Martin Selsøe Sørensen

It strikes me that Germany has a similar illusion regarding its influence on Israeli policy making as it had on Russia, before the 2022 invasion.
Some idea about a special relationship which gives it special access.
It’s just that that doesn’t seem to have any impact in the real world.

New from me: How China's clean energy manufacturing boom is helping reduce CO2 emissions overseas. In 2024, China’s exports of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are shaved 1% off global emissions outside of China.

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Alt hvad man skal vide om fredsprocessen i Tyrkiet 👇 Outstanding work @ozgegenc.bsky.social !

Trump appears to give Putin "two week" deadline on Ukraine The US president's remarks on Wednesday come as Russia intensifies its attacks on Ukraine.

Nu er det 14 dage siden, at Trump sagde, at han om 14 dage ville indføre nye sanktioner imod Rusland, hvis landet ikke gik med til en våbenhvile. Ikke et spor af pres på Rusland hidtil.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Every time I hear “women are too emotional to be President/CEO/Commander-in-Chief/etc.” I’ll think of these guys and laugh to tears

Yes… Hahaha… Yes!

Here we go again.

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

I have to commit another atrocity to try to get Zelensky to cancel meeting me. What will I bomb?

A. Kids cancer hospital
B. Kindergarten
C. Church service
D. Nuclear plant

Impressive. My assumption was that the AKP and PKK would be trapped in a doom loop of making no serious concessions

Kurdish PKK will dissolve and end 41-year armed conflict with Turkey, report pro-PKK medias.

I hope this ends the violence in Turkey in which also a lot of Kurdish and Turkish civilians have died and suffered. However PKK today is much more than its armed wing, its a movement across Europe and ME.

Once again Steve Witkoff offers some mixed messages for different audiences, this time in an interview with Breitbart. On the one hand he denounces the "neocon element" pushing for war with Iran, which sounds as if the administration will be pragmatic in pursuing a deal.

First reporter to say “You’re the fucking President” gets a book deal minimum

Trump negotiating with himself

Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

PKK has announced that it'd soon announce the decisions taken at its Congress on 5-7 May, and called for Ocalan's release.

t24.com.tr/haber/ocalan...

Ukraine accuses Hungary of running spies on its soil SBU arrests two alleged agents it says were tasked with gathering intelligence for potential Hungarian incursion

Ukraine's security service arrested two ex-military personnel as part of what it said was a Hungarian spy ring gathering intel for a possible military incursion — the first time Kyiv is accusing an EU neighbor of plotting against its interests.
www.ft.com/content/2735...

Swedish journalist gets 11-month suspended prison term in Turkey for insulting Erdogan | eKathimerini.com A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted a Swedish journalist of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Swedish journalist who was detained on arrival in Turkey for a protest he didn’t attend and a social media post he didn’t make gets an 11-month suspended sentence in first trial, but remains in custody because he’s facing terror charges as well www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Thoughts and prayers for Jeff Bezos, who spaffed $40m on a Melania biopic and still ends up on the Trump naughty list.

Sveriges publicister: Därför måste Turkiet frige Joakim Medin Stor enkät • 40 makthavare i medierna • Tydliga budskapet: ”Journalistik är inte ett brott”

Stor enkät • 40 makthavare i medierna • Tydliga budskapet: ”Journalistik är inte ett brott”

Spain's grid operator have indicated it could take between six and 10 hours to restore power, and that they would not speculate as to the cause of the incident at this time.

Given the lack of info it's probably best to ignore any loud claims about what was/wasn't to blame. We just don't know yet.

Joakim Medin åtalas – riskerar 12 års fängelse Den svenska journalisten Joakim Medin som sitter fängslad i Turkiet åtalas och riskerar upp till 12 års fängelse för terrorbrott och för…

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin faces up to 12 years in prison in Turkey for crimes related to "terrorism", "insulting the president".
"Joakim is not a criminal and definitely not some kind of terrorist,” says the editor-in-chief of his media outlet Dagens ETC.
Free Joakim!
www.dn.se/varlden/joak...

Whoah!

Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making

Whoa.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oddly, and not for the first time recently, the WSJ has been far more straightforward in its criticism than the Times and the Post, both of which give the impression of sleepwalking sometimes.

Over night, Israel’s security cabinet resolved to establish a directorate to facilitate “voluntary emigration” from Gaza.

Additionally it decided to spin off 13 outposts into new settlements.

Tonight the government convenes to kick off attorney general dismissal.
No boundaries inside or out.