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Milei assures that the battle for freedom “is not won” and asks not to “go down”

Argentine President Javier Milei said this Thursday at the Davos Forum (Switzerland) that the battle of political leaders who fight for freedom “is not won” and that it will not end until most Western countries “embrace the ideas of freedom.”

“Our battle is not won,” Milei said in a speech before the plenary, in which he said that it will not come to an end until most Western countries “embrace the ideas of freedom,” and assured that until then they should not “go down”.

Milei participates for the second time in the World Economic Forum (WEF), which he attended in 2024 just a month after his inauguration, and recalled that, since then, he no longer feels alone because the world “has embraced Argentina” and his country has been “a global example of fiscal responsibility”, “of how to end the problem of inflation”, and of a new way of doing politics.

Also, he added, because throughout this year he has found “companions in this fight for the ideas of freedom in all corners of the planet,” among whom he has cited the “wonderful” Elon Musk, the “fierce Italian lady” Georgia Meloni, the Hungarian Viktor Orbán, the Salvadoran Nayib Bukele and the Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, in the United States.

“Slowly an international alliance has been formed of all those nations that want to be free and that believe in the ideas of freedom,” he added.

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In front of a practically full auditorium, in whose front row was sitting his sister and general secretary of the Argentine Presidency, Karina Milei, the president accused the Davos Forum, but also supranational organizations such as the European Union, of promoting the ‘woke’ ideology, which he described as “sinister and murderous”.

“No one can play innocent here. They have worshiped a sinister and murderous ideology for decades as if it were a golden calf and they have moved heaven and earth to impose it on humanity,” he said.

At the same time, he said that he assured that multilateral credit agencies “have been an extortionative arm” and many national states, and in particular the EU, “have been and are an armed arm.”

In his speech he addressed the leaders of the world, both business and politicians, to whom he assured that the political formulas of recent decades “have failed” and “are collapsing on themselves” and “the script of the last forty years has been exhausted”.

“It’s time to get out of that script and the time to be bold and encourage yourself to write your own verses, because when the ideas and texts of the present say all the same and say wrong things, being brave consists precisely in being extemporaneous, consists of going back, not being dailled,” he added.

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After assuring that that is what Argentina is doing, “return to liberalism,” and trusting that this is what Trump will do in the United States, he invited all the great free nations of the world to do so, which he asked to “stop in time what, in all lights, is a path that leads to catastrophe.”

“What I am proposing is that we make the West great again,” he concluded, alluding to the slogan of the Republican president.

International

Trump signs order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to halt federal funding for two public media outlets, PBS television and NPR radio, accusing them of being biased.

NPR and PBS are partially funded by American taxpayers but rely heavily on private donations.

Trump has long maintained a hostile relationship with most media outlets, which he has referred to as the “enemy of the people.”

An exception is the conservative Fox News channel, some of whose hosts have played important roles in the administration of the Republican magnate.

“National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) receive taxpayer funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),” Trump said.

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“Therefore, I direct the CPB board and all executive departments and agencies to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS,” he added.

The Republican leader argued that “neither of these entities provides a fair, accurate, or impartial portrayal of current events to the taxpayer citizens.”

At the end of March, Donald Trump called on Congress to end public funding for these two “horrible and completely biased networks.”

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Man arrested after deliberately driving into seven children in Osaka

Japanese police arrested a man on Thursday after he rammed his car into a group of seven schoolchildren in an apparent deliberate attack in the city of Osaka.

The children, who were on their way home from school, sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital. All seven remained conscious, according to local authorities.

An Osaka police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the suspect is a 28-year-old man from Tokyo. The officer shared statements the man made after his arrest: “I was fed up with everything, so I decided to kill people by driving into several elementary school children,” the suspect reportedly said.

The man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

The injured children, aged between seven and eight, included a seven-year-old girl who suffered a fractured jaw. The six other children—all boys—suffered minor injuries such as bruises and scratches and were undergoing medical evaluation.

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Witnesses described the car as “zigzagging” before hitting the children. One witness told Nippon TV that a girl was “covered in blood” and the others appeared to have scratches.

Another witness said the driver, who was wearing a face mask, looked to be in shock when school staff pulled him from the vehicle.

Violent crimes are rare in Japan, though serious incidents do occur from time to time. In 2008, Tomohiro Kato drove a two-ton truck into pedestrians in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, then fatally stabbed several victims. Seven people were killed in that attack.

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Clashes erupt during may day protests across France amid calls for better wages

May Day protests in France were marked by a heavy police presence and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement in several cities.

In Paris, Lyon, and Nantes, thousands took to the streets to demand better wages, fairer working conditions, and to voice their dissatisfaction with President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

While the majority of the demonstrations remained peaceful, isolated confrontations broke out in some areas. Protesters threw objects at the police, prompting the use of tear gas and resulting in several arrests.

Videos showing police crackdowns circulated widely on social media, drawing criticism from labor unions and human rights advocates, who denounced the authorities’ response to the protests.