GLOBAL DIARY
FREEDOM “Our objective has been reached: a victory that will enable us to take the country back to freedom” – ROBERT GLOB, PRESIDENT OF SLOVENIAN FREEDOM PARTY
NEW MANDATE FOR MACRON French President Emmanuel Macron, who defeated Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election, will secure a parliamentary majority in the June elections, according to a public opinion poll by Harris Interactive. The poll indicates that Macron’s camp would win between 326 and 366 seats, making a majority in the National Assembly which has 577 seats, if it manages to form a center-right alliance with smaller parties and conservative Republicans, reports Reuters. The far-right camp would be set to win between 117 and 147 seats according to this research, while left-wing parties together would win from 73 to 93 seats.
MUSK ACQUIRES TWITTER FOR $44 BILLION Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion, giving the world’s richest person command of a highly influential social media site that serves as a platform for political leaders, a sounding board for experts across industries and an information hub for millions of everyday users.The acquisition followed weeks of evangelizing on the neces-
CHINESE CINNAMON TEA OFFERED AT OVER $184,000 P/KG A fine dining restaurant in Hong Kong is selling a rare variety of Chinese cinnamon tea for approximately $184,615 per kilogram. Glassbelly Tea Lab, an upscale tea pairing restaurant located in Hong Kong, specializes in oolong rock teas, which are considered to be among the most expensive varieties of teas in the world. One brew of this tea can be bought at Glassbelly for approximately $3,577, while one kilogram costs approximately $184,615. For comparison, a 150-200 ml pot of tea would generally be made with around five grams of tea leaves. The founder of Glassbelly, Wing Yeung, explained that it is difficult to get authentic tea due to selling techniques that are “stuck like it was 1,000 years” involving “hushed business talks and secret deals.”
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sity of “free speech,” as the Tesla CEO seized on Twitter’s role as the “de facto town square” and took umbrage with content moderation efforts he views as an escalation toward censorship. He said he sees Twitter as essential to the functioning of democracy and said the economics are not a concern. Musk has said he supports letting people change what their tweets say, a proposal that has stirred a heated debate among academics, journalists and other heavy users of the platform.
