The verdicts against Sarkozy
Prosecutor: Sarkozy to be sentenced to seven years in prison
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of illegally financing parts of his presidential campaign with money from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Now the prosecutor is demanding a seven-year prison sentence, several French media outlets report.
The prosecutor believes that Sarkozy, together with several associates, had an “unthinkable, indecent and unprecedented” agreement with Gaddafi, according to Politico.
Le Monde writes that the money was allegedly received from Gaddafi’s government during the 2007 presidential campaign. The main character himself denies the charges.
Nicolas Sarkozy was president between 2007 and 2012. He has previously been convicted of corruption, among other things, and is serving a sentence with an electronic leg cuff.
North Korea-Russia Relations
North Korea: Has developed AI-equipped attack drone
North Korea claims to have developed so-called suicide drones equipped with artificial intelligence, reports the BBC.
Experts believe that the alleged development of the drones may be an effect of North Korean cooperation with Russia. One of them is drone expert James Patton Rogers at the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute, who believes that it could bother South Korea, among others.
– North Korea is clearly investing in drones as part of its military future.
Prosecutor: Sarkozy to be sentenced to seven years in prison
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of illegally financing parts of his presidential campaign with money from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Now the prosecutor is demanding a seven-year prison sentence, several French media outlets report.
The prosecutor believes that Sarkozy, together with several associates, had an “unthinkable, indecent and unprecedented” agreement with Gaddafi, according to Politico.
Le Monde writes that the money was allegedly received from Gaddafi’s government during the 2007 presidential campaign. The main character himself denies the charges.
Nicolas Sarkozy was president between 2007 and 2012. He has previously been convicted of corruption, among other things, and is serving a sentence with an electronic leg cuff.
North Korea-Russia Relations
North Korea: Has developed AI-equipped attack drone
North Korea claims to have developed so-called suicide drones equipped with artificial intelligence, reports the BBC.
Experts believe that the alleged development of the drones may be an effect of North Korean cooperation with Russia. One of them is drone expert James Patton Rogers at the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute, who believes that it could bother South Korea, among others.
– North Korea is clearly investing in drones as part of its military future.
The new space race
Putin's offer to Musk: A small nuclear power plant
Russia can support Space X's journey to Mars with a small nuclear power plant, the country's President Vladimir Putin's envoy said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Kirill Dmitriev, who is often an envoy for the president and head of the country's wealth fund, told Russian media that the Kremlin is open to discussing the offer with the company's owner Elon Musk.
– We believe that Russia has a lot to offer for the trip to Mars, because we have some nuclear technology that I think could be suitable.
Trump's USA Greenland's future
Greenlandic politician: I don't understand the outrage
Unlike many others, Greenlandic politician Kuno Fencker sees no problem with this weekend's American visit to Greenland. In an interview with SVT, Fencker, who represents the nationalist Naleraq, says that he would have gladly received a delegation "from any country".
– I don't understand the extreme outrage. I wish they had taken it more diplomatically and not created tensions between the US and Denmark.
Vice President JD Vance will join his wife Usha Vance, who is traveling to Greenland at the end of the week. The original plan was for them to visit a dog sledding competition, but now they will instead visit a US military base.
Voices about the war chat
Waltz left his friends list public on a paid service
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz left his friends list open on Venmo, the American equivalent of Swish. Wired reports.
They write that the contact list contained hundreds of people, including employees, politicians, journalists, lobbyists and military officers.
Walker Barrett, who works on the US National Security Council, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles are two of them. Both were in the Signal chat where it was written about planned attacks on the Houthi rebels that The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was invited to.
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