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[Ambassador Wang Jinfeng @AmbWangJinfeng]

🎓🇯🇲 Congrats to Jamaican student Orbin on graduating as a valaditorian from Jinzhou Medical University!

In recent years, more Jamaicans have pursued degrees in China, contributing to mutual understanding, bilateral friendship, and practical cooperation. Best wishes to them! 👏

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Lumumba Vea, DR Congo's most iconic supporter, will miss the Leopards' decisive World Cup match against Uzbekistan after failing to obtain a U.S. visa. Stranded in Mexico, he was forced to return home to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, meaning he'll also miss any remaining matches if DR Congo advances. I've seen enough. This is the worst-organized World Cup I've ever witnessed.

[Collins Okinyo @bedjosessien]

Haiti 🇭🇹 played such a good game against Morocco 🇲🇦 after the game the Atlas Lions fans gave the Haiti players a standing ovation 👏

That is the beauty of football ⚽️
@soka25east

[Messiah Yaniss 🇨🇵🇩🇿🇸🇳 @MessiahYaniss16]

Je pense que ce sont les 0 point les moins mérités de l'histoire.

Si l'arbitre avait fait son travail, Haïti aurait battu l'Écosse. Ils ont tenu le Brésil en échec pendant toute la seconde mi-temps et ont livré un grand match face au Maroc.

Ils ne sont pas venus pour poser le bus comme 90% des petites équipes mais pour jouer au football.

Ils ont gagné le cœur de tout le monde et on leur souhaite le meilleur pour la suite.

[𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅 ✨ @Floydchels]

🎙️🚨 Zlatan Ibrahimovic after South Africa beat South Korea to qualify to the next round

🗣️ “I think this is a message to FIFA, they need to bring more African countries to the World Cup. Nigeria should be here too. Africa’s football is different. They don’t play unnecessary passes. when they get the ball, they attack you immediately. That’s the kind of football we want.

Europe’s football is boring, too many back passes and too many tactics. Morocco and South Africa have qualified to the next round. Morocco is the best Africa team in having possession. South Africa is the best in counter attack.

I think an African team will reach the semifinals this year. I’m happy,they deserve it. Africa should be the best, Mbappe should be playing for Cameroon, Olise should be playing for Nigeria and same for Vini too. I wish the whole of Africa luck in this tournament”. 👏

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ REPORT | Ghana has concluded a three day international conference aimed at advancing reparatory justice after the U.N. General Assembly adopted a Ghana-led resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans the “gravest crime against humanity.”

Delegates from more than 80 countries meeting in Accra adopted a 19-point framework calling for:

🔹 Formal apologies from governments and institutions that benefited from slavery.
🔹 Financial reparations and compensation.
🔹 A Global Reparations Fund.
🔹 Debt relief for affected countries.
🔹 The return of looted cultural artifacts and human remains.
🔹 Legal mechanisms to advance reparations claims.

Supporters plan to present the framework at the next U.N. General Assembly as they push to translate the landmark resolution into international reparations.

Watch also ⬇️

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

“Football was popular because the poor were happy to play with a ball. When football turned into dishonest business, that is when the wealthy classes saw an opportunity in it, and since then it no longer belongs to the poor.”

— Marcelo Bielsa

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️NEW: Thierry Henry on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey:

“I understand why football wants to fight discrimination. Nobody disagrees with that. But when you start handing out straight red cards because a player covered his mouth while speaking, you’ve crossed into dangerous territory.

“This is exactly what I feared football was becoming, a game played by robots, policed by suits who’ve never felt the heat of a tackle or the fire of a 50-50. Miguel Almirón gets sent off for covering his mouth? In a World Cup? FIFA calls it progress. I call it the slow death of the sport we love.

Football was built on emotion, confrontation, mind games, personality. Now we’re acting as if every private word exchanged on a pitch is a matter for a courtroom investigation. The game is starting to feel less like football and more like a surveillance project.

The Miguel Almirón incident is exactly why people are uncomfortable. We don’t even know what was said, yet the punishment arrives before the evidence. Since when did covering your mouth become a crime worthy of expulsion? If that’s the standard, we’re no longer judging actions—we’re judging suspicion.

What worries me most is the precedent. Today it’s covering your mouth. Tomorrow what is it? A sarcastic comment? A heated argument? Football has always been a pressure cooker. If you remove every ounce of fire, don’t be surprised when the sport loses part of its soul.

And let’s be honest, would the legends of previous generations survive in this environment? Maradona, Keane, Pepe, half the icons people celebrate today would spend more time explaining themselves to officials than actually playing. The game that once rewarded personality now seems obsessed with policing it.

The irony is that football claims to want authenticity, yet it keeps creating rules that encourage players to become robots. Fans don’t fall in love with robots. They fall in love with characters, rivalries, passion and drama.

This rule may have been created with good intentions, but good intentions don’t automatically make good rules. Right now, it feels like football is trying to put a lid on a boiling pot instead of understanding why it boils in the first place.”

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

Thierry Henry talking facts about Cristiano Ronaldo. 👏

[First Take @FirstTake]

"[Charles Oakley] doesn't hear that love enough, I have to say on national television we love you."

—@stephenasmith on "the hurt" Charles Oakley feels towards the Knicks.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years."

Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan.

The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people.

So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state.

Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (https://t.co/WLoDpGzc2W).

Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause.

It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (https://t.co/2SnUNevFbX).

The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years.

But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight.

This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this.

Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water."

Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (https://t.co/GBgBybBPoE). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China.

In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence.

Src for screenshot: https://t.co/qav4muNkij

[XXL Magazine @XXL]

Wu-Tang Clan performing during halftime of Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs at Madison Square Garden 👐🔥

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🚨🇬🇭 Ghana breaks crude-export trap to join African refining push

Ghana will begin refining oil from its own offshore fields this June

🔸 President John Mahama says Ghanaian crude will be delivered to a domestic refinery for local processing

🔸 The move aims to end the cycle of exporting crude while importing higher-value petroleum products

🔸 Ghana is expanding capacity through the Tema Oil Refinery and the privately owned Sentuo Refinery

🔸 Ghana has also secured $1.5 billion in new investment to boost oil and gas production

Nigeria's Dangote Refinery and Angola's refinery expansion have already accelerated Africa's push for energy self-sufficiency as Africa enters a new era where resource-rich nations keep more of the profits

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[The Artist known as Jess @ElofsonJess]

There will be no peace unless Trump grows a pair and puts Israel back in their box.
But that Epstien blackmail must be some dark shit.
Good luck
Long Live The Republic

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Vitinha magic in 2025/26 🪄

#UCL

[Bert Samuels @BertSamuels]

Antigua’s Tourism Minister speaks out “ Don’t replace sugar plantations with Hotel Plantations “ Are we swapping WHITE Dog fe Monkey ?
Are All - Inclusive Properties the new PLANTATIONS?
Are you aware of the weekly USD wages for hotel workers ? ( ssshhhh US$ 50-60 per week!!!)

[sean @ji_er684]

The Speaker and the deputy Speaker of the House continue to display clear bias. Heroy Clark telling an OPP MP on the floor to wrap up with 15 minutes on the clock was the most recent case.

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

Mamdani: "Of the Margret Thatcher quote, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. If anything my friends, it seems you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."