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VIDEO: Hundreds of Palestinian Captives Released in Khan Younis From Israeli Detention


Abdel Qader Sabbah
and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Oct 13, 2025

In Khan Younis, thousands of people gathered to greet the freed detainees, who arrived in dozens of buses operated by the Red Cross and in Red Crescent ambulances. The crowds gathered in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital and on rooftops and balconies overlooking the medical complex where the freed captives were taken for medical checks. Nasser hospital, which has been repeatedly bombed by the Israeli military, is one of only 13 out of 38 hospitals still partially functioning in Gaza.

Freed detainees wearing gray jumpsuits leaned out of bus windows and waved to the crowds. Family members and friends embraced them through the windows as they drove by.



CNN to host town hall with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders | CNN Politics


CNN will host a live town hall with progressive lawmakers Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, October 15, the network announced Friday.

The town hall will air at 9 p.m. ET and will be moderated by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from Washington, DC.

The event comes as the government shutdown is set to enter a third week, leaving roughly 1.4 million federal employees furloughed or working without pay. The funding lapse has already affected travel, and its impact could soon be seen on food assistance programs and the economy overall.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/politics/cnn-aoc-bernie-sanders-town-hall


in reply to schizoidman

Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, provides a good analysis on Starmer's comments.

The Prime Minister insists that the dropping of China-related espionage charges occurred for reasons entirely outwith the control of his government — but his argument that his hands were tied by the previous government’s position on China is, at best, highly contestable ...

The reality is that it is open to the government today to say that it considers that China was a threat to national security in 2021–23 and to offer that view as evidence for the purpose of criminal proceedings ...


The entire comment makes a good read: publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/…



Pro-Palestinian protest threat racks up tension for Italy's World Cup qualifier with Israel


During Friday's massive strike action in support of the Palestinians, demonstrators went to the Italian national team's training centre in Florence to demand the match against Israel be called off.

As of Tuesday only around 4,000 tickets had been sold for the game in Udine, a small city in Italy's far north-east, which was picked specifically to help limit the potential for disorder.



How Israel denies the right to play for Palestinian children (25min Video)


All children – wherever they are in the world – deserve to be children: to explore, laugh and play, especially since play is a vital path to their learning and growth. But what about Palestinian children’s play time – or lack thereof? This is a human right taken from them by Israel.


Israel and Hamas agree to 'first phase' of plan to end fighting and release hostages, Trump says


WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday in announcing the outlines of the biggest breakthrough in months in the two-year-old war.

“This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” Trump wrote on social media. “All Parties will be treated fairly!”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on social media, “With God’s help we will bring them all home.” Hamas said separately that the deal would ensure the withdrawal of Israeli troops as well as allow for the entry of aid and exchange of hostages and prisoners.

Hamas plans to release all 20 living hostages this weekend, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, while the Israeli military will begin a withdrawal from the majority of Gaza.

https://apnews.com/article/egypt-gaza-talks-kushner-witkoff-israel-hamas-news-10-08-2025-ac80d3ed50ff2a9b4106ab5e13156651

in reply to Stamau123

This is like the third time we've been at the "both sides agree!" Portion of things, only for it to never actually happen, Israel just continues the murdering...
in reply to Stamau123

Did they really agree, or is it just another installment in the seemingly infinite flow of Trump bullshit?



Germany investigating Temu on price-fixing suspicions


Germany's competition watchdog has announced an investigation of Chinese discount online retail site temu.com, suspecting it of influencing retailers' prices. The site is the fastest-growing of its kind in the world.


Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar


Some people have the audacity to say that Trump's policies don't lead to misery and death.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.”


But the data says and projects otherwise.

A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.


The United States could have been a beacon of hope and a model to look up to. For many years, that was the case for people and immigrants all around the world.

In a matter of months, that has all crumbled to its foundation. It's so hard to watch.

https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0



in reply to NightOwl

Oh come on. You cease starting fires. It's right there in the name!

in reply to Severus_Snape

Remember when this all started and Russia’s messaging was about how it was gonna be about 2 weeks top to complete it’s special operation.
in reply to Master167

3-day military operation.. bring your parade gear because you’ll be marching to victory.


India bets big on drones in push for military dominance


in reply to Severus_Snape

Both Sunzi ( Sun Tzu, in the old way of naming him: it means Master Sun ) & Clausewitz would have a bit to say about that..

You aren't going to have military dominance, unless you've significantly out-invested your competitors/opponents.

Pretending that India's competitors/opponents are significantly out-invested by Modi's India .. is a pathetic joke.

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LMAO

India's next-year budget is around $80B, whereas China's is around $300B.

( that AND the fact that Modi has "bet the farm" on Russia's aiding India against China, when Russia's now an economic-vassal-state of China: they won't lift a finger against their new puppetmasters )

"Dominance", MY ASS.

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German parliament votes to get rid of fast-track citizenship


in reply to Severus_Snape

They've left dual citizenship and the five year normal path to citizenship intact... for now.


in reply to Severus_Snape

The complete article identifies that the platforms, like Facebook, won't deplatform disinformation, even enemy-of-country disinformation, because it is profitable.

They won't comply.

& .. you will notice that the national-governments therefore are .. capitulating to the platforms, .. not wielding any law, any fines, any jailtime, an ANYthing, to coerce platform-compliance with national-law.

So, the "responsible" authorities are "helpless", then, .. while our countries are intentionally misrailed ( not identical with "derailed", but deliberately put on wrong rails ) by Russia: our governments, due to not having any spine, are "unable" to make that stop.

Enjoy the consequences of that, a few years down the road, when Trump has declared open war on NATO ( using Greenland to seal-off & butcher Canada, for his "continental kingdom" ), ditching Europe to Putin's Russia ( China backed, because of how that'll benefit China once Europe is butchered, in a few years .. "The destruction of the West is the midwife of Chinese dominion" )..

it's fucking inevitable, & it's unfolding as blatently/obviously as it can.

WHEN we have no spine to enforce integrity in our own institutions, AND "our" institutions have no spine to enforce integrity in their domains, AND everybody just accommodates the true-enemy-of-our-viability rewriting our owncountries .. while "wringing their hands", *displacing national-integrity..

it is our population that will be butchered, exactly as the Ukrainian population is currently being butchered because we accommodated Russia's invasion, after promising Ukraine that we'd protect them if Russia ever attacked them, when we got Ukraine to give-up their nukes..

Maybe our-race NEEDS to be butchered from existence, so that our souls might, someday, on some other world, have a speck of motivation to have integrity, then, instead of having any now..

The appeasers-of-Hitler certainly made many others pay for their non-responsibility..

Why would this-generation be any different?


This makes me wonder: when Trump's goons are literally murdering people willy-nilly, anybody who won't insta-grovel to their authority's "lordhood", will the Democrats THEN admit that they aren't going to be taking back the US of A through election??

WHAT THE FSCK DEGREE OF EVIDENCE IS REQUIRED TO CAUSE AUTHORITY TO SOMEHOW BEGIN EMBODYING INTEGRITY??

Infinite?

Species-wide DarwinAward's inevitable, then, & this is our kind's final century.


An organism's immune-system only has actual chance of breaking an infection IF IT IS FIGHTING infection.

If it's accommodating, instead-of fighting, then .. there is ZERO chance of breaking the infection, & the pathogen then OWNS the fate of the organism.

This is true of countries, as well as of individual-organisms.

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in reply to Severus_Snape

It's surreal for a politician to manage to make an apology in a way that makes people even more angry than they were originally.

in reply to Severus_Snape

Eritrea is a friend of Russia nowadays. So Ethiopia is in trouble: Ukraine's example shows that nobody wants to effectively help against Russia.
in reply to Lembot_0004

Friends of Russia aren't really doing too well these days. See Syria
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in reply to rbesfe

But still, nobody would dare to help against Russia. If they don't need help -- good for them. I'm interested in more wars involving Russia and its allies.
in reply to Lembot_0004

Ethiopia purchases arms from Russia as well. Russia was supportive to Ethiopia in Tigray. Ethiopia has been a solid ally for Russia in the UN since the the war started. Ethiopia has a good relationship with Russia
in reply to Lembot_0004

Ethiopia has a better relationship with Russia than Eritrea and because, weirdly, Eritrea and Israel have a fairly good relationship, so my friends enemy is not necessarily my enemy, in this case, but a good contact to sell weapons to while I look for money to find my special military operation, and take my skim for you know, war effort. Also noted is that Ethiopia and Israel are fairly good friends, but I believe Israel operates some military out of Eritrea.

However, Russia will flip weapons to Ethiopia and Eritrea and watch them shoot it out. That being said, Ethiopia is the bigger monster when it comes to equipment because of its licensed manufacturing deal for old Soviet hardware, up to large field guns, I think, but is battle fatigued. Eritrea has far greater manpower of highly trained but poorly motivated and poorly equipped soldiers. Null sum game.

Also, they aren't going to fight. Aferwerki has enough problems at home, and his own tenure is at risk. Age has caught up and younger upstarts are sensing blood in the water. So while his avenue is to distract with a ports war, conveniently, it is again, a null sum game.

All hail Somaliland. The new powerbroker and infrastructure operator in the region.

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in reply to nicgentile

That whole region is impossible to see how it ends up. Ethiopia and Trigray. Ethiopia and Eritrea. Ethiopia and Somolia. Somalia and Puntland and Khatumo. Egypt and Ethiopia. Sudan hanging out in between with their own civil war. Then over time Rwanda is setting themselves up to try and be the Israel and may end up to varying degrees attacking everyone
in reply to Lembot_0004

Excuse me?

You have seen the massive amounts of weapons going to Ukraine?

Help is going there. Saying nobody wants to help Ukraine is disingenuous at best, and just a flat lie at, well, not even worst, just normal.

Look, I know that it would have been awesome if Europe would send soldiers but there is this thing where you try not to make things worse. Putting European soldiers there might very well escalate the Ukraine invasion to something we will all regret

in reply to Phoenixz

You have seen the massive amounts of weapons going to Ukraine?


No, I haven't. But I am an engineer and therefore am capable to count to 100. I know even bigger numbers, so, let's say, 15, doesn't impress me at all. I wouldn't call it "massive".

in reply to Severus_Snape

Aaahhh, the previous wars haven't settled yet, the bodies aren't cold yet and here we already are preparing the next one.

The sheer joys of living!



in reply to dellish

We don't look at car features in isolation. e.g. seatbelt or airbag could cause injuries too in a crash, but we have them because it's better than not having them.

In the same token self driving doesn't have to be perfect, it just need to be better than humans. I don't know what Tesla's number looks like, just speaking generally.

in reply to nialv7

As a motorcyclist and bicyclist, I am not afraid of getting hurt by failures of other people's seatbelts and airbags.

I know what you're getting at, but there's more at stake here.


in reply to Mog Spawn

Based technology community keeping me up to date on retail inventory
in reply to three

but you see, Microsoft bad, and how will you know if we don't share this post about Microsoft bad

in reply to Mog Spawn

This isn’t really newsworthy anymore - European governments are all moving towards digital sovereignty for stuff like this, which makes sense. Microsoft will most likely start offering “host your own” cloud versions of these products soon to try and stop/slow the exodus, as controlling your own data becomes more and more important to governments and companies.
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in reply to Mog Spawn

Future headline:

Microsoft's Windows update will eliminate "side loading" unauthorized programs.


in reply to Mog Spawn

High level workers, it's like Christmas for oversea companies. Keep forcing them to migrate because they're definitely worth it.


The Surreal and Sublime Photography of Graciela Iturbide


cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55463313

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One of the best-known photographers in Mexico. Her work looks away from the sensational images of violence that have for years defined the nation, and instead looks inwards, to the traditions, faces, and unusual sights seen everyday.

Iturbide came to photography later in life. She was the eldest daughter of a wealthy, conservative couple. In 1962, she married the photographer Pedro Meyer and had three children. It was after the death of her daughter in 1970, aged just 6, that Iturbide turned to photography.

The 5th image is perhaps her best-known photograph. Nuestra Señora de Las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), it was originally published as part of her photo essay Juchitán de las Mujeres (1979-86), a project which began with Iturbide's support of feminist causes.

Iturbide was also involved in documenting the indigenous cultures of Mexico. This image, Mujer Ángel, in which a woman carries a tape recorder on her journey to ancient cave paintings. was shot in 1979 in the Sonora desert, when Iturbide was living with the Seri Indians.

In many of her photographs there is a sense of playfulness and strangeness. These qualities are at odds with many people's expectations or experiences of Mexico. Iturbide has always strived to look beyond the lurid headlines, to the absurdity of life.

Folk stories and religious themes are common throughout her work. Particularly when the visual language of the catholic church meets ancient native traditions and the realities of contemporary life.

Iturbide started photographing landscapes and birds. She had heard the Seri Indians talk of the significance of birds, and she began to incorporate living and dead birds into her art; symbolic of strength and fragility, freedom and vulnerability.

In the mid-1980s she photographed Mexican-Americans in Eastside Los Angeles, many of whom were involved in street gangs. The cholos and cholas of the White Fence Gang would later feature in the anthology A Day in the Life of America (1987).



EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50562993

EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term "veggie-burger" and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.


https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-lawmakers-push-ban-term-veggie-burger-2025-10-08/

in reply to schizoidman

What's next? Soon you won't be allowed to call it baby oil unless it's made from real babies.

On a more serious note, I did order a "flexi" burger at Max by mistake. I thought it was a gateway burger with one patty replaced by halloumi. All I got was veg.




Ukraine's parliament backs creation of cyber forces in first reading


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in reply to schizoidman

And why should they? Accountability is dead.
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in reply to schizoidman

I'm more surprised they were every in any such alliance in the first place.

I mean eat stealing and baby killing just auto cancels anything good they may ever try to do it than maybe self destruction.



in reply to Frezik

Yes, it’s the “final solution” for Palestine. The goal is to rid themselves of this meddlesome Palestine once and for all. And to let that be a lesson to any other would-be meddlers. Its heads on pikes. Children’s heads, mostly.

in reply to acargitz

Drop streaming phones into Palestine so Everyone could be a journalist.



'Unprecedented dieback': Alarming report warns Earth reached 'point of no return'







German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50548487

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German industrial production fell back to 2005 levels in August as output in the country’s all-important car industry cratered by 18.5 per cent compared with the previous month

Overall, industrial production fell 4.3 per cent in August compared with the previous month, seasonally adjusted data showed on Wednesday. Economists had predicted a smaller drop of 1 per cent in a Reuters poll.


in reply to camperotactico

And I think less technology in vehicles would be better. The Germans tend to over-engineer things. Use modern technology to make simple and efficient vehicles, not expensive and complex.
in reply to dan1101

This.

Why would I buy a computer on wheels that I really don't seen to own even though I paid for it?

I'd rather buy a pre-2020 Toyota and drive it to the oblivion.




Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation


I think QoL tools for moderators need to become more of a Fediverse priority. This burns people out. Key moderators of communities quit and communities become abandoned.

Ideas :
- Automatic removal option to remove posts and/or comments for specific keywords. This would be most useful for automatically removing posts and comments when people slur. Piefed already has a keyword filter for visibility. This could be expanded to community settings. Have it also fire-off a report to the moderators when someone triggers it.
- Automatic URL removal. Allow communities to blacklist specific urls. Useful for politics or news communities that want to negate sources known for misinformation.
- Automatic removal for repeat URL posting. Very useful for politics or news communities to prevent double-posting.
- Make it so a community can set itself up to only accept text posts, video posts, or image posts. This should prevent tedious janitorial cleanup for communities that only allow links, or text posts (the most common two).
- Post Delay Restrictions. Some communities, perhaps not many, might be interested in posting cooldowns for users. So you can only post 1 post every hour, or 2 posts every hour - or whatever the chosen limit is. This would help negate spammers and over-enthusiastic posters flooding a topical community.
- Post Formatting Requirements. This one could be trickier and more effort than most of the others, but setting conditions for the formatting of new posts would be useful.

Now, not all communities would make use or have any need to make use of all of these - but many would to varying degrees - and it would help them.

I think going down this road is important to prevent moderators burning out over the drudgery of moderating communities.

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in reply to Rimu

True. I am just mostly trying to make a record of this stuff for the future. Obviously in the event of these tools existing, mods wouldn't have to turn them on.

I definitely think there needs to be some rough guide on making your community federated and then advertising it effectively so communities can get that early kick.

in reply to Skavau

there needs to be some rough guide on making your community federated and then advertising it effectively so communities can get that early kick.


We can draft something on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip