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 @P0pul1stMadisonfrom California  submitted…2 days2D

CNN Airs Fake Syria Prisoner Story

CNN says it is investigating the identity of a Syrian man who may have given the network a “false identity” during a segment depicting his apparent release from a secret Damascus prison, after a Syrian fact-checking organization alleged he participated in the torture and killing of civilians.The harrowing report was fronted by the network’s chief international correspondent, Clarissa Ward, who, along with a crew, visited the prison on Dec. 11 in the wake of the collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.During the segment, broadcast a day later, Ward says they were there looking for the missing American journalist Austin Tice, who was kidnapped while reporting in Syria in 2012.The CNN crew entered the facility followed by an armed guard—a CNN source told the Daily Beast the guard was a Syrian rebel.Once inside, they noticed a locked cell with a blanket possibly covering something on the floor. The guard agreed to shoot the lock open, but asked that the CNN crew to turn its cameras off.With the door opened and the cameras turned back on, the crew discovered a man in the cell underneath the blanket. He identified himself as Adel Gharbal from Homs and said he had been kept in the cell for three months.“You’re OK, you’re OK,” Ward told the man, who appeared unaware that Assad’s dictatorship had been overthrown.On Sunday, however, a Syrian fact-checking group claimed his story doesn’t quite hold up to scrutiny.Verify-Sy, which is part of Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network, reported that it identified the man as a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence, an intelligence agency that served the Assad regime.After a search of public records that it said could not confirm his professed identity, along with interviews with locals in Homs, Verify-Sy alleged his name is Salama Mohammad Salama, also known as Abu Hamza.

 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1 day1D

North Korean Soldiers Slaughtered in Ukraine

At least 30 North Korean troops, deployed to bolster Russian forces in their war in Ukraine, have been wounded or killed in Russia’s Kursk region, Ukrainian authorities said Monday, a significant turning point after months of speculation over what role Pyongyang’s troops might play in the war.Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, known as GUR, announced the casualty number Monday. The Pentagon later said it has “indications” that North Korean troops “have suffered casualties, both killed and wounded.”Three Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the Kursk region, where Kyiv seized a swath of territory in August, described waves of what appeared to be North Korean troops flooding the battlefield in full view of Ukrainian drones and other weaponry in recent days. Two said they witnessed North Korean troop movements in real time via drone and a third, who oversees reconnaissance in the region, reviewed extensive drone footage captured by fellow troops.A separate Ukrainian military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence, confirmed that North Koreans have appeared on the battlefield in Kursk in recent days and said another battalion of North Korean troops is gathered in Russia’s neighboring Belgorod region but has not been deployed to the front. Ukrainians are waiting to see whether that battalion is sent to reinforce positions in Kursk or if it will assault Ukraine from a different direction, including potentially inside the Kharkiv region, which borders Belgorod, the official said.

 @Vot3rVo1ceChloefrom Ohio  submitted…1 day1D

Trump meeting TikTok CEO as ban deadline looms

US President-elect Donald Trump is meeting the CEO of TikTok as the social media giant fights plans to have it banned in the US.Trump was due to meet Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday, the BBC's US partner CBS News reports, citing sources familiar with the meeting.A law passed earlier this year means TikTok will be banned unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, before 19 January.The company has made an emergency application to the US Supreme Court to have the ban delayed.The US wants TikTok sold or banned because of alleged links between ByteDance and the Chinese state, links that both TikTok and ByteDance have always denied.The bill introducing the law said it was intended to "protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary controlled applications".Trump opposes the ban - despite supporting one during his first term - partly on the grounds that it could help Facebook, which he has accused of aiding his 2020 election loss.Trump's second term, however, won't begin until he is inaugurated on 20 January, the day after the deadline set out in the law.In its filing to the Supreme Court, submitted on Monday, TikTok asked for a "modest delay" to the enforcement of the ban to "create breathing room" for a review by the Court and to allow the incoming administration to "evaluate this matter".It described TikTok as "one of the most significant speech platforms" in the US and said the ban would do "immediate irreparable harm" to the company and its users.

 @B4llotBoxCheetah from Missouri submitted…17hrs17H

Ukraine Kills Top Russian General In Moscow

A top Russian general accused of using chemical weapons in the invasion of Ukraine has died after a bomb went off at the entrance to his home in Moscow early on Tuesday, investigators said, killing him and his assistant.Russia’s Investigative Committee, a major crimes unit, said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the military’s nuclear, chemical and biological defence forces, had died in an explosion caused by a bomb placed on a scooter.Kirillov is the most prominent military officer to be assassinated since Russia began its full-scale of invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Ukraine’s SBU security service had a day earlier put out a “notice of suspicion” — essentially a warrant — for Kirillov over alleged “war crimes committed” against Kyiv’s forces.A Ukrainian intelligence official with direct knowledge of the attack told the Financial Times that the SBU was behind the killing.“Kirillov was a war criminal and a completely legitimate target, as he gave orders to use banned chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military,” the official said. “Such an inglorious end awaits all." The official said the scooter carrying the explosives had been detonated when Kirillov and his assistant, identified in Russian media as Ilya P, were near the entrance of a house on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow where the driver had come to take the general to work.Video footage shared with the Financial Times shows Kirillov and his assistant exiting the building and walking a few steps before an explosion takes place.The blast shook the walls of several nearby buildings and sent shrapnel flying for dozens of metres, according to Russian media, damaging several windows.Kirillov was hit with UK sanctions in October “for the deployment of barbaric chemical weapons in Ukraine”, including the toxic choking agent chloropicrin.The UK said Kirillov was also “a significant mouthpiece for Kremlin disinformation”, a reference to public briefings in which he regularly accused Kyiv of plotting to use chemical weapons and develop a nuclear “dirty bomb”.Last year Kirillov even claimed Ukraine had plans to launch special US-designed drones carrying “infected mosquitoes” that would spread malaria among Russia’s forces. Kirillov also led Russian efforts to discredit reports showing that Moscow’s ally, the recently ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, used chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war.

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 @WorriedWeasel from New Jersey submitted…2hrs2H

China Shows Off World's First Hypersonic Drone

A new video has revealed a remarkable first in hypersonic flight – an unmanned Chinese MD series aircraft being launched in near space from a high-altitude balloon, reaching a speed of Mach 7 before landing safely to be reused later.The full video, released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), showcases the trials of the MD series and the drone developers behind the aircraft. The team from the Institute of Mechanics (IMECH) at CAS, known as the “Qian Xuesen Young Scientist Task Force”, were the same specialists who achieved the first horizontal landing of the hypersonic drone in 2020.Hypersonic flight is a field of intense global strategic competition in advanced aerospace technology.The MD-22 – the latest known model in the series – was first unveiled at the 2022 Zhuhai air show. The aircraft boasts a maximum range of 8,000km (4,971 miles) and can carry payloads of up to 600kg (1,323 pounds), delivering substantial strategic capabilities.The concept of near-space hypersonic flight was first proposed by Qian Xuesen, the founding father of China’s space programme. He envisioned aircraft that could operate in the range between conventional aircraft and satellites, requiring mid-air launches for unparalleled flexibility.Flight trials of the MD series – known as a “wide-range vehicle” – have shown efficient performance at both high and low velocities, the team said. “We aim for the best. While our ideas are highly forward-thinking, they’re achievable in theory,” IMECH engineer Li Wenhao said in the video.The gruelling development process has included more than 30 design refinements to optimise models and improve testing. In 2020, an initial test failed due to a parachute deploying too soon. In May 2021, a second attempt was abandoned because of bad weather in the Gobi Desert.

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