Waqas Ali Khan (Bradford,UK)

Hello people ○I stood for a referendum in 2015, ○Fought against anti-Islam parties in 2016 And ○Stood again for democracy in 2019 General Election NOW 2024 standing for working class people, end the genocide and proportional representation @WorkersPartyGB @georgegalloway

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🔴#BREAKING | China urges citizens to evacuate Israel amid West Asia war NDTV's @VishalV054 joins @NewshoundArjun with more details

‘Getting worse each day’: why Southeast Asia is vulnerable to the fuel crisis #Echobox=1774264833" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scmp.com/week-asia/econ…

British pensioner, 80, 'fighting for his life' in South American prison after drug lords 'convinced' him to smuggle £200k worth of meth gbnews.com/news/british-p…

Itochu enters e-waste management with view to rare earths recycling s.nikkei.com/4uKPTBK

Australia and the European Union signed a trade deal that was eight years in the making, removing tariffs for almost all European goods and for nearly all exports of Australian critical minerals. More here: reut.rs/3PuC7D8

The UAE’s Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority has confirmed that Elon Musk's Starlink internet service has been approved and is now available in the country #Echobox=1774302879" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenationalnews.com/future/technol…

Across Shenzhen, Huawei runs premium retail spaces, including a store at the downtown COCO Park Mall that even sells cars. The tech giant's HQ is located in Shenzhen's Bantian area.

How Sadiq Khan-backed 'Barcelona-on-Thames' housing estate will swell by 20,000 homes...despite fears over school places and GP appointments trib.al/sa5W712

McDonalds are testing robot workers at one of their stores in China They greet customers and deliver food, while human staff still handle cooking

NextEra secures land in Texas for giant gas plant to power data centers, CEO says reut.rs/4d7f4rP reut.rs/4d7f4rP

The competition among global banks for Hong Kong’s $1 trillion of private wealth is intensifying. Heavyweights such as UBS, Citigroup, BNP Paribas and DBS are aggressively expanding their headcount this year, with plans to hire hundreds of private bankers. Some candidates are getting pay bumps of as much as 25%. Read more: bloom.bg/4bKra7S 📷️: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg

Carmakers rush to secure aluminium as Middle East war hits supply ft.trib.al/eKZfMJT

Ann Makosinski is a Canadian inventor who created a flashlight that works without batteries or electricity. 🔥🔥🤯🤯

🇵🇭🇷🇺 | The Philippines is set to import Russian oil next week for the first time in five years, days after the government has announced it's intent. The Russian vessel with 100,000 tonnes (about 750,000 barrels) of ESPO Blend oil is on its way to the Bataan terminal, Philippines.

#FPWorld | Is the Iran war widening? Saudi Arabia and UAE are taking steps toward joining the conflict, potentially reshaping the regional battle lines as tensions continue to escalate. firstpost.com/world/iran-war…

Roadside vendors, drivers in #Asia brace for fuel shortage amid #MiddleEast conflict. #Iran #US #oil bit.ly/4uTjBEW

China’s new surgical robot cut brain imaging time by 29%. In cerebrovascular procedures, that is not just a speed upgrade. Less time, steadier control, less tremor, less fatigue, less radiation exposure, and fewer avoidable errors can all mean lower risk when the margin for error is tiny. The real promise of medical robotics is not to look futuristic. It is to make human survival less fragile.

High-risk foreign criminals released onto Britain’s streets without public safeguards, chief inspector warns gbnews.com/news/foreign-c…

BREAKING: South Korea just announced mandatory fuel rationing. Government vehicles at public institutions barred from operating one day each week on a five-day licence plate rotation. The world’s 10th largest economy, a G20 member, a semiconductor superpower, home to Samsung and SK Hynix, the country that fabricates a quarter of the world’s memory chips, is rationing fuel like Sri Lanka. South Korea imports 73 to 87 percent of its oil from the Middle East. Every barrel transits the Strait of Hormuz. The strait is closed and mined. There is no alternative route for Korean crude imports at scale. The Kospi crashed 4.9 percent on Monday before Trump’s “productive conversations” post briefly eased the panic. The won is weakening. Inflation is accelerating. And now the Energy Minister is telling government workers which days they cannot drive. Count the dominoes. Sri Lanka rationed first: Wednesdays off, QR codes at pumps, LPG vanished from southern shelves. Bangladesh followed with public holidays to conserve fuel. Pakistan imposed restrictions. India tightened allocations. Slovenia became the first EU country with QR codes and odd-even plates. Now South Korea. The rationing is no longer a developing-world phenomenon. It is migrating up the GDP ladder. The 10th largest economy. The 12th largest military budget. A US treaty ally hosting 28,500 American troops. Rationing. Those 28,500 troops run on fuel. USFK operates bases across the peninsula that require continuous diesel, aviation fuel, and generator capacity. Joint exercises with the ROK military consume thousands of tonnes of fuel annually. Every barrel of that fuel traces back to the same Middle Eastern supply chain that South Korea’s Energy Minister just acknowledged cannot sustain civilian demand. If civilian vehicles are being restricted, military logistics are under pressure. If military logistics are under pressure, deterrence against North Korea erodes. If deterrence erodes, Pyongyang and Beijing calculate. The Strait of Hormuz is 7,500 kilometres from the Korean DMZ. The fuel that deters Kim Jong Un transits a chokepoint held closed by Iran’s 140 remaining missile launchers. Kim Jong Un is watching. Every day that South Korea rations fuel is a day that North Korea’s calculus shifts. Not toward war, not yet, but toward the conclusion that the American alliance system has a fuel dependency that a single regional conflict can exploit. The US cannot simultaneously secure the Strait of Hormuz with carrier groups, deploy 82nd Airborne paratroopers to the Iran theater, accelerate the 11th MEU from San Diego, AND maintain full deterrence posture on the Korean Peninsula. Something gives. The fuel rationing in Seoul is the first visible signal of what is giving. Taiwan is watching too. TSMC’s fabrication plants in Hsinchu are counting LNG reserves in single-digit days. Taiwan imports virtually all of its energy. If South Korea, with its larger strategic reserves and diversified economy, is already rationing, Taiwan’s timeline is shorter. The chips that power every Nvidia GPU, every Apple processor, every AI training run on Earth depend on a gas supply that depends on a strait that depends on a 5-day pause that depends on a Truth Social post that Iran says corresponds to nothing. Sri Lanka. Bangladesh. Pakistan. India. Slovenia. South Korea. Six countries rationing. Three continents. One strait. The molecules do not check GDP rankings. The molecules check whether the chokepoint is open. It is not. open.substack.com/pub/xerion/p/a…