Biden announces more than 500 new sanctions against Russia
According to multiple foreign media reports, according to news released on the White House website on February 23, U.S. President Biden announced in a statement that day the implementation of more than 500 new sanctions against Russia in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the contention of Russian opposition figures. Death of Valinet.
It is reported that the sanctions mainly target the Mir payment system, Russian financial institutions and its military industrial base, as well as future energy production and other fields. The U.S. Treasury Department stated that this is the “largest-scale sanctions action” against Russia since Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
The European Union and the United Kingdom have also joined the new round of sanctions against Russia. U.S. Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland declared that the new sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on Russia will be “devastating” and will create obstacles for Russia to evade existing sanctions.
After being insulted by Biden with swear words, Putin responded with ridicule
In response to the previous verbal abuse by US President Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to reporters: “This shows that Biden is more suitable to be the president of the United States.”
According to reports, Biden made rude remarks to Putin at a fundraiser in San Francisco on the 21st local time, saying that “there are ‘crazy bastards’ like Putin in the world so that we always have to worry about nuclear conflict.” “.
Reuters stated that on the 22nd, when asked by Russian state television about Biden’s rude remarks, Putin first smiled sarcastically, bit his lip, and then looked at the ground. Later, Putin said with a smile: “When we talked not long ago, you asked me, for Russia, who do we prefer as the future president of the United States. I said that we are ready to cooperate with any American president. But I think , for Russia, Biden is a more suitable president of the United States. Judging from his remarks now, I think this is absolutely correct.”
Fake video of “Yin Xiyue’s confession” goes viral on social media
According to multiple Korean media reports on the 23rd, a fake video about “South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue’s sincere confession” has recently gone viral on Facebook, Instagram and other social media. The video shows that “Yin Seok-yue” said that he is “addicted to separation” The concept of common sense has destroyed the Republic of Korea and plunged its people into misery.”
In this regard, after the police proposed, the Korean Broadcasting and Communications Review Committee decided to ask social media to delete the video. Kim Soo-kyung, spokesperson for the South Korean Presidential Office, said on the 23rd that the South Korean Presidential Office plans to take tough measures against such false videos in the future.
U.S. judge rules Trump fined $454 million in civil fraud case
On February 23, local time, U.S. Judge Arthur Ngoren officially ruled that former U.S. President Trump was fined $454 million for a civil fraud case, including a fine of $355 million and nearly $100 million in interest. Trump reportedly has one month to pay the fine and appeal the verdict.
A New York state judge ruled on Trump’s civil fraud case on February 16. Because Trump inflated his net worth by billions of dollars, constituting serious fraud, the judge ruled to fine Trump more than $350 million, permanently ban Trump from the New York real estate industry, and significantly restrict his ability to work in the New York real estate industry. The state’s ability to conduct business. Additionally, the judge ruled against a five-year industry ban on Trump’s two sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
U.S. private company develops spacecraft for first lunar landing
According to CNN, on the 22nd local time, the lunar lander “Odysseus” developed by the American company “Intuition Machines” landed on the moon.
According to Reuters, a lander developed by the company “Intuitive Machines” landed near the moon’s south pole on the 22nd. It was the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the “Apollo 17” mission in 1972, and the first in history. The first moon landing achieved entirely by the private sector.
Foundation stone laid for construction of 10,000 housing units in Pyongyang, North Korea
According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on February 24, the groundbreaking ceremony for the third phase of the 2024 10,000-unit residential construction project in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, was held in the Hosheng area on the 23rd. Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and Chairman of the State Council, attended the groundbreaking ceremony.
At the ceremony, Kim Jong-un pressed the blast button and announced the start of the third phase of construction of 10,000 housing units in the Hosheng area.
Nearly 100 employees of two major Japanese airlines cheated on exams
According to comprehensive Japanese media reports, Japan’s two major airlines, ANA and Japan Airlines, recently admitted that nearly a hundred employees of their subsidiaries cheated on the airport driving qualification test.
According to reports, ANA announced on the 20th that between August 2022 and February 2024, a total of 82 employees of its two subsidiaries cheated in online exams and were suspected of reading textbooks during the answer process. ANA Holdings said: “We deeply apologize for the incident that violated safety rules. We will work hard to prevent such incidents from happening again and restore trust.”
On the same day, Japan Airlines also issued a statement saying that 16 employees from two of its subsidiaries were suspected of cheating in the same exam and referring to textbooks during the answer process. The company has confiscated the driver’s license of the person involved and handed it over to the authorities, and has stopped online testing.
Social platform “X” deletes accounts and posts related to farmers’ protests in India
According to Agence France-Presse, after four consecutive rounds of talks failed to achieve satisfactory results, Indian farmers resumed their “March to New Delhi” protest on the 21st. The police fired tear gas at the protesting farmers in the border area, and there were also a large number of roadblocks along the highway. .
Some media reported that social platform “X” (formerly Twitter) stated that it had deleted certain accounts and posts related to the farmers’ protest in accordance with orders from the Indian government. “X” did not provide relevant details, but said he disagreed with the Indian government’s behavior.
Indian journalist Mohammad Zubair said that “many influential X accounts” of journalists, influential figures and trade union members covering farmers’ protests in India have been “deactivated”. “The Indian government has issued an executive order requiring ‘X’ to take action against specific accounts and posts, otherwise it will face penalties including huge fines and imprisonment.” The official account of the “X” global government affairs team posted a message.
Hazardous substances in water wells around U.S. military ammunition depot in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan exceed standards
According to overseas reports on the 23rd, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan announced the results of an investigation on the 21st, saying that 12 water wells near the U.S. Army Kawakami ammunition depot in the city detected excessive levels of organic fluorine compounds (PFAS).
According to reports, one of the 12 wells had a value that exceeded the standard value by 300 times. Some wells were once used as drinking water for surrounding residents, but have been banned from drinking since mid-January. Higashihiroshima City recently established a committee composed of experts and scholars, and is scheduled to start investigating whether surrounding rivers are polluted next week.
A middle school student in the United States was dissatisfied with the school’s requirement to cut his hair short and sued the governor and the state attorney general.
According to multiple American media reports, an 18-year-old middle school student in Texas, USA, was dissatisfied with the school’s requirement that he cut his hair short. Not only did he sue the school, he also sued the Texas governor and the state attorney general. He went to court and said that he had been illegally persecuted by them.
Judging from US media reports, the basis for this middle school student to sue the school and the government is an anti-hairstyle discrimination bill in Texas that came into effect in September last year, called the CROWN Act in English. The law requires local schools, employers and other institutions not to discriminate against people with hairstyles that are characteristic of ethnic and cultural characteristics, such as those common among African Americans.
However, on Thursday local time, the judge who heard the case against the school ruled by the school in favor of the school. The reason is that although Texas law protects ethnic hairstyles from discrimination, the legal provisions do not also provide protection for the length of hair. Therefore, judges can only judge cases in accordance with the law and cannot invent content that is not in the law. Otherwise, they will be overstepping the functions of the legislative body.
(Yangcheng Evening News·Yangcheng Pai Comprehensive CCTV News, Global Network, The Paper, China News Network, Reference News Network, Visual China, Overseas Network, etc.)
Editor: Lin Liai
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