Lukashenko says the economic capacity of Belarus rests largely on the industrial base it inherited from the Soviet Union, saying his country benefitted from preserving rather than dismantling it.
โBelarus is first and foremost a machine-building country, we didnโt invent that, Lukashenko didnโt create it, thatโs how it was in the Soviet Union,โ he said.
โThe foundations of the economy were formed back then, in Soviet times. We didnโt destroy anything. We didnโt pretend that we were smarter than those who created it.โ
#France โ In Le Havre, unionized workers who came to support high school students following a police attack on them formed a human chain to protect the students.
80 years ago today, on October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg read out the sentences.
Gรถring, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Sauckel, Seyss-Inquart, Jodl: death by hanging.
Hess, Funk, Raeder: life.
Speer and Schirach: 20 years.
This is the moment they heard it.
77 years ago today, October 1 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the Peopleโs Republic of China.
Let the domestic and foreign reactionaries tremble before us!
The Chinese People Have Stood Up!
Iraqโs security forces held parades in Baghdad and Najaf to celebrate โSovereignty Dayโ, a national holiday marking the withdrawal of US troops from the country.
The remaining soldiers left the country on Wednesday, ending the US-led coalitionโs operation against ISIL.
Night time celebrations filled the air as Iraqis observed the start of a four-day holiday to mark the withdrawal of US troops and international forces after more than a decade in the country fighting ISIL.
Michelangelo Antonioni - Framing Isolation
Abandoning conventional narrative drive, the Italian master pioneered a radically quiet aesthetic, using precise framings, vast empty spaces, and indifferent architecture to capture characters adrift in search of existential meaning.
Burkina Faso inaugurated its first-ever gold refinery, with President Ibrahim Traore saying the country wanted to process its mineral resources locally and take control of the entire value chain
French students have blocked schools across the country, demanding more teachers, smaller classes and better-equipped schools.
Some protests escalated into clashes with police, while teachers, firefighters and other public workers also demonstrated over funding and resources.
South Korea has demanded an apology from Ukraine after Zelenskyy revealed a prisoner transfer of two North Korean soldiers at the UN, alleging Kyiv broke a confidentiality deal. The case has stirred political tensions in Seoul.
Al Jazeeraโs Jack Barton reports.
Japan's NEWEST NIGHTCLUB for INTROVERTED PEOPLE who just want to READ โ โJUCY BOOK RAVEโ
People SIT & READ QUIETLY while CALM ambient music PLAYS in the background
Topic I et II (1989) รจ un cortometraggio sperimentale girato a Praga, diretto dal regista e animatore francese Pascal Baes.
Realizzato in bianco e nero su pellicola 16mm, l'opera adotta la tecnica della pixilation (stop motion applicata a figure umane)
Today, the Irish players lowered their heads during the Israeli anthem, wearing black mourning armbands in solidarity with the Palestinians who were killed.