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The Portuguese Football Federation imposed a temporary ban on Cristiano Ronaldo from representing the national team after his departure from the team and a conflict with head coach Jorge Jesus. #CristianoRonaldo #PortugaliJalgpallikoondis #JalgpalliEuroopaRahvusteLiiga (translated)

Yaron Nadbornik criticized Heikki Hiilamo's column published in Yleisradio, stating that it presented a one-sided image connecting the actions of Israel's leadership, Finnish Christian groups, and Minister Antti Häkkänen's visit to the structures of oppression. Nadbornik argued that the column's treatment of Israel and Zionism made Jews collectively responsible and expanded the criticism to also include Israel's supporters and Jews in general. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo's text divided the parties into white and Christian oppressors and non-white and Muslim victims. He said this framing overlooked the Jewish roots, history, and vulnerability in the Middle East, as well as the fact that millions of people from various backgrounds lived in Israel. He also believed that the framework wrongly fit the conflict into a narrative of Western colonialism and racism and presented Israel as a refuge for a people without another homeland. Nadbornik wrote that the prejudices against Jews were based on their otherness. He noted that studies had shown that Jews living in the diaspora were unjustly held accountable for the actions of the state of Israel. He argued that Hiilamo's rhetoric, which connected Christian groups and ministerial visits with the suffering in Gaza, reinforced this framework. Nadbornik recalled the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, describing it as a massacre involving rapes, mutilations, and the abduction of civilians, including babies, festival-goers, and the elderly, into Israel. He called it the largest single act of violence against Jews since the Holocaust. According to Nadbornik, Hiilamo overlooked the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah openly sought the destruction of Israel in connection with Israel's military actions. He believed that framing the terror attack merely as a security threat or comparing it to Russia's invasion of Ukraine ignored the rights of Israeli citizens to exist and be protected. https://t.co/PFvBFdaoiQ #Israel #Juutalaiset #Rasismi (translated)

Anne Nevgi wrote that she had read Hiilamo's column and found it full of ideological and anti-Israel interpretations. According to her, the bias of the column was evident in that the facts presented were interpreted in an anti-Israel way and events were framed through colonialism, racism, and whiteness. Nevgi argued that Hamas's brutality was not addressed and the origins of the Gaza conflict were not considered. She stated that the column created a misleading picture and inaccurately equated two different wars. #IsraelinKonflikti #Ideologiat #Propaganda (translated)

USA President Donald Trump announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to bring large quantities of diesel fuel to the global market to alleviate the rise in energy prices due to the conflict with Iran, which is why Trump will temporarily lift the sanctions on Russian diesel fuel. #diislikütus #energiahinnad #majandussanktsioonid (translated)

Teva stated that Manica Janežič Ambrožič's husband is supposed to have earned almost a million euros from RTV and questioned whether this is a conflict of interest. He linked her nervousness in the confrontation to the alleged closing of financial sources. https://t.co/F21j7mcmtN #konfliktinteresov #RTV #Slovenija (translated)

In our opinion, Portugal should choose the F-35 because we consider it the best fighter in the world. We only want a fair opportunity to present our offer. I believe our offer can compete with others, but the final decision will be made by Portugal itself," Rubio warned at a press conference that Russia's war in Ukraine has reached a dangerous deadlock and further escalation of the conflict could lead to a wider military confrontation. #F35 #MarcoRubio #PortugaliKaitse (translated)

US Secretary of State Rubio emphasized the important role of the US in the alliance with Greece, noting the need to embrace national power and be cautious of destabilizing events related to conflicts in the Middle East and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. #Grieķija #ASV #EnerģētiskāDrošība (translated)

"The interaction of these two forces is very uneven across different regions of the world," Georgieva said in a speech introducing the IMF and World Bank annual meeting to be held in Bangkok next week, noting that the global economy is currently pulled in opposite directions by two shocks – the energy supply shock stemming from conflicts in the Middle East and the positive demand shock arising from artificial intelligence, which simultaneously fuels inflation. #maailmamajandus #IMF #energiakriis (translated)

Russia is preparing bridges against possible attacks from Ukraine, taking into account the events of the 1687th day of the war, which illustrate the continuing development of the conflict and the concentration of battles in Eastern and Southern Ukraine. #Ukraina #Venemaa #sõda (translated)

Yemen announced that with the support of Saudi Arabia, government forces have recaptured several strategically important areas from the Houthis around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, while the Houthis claim to have attacked Saudi infrastructure with targets indicating a further escalation of conflicts in the country. #Jeemen #Huthid #SaudiAraabia (translated)

Researcher Timo R. Stewart claims that opposition to Israel is the biggest obstacle to the realization of the two-state model in the Israel-Palestine conflict, even though this model remains the clearest proposal for resolving the war. #IsraelinKonflikti #KahdenValtionMalli #Palestiina (translated)

The former Estonian ambassador to NATO, Jüri Luik, noted that Russia is bombing Ukraine's civilian infrastructure because it has been unable to advance beyond the front lines, and this action constitutes a war crime that marks Moscow's increasingly desperate approach to the conflict. #Venemaa #Ukraina #sõda (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that he wanted to correct the interpretations of an article by Helsingin Sanomat that dealt with nuclear weapons and said he remained uncertain about what the article ultimately claimed regarding Finland's security. According to him, Finland did not join the NATO nuclear deterrent with little discussion or unnoticed, but rather joined an alliance whose deterrence and defense had been based on nuclear weapons for decades. He described the strategic nuclear forces of the United States as a key basis for NATO's nuclear deterrent. Vanhanen considered that the bombing of Nagasaki was not an example of the current type of nuclear deterrent because Japan did not have a nuclear weapon nor the ability to respond to a U.S. strike. In his view, Nagasaki demonstrated the destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the human risks of their use, whereas the current deterrent was based on the assumption that an attacker had to consider the possibility of retaliation and uncontrolled escalation. Vanhanen assessed that Trump had increased uncertainty regarding the United States' commitment to the conventional defense of Europe and believed Europe would have to bear more responsibility for it. However, he distinguished this from the claim that the U.S. nuclear deterrent had weakened. According to him, the U.S. ability to use nuclear weapons had not diminished, NATO was not dismantling its nuclear plans or arrangements, systems were being modernized, and F-35 aircraft were being introduced into NATO's nuclear missions. Vanhanen stated that the NATO Nuclear Planning Group had confirmed in June that strategic nuclear forces, particularly U.S. forces, remained the ultimate guarantee of the allies' security and had decided to continue strengthening and modernizing the nuclear deterrent. Vanhanen considered it a central uncertainty whether Moscow would believe that the U.S. president would be willing to use nuclear weapons to defend an ally in an extreme situation. He reminded that the question of the U.S. willingness to endanger its own cities for the sake of Europe had been a concern throughout the history of the extended nuclear deterrent and there had been no complete certainty during the Cold War or at the present time. According to him, Finland's option was not a nuclear deterrent or a nuclear-free security environment, as Russia would have its nuclear weapons in any case. Vanhanen wrote that the crucial issue for the deterrent was that the Russian leadership could not be certain that the United States would defend Finland. https://t.co/3C8aAkuMwj #ydinaseet #Nato #Suomi (translated)