Israelis rally for end to Gaza war and release of captives
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34825184
By MEE staff
Published date: 17 August 2025 11:52 BST
Israeli police arrested at least 22 protesters on Sunday as nationwide demonstrations and strikes called for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of captives.Demonstrators blocked several roads in Tel Aviv, including the highway connecting the city with Jerusalem. Activists set tyres on fire and caused traffic jams, while protest organisers and the main campaign group representing the families of captives called for a general strike on Sunday.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement that protesters would "shut down the country today [Sunday] with one clear call: Bring back the 50 hostages, end the war".
Israelis rally for end to Gaza war and release of captives
By MEE staff
Published date: 17 August 2025 11:52 BSTIsraeli police arrested at least 22 protesters on Sunday as nationwide demonstrations and strikes called for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of captives.Demonstrators blocked several roads in Tel Aviv, including the highway connecting the city with Jerusalem. Activists set tyres on fire and caused traffic jams, while protest organisers and the main campaign group representing the families of captives called for a general strike on Sunday.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement that protesters would "shut down the country today [Sunday] with one clear call: Bring back the 50 hostages, end the war".
Russia orders state-backed MAX messenger app, a WhatsApp rival, pre-installed on phones and tablets
- 'National messenger' to be pre-installed on devices
- New app is being integrated with government services
- Critics say it's a spy app, state media deny that
- WhatsApp and Telegram are under regulatory pressure
MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A Russian state-backed messenger application called MAX, a rival to WhatsApp that critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on all mobile phones and tablets from next month, the Russian government said on Thursday.
The decision to promote MAX comes as Moscow is seeking greater control over the internet space as it is locked in a standoff with the West over Ukraine, which it casts as part of an attempt to shape a new world order.
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Tens of thousands of protesters gather in Tel Aviv to demand end to Gaza war
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Tel Aviv to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages, one of the largest demonstrations in Israel since the start of the fighting in October 2023.
The rally on Sunday evening was the culmination of a day of nationwide protests and a general strike to pressure the government to halt the military campaign. “Bring them all home! Stop the war!” shouted the vast crowd, which had converged on the so-called Hostage Square in Tel Aviv plaza – a focal point for protesters throughout the war.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gather in Tel Aviv to demand end to Gaza war
One of largest rallies in Israel since start of conflict follows general strike to press government to stop military actionGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity
The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.joao-camargo (Common Dreams)
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Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Companies have claimed improvements to yield, batch consistency and output while acknowledging the risks and challenges created by the technology.Nick Paul Taylor (BioSpace)
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Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
The president has made no secret of his distaste for wind and solar in America. Now he’s taking his fossil fuel agenda overseas.
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Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Companies have claimed improvements to yield, batch consistency and output while acknowledging the risks and challenges created by the technology.Nick Paul Taylor (BioSpace)
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Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Companies have claimed improvements to yield, batch consistency and output while acknowledging the risks and challenges created by the technology.Nick Paul Taylor (BioSpace)
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Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line
Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line
Toyota collected used high-voltage batteries from all kinds of cars to store the energy that powers Mazda's manufacturing HQ.Adam Ismail (The Drive)
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From the article:
In fact, the company has just begun field testing one application at partner Mazda’s Hiroshima plant.
I wanted to see what their partnership was like so I checked on Wikipedia:
In the past and present, Mazda has been engaged in alliances with other automakers. From 1974 until the late 2000s, Ford was a major shareholder of Mazda. Other partnerships include Toyota, Nissan, Isuzu, Suzuki and Kia.
Wow. I didn't really expect Mazda to be involved with 6 other car manufacturers.
Jen Psaki turns church school shooting into attack on prayer, Trump's DC crime crackdown
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North Korea has secret military base that may pose threat to east Asia and US, new report says
The ‘undeclared’ Sinpung-dong missile operating base is just 27km from the border with China, report by US thinktank says
North Korea has built a secret military base near its border with China which may house Pyongyang’s newest long-range ballistic missiles, according to new research.
The “undeclared” Sinpung-dong missile operating base lies about 27km (17 miles) from the Chinese frontier, the Washington-based thinktank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report published on Wednesday.
The facility in North Pyongan province likely houses six to nine nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and their launchers, the study said.
Their ICBMs are not what American and Soviet ICBMs are/were. Best I could find was 2,800 miles, only a threat to Asia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
Wikipedia puts "ICBM" range at a minimum of 3,400 miles.
But you're right, who gives a damn where in NK the base is. As unreliable as their tests have been, though getting better!, a few hundred miles north or south, meh.
New Zealand spy agency calls China 'most active' threat
The spy agency report called China a particularly 'assertive and powerful' actor. Beijing dismissed the 'groundless' claims as adoption of a 'Cold War mentality.'
New Zealand's intelligence agency on Thursday warned the country faces its toughest security challenges in decades, citing growing foreign interference and espionage, with China singled out as the "most active" actor.
The Security Intelligence Service (SIS) said in its annual threat report that New Zealand has been targeted by countries including China, Russia and Iran, which "are willing to engage in covert or deceptive activity to influence discussions and decisions, or gain access to technology and information that can help them meet these goals."
New Zealand spy agency calls China 'most active' threat
The spy agency report called China a particularly "assertive and powerful" actor. Beijing dismissed the "groundless" claims as adoption of a "Cold War mentality."Shakeel Sobhan (Deutsche Welle)
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Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules
A German court has ruled that a Nazi concentration camp memorial has the right to refuse entry to those wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.
The higher administrative court in the eastern state of Thuringia on Wednesday rejected a request from a woman to be allowed entry to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial while wearing a keffiyeh.
“It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.
Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules
Court in Thuringia rejected woman’s request to enter concentration camp memorial while wearing the scarfGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Regardless of anything else you might think, you just have to admit that this rationale is bullshit:
“It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.
It is not unquestionable that wearing a keffiyeh would endanger anyone's sense of security.
Argue about anything else, but you cannot actually defend that "it is unquestionable".
It's something.
Mexico still has a major problem with how much influence cartels have over it.
Remember kids, gangs aren't cool. Never accept gang members into your social circles. If enough people ostracize them, then they won't have a choice but to change.
Mexico City is actually one of the safest in terms of cartels.
And cartels will continue being cartels for as long as there is demand for their goods and guns keep being trafficked into Mexico (guess where they get their guns from).
Denmark's state postal service calls time on letter deliveries
Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times
PostNord blames sharply falling demand - will other post firms around the world follow suit?Adrienne Murray (BBC News)
In 2024, a new law opened up the postal market to private competition and took away its exemption from the country's 25% rate of VAT, so the price of a PostNord stamp jumped to 29 Danish krone ($4.55; £3.35) per letter.
"That made [volumes] drop even further faster,"
Leading conservationist in South Africa denies smuggling rhino horns worth $14m
John Hume: Conservationist in South Africa denies smuggling rhino horns worth $14m
John Hume was allegedly part of an international rhino horn trafficking syndicate, prosecutors say.Mayeni Jones (BBC News)
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It's a black market for rich people.
You can't get away with cutting their products as easily as you can selling drugs to high schoolers.
A fierce war of words keeps Thailand and Cambodia on edge
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The two sides are waging an information war to win international sympathy and shore up support at home.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
China's Xi touts unity and development in surprise Tibet visit
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The visit to Lhasa suggests a desire to stamp the Chinese leader's authority over the region.Gavin Butler (BBC News)
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"To govern, stabilise and develop Tibet, the first thing is to maintain political stability, social stability, ethnic unity and religious harmony," Xi said.
Tell that to the Uyghur people...
India and China to Explore Border Demarcation Amid US Tensions
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/46814877
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Kenya in talks with China to convert dollar rail loan into yuan
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/46814543
Kenya is in talks with China to convert a dollar-denominated railway loan into Chinese yuan, an aide to the Finance Minister John Mbadi told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Brazilian police: Bolsonaro planned to seek asylum in Argentina | dpa international
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Investigators reportedly found a draft document on Jair Bolsonaro's phone, saved in February 2024, suggesting he planned to flee to Argentina, Brazilian outlets including the news portal G1 said.
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Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech
Samsung Display has scored an unprecedented victory against its rival BOE for stealing its OLED technology.
In 2023, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese firm BOE with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).
Samsung recently won that lawsuit, and the commission's ruling is expected to effectively ban BOE's products from entering the USA.
Samsung fires another legal torpedo against its main Chinese rival
BOE is one of China's biggest display manufacturers and it's also fast becoming a serious competitor to Samsung Display globally. Even Apple has been buying OLED panels from BOE, most recently for its new iPhone SE.Asif Iqbal Shaik (SamMobile)
The whole idea of intellectual property is bonkers. Imagine charging people for hearing your voice, that's the logical conclusion of monetizing intellectual property.
Capitalism needs to die.
That is to motivate people to invent/innovate.
The problem is that the law keeps getting modified to extend the time before the protection expires and corporations abusing them in strange ways.
The silent problem with extending the expiration is that innovators will just stop innovating and milk the IP advantage they have.
Fighters will undergo screening to determine sex before women's World Boxing Championships
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In fairness, no one cares if a women wants to compete against the men generally. But yeah. Still dumb.
Oh and the guys would probably be all for it. They be bragging the whole time no matter what they're packing.
Oh and the guys would probably be all for it. They be bragging the whole time no matter what they're packing.
Like guys who drive big trucks... Guys who like to fight are likely compensating for something. I don't think they want people looking 🤣
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New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is said to have demanded that the director, Susan Monarez, either quit or be fired. Her lawyers say she won’t resign.
Democrats are rightly calling for Kennedy's removal:
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
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US Treasury chief Bessent accuses India of profiteering on Russian oil
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/46803265
Bessent told CNBC that Russian oil now accounted for 42 per cent of India’s total oil imports, up from less than 1 per cent before the war. He contrasted that with China, where Russian oil imports rose modestly to 16 per cent from 13 per cent.
US Treasury chief Bessent accuses India of profiteering on Russian oil
WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday (Aug 19) accused India of profiteering from its increased purchases of Russian oil during the war in Ukraine, saying Washington viewed the prCNA (Channel NewsAsia)
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Democrats will pay for ignoring base’s qualms about Gaza
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Trump administration sanctions Canadian judge who sits on International Criminal Court
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ICC jurists Nicolas Guillou of France, Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji and Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal were also sanctioned, with the State Department linking the decision to the tribunal's investigation into Israel's actions in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. As a result of the sanctions, any assets they hold in U.S. jurisdictions are frozen.The court said on Wednesday that it deplored the sanctions, calling them "a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates under the mandate from 125 [countries] from all regions.
"They constitute also an affront against [these countries], the rules-based international order and, above all, millions of innocent victims across the world," the statement continued. "The ICC will continue fulfilling its mandates, undeterred, in strict accordance with its legal framework as adopted by the States Parties and without regard to any restriction, pressure or threat."
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When it comes to topic lists / multi-communities, how will Lemmy and Piefed differ?
I haven't been following the development in that area, are there more recent updates from this pull?
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull…
Implement multi-community (fixes #818, fixes #5340) by Nutomic · Pull Request #5601 · LemmyNet/lemmy
Database migrations Api endpoints Parameters and query changes for PostView, to browse posts in multicommunity (blocked by Remove rest of page limit #5429) Federation (see Piefed FEP) Piefed im...GitHub
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Judge calls Trump DOJ's request to release Epstein grand jury records a 'diversion'
Judge calls Trump DOJ's request to release Epstein grand jury records a 'diversion'
The request for grand jury records came as President Donald Trump came under pressure from supporters and critics alike over his handling of the Epstein files.Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
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blah...blah...blah...judges are lawyers, and lawyers liberal....blah...blah....TDS.....Woke.....puts fingers in ears
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I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration - Now with standalone FF extension.
Not sure if this the appropriate place for it but the FOSS communities seemed dead.
This is Bridge - a privacy focused, Firefox AI disabled, Fediverse integrated browser. It has vim navigation via Tridactyl, Bitwarden integration, as well as Ublock integration.
It has an old Firefox RSS feature where you can scan a site for RSS feeds and it will add them to the RSS feed reader.
But the highlight of this is the Mastodon and Lemmy integration. you can have your Mastodon feed displayed in the sidebar on the browser which will give you access to your home, local, and fediverse feeds. you can post, reply, boost, and favourite posts.
The Lemmy extension allows you to see and link directly to lemmy discussions on whatever instance you like (multiple even) if you're on a site/news article/blog post/whatever. If the extension sees that this has been posted on Lemmy, it will provide you with a direct link to whatever discussions it finds based on the current URL you're on.
This has been a hobby project of mine for a bit now, It's very slow development as I have a job and can't dedicate all the time in the world to this. I wanted to originally build a browser from scratch but realized that would probably take me years so I settled with a fork of firefox.
Currently I believe it only works on Linux and is in a very early alpha. It hasn't crashed on me yet but visually is a bit rough around the edges.
I just wanted to share this little hobby project I've been working on. Thanks!
UPDATE
Since I already got a lot of feedback and more people than anything else wanted the Lemmy Extension as a stand alone extension...I delivered.
You were all correct, the Lemmy Add-on is a bigger deal than the browser. Again this was just a hobby project of mine as I've never played around with firefox forks before or extensions/addons for that matter so this is my first time.
Regardless, here it is: codeberg.org/rozodru/LemmyBrid…
NOTE: I have submitted it to Mozilla so it is NOT VERIFIED as of right now, if you want to use it, use it at your own discretion. If it breaks something in whatever fork of firefox you're using then I take no responsibility.
Again thanks for all the support, appreciate it.
Librewolf is also an option, which is basically just FF with arkenfox preinstalled.
I don't think that it's just that. Librewolf probably makes many of the same changes, but from what I understand, it is a completely separate project, so not all of the arkenfox changes are included in Librewolf and vice versa.
China's push for global AI dominance
China's push for global AI dominance
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Trump confirms US is seeking 10% stake in Intel. Bernie Sanders approves.
Trump confirms US is seeking 10% stake in Intel. Bernie Sanders approves.
Trump vowed to kill CHIPS Act. Instead, he’s found a way to salvage it.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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