Myanmar's political situation
Myanmar's military junta pardons 6,000 prisoners
6,000 prisoners have reportedly been pardoned by Myanmar's military junta, reports the AP. This as part of the country's 77th celebration as an independent nation after British imperial rule.
The military's supreme leader Min Aung Hlaing stated on state television on Saturday that 180 of the released prisoners are foreign nationals who will be deported.
There is no indication that the release includes the country's former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held in isolation by the military junta since they took power in 2021. She is serving a 27-year sentence.
Myanmar's military junta pardons 6,000 prisoners
6,000 prisoners have reportedly been pardoned by Myanmar's military junta, reports the AP. This as part of the country's 77th celebration as an independent nation after British imperial rule.
The military's supreme leader Min Aung Hlaing stated on state television on Saturday that 180 of the released prisoners are foreign nationals who will be deported.
There is no indication that the release includes the country's former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held in isolation by the military junta since they took power in 2021. She is serving a 27-year sentence.
Russian invasion The fighting
Expert: War fatigue speaks in favor of a ceasefire this year
There are several factors that speak in favor of a ceasefire in Ukraine this year, according to two experts DN spoke to. Both sides lack the political will to carry out another mobilization and both Ukraine and Russia seem to be war-weary.
– On the Russian side, we also see that the economy is sluggish and that inflation is increasing quite sharply, which could be an incentive to want to reach a ceasefire, says Lieutenant Colonel Johan Huovinen, who is a teacher at the Finnish National Defense University.
According to Carolina Vendil Pallin, Russia expert at FOI, the development depends, among other things, on what help Ukraine receives and on what the country is willing to give up, since Russia feels that it has “wind in its sails”.
The government crisis in Germany
Scholz roars back: "Elon Musk can say whatever he wants"
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is taking Elon Musk's attack in stride. He told the German newspaper Stern that Social Democrats are used to verbal attacks from wealthy media entrepreneurs – and that “you have to stay calm”.
The Tesla CEO has launched an attack in a series of posts on the X platform. He has called Scholz a “fool” and described German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier as an “anti-democratic tyrant”.
“Musk can say whatever he wants. In Germany, it is the will of the people that counts, not the irrational moves of a billionaire in the US,” says Scholz.
It is all the more worrying that Musk is expressing his support for the AfD party, “which is partly far-right, advocates closer ties with Putin’s Russia and wants to weaken transatlantic relations”, according to the chancellor.
New elections in Germany will be held on February 23.
Bomb threat against Musk's Mars rocket - investigated by FBI
A bomb threat directed at Space X's Starbase rocket facility in Texas is being investigated by the FBI, reports San Antonio Express News, writes TT.
In recent weeks, several phone calls have reportedly been received in which people threatened to blow up the rocket intended for space expeditions to Mars.
One person is said to have called Space X on December 27 and said that a bomb was "placed on a space rocket".
Space X is owned by Elon Musk, among others, and is commissioned by NASA to carry out space flights.
Bezos cartoon rejected by WP - cartoonist quits
The Washington Post's award-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes is resigning in protest. The background is a cartoon in which, among others, the newspaper's owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, stands with a money bag in front of a Donald Trump statue. This is reported by American media.
The cartoon was intended to be published on the newspaper's opinion page, but was rejected. The decision is a “game changer,” a dangerous development for the free press, according to Telnaes.
“In my entire time at the newspaper, I have never had a cartoon stopped because of who or what I pointed my pen at,” she writes in a post on Substack.
The newspaper’s opinion editor David Shipley does not share Telnaes’ view of the whole thing at all. According to him, the decision was based on the fact that a text on a similar theme had recently been published.
Expert: War fatigue speaks in favor of a ceasefire this year
There are several factors that speak in favor of a ceasefire in Ukraine this year, according to two experts DN spoke to. Both sides lack the political will to carry out another mobilization and both Ukraine and Russia seem to be war-weary.
– On the Russian side, we also see that the economy is sluggish and that inflation is increasing quite sharply, which could be an incentive to want to reach a ceasefire, says Lieutenant Colonel Johan Huovinen, who is a teacher at the Finnish National Defense University.
According to Carolina Vendil Pallin, Russia expert at FOI, the development depends, among other things, on what help Ukraine receives and on what the country is willing to give up, since Russia feels that it has “wind in its sails”.
The government crisis in Germany
Scholz roars back: "Elon Musk can say whatever he wants"
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is taking Elon Musk's attack in stride. He told the German newspaper Stern that Social Democrats are used to verbal attacks from wealthy media entrepreneurs – and that “you have to stay calm”.
The Tesla CEO has launched an attack in a series of posts on the X platform. He has called Scholz a “fool” and described German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier as an “anti-democratic tyrant”.
“Musk can say whatever he wants. In Germany, it is the will of the people that counts, not the irrational moves of a billionaire in the US,” says Scholz.
It is all the more worrying that Musk is expressing his support for the AfD party, “which is partly far-right, advocates closer ties with Putin’s Russia and wants to weaken transatlantic relations”, according to the chancellor.
New elections in Germany will be held on February 23.
Bomb threat against Musk's Mars rocket - investigated by FBI
A bomb threat directed at Space X's Starbase rocket facility in Texas is being investigated by the FBI, reports San Antonio Express News, writes TT.
In recent weeks, several phone calls have reportedly been received in which people threatened to blow up the rocket intended for space expeditions to Mars.
One person is said to have called Space X on December 27 and said that a bomb was "placed on a space rocket".
Space X is owned by Elon Musk, among others, and is commissioned by NASA to carry out space flights.
Bezos cartoon rejected by WP - cartoonist quits
The Washington Post's award-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes is resigning in protest. The background is a cartoon in which, among others, the newspaper's owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, stands with a money bag in front of a Donald Trump statue. This is reported by American media.
The cartoon was intended to be published on the newspaper's opinion page, but was rejected. The decision is a “game changer,” a dangerous development for the free press, according to Telnaes.
“In my entire time at the newspaper, I have never had a cartoon stopped because of who or what I pointed my pen at,” she writes in a post on Substack.
The newspaper’s opinion editor David Shipley does not share Telnaes’ view of the whole thing at all. According to him, the decision was based on the fact that a text on a similar theme had recently been published.
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