellion later contributed to Louis XIV's decision to centralize power around himself. He also mentioned Molière's stay in Pézenas during the 1650s with his theater company, which received patronage from the Prince of Conti. Sfeir wrote that Molière encountered people and environments there that later became subjects of his satire. According to Sfeir, Louis XIV visited the city in 1660 and took over the reins of power the following year. He concluded by stating that the house still stood, despite the monarchy and its power struggles being part of history. #Pézenas #historia #Molière (translated)

It is not the same a PP with 140 and a Vox with 60 than a PP with 165 and Vox with 35; the second formula allows addressing the problems of the country, and I am not sure that the first formula allows it. This idea was clearly stated by former Prime Minister José María Aznar on Monday: "It is not the same a PP with 140 and a Vox with 60 than a PP with 165 and Vox with 35; the second formula allows addressing the problems of the country, and I am not sure that the first formula allows it." #PP #Vox #Feijóo (translated)