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General Zhang Youxia, a close associate of Xi Jinping, has been expelled from the Communist Party and the army for disloyalty, raising questions about the future of the government hierarchy in China, where the sixth generation of politicians was expected to replace the current leadership. #Čína #politickéčistky (translated)

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned residents of the Pacific coast about the approaching hurricane Simon, which reached Category 4 with wind speeds of up to 230 km/h, and urged them to stay home due to the looming destructive winds, flooding, and other hazardous conditions. #hurikán #Mexiko #povodeň (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)

The writer stated that a supreme court had established that the term "gender" in the equality law referred to biological sex. Therefore, according to the writer, it was illegal to grant trans women, whom they described as biological men, access to women's changing rooms, prisons, or sports classes. #jämställdhet #transrättigheter #diskriminering #SE (translated)

The Union plans to accelerate the development of innovative combat technology in areas such as artificial intelligence and robotics, which presents an opportunity for Czech companies and enables faster financing and collaboration with the defense industry. #UměláInteligence #KvantováVýpočetníTechnika #Drony (translated)

Daniel Schatz wrote that influential Palestinians in Sweden had gathered the day before to discuss the future and leadership of Palestine. He stated that the main guest, Majed al-Zeer, had been identified as Hamas's secret contact in Europe and had a European arrest warrant against him. According to Schatz, the former Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Dalbah said during the meeting that anyone who gave up their homeland and recognized Israel's right should be hanged, regardless of who the person was. Schatz added that Kvartals Christer El-M had participated under a false name and reported from the meeting. https://t.co/sQgPwMnNL0 #Palestina #Hamas #Sverige (translated)

The author stated that Russia struck a heating plant in Kharkiv several hours after Donald Trump announced an energy truce. He also claimed that the United States lobbied in the EU against supplying American weapons to Ukraine and threatened to cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv. According to him, the actions of the U.S. were related to Trump's efforts to personally profit from deals with Vladimir Putin. #Ukrajina #Rusko #Trump #UA #US #RU (translated)

The Russians hit a power plant in Kyiv with a drone, which caused numerous neighborhoods to lose electricity. Later, there were also strikes on energy facilities in the Kharkiv region. And all of this happened AFTER the President of the United States made a statement about an energy truce," said Zelensky. #Rusija #Ukrajina #Zelenski (translated)

David Rangl, in an ironically toned post, claimed that the intervention of Russian data centers caused chaos in the Czech pro-Russian scene. According to him, disinformation websites and trolls stopped receiving instructions, so some people had to form their own opinions. Rangl described that the SPD convened a crisis staff, which, according to him, after several hours came up with several contradictory explanations: either the attack did not occur, Russia repelled it, or it could have been Brussels, NATO, migrants, and Petr Fiala to blame. He also mentioned a demand for the government's resignation without a clearly stated reason. According to him, on the alternative scene, one influencer condemned Russian aggression, another published photos of burning servers as evidence of Russian victory, and another began promoting Russia's accession to NATO. Jindřich Rajchl, according to Rangl, demanded a parliamentary investigative committee due to the decline in followers. The post further described the extinguished premises of the Stačilo! movement, non-functional stamp machines at the Václav Klaus Institute, and the vaccination of the Svatopluk association against rabies at a veterinary station. The situation was eventually calmed by a chain email that blamed events on Soros, Ukrainian pensioners, and a secret NATO lab in Uzhhorod. Rangl concluded that Russian servers were gradually returning to operation, while the damages to the Czech "patriotic scene" could be irreversible, as some people realized during the outage that they could think independently. #ČeskáRepublika #dezinformace #vlastenectví (translated)