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With it Belgrade claims part of Istanbul's role as a transport hub of the region. Now there's a direct connection to China from the heart of the Balkan peninsula.

The two countries previously have exchanged accusations for the delays in construction. North Macedonia's Mickosky has argued that his country has other priorities, even if funding is expected to come from the EU.

Two weeks ago he claimed that the spill is "smaller than what they thought"

Two weeks ago he claimed the spill is "smaller than they thought".

By any count, Bulgaria is among the 6 affected countries from the oil spill. Bulgarian maritime.bg remained silent for 30 days. They broke their silence with a report on Putin being upset that the cleanup is not efficient. Whose responsibility is it, comrade Putin?

Even if she left office without confrontation,...

Zurabishvili says she remains the legitimate Georgian president despite being replaced by former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili on December 29 by a new electoral college controlled by the ruling Georgian Dream party.

Marine mammals are not exempt from the crisis. In the northeastern Black Sea, an alarming rise in dolphin mortality has been reported. While experts are investigating whether the deaths are directly related to oil exposure, they also point to other potential factors, including toxic ship discharges, missile strikes, and infectious disease outbreaks.

The oil slick, already reaching the western Crimean coast, continues to spread toward Odesa and potentially beyond to the shores of Türkiye, Georgia, and Romania. The spill’s impact is not limited to marine life. Experts caution that fish and shellfish from the affected areas may contain toxic substances, posing risks to local fisheries and food safety.

“This is the largest oil spill in Black Sea history in terms of both volume and area affected,” said Dr. Pavlo Goldin of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Fortunately, this retard (nicknamed Kopeikin after the Russian coins that he is known to receive) does not have the means to do it.

Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of the far-right pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party, said on January 9 that North Macedonia and the Ukrainian part of Southern Bessarabia should be added to Bulgaria.

Kostadinov compared his aims to the statement by US president-elect Donald Trump that he wants to annex the Panama Canal and Canada.

While this does not prove anything, it is an indication of the background before the elections.

Over the past year, we have recorded an increasing presence of synthetic or digitally altered disinformation aimed at financial fraud or stealing personal data. Most commonly, these are synthetic or digitally altered videos, made with the assistance of generative AI tools, which present the likings of journalists, politicians, or scientists trying to convince citizens to buy stocks, bitcoins, or some miracle cure. Besides scams, the only detected cases of AI-generated content involving political figures were humorous and satirical audio and video clips. There were no appearances of AI-generated disinformation intended to malignantly influence the election process. One political party created an “AI politician” for the parliamentary elections campaign, as an educational tool to highlight the dangers of AI.

With protests becoming daily life,the hope is that a national strike would squeeze the government into new elections.

Georgian citizens are being urged to participate in a nationwide strike on Jan. 15 to demand the release of detained protestors and to call for new elections, Protest 24 posted on Facebook.

The strike, organized by Protest 24, will begin at 3 p.m. and last for three hours, with businesses and employees halting work during this time.

Organizers aim to highlight the potential consequences of political isolation, such as economic stagnation, unemployment, and poverty.

The accounts posting pro-Milanović content were diverse, posting in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbian and Croatian. They appeared to mobilise in two waves: following Milanović’s first-place finish in the first round of voting and after his statements opposing potential Croatian involvement in the Ukraine War.

Researchers also analysed news media relating to the presidential runoff and found that several Kremlin propaganda outlets and Kremlin-aligned media outlets in other countries took a favourable stance toward Milanović .

The English website of Al Mayadeen, widely recognised as a Hezbollah-affiliated platform, published two articles falsely asserting that Milanović had won the first round of elections which were further amplified by bot accounts.

Croatian and regional fringe outlets previously flagged for peddling disinformation about the war in Ukraine have also promoted Milanović, including Epoha, Projekt Velebit, and Maxportal.hr, researchers found.

The half-buried Bronze Age ruins of Dmanisis Gora perch on a windswept promontory a few kilometers away from a cave where Homo erectus (or a close relative) lived 1.8 million years ago. Deep, steep-sided gorges run along two sides of the promontory, and sometime between 1500 and 1000 BCE, people stacked boulders into a double layer of high, thick walls to block off the end of the plateau from the plains to the west. Sheltered between the 4-meter high, 2.5-meter wide walls and the 60-meter-deep gorges, people built dugout houses, then later aboveground stone ones, along with stone animal pens and other buildings.

Outside the walls lay a more sprawling, less densely packed settlement, sheltered by another wall to the west. That outer wall was as high and wide as the inner ones, and it stretched a full kilometer from the edge of one gorge to the edge of the other. Between the walls, homes and other buildings formed small compounds with open space between them. Fenced fields, animal pens, and graves dotted the area.