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Objects were thrown as former US President Joe Biden and Jill Biden left Trinity College Dublin today.
Pro-Palestinian protesters had gathered outside, and Gardaí arrested at least two people.
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Karoline Leavitt:
Trump will never be at the top of the ticket again.
We need someone who's America First.
Abdul El-Sayed on Israel:
My approach is simple: Treat the government of Israel the way you would treat any other government that did the same thing.
My family comes from Egypt, and I want to do the same thing with Egypt.
Egypt violates human rights law. Egypt shouldn't be getting $3.3 billion of our tax dollars.
And I would hate if somebody would be like, "Well, because you share the ethnicity of 95% of the people in Egypt, for us to say that the Egyptian government is doing terrible things must be anti-Egyptian."
No, it is just applying our principles evenly everywhere.
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NEW: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked Elon Musk to retain documents on Starshield restrictions in Ukraine ahead of a possible investigation, a Democratic aide told CNN.
Democrats won both chambers in the midterms.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on AI:
At the start of this year AI was mostly not as smart as our smartest scientists, and now it's mostly smarter than them.
And AI was mostly not able to do a lot of white-collar jobs, and now it mostly can do a lot of parts of that.
I think we're going to navigate through this all fine.
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Germany's Chancellor Merz on Iran War:
We now have costs exceeding €100 billion for Europe alone over the last eight months, solely because of the increase in energy prices caused by this conflict.
More than €100 billion extra has been paid by businesses and consumers in Europe because energy has become more expensive as a result of this conflict.
We have an economic interest in bringing this conflict to an end as quickly as possible.
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Israel’s Avigdor Liberman has reportedly cut contact with opposition leaders Gadi Eisenkot and Naftali Bennett, preferring that Eisenkot join a unity government with Netanyahu.
Liberman maintains he will not join a Netanyahu-led government himself or support a minority government reliant on Arab parties.
Source: N12
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Putin on Elon Musk:
Elon Musk is an industrial genius. He has more than 5,000 spacecraft in orbit. We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk.
It is important to maintain discipline and order in orbit. Both we and our American partners value this, and despite political issues, we work closely together in this field.
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Germany's Chancellor Merz:
We will strengthen our armaments cooperation with Japan, for example through joint developments for innovative defense capabilities of the future.
In this context, we also want to explore whether cooperation in fighter aircraft construction is possible.
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Syrian President Ahmad al-Shaara:
In 2003, there was talk about American forces entering Iraq.
My sense of solidarity took me to Iraq to defend them and confront the American occupier at that time.
That was my primary motivation. I had no organizational affiliations.
In fact, I went to Iraq before the Americans entered. I went there to wait for them as they were coming.
I went alone, without any organizational affiliations.
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The Trump administration has encouraged former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to run for UN Secretary-General, with Russia and China reportedly supportive of a joint candidacy.
Orbán is reportedly interested but reluctant to run without confidence of winning.
Trump and Vance are expected to support him, with a possible announcement after the U.S. midterm elections.
Source: WSJ
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Trump on Taiwan:
Taiwan stole our chip business, all of it, 100%.
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Saudi Arabia:
The bargain with the Wahhabis on the inside never envisioned the modernization of the Kingdom. So MBS is fighting two battles at one time.
As he's spending money for Vision 2030, the Wahhabi tribes and the Bedouin tribes are saying: "I'm not so sure about this kid. I'm not so sure that we want this, I'm not so sure we want alcohol, I don't think we want Westerners to take over," right?
All of the things that we know that they say.
Source: @MarioNawfal
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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Saudi Arabia:
MBS sat me down and for three hours, in Arabic, gave me the history of Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, but in such detail that I had never heard.
And I thought I was well-versed because I was thrown there as a young lawyer, so I knew the Kingdom.
Source: @MarioNawfal
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Elon Musk:
Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.
Norwegian soldiers discovered that Chinese-owned Volvo rental cars recorded and stored videos during a major military exercise in Oslo from September 14–18.
The footage captured soldiers entering and leaving vehicles, their movements, locations and even security codes used to access restricted areas.
Despite the discovery, the military continued using the cars due to a lack of alternatives.
Source: DN
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Ted Cruz:
The United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court because it is used — number one, the main thing the International Criminal Court is used for is for antisemites to attack Israel.
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French President Macron:
China is massacring our industrial base — partly through innovation after Covid, but also by subsidizing its companies eight times the OECD average.
That is not acceptable. We are not respecting the rules of the game, and we are not protecting our companies.
We Europeans have been naive. We said: "We are open to everyone because we want to trade with others."
But in reality, we are doing much less trade with others.
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Trump on AI:
We’re going to be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence to superintelligence officially.
Trump on AI:
We're about a year, maybe a year and a half up on China. There is nobody in third place.
I spoke a little bit about it with Xi, not too much. I think if you, as they say, open it up, you sort of give up the lead.
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