Twitter Users Can’t Get Over What Donald Trump Is Calling The U.S.’s New Weapon

President Donald Trump raised eyebrows on Twitter when he boasted on Friday about how the U.S. is developing a “super duper missile.”

“I call it the super duper missile,” Trump bragged during the unveiling of the flag for the new U.S. Space Force. Trump claimed the purported new weapon will travel “17 times faster than what we have right now.” 

But many commenters shot down his description. 

“I’m really looking forward to Trump’s defenders saying this with a straight face,” tweeted longtime GOP strategist Rick Wilson, a fierce critic of the president.

Serbian Army Deployed Near Border to Protect Against Migrants

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Belgrade, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has sent its army to a town near the border with Croatia where hundreds of migrants remain stranded in hopes of reaching the European Union.

The Defense Ministry said on Saturday that President Aleksandar Vucic ordered the troop deployment to “secure” three migrant camps near the western town of Sid that are housing some 1,500 people, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Vucic said he ordered the deployment to protect the local population from alleged harassment and robberies committed by the migrants.

He told TV Prva that after a state of emergency imposed to fight the coronavirus spread in Serbia was lifted earlier this month, the migrants started venturing outside their camps, committing “petty crimes and illegal entries into houses.”

“Because of that people are feeling unsafe,” Vucic said.

There is increased popular resentment toward the migrants and frequent unsanctioned protests by far-right groups are held in front of the camps.

There are an estimated 4,000 migrants stranded in Serbia, one of the main transit routes through the Balkans for people fleeing wars and poverty.

Mineral production flat in March

For the whole 2019-20 year, mineral production rose by 1.7%, the Mines Ministry said in a release.

Mineral production was flat in March 2020 as growth in iron ore, chromite and coal output was offset by a contraction in the production of natural gas, crude oil, zinc and manganese ore.

According to the production data by the Mines Ministry released on Saturday, the index of mineral production of the mining and quarrying sector for March at flat 132.7 compared to the same month last year.

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For the whole 2019-20 year, mineral production rose by 1.7%, the ministry said in a release.

Coal production rose by 4.3% to 958 lakh tonnes in March over the same month last year. Chromite production increased by 15.9% to 582,000 tonnes and iron ore by 8.3% to 204 lakh tonnes in March.

The production of other important minerals showing negative growth, includes gold, manganese ore, lead, limestone, zinc, natural gas, crude, and lignite.

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The production of lignite was 42 lakh tonnes, natural gas (utilised) 2323 million cu m, petroleum (crude) 27 lakh tonnes and bauxite 16.34 lakh tonnes in March.

Facebook Buys GIF Website Giphy And Plans To Integrate With Instagram

In a blog post Friday, Facebook said that it acquired Giphy, a popular website for creating animated graphics interchange format, or GIFs.

Pricing terms of the deal were not disclosed. Citing people familiar with the matter, Axios said the deal is valued around $400 million.

Facebook said that about 50% of Giphy’s traffic comes from Facebook’s family of apps, half of that from Instagram alone. Facebook has used Giphy’s application program interface throughout its main Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.

The company plans to further integrate their GIF library into Instagram and other apps so that people can find just the right way to express themselves. Giphy will become part of Instagram, the photo-sharing site owned by Facebook, and will continue to operate its library, Facebook said.

“People will still be able to upload GIFs; developers and API partners will continue to have the same access to GIPHY’s APIs; and GIPHY’s creative community will still be able to create great content,” said Vishal Shah, Instagram’s vice president of product, in the blog post.

“We will continue to make GIPHY openly available to the wider ecosystem,” Giphy said in a post on blogging website Medium.

Trump Says Tech Giants Controlled by ‘Radical Left,’ Vows Action

Donald Trump accused Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google of being controlled by the “Radical Left” and said that his administration is working to remedy what he called an “illegal situation.”

In a tweet that also mentions the Facebook-owned Instagram, the U.S. president commented on a clip by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin lambasting the so-called deplatforming of conservative voices by technology companies. Trump didn’t elaborate on potential measures targeting the tech giants.

Malkin in a recent post on her Twitter account said that she would not be taking the “Gates vaccine,” a term often employed on line by anti-vaccine activists to refer to the many coronavirus vaccines in development. It refers to Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philathropist Bill Gates.

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