Collective East News

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The President of the United States stated that he expects new negotiations with Iran this week. "I expect new negotiations with Iran," Donald Trump said in an interview with Axios. "But it's not the deal that I want to make," he added

🇪🇺 The EU will create a mechanism to combat the influx of migrants❗️ Ministers from 18 EU countries discussed the criteria for determining a critical situation, under which migrants can be deported more quickly, and a rapid response force from Frontex can be sent to the affected country to provide assistance. Source: Bild

🇳🇴 Viking black metal festival Midgardsblot took place in Norway in Borre, near ancient Viking burial mounds. There was music, pagan rituals, battle reenactments, lectures, and a medieval market. The bands that performed on stage included Venom, Saxon, Turbonegro, Sólstafir, Taake, Wolves in the Throne Room, and others. The next Midgardsblot will be held from August 18th to 21st, 2027.

🎉 Fun session

🦧 Lifehack - Tip of the day session

😝 Meme of the day session

When a tennis player does not forget who stood by him...

🌞 Relax session

Resting...

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Elon Musk: President Xi seems like a great leader. Under his tenure China has prospered immensely. If you visit China and you see the amount of progress that happens from one year to the next or even within a year, it's very visible. You can see the new buildings, the new infrastructure. It's also obvious to see that just walking around the streets, the increased prosperity of the average Chinese citizen has increased tremendously.

🇪🇺 Brussels is urging EU countries to further close down businesses and reduce consumption of gas and electricity due to high prices, Source: Reuters reports, citing a letter from EU Energy Commissioner Jørgensen.

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Xi Jinping’s message to Trump: "China wants competition without confrontation — and cooperation where possible." 📍On trade: cooperate. 📍On AI: compete, but cooperate. 📍On Taiwan: respect the red lines. Beijing is offering a framework for a “constructive relationship of strategic stability” based on equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit. Xi de facto laid the framework for how China and the U.S. should compete on a “win-win” basis.

Ana Kasparian: ‘The system is broken’ ‘A democracy can’t work if you have an intentionally divided public that can’t effectively apply pressure and accountability to its elected leaders’ ...❗️

🇺🇸 🇨🇺 US President Donald Trump addresses potential military action toward Cuba: I would say that Cuba and us will make a deal. I don't think we'll need the military. Cuba is failing very badly. We want to help Cuba. We want to open Cuba up to our people. We have great Cuban Americans that want to go back. We want to open Cuba up to our people.

🇯🇴 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 King Abdullah of Jordan calls a spade spade ... about Palestine❗️

🇩🇪 🇷🇺 Big protest in Hamburg of students and civilians to declare their disapproval of Europe preparing, arming and planning for war with Russia. Yesterday, President of Russia again stated this is madness and Russia has no interest for a war with Europe. Same time foreign minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov once again warned that if Europe decides to attack Russia the consequences would be devastating implying Russia would have no choice but defend with all it's arsenal... "If Europe attacks Russia the war will be very short..." he stated.* *Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on September 16, 2026, that if European countries attack Russia, the resulting conflict would be "completely different" and "very short."

Microsoft President Bill Gates has stated that artificial intelligence could potentially lead to the deaths of a billion people. He noted that the risk is very high because humanity has never before possessed such a powerful weapon as the combination of people with malicious intent and the latest AI tools.

Takaiti : "I called for international solidarity in the pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons, and also called for the complete nuclear disarmament of North Korea."

🇭🇺 🇺🇦 Confrontation after harsh foul in the Nations league match of Hungary versus Ukraine. Afterwards everyone calmed down.