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🚨 Iran unveils West Asia's biggest cancer hospital The new main building of the Iranian Cancer Institute is equipped with over 610 beds and cutting‑edge medical technology. 🔸 The hospital spans 60,000 square meters - 18 floors, 37 specialized departments and a national cell therapy lab 🔸 It is equipped with 11 imaging and radiotherapy machines, 96 chemotherapy beds, and 19 operating rooms 🔸 It functions as the nation's main hub for cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment War and sanctions haven't stopped Iran from advancing its healthcare infrastructure.
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🇷🇺🇹🇿 Putin meets Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Kremlin The leaders are holding talks in Moscow during Hassan's state visit to Russia, the first by a Tanzanian head of state in more than 55 years. Hassan will later travel to St. Petersburg to participate in SPIEF 2026 and attend a Russia–Tanzania business dialogue.
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🚨🇨🇳 World’s first end-to-end robotic hotel launching in China The hotel will use robots for all seven key operations - check-in, luggage, room service, food & beverage delivery, cleaning, security, and guest escort. 🔸 The robots run as one unified team on a single platform 🔸 They coordinate actions and make decisions completely autonomously, no humans needed 🔸 The complex is scheduled to welcome its first tourists in 2027 🔸 By that moment, it aims to also automate landing, sightseeing, accommodation, and shopping China is leaving the world's tourism industry in the dust with its technological edge.
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🚨🇬🇭 Ghana breaks crude-export trap to join African refining push Ghana will begin refining oil from its own offshore fields this June 🔸 President John Mahama says Ghanaian crude will be delivered to a domestic refinery for local processing 🔸 The move aims to end the cycle of exporting crude while importing higher-value petroleum products 🔸 Ghana is expanding capacity through the Tema Oil Refinery and the privately owned Sentuo Refinery 🔸 Ghana has also secured $1.5 billion in new investment to boost oil and gas production Nigeria's Dangote Refinery and Angola's refinery expansion have already accelerated Africa's push for energy self-sufficiency as Africa enters a new era where resource-rich nations keep more of the profits
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Chinese engineer Peng Pai, who reunited with Vladimir Putin in Beijing 25 years after first meeting him as a child, showed Sputnik the gift the Russian president gave him during his latest visit. Spoiler: it's a “Moscow Classics” tea set from St Petersburg’s Imperial Porcelain Factory.
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🚨🇨🇳 How Chinese WS-10 jet engine made it a modern air power Celebrating twenty years since its debut, the WS-10 Taihang turbofan has become the backbone of the Chinese air force fighter fleet. 🔸 The project was launched in 1987 and finalized in 2006, and built up the domestic engineering base 🔸 It ended dependence on foreign suppliers, allowing mass production of 4th- and 5th-generation jets 🔸 The engine also powers exported J-10CE fighters 🔸 The WS-10 almost rivals the US General Electric F110 in performance The breakthrough gave China a completely self-sufficient air force.
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🚨🇧🇾 Attack on Belarus would take Ukraine war to new level – Lukashenko “God forbid a military strike occurs on Belarusian soil from any territory — the war in Ukraine will take on a completely different dimension,” Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned. European NATO member states are pushing Zelensky to threaten Belarus, he added. In December 2025, Lukashenko announced that Russian Oreshnik missiles had entered service in Belarus. The Oreshnik is Russia’s newest missile system equipped with a medium-range ballistic missile and hypersonic warheads.
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👉 CNN correspondent Nick Walsh — who is wanted in absentia in Russia for taking part in the invasion of Kursk region — filmed a propaganda segment about Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian cities exactly FOUR days after the deadly Starobelsk strike that killed 21 children. Neither the hosts nor Walsh said a single word about it, Russian MFA spox Maria Zakharova noted. “Instead, CNN ran a full promotional campaign praising the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones.“
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🚨🇨🇳 China unveils its first full-stack green AI computing platform The platform was launched in the city of Hohhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, CCTV reports 🔸The goal is to unify computing resources, cut costs, and accelerate nationwide AI adoption through low-carbon infrastructure 🔸The platform is fully compatible with domestically produced chips and mainstream computing architectures 🔸Connects over 10 leading models from major telecom operators and tech firms This signals a major push toward scalable, energy-efficient national AI infrastructure built to support the next wave of model deployment and AI-driven services
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🚨🇵🇰🇨🇳 Pakistan’s digital pivot to China takes shape with Alibaba MoUs in Hangzhou Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai witnessed the signing of several strategic agreements between Alibaba and Pakistani public & private sector entities What could the MoUs include? Waqas Anjum, Head of AI and Digitalization in Education at ACME, shares key insights: 🔸 First step: Alibaba cloud solutions for selected government departments and public institutions. 🔸 Another likely area: IT workforce training and digital skills development. 🔸 Logistics & e-commerce could also be early targets — Pakistani SMEs often struggle with supply chain and export limitations when accessing international markets "Alibaba has strong capabilities in cloud services, AI, digital payments, and e-commerce. Because of this, it could potentially play a major role in the technology side of CPEC 2.0," Anjum emphasized Overall, the visit should be seen not as an immediate transformation, but as a starting point for a larger digital partnership that could gradually reshape Pakistan's technological and economic landscape in the coming years, the expert added
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