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UN urges Armenia to respect territorial integrity of Azerbaijan – SecGen spokesperson


“We would like to recall the UN Security Council resolutions, affirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and call for their full respect,” Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, said at a briefing, News.az reports.

He has made the remark, while commenting upon the so-called “presidential elections” held by Armenian separatists in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh on September 9, 2023.

“The Secretary General urges to intensify efforts towards the long term normalization of relations for security and peace of the region,” he added.

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Russian aid reaches beleaguered enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh


For months, residents have complained of bread queues and empty shelves in shops because of shortages of medicines and basic toiletries, after Azerbaijan blocked the Lachin Corridor, accusing Armenia of using it to smuggle weapons.

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President Ilham Aliyev viewed construction progress of “Istisu” mineral water bottling plant and “Istisu” Treatment and Recreation Complex VIDEO


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Kalbajar, August 25, AZERTAC

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva have viewed the construction progress of the “Istisu” mineral water bottling plant and “Istisu” Treatment and Recreation Complex in the Kalbajar district.

Head of the President’s Administrative Services Department Ramin Guluzade informed the head of state and the First Lady of the works done.

Kalbajar “Istisu” mineral water bottling plant was built in 1981. The plant was closed at the end of 1991. The newly built “Istisu” plant will occupy an area of 7.800 square meters. The enterprise will employ nearly 100 people.

Glass and plastic packaging production lines supplied by a German company will be installed at the plant.

The head of state and the First Lady were also informed about the project of the “Istisu” Treatment and Recreation Complex. Inaugurated in 1927, the sanatorium was considered the second largest resort in the former Azerbaijan SSR.

The “Istisu” Treatment and Recreation Complex will cover a total area of 32,000 square meters. The complex will have 145 rooms and 10 cottages.

The SPA Center of the complex will have a thermal bath, therapeutic bath, doctor’s room, including various therapeutic pools, procedure rooms, steam rooms, salt rooms and a beauty salon. The complex will also house restaurants, a children’s entertainment center, game room, sports cafe, karaoke room and a cafeteria.

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Elon Musk’s control of Starlink gives him unchecked power over elected governments


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  • Elon Musk’s control over Starlink is in the spotlight after he thwarted a Ukrainian attack.
  • Musk says he vetoed a 2022 strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet over fears it would escalate the war.
  • But critics say he was wrong — and that he alone should not have the power to decide.

Elon Musk is a US defense contractor, leading companies that have received tens of billions of dollars in contracts from the federal government. A new biography of the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO, which reveals his unilateral decision to block a Ukrainian attack, is once again prompting the question: Should America — and its allies — be so dependent on one mercurial billionaire?

As Musk tells it, Ukrainian officials pleaded with him last year to extend his Starlink satellite internet service all the way to Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in illegally annexed Crimea, but he denied it citing concerns, relayed by Russian officials, that the attack could escalate the war, maybe even making it go nuclear. In this version, he is merely denying a request, not critically undermining an active mission.

But as his biographer, Walter Isaacson, tells it, Musk actually became aware that Ukraine was planning a maritime drone attack, using Starlink, on Russia’s naval assets, which have fired missiles that devastated Ukrainian cities and wrecked the country’s grain exports. Seeing the attack transpire using Starlink — and texting his biographer about the military operation as it was unfolding  — Musk “secretly told his engineers to turn off coverage within 100 kilometers of the Crimean coast,” and ignored subsequent pleas to turn it back on, according to an excerpt of his new biography of the entrepreneur.

“If the Ukrainian attacks had succeeded in sinking the Russian fleet, it would have been like a mini Pearl Harbor and led to a major escalation,” Musk told Isaacson. “We did not want to be a part of that.” (Musk later reassured a Russian ambassador that Ukraine would not be able to use Starlink for offensive operations, according to Isaacson). 

As Ukrainian officials see it, sinking Russia’s fleet, if that was indeed a possibility, would have prevented hundreds of missiles from raining down on the country’s infrastructure, and spared civilian lives. Despite Kremlin intimations about World War III, Ukrainian attacks on its vessels, including the sinking of its flagship Moskva missile cruiser — and an attack this week on ships being repaired in Sevastopol — have been answered with more of the usual: Seemingly deliberate attacks against civilians, not nuclear bombs. 

Were Starlink operated at the direction of the Pentagon, it’s possible that the Biden administration also would have denied Ukraine’s attack on Crimea, if not sabotaged it. But that would have been a decision made by an elected government; Right or wrong, it would have been subject to democratic input, not the unchecked whims of a mercurial billionaire whose personal finances may not always align with the desires of the United States and its partners, including the democratically elected leadership of Ukraine.

“This is one of the challenges of relying on a commercial service that has its own interest in ensuring that it remains out of the crosshairs,” Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, told Insider. Musk, at a minimum, does not want his satellites shot down by the Russian government (although Starlink, used by Ukrainian soldiers to coordinate on the front lines, is arguably a legitimate military target already). 

In June, the Defense Department signed another contract with SpaceX, specifically for Starlink, that reportedly gives US officials more say in where and when at least some of the service’s tablet-like terminals can operate. The contract, the terms of which have not been disclosed, also highlights SpaceX’s willingness — for compensation — to serve US and Ukrainian national security interests.

Washington does have some leverage, then. But it’s also utterly dependent: no other company provides an equivalent service at the scale of SpaceX, providing the robust data needed to build a battlefield network where landlines and cellular services are non-existent. Even if it wanted to change Musk’s mind, it is not clear that it can actually compel him to do anything when it comes to Ukrainian attacks on territory controlled by Russia.

“Rather,” Pettyjohn said, “they have to convince him that this is hurting the Ukrainian war effort, not qualitatively different than other attacks going on, and not likely to precipitate retaliation against the company.”

The launch of a SpaceX rocket just barely off the ground surrounded by smokeSpaceX uses Falcon 9 rockets to transport batches of around 60 Starlink satellites at a time.

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War and peace — and Elon Musk

But that arrangement — elected officials pleading with an unelected businessman to serve the country’s national security interests, for which he has received the right to view classified information — strikes many as antidemocratic.

David Frum, a one-time speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, now a writer for The Atlantic, argues that Musk’s veto of a Ukrainian attack constitutes a “confessed abuse of power by a US government contractor,” one that demands an “exhaustive congressional investigation.”

As Nicholas Grossman, a professor of international relations at the University of Illinois, highlights in an essay for The Daily Beast, the Crimean episode shows not only that Musk is susceptible to empty nuclear threats from a hostile foreign government, despite being on the US payroll, but that he has real-time access to incredibly sensitive information — and doesn’t protect it: As Isaacson told it, Musk “texted him about the Ukrainian sea drones headed to Crimea as he was trying to decide what to do,” Grossman notes, which is at the very least “an information security risk.”

As The Washington Post’s editorial board recently pointed out, President Joe Biden could simply nationalize Starlink on security grounds, taking control of the nearly 5,000 satellites that SpaceX has launched since 2019, while of course providing a handsome return to Musk for his investment.

There’s precedent for the US government to control technologies and businesses that impact its security and that of its allies. In World War II, the US nationalized vast portions of the economy including railroads, shipyards, coal mines and manufacturers of war materials such as explosives, textiles and machinery.

But it’s not hard to imagine how that would play out politically, particularly given Musk’s own right-wing politics and ability to disseminate them on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment).

“A better solution,” according to the Post, “might be for the United States to try to build satellites of its own.” A $1.5 billion contract awarded by the Defense Department last month aims to do just that, albeit on a much smaller scale. In the future, at least, Starlink would no longer be “the democratic world’s only good option.”

Neither Musk nor SpaceX responded to requests for comment.

Josh Marshall, editor of the news site Talking Points Memo, was more blunt: “You simply can’t have critical national security infrastructure in the hands of a Twitter troll who’s a soft touch for whichever foreign autocrat blows some smoke up his behind.”

Put another, more diplomatic way: The power to decide serious questions of war and peace is currently vested in the hands of an unelected man who is treated as if he were a head of state — one who effectively works for the US government but certainly does not behave like an employee. Even were Musk the one person singularly best prepared to answer such questions, the burden would be unfair; the consensus, today, is that he’s not — and that the current arrangement is subject to the whims of one man.

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Donald Trump has asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself because she hurt his fee-fees by not exclaiming admiringly over what a fantastic specimen he is and because he doesn’t like her rulings.

Of course, that is not what Trump SAID in his filing. But as you know, what Trump (or any lawyer of his) says is bound to be dishonest, so we are better off deciphering the meaning for ourselves.

Chutkan is competent. That is why Trump wants her off the case. He does not like being in her power. Thus — the magical filing Trump thinks will save him from the evil clutches of Judge Tanya Chutkan. It won’t.

This isn’t Narnia, Donnie, it’s the real-world. So TRY to stay in reality. I know however, this is difficult for you. Here is an ESTIMATE of what percentage this filing stands of succeeding.

ZERO.

Definition of ZERO — “No quantity or number:naught: the figure 0.” Trump’s chances are at a beautiful ZERO! And they just might go down to MINUS zero soon.

This motion has as much chance of coming true as Samuel Alito gaining respecting for women, of Lindsey Graham standing up for himself, of Nikki Haley taking a position on anything, of Gym Jordan lowering his voice. Meaning — zero. It isn’t happening.

It is fun to watch Trump make these zero-sum motions that cannot happen. Notice he did not call for Judge Cannon’s recusal. Of course, he didn’t! But something tells me Cannon WILL be off the case at some point.




Trump is stuck with Chutkan. Sounds OK to me! I would not be surprised if he tries to oust the Georgia Judge, too, because he does seem good. ANYONE who does not worship at the altar of Donald Trump, in Trump’s mind, is unfair.

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Libyans search for families after catastrophic flood


2023-09-13T15:33:33Z

Eyewitness footage shot on Monday (September 11) showed a heavily flooded hospital, the Al-Bayda Medical Center, in the Libyan city of Bayda.

Residents of the devastated Libyan city of Derna desperately searched for missing relatives on Wednesday and rescue workers appealed for more body bags, after a catastrophic flood that killed thousands of people and swept many out to sea.

Swathes of the Mediterranean city were obliterated by a torrent of water unleashed by a powerful storm that swept down a usually dry riverbed on Sunday night, bursting dams above the city. Multi-storey buildings collapsed with sleeping families inside.

Officials have put the number of missing at 10,000. The U.N. aid agency OCHA said the figure was at least 5,000.

Usama Al Husadi, a 52-year-old driver, has been searching for his wife and five children since the disaster. “I went by foot searching for them … I went to all hospitals and schools but no luck,” he told Reuters, weeping with his head in his hands.

Husadi, who had been working the night of the storm, dialled his wife’s phone number once again. It was switched off. “We lost at least 50 members from my father’s family, between missing and dead,” he said.

The beach was littered with clothes, toys, furniture, shoes and other possessions swept out of homes by the torrent.

Streets were covered in deep mud and strewn with uprooted trees and hundreds of wrecked cars, many flipped on their sides or onto their roofs. One car was wedged on the second-floor balcony of a gutted building.

“I survived with my wife but I lost my sister,” Mohamed Mohsen Bujmila, a 41-year-old engineer, said. “My sister lives downtown where most of the destruction happened. We found the bodies of her husband and son and buried them.”

He also found the bodies of two strangers in his apartment.

As he spoke an Egyptian search-and-rescue team nearby recovered the body of his neighbour. “This is Aunt Khadija, may God grant her heaven,” Bujmila said.

The devastation is clear from high points above Derna, where the densely populated city centre, built along a seasonal riverbed, was now a wide, flat crescent of earth with stretches of muddy water gleaming in the sun. Buildings were swept away.

Death tolls given by officials so far have varied, but all are in the thousands.

Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that runs eastern Libya, told Reuters more than 5,300 dead had been counted so far, and said the number was likely to increase significantly and might even double. The “sea is constantly dumping dozens of bodies”, he said by phone.

Tariq Kharaz, a spokesperson for the eastern authorities, said 3,200 bodies had been recovered, and 1,100 of them had yet to be identified.

Rescue teams have arrived from Egypt, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Qatar, said Derna mayor Abdulmenam Al-Ghaithi.

“We actually need teams specialised in recovering bodies,” he said. “I fear that the city will be infected with an epidemic due to the large number of bodies under the rubble and in the water.”

The U.N. migration agency, the International Organization for Migration, said at least 30,000 people had been displaced in Derna.

“We need bags for the bodies,” Lutfi al-Misrati, the director of the search team, told Al Jazeera.

Rescue operations are complicated by deep political fractures in the country of 7 million people that has lacked a strong central government and been at war on-and-off since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

An internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) is based in Tripoli, in the west, while a parallel administration operates in the east, including Derna.

Libya’s Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah called the floods an unprecedented catastrophe. Libya’s Presidential Council head Mohammed al-Menfi has called for national unity.

The bodies of dozens of Egyptian migrants who were among the victims of the storm in Libya arrived on Wednesday in Beni Suef, about 110km (68 miles) south of Cairo, Egyptian media reported.

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People look at the dead bodies outside the hospital, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

A view shows damaged cars, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

A view shows damaged cars, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Members of Libyan Red Crescent Ajdabiya work in an area affected by flooding, in Derna, Libya, in this social media image released September 12, 2023. Libyan Red Crescent Ajdabiya via REUTERS

Relief items from Jordan’s Hashemite Charity Organization are arranged to be delivered to Libya in response to a powerful storm and heavy rainfall, in Amman, Jordan September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak

A man stands next to a damaged car, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

People walk through debris after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya, September 12, 2023 in this still image from video obtained from social media. ALI M. BOMHADI/via REUTERS

View of a damaged car after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya, September 12, 2023 in this still image from video obtained from social media. ALI M. BOMHADI/via REUTERS

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Schumer urges bipartisan AI policy at US meeting with Musk, Zuckerberg


2023-09-13T15:43:48Z

The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat brought American technology leaders – including Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk, Meta Platforms (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) CEO Sundar Pichai – to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door forum on how Congress should set artificial intelligence safeguards.

Lawmakers are grappling with how to mitigate the dangers of the emerging technology, which has experienced a boom in investment and consumer popularity after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.

“This is an important, urgent, and in some ways unprecedented moment,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said as he walked into the meeting in Washington.

Lawmakers want safeguards against potentially dangerous deepfakes such as bogus videos, election interference and attacks on critical infrastructure.

“Today, we begin an enormous and complex and vital undertaking: building a foundation for bipartisan AI policy that Congress can pass,” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said in opening remarks. “Congress must play a role, because without Congress we will neither maximize AI’s benefits, nor minimize its risks.”

Other attendees include Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft (MSFT.O) CEO Satya Nadella, IBM (IBM.N) CEO Arvind Krishna, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, AFL-CIO labor federation President Liz Shuler and Senators Mike Rounds, Martin Heinrich and Todd Young.

Schumer, who talked AI with Musk in April, wants attendees to talk “about why Congress must act, what questions to ask, and how to build a consensus for safe innovation.” Sessions began at 10 a.m. ET and are to last until 5 p.m. ET.

In March, Musk and a group of AI experts and executives called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.

This week, Congress is holding three separate hearings on AI. Microsoft President Brad Smith told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday that Congress should “require safety brakes for AI that controls or manages critical infrastructure.”

Smith compared AI safeguards to requiring circuit breakers in buildings, school buses having emergency brakes and airplanes having collision avoidance systems.

Republican Senator Josh Hawley questioned Wednesday’s closed-door session, saying Congress has failed to pass any meaningful tech legislation. “I don’t know why we would invite all the biggest monopolists in the world to come and give Congress tips on how to help them make more money,” Hawley said.

Regulators globally have been scrambling to draw up rules governing the use of generative AI, which can create text and generate images whose artificial origins are virtually undetectable.

Adobe (ADBE.O), IBM, Nvidia and five other companies on Tuesday said they had signed President Joe Biden’s voluntary AI commitments, which require steps such as watermarking AI-generated content.

The commitments, which were announced in July, were aimed at ensuring AI’s power was not used for destructive purposes. Google, OpenAI and Microsoft signed on in July. The White House has also been working on an AI executive order.

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Elon Musk arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Craig Hudson

Microsoft President Brad Smith, Nvidia’s chief scientist William Dally, and Professor Woodrow Hartzog wait to testify before a Senate Judiciary Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee hearing on “Oversight of A.I.: Legislating on Artificial Intelligence” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo


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Brazil requests US help for probes involving Bolsonaro, sources say


2023-09-13T15:48:03Z

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro looks on before a session in the Legislative Assembly of Goias to receive the title of citizen of Goias, in Goiania, Brazil August 18, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo

Brazil has formally requested U.S. law enforcement assistance into probes that involve former President Jair Bolsonaro after his ex-aide agreed to cooperate with Brazilian investigators, two Brazilian Federal Police sources told Reuters.

Brazil requested U.S. help to corroborate statements by former Bolsonaro aide Mauro Cid about his role in various criminal probes involving Bolsonaro, including into falsified vaccination records and the sale of expensive jewels gifted by foreign governments.

Cid was released last week from prison, where he had been since May, after agreeing to cooperate with police.

Bolsonaro, who has denied any wrongdoing, faces mounting legal jeopardy after losing his re-election bid, with many in Brazil believing he could soon end up in jail. Brazil’s federal electoral court all but ended his political career by ruling him ineligible to run until 2030.

The United States is already providing initial, informal assistance, one of the sources said. The official request, made via the Justice Ministry’s Department of Asset Recovery and International Legal Cooperation (DRCI), will formalize the arrangement and allow any evidence to be used in court.

Justice Minister Flavio Dino told news website G1 the request was sent on Tuesday.

Lawyers for Bolsonaro and Cid did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Police believe Cid was a central player in various schemes involving Bolsonaro. After narrowly losing the 2022 election to his leftist rival, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro and Cid left for an extended stay in the U.S., where some of the alleged crimes took place.

One of the sources said it could take three to six months for Brazil to receive the information it needs from the United States.


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Azerbaijan conveys new proposals on peace treaty, says Armenian FM


Azerbaijan conveys new proposals on peace treaty, says Armenian FM
19:02, 13 September 2023

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan has reacted to Armenia’s proposals on a peace treaty and has in turn conveyed its new proposals, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told lawmakers during question time in parliament on September 13.

He said that Azerbaijan conveyed its latest proposals on September 12.

“Unfortunately, I have to say that there are significant issues where the positions of the parties are very far from each other,” Mirzoyan added.

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Azerbaijan conveys new proposals on peace treaty, says Armenian FM
19:02, 13 September 2023

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan has reacted to Armenia’s proposals on a peace treaty and has in turn conveyed its new proposals, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told lawmakers during question time in parliament on September 13.

He said that Azerbaijan conveyed its latest proposals on September 12.

“Unfortunately, I have to say that there are significant issues where the positions of the parties are very far from each other,” Mirzoyan added.

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