Public transport cost pushes Britons to fly abroad for day trips
Public transport cost pushes Britons to fly abroad for day trips
Meet members of a Facebook group for travellers taking "extreme day trips" from Bristol Airport.Chloe Harcombe (BBC News)
you are right.
You could disable it though in firefox: "about:config" and find "network.IDN_show_punycode" and set to true.
AI in fiction is a boring concept to me. It’s presented either as “What is a person?” or “What if we create an evil god?”. To me anything with feelings is a person and the other is just a chrome paint job on evil god characters in non sci-fi genres, so it’s just a speculative dead end.
AI in real life is much more interesting and its proliferation makes fictional AI seem even more bland. Real life AI is first and foremost not intelligent and probably not even close, that said we have no rubric to grade it by because we don’t even really know what intelligence is yet. That said, machine learning algorithms highlight patterns in the world and in our behaviors that are fascinating just because they show just how complicated the world and people are in ways our brains just passively process. Kind of like how QWOP highlights just how difficult and complicated walking is.
Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/49026720
Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday vowed to take revenge for the killing of their prime minister and other political leaders by Israeli airstrikes earlier this week.The Houthis confirmed Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in a strike on the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, which also left others seriously wounded.
Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthis’ Supreme Political Council, said in a video statement, “We promise to God, to the dear Yemeni people and the families of the martyrs and wounded that we will take revenge and we will turn the wounds into a victory.”
Al-Rahawi is the most senior figure in the Iran-backed Houthis to be killed in Israeli’s campaign against the group.
Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say the prime minister and a number of other ministers in their government were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.Eyad Kourdi (CNN)
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Rwanda received migrants deported from the US earlier this month
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35133682
- First group of seven migrants arrived in Rwanda in mid-August
- Three have expressed desire to return to home countries
- Trump has taken hardline approach toward immigration
WASHINGTON/NAIROBI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Rwanda received seven migrants deported from the United States earlier this month, a government spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday, weeks after the two countries reached an agreement for the transfer of up to 250 people.
"The first group of seven vetted migrants arrived in Rwanda in mid-August," Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said in a statement
"Three of the individuals have expressed a desire to return to their home countries, while four wish to stay and build lives in Rwanda. Regardless of their specific needs, all of these individuals will receive appropriate support and protection from the Rwandan government."
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hardline approach toward immigration, aiming to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and seeking to ramp up removals to third countries.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson on Thursday referred questions on the deportations earlier this month to the government of Rwanda and declined to comment on details of diplomatic communications with other governments.
"Implementing the Trump Administration’s immigration policies is a top priority for the Department of State. As Secretary Rubio has said, we remain unwavering in our commitment to end illegal and mass migration and bolster America’s border security," the spokesperson said.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis.
Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely but the new analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later.
50 to 100 years from now? .... phew..... i can rest easy now ..... at least all I have to worry about in my lifetime is extreme heat and hurricanes .... I'll let the next generation worry about the mid Atlantic Ocean current failing
Hey it might even start a mini ice age .... which would be a good thing because of the global warming right?
Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy murdered in Lviv
**In short: **
Ukraine's former house speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in Lviv.
Parubiy's colleagues in parliament and the government have shared tributes, praising him for his contributions to Ukraine's fight for sovereignty.
What's next?
A manhunt has been launched for the killer.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Парубій; 31 January 1971 – 30 August 2025) was a Ukrainian politician[7] who co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, and who served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, from 14 April 2016, to 29 August 2019.
Despite his move away from the Social-National Party in 2004[30] Parubiy was frequently the target by pro-Russian media, who routinely refer to him as a Nazi, especially after the Revolution of Dignity.
I'm shocked that a .ml user would behave like pro-Russian media. Totally shocked.
???? DUDE, THIS GUY CO-FOUNDED A LITERAL NEO-NAZI PARTY, IN WHAT SENSE WOULD THIS INFORMATION BE pRo-RuSsIaN????????
EVERY FUCKIN NAZI SHOULD JUST DIE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT? I DON'T FUCKIN CARE IF IT IS UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN OR FUCKIN BRAZILLIAN, OKAY?
Schindler was a nazi, and yet we praise him - despite having been vocally pro-german before he saw the reality of what his country stood for. People change, shitty people included. Sometimes, they even change for the better.
Also I'm not white, nor a gringo. It's pretty sad you have to retreat to racism for your cheap bait.
Schindler was a nazi, and yet we praise him
EWWWWWW. Fuck off, nazi scumbag.
It's pretty sad you have to retreat to racism for your cheap bait.
What a shitty "racist" guy that I am for calling you a white gringo... Western people really suffered, and still suffer, by this... /s
You know, we can acknowledge the errors of Ukraine without removing their rights to live as a free country.
Ukraine had a big problem with far right, and it was full of corruption. I don't know to which extent it is still true, but that doesn't mean we should let Russia annex or ethnically cleanse them.
Check out Dmytro Yarosh, Pravy Sektor or the Azov Brigade for example. They have far more reach than "1% on elections".
Historicaly the nazis were very popular in Ukraine because they fought against the soviets which, as you can guess, weren't much liked by most of the population. They were seen as heroes and liberators by a lot of people. That doesn't make it right, but it makes sense. History has a tendency to be grey like that.
Well, those groups were obviously among the first to fight against the Russians in eastern Ukraine after Maïdan. They were very active in the Maïdan revolution too.
It's a valid thing to point out that integrating neo-nazi or nazi-adjacent people like that in the government and war machine is problematic. That doesn't invalidate Ukraine's legitimacy or give credit to Russia's stupid claims. But denying those facts only fuels the russian propaganda machine.
I wouldn't really call Azov brigade nazi any more, although they do have an origin as a nazi organization. They were cleaned of most of that crap around 2018 or so.
Also, in 2014 Ukraine de facto had no army, as they had found it impossible that Poland or Slovakia or Moldova would attack them and believed that even if that was to happen, the Russia would come help. And when Ukraine then needed some military might when this war began in 2014, the only ones who had learned to properly use a weapon were the Moscow-funded extreme right wing oranizations, who merrily bit the feeding hand when it tried to start punching them.
Ukraine began with building an actual useful army in 2014, but for a long time the informal extreme right organizations were stronger than the Ukrainian military and police forces combined, which meant there was a real threat of a far-right coup in Ukraine. The way Ukraine was able to dismantle those dangerous organizations was by slowly allowing them to integrate into the Ukrainian army, while at the same time everything possible was done to water down the nazi symphaties from those units. Nowadays by far the biggest part of Azov soldiers are against nazism, but of course there are still ugly symphathies among the oldest members of the organization. For example, the Azov battallion changed its logo away from being the wolfsangel already a couple of years ago, but very often you still see the old logo in use. And that is a nazi symbol. But, because the majority of soldiers in Azov units are there to fight a war in a skilled unit where they are likely to stay alive, I still would not call it a nazi organization now in 2025.
Of course, when you're in the trenches, the philosophies of your fellow soldiers are less important than their ability to shoot the orcs between the eyes.
And to end this text: Most of the funding for the Ukrainian right wing extremists came from the Russia, until in 2014 it stopped. Since then, the amount of right-wing extremism in Ukraine has been in a steady decline, while at the same time it's been on a rise in the Russia and in territories occupied by the Russia. Just like in any other country that has been under Russian influence during this century, there is indeed still a big nazi problem in Ukraine. But it's important to understand that in any areas under Russian control the problem is and will be rising, whereas in other parts of Ukraine it's decreasing. A country having a nazi problem is not a reason to decline helping them reduce the amount of nazism. (And the problem is not bigger than that in present day Germany, BTW. But still, just like in Germany it is important to do something and that something is indeed being done, it's also important in Ukraine to do something. And that something is also being done. Stupid to claim the problem doesn't exist, stupid to claim that it's a defining feature of Ukraine.)
Historicaly the nazis were very popular in Ukraine [...] They were seen as heroes and liberators by a lot of people.
That is a blatant exaggeration bordering on revisionism. They were seen as liberators by a minority upon invasion in 1941, that quickly changed once the people realized the facts of the occupation, and millions fought against the nazis.
It's so fucking far more than one percent it's not even close. Oh such an enormous reach, if you "do your own research" instead of looking into facts.
My man, either stop eating russian lying narrative, or stop spreading it, preferably both.
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How do you see the modlog for fedia.io
When I go to the fedia.io site, I only get a login site.
I am trying to understand why the mod of !bside@fedia.io got banned.
It's a super chill indie gaming community, no drama, I enjoyed the content that was posted there.
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IDF strike on Gaza City bakery kills 11 Palestinians, including children, medics say
At least 11 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an IDF airstrike on a bakery in Gaza City on Saturday, medical sources said.
Dozens more were wounded in the attack on the Ansar neighborhood in the western part of the city while waiting in line to buy bread, medical sources added.
Images from the scene show bodies scattered alongside loaves of bread.
IDF strike on Gaza City bakery kills 11 Palestinians, including children, medics say
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, a total of 66 people were killed and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past day, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid and 10 who died of hungerJack Khoury (Haaretz)
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US blocks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from attending UN meeting in New York
US blocks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from attending UN meeting in New York
The decision comes as France leads international efforts to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN meeting next month.Paulin Kola (BBC News)
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Reminder that the US also sanctioned and blocked UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese from entering the country less than two months ago because they didn't like her reporting.
news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1…
The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.
UN calls for reversal of US sanctions on Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Top UN human rights officials have voiced serious concern over the imposition of sanctions by the United States targeting Francesca Albanese, a UN-appointed independent expert on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.UN News
Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use
Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use
I’ve come to realize that being endlessly absorbed by AI slop and brainrot, especially Instagram reels constantly shared between friends,...Circle With A Dot
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I nuked the internal network by mistake. Working on fixing it right now
edit It's back up now if you'd like to try again 😀
using something like Mastodon is no harder than signing up for X or Facebook. The difference is you won’t be treated like a product, you’ll be treated like a person.
I like this. I might reuse it.
Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving
Hello fellow Fediversians,
I have been mulling over an eminently feasible and inevitably controversial solution to a couple of challenges I see with the Fediverse gaining traction, and becoming the primary microblog/forum platform for many users. Also I believe this solution can fill a valuable function of accountability in the form of unbiased archiving.
Essentially the concept is an instance entirely populated by bot accounts, accounts which individually scrape the publicly posted content of public figures from other platforms and reposts that content in quotation, with timestamp, link-back attribution, and cross-links to other posts referred to by the primary post if they exist within the archive. Also may include comments requoting the post if it is edited with new timestamp, etc.
Why do this? Well simply put it would create a consolidated archive of published cintent from public figures which cannot be tampered with for the purposes of accountability, similar to the Wayback Machine, but with the added function of direct interactivity via federated services.
In this way Fedenizens can follow their favorite public figures on-platform and interact with their content in a separate persistent environment, and journalists can have a fully up to date copy of what has been said without filter or revision.
This is all extremely feasible with the help of ML agent scripts, even if APIs are not cooperative.
What are your thoughts? If you were an instance admin would you block such an instance or allow it?
There is of course the issue of how to pick what public figures to add to the archive, but I suggest this can be done by nomination. Who nominates? Well the other function of such an instance would be for individuals to self-nominate in order to mirror their content from other platforms into the fediverse. I suggest that these members can also nominate other accounts, perhaps with a quorum voting system, say 5 nominations succeeds in adding a person to the archive.
Some people may in the end choose to use the instance as their primary, as they interact a lot with the archive streams. I think this would be a welcome outcome.
You don't know about the mastodon unofficial bots reposting from X (without interaction of person postingon X) and Lemmy unofficial bots and sometimes whole instances following RSS feeds or those somehow don't fit what you aim for?
Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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They don't know it. They'd have egg on their face if it turned out he wasn't dead or died some other way.
The choice to include that it was an airstrike instead of a gunshot, blade, poison, or a hand grenade is an editorial choice. It certainly answers one of the first questions which would form in the reader's mind.
- BBC
- Al Jazeera
- NYTimes
- NBC
Yemen's Houthis say Israeli airstrike killed prime minister of rebel-controlled government
An Israeli airstrike killed the prime minister of Yemen’s rebel-controlled government, the Iran-backed Houthi militant group said SaturdayFreddie Clayton (NBC News)
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Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine
Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.
Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine
Kagi has quickly grown into something of a _household name_ within tech circles. From _Hacker News_ and _Lobsters_ to _Reddit_, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise.マリウス
[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?
I just thought this might make a fun discussion thread for folks to chat about ideas and make silly pie jokes.
I'm curious to hear what folks think would be fun, or work well!
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Vance says he’s prepared to be president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’
JD Vance has said he is ready to take on the presidency “If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens” to Donald Trump.
In a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY, the vice president said he was “confident” President Trump would see out the rest of his term, but added he has had a lot of “on-the-job training”.
He also insisted to White House Correspondent Francesca Chambers Trump was in “incredibly good health”, despite recent questions about the president’s physical wellbeing.
Vance says he’s prepared to become president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’
The vice president said he ‘couldn’t think of better on-the-job training’ than his time in officeNicole Wootton-Cane (The Independent)
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US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
The US could be complicating the planned recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September by denying and revoking existing visas to members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinia…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut
Romano Floriani Mussolini: Dictator Benito Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut for Cremonese
Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, comes off the bench to help Cremonese defeat Sassuolo 3-2 in his Serie A debut on Friday.Adwaidh Rajan (BBC Sport)
He says he has no interest in politics, but his mother is a Forza Italia MEP who started her career in a far-right "post-fascist" party.
Her father seemed to also be aligned with his father (Benito), so I would be surprised if the fascism has filtered all the way down.
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operationsZahra Joya (The Guardian)
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BREAKING: 4 Israeli soldiers missing, others killed in resistance ambush in Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza: Israel media
Israeli media reported that 4 soldiers were missing, and others were killed and wounded in Gaza, as part of a large ambush to capture Israeli soldiers carried out by the Qassam Brigades in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City.
Sources reported that the operation began with a large ambush in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, which resulted in the deaths of several Israeli soldiers, while other reports confirmed injuries described as critical.
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Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis)
Parola filtrata: nsfw
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Japan and South Korea hope to be friends again
Japan and South Korea hope to be friends again
The new president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba have tried to leave old feuds behind and look to the future at a Tokyo summit.Martin Fritz (Deutsche Welle)
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now that is commendable
how was the situation till now? japan, korea and china all hate each other for some reason?
for some reason?
I don't mean to be a dick, but it might have something to do with the Japanese Empire having massacred them in the past.
U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'
The U.S. Department of Commerce said it issued its gross domestic product data via nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-world pathways.
archive: archive.ph/RDgRJ
Yay, decentralised and immutable!
Data integrity at source: If the BEA’s initial data is wrong (as sometimes happens with revisions), blockchain only makes the error permanent until corrected with new updates
Oh, so... Like previously just publishing a pdf on a website, then.
I guess it means they can't hide revisions. Which is what archive.org (and the us government equivalent that archives government sites) provided when the government just published the pdf.
At least it's decentralised!
Over-reliance on oracles: Chainlink and Pyth are powerful, but their centrality creates new concentration risks. If they malfunction or face attacks, critical data feeds could be disrupted.
Gotcha, still has centralised services.
Quotes taken from ccn.com/education/crypto/gdp-o… which seems to have the best technical info I could find
Still not much information. I'm presuming an "oracle" is something that gives you a hash of the "immutable" data, so you only have to pay to get that hash recorded on a blockchain instead of however many kB of PDF.
Yes. I was laying on the sarcasm heavily.
I presume that's what these oracle services provide.
Essentially hosts the us governments GDP NFT, so you can right click and download it just like every NFT crypto bro hates you doing.
Whether its actually the US Government hosting the file, or these oracle services hosting it... It doesn't matter.
Why not just host the files on a government website with appropriate file hashes (so users can verify the file is still the same), let the internet archive and the national archives take a snapshots of the files and pages and hashes etc... ? That's a well regarded site archival system, and the governmental archival system. Has redundancy, pedigree and public acceptance.
Fuck it, publish just the hash on some block chains so the "fingerprint" of the report is immutable. But call it what it is.
The report isn't "published on the Blockchain".
It is linked from some blockchains.
There is still a file hosted by some servers.
You can't download your favourite blockchain, take it to the top of Mount Rushmore with no internet and inspect the US GDP figures without first downloading the file linked in the block chain.
Blockchain oracles are entities that connect blockchains to external systems, allowing smart contracts to execute depending on real-world inputs and outputs. Oracles give the Web 3.0 ecosystem a method to connect to existing legacy systems, data sources and advanced calculations.
What is a Hard Fork? A History of Bitcoin Hard Forks
What is a hard fork, and how have hard forks impacted Bitcoin?trustmachines.co
DW chief condemns 'unacceptable' attack on journalists
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I remember DW as super conservative from way back when. Either that changed or they're very steadfast, journalistically uncompromising. In any case, hearing good stuff about & from them all the time. Go DW!
edit: OK that came across fanboish. I respect DW for making proper journalism that isn't necessarily aligned with my political views. It's one of those channels I pay attention to in addition to my main ones.
DW is funded and run by the German government to improve Germanys image abroad. It is not a public broadcaster as those are financed through a government independent but obligatory system.
In regards to Palestine it ran a terrible hack job of Israeli propaganda until about earlier this year, when they realized that this is harming the image of Germany abroad much stronger than at least pretending balanced coverage.
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* Announce he's brokered a peace deal between the parties
* Then tell the parties to just stop fighting right now
* Then demand a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in stopping the war
* Then sulk when the fighting doesn't stop because the underlying conflict is centuries old and he didn't even bother to figure out what the fighting was over let alone talk to the parties in an attempt to negotiate beyond just tweeting at them
* Then Wonder why his Nobel hasn't arrived in the mail yet
Barrier being built around besieged Sudan city, satellite images show
El-Fasher: Barrier being built around besieged Sudan city, satellite images show
The earthen berm is intended to trap people inside el-Fasher, Yale University research shows.Anne Soy (BBC News)
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Zelensky gives tragic update on Russia's Kyiv strikes
krainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 23 people were killed in the Russian strikes on Kyiv on Thursday, August 28, including four children. Eight other people remain unaccounted for.
Why It Matters
The Russian strikes on Ukraine come as President Donald Trump pushes for peace in Ukraine, urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet Zelensky and agree on a settlement that ends the war after his recent summits with the two leaders.
The Russian attacks risk stoking Trump's anger. He has threatened to take firmer action against Russia, likely in the form of secondary tariffs against its trading partners if it does not make peace with Ukraine quickly.
What To Know
Zelensky said in a post on X that rescue operations at the site of a residential building that was hit, where all but one of the confirmed fatalities occurred, were now complete.
"The youngest girl was not even three years old," he said.
Zelensky said 53 people had been wounded in the strikes, which had also damaged buildings belonging to the European Union and the British Council.
Zelensky Gives Tragic Update on Russia's Kyiv Strikes
The strikes come as President Donald Trump intensifies his efforts to find peace for Russia and Ukraine.Robert Birsel (Newsweek)
The lack of western media reporting on the state of Ukraine leads me to believe they will make concessions to end the war soon.
Part of how propaganda works is not reporting on things that make 'your side' look bad. In other words, "no news is bad news."
Yeah, newsweek.
Where's CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo? Radio silence because there's nothing good to say, or we get some kind of opinion piece trying to paint Ukraine's losses as wins and Zelensky as some hero.
The copium among you people is palpable. You're incapable of recognizing when you've been taken for a ride or believed something that isn't true.
Propaganda works both ways. If you have trouble accepting this, then it's probably because you've fallen for it without realizing it and can't admit it.
???
- CNN has an entire section on the frontpage for Ukraine.
- CBS is reporting on Trumps apparent doubts that a meeting between Putin and Zelensky will happen soon.
- ABC has two stories on Ukraine on the front page, one regarding Ukraine's counterintelligence efforts regarding the assassination of a lawmaker and one on Trumps doubts regarding a meeting.
- MSNBC seems very intent on reporting on every fart Trump does or does not let out, they have a World section but honestly there's very little in there anyway.
- NYT has an entire section on the war on the front page
- WaPo seems to have the least. You need to go to their World section to find an article from yesterday on families who lived in Kursk when Ukraine invaded there, mentioning that Ukrainian soldiers generally treated them well and how much of an embarrassment that invasion was for Putin.
But all of this I can hardly describe as radio silence. Besides, it's only US media. I can assure you that there's plenty of articles in European media too.
Tired of arguing with you people.
That doesn't mean he's correct or has a point, which he doesn't.
But hey man, you do you. Let people waste your time.
He's 100% correct, and his point was to demonstrate that you were wrong. Which you were.
Hope that helps!
US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/aljazeera.co…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
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No paywall here? I'll paste it.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council began talks on Friday on a draft resolution for Haiti to bolster and expand a struggling international force fighting armed gangs, but some Haitian security experts warned the proposals lacked clarity.
Armed gangs have taken control of almost all Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince in an extended conflict that has forced some 1.3 million people from their homes, killed thousands and fueled famine-level hunger.
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The draft resolution, put forward by the United States and Panama, aims to transition the existing Multinational Security Support mission, which is both underfunded and undermanned, into a new force called the Gang Suppression Force.
Like the current mission, which is led by Kenyan police, the anti-gang force would be funded through voluntary international contributions.
However, the leadership structure would be different. The new mission would be led by a Standing Group of representatives from countries that have so far contributed personnel, plus the United States and Canada, and be supported by a new U.N. field office to be set up in Port-au-Prince. A new force commander would be appointed by the Standing Group.
The proposal calls on the Americas regional diplomatic body, the Organization of American States, to follow up on its pledges of support with targeted assistance, including rations, communications and defense equipment.
Some Haitian analysts criticized the lack of a clear source of funding, however, and said the new plan duplicates existing structures and fails to address root problems.
Ricardo Germain, an independent security expert, said that besides funding he was particularly concerned by how the leadership would be replaced, adding that Kenya's challenging experience would likely discourage potential successors.
Jack Ombaka, spokesman for the Multinational Security Support mission, told Reuters the mission was still assessing the planned new model, but what was important was that it addressed the threats and benefited the Haitian people.
James Boyard, a security expert at the State University of Haiti, said the new model was too vague on coordination with local forces and that Haiti's exclusion from the Standing Group threatened the country's sovereignty.
"We would go from a democratic regime to an international tyranny," he said, adding that any potential crimes committed by security personnel would need a pre-determined oversight body.
The topic of foreign intervention in Haiti is a sensitive one. Past U.N. missions in Haiti resulted in civilian killings, a sexual abuse scandal and poor wastewater management that caused a cholera epidemic that killed more than 9,000 people.
Haiti's presidential office said it would comment once the official resolution was made public. The U.S. mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
RETURNING TO RAVAGED NEIGHBORHOODS.
Just under 1,000 personnel, mostly Kenyan police, are currently deployed in Haiti - fewer than half the 2,500 troops the mission had hoped for.
The new force would authorize a deployment of up to 5,500 personnel. The draft resolution did not say how it would secure this number.
The existing mission was first authorized by the UN Security Council in October 2023, and the first Kenyan police arrived in June 2024. Its 12-month mandate was renewed and is set to expire on October 2.
As the death toll climbed, Haiti's government in March began working with a private military company run by Erik Prince to use explosive-packed drones to target gang strongholds, and the company is planning to expand its operations.
Earlier this week, prominent gang leader Jimmy "Barbeque" Cherizier withdrew his soldiers from several neighborhoods in north-eastern Port-au-Prince and urged former residents to return to their homes in a video message circulated on social media.
Boyard said this was likely intended to revive the economy in neighborhoods his gang had destroyed so he can again extort money from residents, and use them as human shields to dissuade drone-backed security advances.
Residents began to return to the ravaged neighborhoods this week, carrying canvas bags past piles of rubble and the husks of burned-out cars. Some told Reuters they had lost everything and found their former homes destroyed.
Hmm, I just tested with Firefox on Android (w/ uBlock Origin installed) and saw no such thing. Maybe you hit an invisible limit?
Sucks that 12ft.io was taken down; it was easy to prepend it to any address. (I was even using it as a proxy as an fu to news and government sites I didn't like.) At least archive.is/ph still works.
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during the 1970s and 1980s.
That sounds a bit extreme IMO, you can't really claim a fair trial when judging someone on the standards of half a century later.
AFAIK Brazil was a totalitarian shit show at the time, and that was not because of VW.
Has Netanyahu made slip-up in case against Karim Khan? - Israeli PM's allegations against ICC chief have never been mentioned before
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The Israeli leader made the comments during an interview with Breitbart News, a video of which was published on Wednesday.Netanyahu said that Khan faced sexual assault allegations by a “female staff member”, before adding: “And since then, there have been four other women who came to the fore and accused him.”
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"In the circumstances, it is therefore both extraordinary and deeply troubling to Mr Khan that a serving head of government, and one who has been openly hostile to both the ICC and the UN, and who is indeed the subject of an arrest warrant, should purport to have knowledge about other such allegations or individuals, or about an ongoing confidential investigation of which Mr Khan is the subject."
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Has Netanyahu sabotaged his own campaign against Karim Khan?
Karim Khan has questioned whether Israel is "interfering in and attempting to manipulate" a UN investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, following comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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Well they have to pay 200+ million. So im not sure if "get away" is the right word. But I get the sentiment. Its a tragedy.
"It took the jury less than a day of deliberation to find Tesla 33 percent liable for the crash and responsible for $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages."
Almost 100 billion revenue last year.
250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?
Yeah. That’s nothing to them.
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