Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
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From the Abstract:
"Our analysis reveals three critical success factors: (1) higher carbon prices per capita are essential for carbon reduction, (2) the necessity of penalties on carbon price per capita from EUR 20–EUR 100, and (3) expanded market coverage maximizes impact. To address global disparities, we propose a Uniform Carbon Pricing Mechanism under the Global Carbon Resilience Framework (GCRF), based on carbon price per capita tiered pricing: EUR 100/t (developed), EUR 30–50 (developing), and EUR 5–15 (least-developed countries). This balanced system supports vulnerable regions while cutting emissions, proving that fair carbon pricing is crucial for climate goals and economic stability."
Those points look sane, to me.
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Forty-two killed as bus crashes on South Africa mountain pass
N1 crash: Forty-two Zimbabweans and Malawians killed after bus veers off road in South Africa
The dead were nationals of Zimbabwe and Malawi returning home, officials say.Khanyisile Ngcobo (BBC News)
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India and Canada reset ties after strain of Sikh leader's murder
Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties
Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.Neyaz Farooquee (BBC News)
German club condemns fan behaviour after tourists attacked
Dublin: FC Schalke 04 fans' behaviour condemned after tourists attacked
The incident on Abbey Street was said to have happened on Saturday, as supporters marched through the city centre.Mike McBride (BBC News)
Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan tells BBC
Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan says
In an exclusive interview with BBC Panorama, the king says a two-state solution is the only answer.Fergal Keane (BBC News)
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At least 27 people killed in fierce clashes between Hamas and clan members
Gaza City clashes between Hamas and clan members leave 27 dead
At least 27 people have been killed in one of the most violent internal confrontations since Israeli troops withdrew.Rushdi Abualouf (BBC News)
Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary electionsJon Henley (The Guardian)
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Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say
Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say
Overflowing rivers swept through entire villages, triggered landslides and swept away roads and bridgesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Trump’s stance on Gaza shifted after Israel’s attack on Qatar — a close ally where he and his family have key business deals.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
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Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist"
Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist" - LGBTQ Nation
The politicians held signs that said "genocide" and "recognize Palestine" while Trump spoke.Daniel Villarreal (LGBTQ Nation)
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Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50903066
Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables
Carmakers accused in huge UK lawsuits of cheating diesel emissions tests
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50902884
Owners of diesel vehicles made by Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Nissan, Renault and the Stellantis-owned brands Peugeot and Citroen between 2012 and 2017 allege the companies cheated emissions tests.The manufacturers are accused of using unlawful "defeat devices", which detected when vehicles were being tested and ensured nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions were kept within legal limits under test conditions.
Powering the deadly EV boom: 30,000 Chinese migrant workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44006161
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Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry, which has sprung up in the last decade. Just as critical minerals crisscross the globe before they’re incorporated into cutting-edge products, so too do some of the people who make the world’s green dreams a reality.
[According] to more than a dozen of these Chinese workers and their family members, as well as Indonesian labor leaders who have negotiated factory conditions with top Chinese executives [it was found] that, even following fatal accidents at the smelters, efforts to improve working conditions have been slow, hindered by a lack of oversight from companies, governments, and international labor groups that were dependent on U.S. funding terminated by the Trump administration. We also obtained an internal company review of a nickel smelter expansion that shows facilities are likely spreading pollution and illness well beyond factory walls. Despite the challenges, new nickel processing plants continue to emerge in Indonesia and hire from China.
Before joining Indonesia’s nickel rush, most of these Chinese men had spent almost all their lives in their home country, working in declining steel factories. [...] they had never before owned a passport or boarded a flight. Their leap into the nickel refining industry has helped create entire towns on remote islands in Indonesia, and it’s made them an unlikely backbone of the world’s green energy transition.
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Nickel is a crucial component of EV batteries and energy storage systems. More nickel in an EV battery pack means longer mileage and improved performance from a single charge.
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Indonesian workers, the Chinese companies that run the nickel factories, and international labor and environmental organizations have been attempting to improve working and living conditions. But the few changes that have taken place have come slowly. And such efforts have been hamstrung by the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which terminated almost all international grants from the U.S. Department of Labor. Those grants funded various initiatives to improve labor rights, occupational safety, and health, including in Indonesia.
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“Tsingshan [Holding Group, a Chinese metal and stainless steel giant Tsingshan that was among the first companies to set up production in Indonesia in the early 2010s] started to snatch up economically strained factory workers nonstop in droves,” said Jiahui Zeng, an anthropologist studying eastern Indonesia’s nickel belt at Tsinghua University in China. “For Chinese nickel workers, migration is pushed by family pressure, such as buying an apartment in a better school district for their children or preparing for a son’s marriage.” But these pressures make Chinese workers extremely vulnerable.
“Terrified of losing their income, they are reluctant to organize and wary of speaking out in Indonesia,” she added.
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[Chinese migrant worker] Wong recalled the instructor telling them there were more than 40 accidents in the industrial parks [in Indonesia] each year that resulted in severe injuries and even deaths. [...] “I didn’t understand much at the time,” said Wong.
But before long, Wong had two close calls of his own. First, he burned the back of his right hand when metallic liquid from the furnace splashed at the exit of the waste tunnel as he was walking past. And one night after heavy rain, soon after he clocked out and left the furnace, Wong stepped on what he thought was a puddle, only to find out that it was a neck-deep pond. Not knowing how to swim, he was only able to save himself by grabbing a nearby pole and pulling himself out of the water.
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Some workers he knew weren’t so lucky. An Indonesian colleague suffered severe injuries to his fingers after disregarding safety protocols to manually fix a glitch in the pouring chain. Another Chinese worker walked onto the top of an electric furnace in wet working boots and was instantly electrocuted into unconsciousness.
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[A] review showed workers at the nickel-processing facilities, as well as residents nearby, were increasingly seeking care for respiratory diseases like tuberculosis, acute pharyngitis, and acute rhinitis. Despite the industrial park being operated by multibillion-dollar corporations, the villages surrounding it still lacked wastewater drainage systems and access to clean water. In six villages outside the complex, a quarter of the residents live less than 30 feet from polluted water sources, and 41% of the residents have symptoms of dry cough.
In 12 nearby villages, the number of children with signs of stunted growth due to malnutrition and gastrointestinal infections increased by 50% in two years. “Officials and agencies know about all this,” an environmental consultant and author of part of the report, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution at work, told Grist. Hardly any of the health and environmental risks were present before the construction of the Morowali Industrial Park [in Indonesia] they said.
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Yet as eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry grows, Chinese migrant workers still don’t have a seat at the table in discussions about their careers and safety.
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Chinese migrant workers drive Indonesia’s nickel industry for EVs - Rest of World
Over 30,000 Chinese workers travel to Indonesia’s remote islands to work in nickel smelters, fueling the global EV transition while facing dangerous conditions.Kate Bubacz (Rest of World)
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I guess if it looks like something commissioned by the oil industry, people assume it is. The headline looks like something a bot would link me to try to convince me how "an electric car is the same as an f150 in the end".
Mining nickel looks like it sucks and there's some real consequences to it, but I feel like I'm hearing about it for an other reason.
Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.
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It’s back! The 2027 Chevy Bolt gets an all-new LFP battery, but what else?
255 miles of range, new infotainment, but where did all the torque go?Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns
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Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns
"We can’t simply wait and assume that a potential Russian attack won't come before 2029," German intelligence chief Martin Jaeger said. "We’re already under fire today."Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
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Germans say Russia plans to invade any day, likely tomorrow.
uh huh, Germany to annex poland when?
lots of fucking cretins in this thread smdh
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Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50900195
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Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.
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Worked for a chinese company and here to tell you- that is their approach, always has been.
Wouldn't be surprised if everything the "western execs" saw was a charade put on especially for them that falls apart as easily as Elon's cybertrucks on closer inspection. Don't believe everything you see at an expo or read in The Telegraph.
India and Canada reset ties after strain of Sikh leader's murder
Relations hit rock bottom in 2023 when Canada's then PM Justin Trudeau accused India of being linked to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claims Delhi denied. Both countries suspended visa services and expelled each other's top diplomats.After the meeting of their foreign ministers in Delhi, the two sides announced a series of measures, including starting ministerial-level discussions on bilateral trade and investment.
"Reviving this partnership will not only create opportunities for enhanced economic cooperation but also help mitigate vulnerabilities arising from shifting global alliances," a joint statement said.
Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties
Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.Neyaz Farooquee (BBC News)
China's exports to US drop in September, while rise in global shipments hits a 6-month high
China’s exports to the United States fell 27% in September from the year before, even though growth in its global exports hit a six-month high.Shipments to Southeast Asia grew 15.6% year-on-year in September. Exports to Latin America and Africa were up 15% and 56%, respectively.
https://apnews.com/article/china-trade-trump-tariffs-exports-4d65b77167ed9193244942923f0eef8d
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Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech
Trump’s speech at Israel’s Knesset, its parliament, was briefly interrupted by lawmakers who were expelled from the plenum after shouting slogans during Trump’s remarks.
The Jerusalem Post identified those protesting as Aymen Odeh, an Arab Israeli and member of the Hadash alliance and Ofer Cassif, a far-left politician who is also a member of the Hadash coalition.
Odeh held up a sign that said “Recognize Palestine,” when he was ejected from the room. He later said in a social media post on X that he is calling for recognition of a Palestinian state as “the simplest demand, a demand that the entire international community agrees on… There are two peoples here, and neither is going anywhere.,” the post read in Hebrew, and that was translated by Grok on X.
Cassif also posted on X that their protest was “to demand justice,” accusing the Israeli government of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech
President Trump’s speech at Israel’s Knesset, its parliament, was briefly interrupted by lawmakers who were expelled from the plenum after shouting slogans during Trump’s remarks.Laura Kelly (The Hill)
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Apparently being anti-genocidal and want to recognize the shit ~~ tgg he stay ~~ that is still going
on… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: my far scarred fingers cannot type and autocorrect saves a bunch of my fuck ups haha thanks @yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de! For catching that friend 🫡
Japan wraps up unexpectedly successful World Expo
Japan wraps up unexpectedly successful World Expo
It had feared scant media and public interest would make the expo a flop. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs
Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause
One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery companies, Krone, has been forced to pause exports of large equipment to the US because of “alarming” and little-known new tariffs that are hitting hundreds of products from knitting needles and hair dryers to combine harvesters.
Among the products on the steel derivatives list drawn up in consultation with US manufacturers, Donald Trump is taxing 407 specific products ranging from tiny embroidery stilettos to cooker hoods, barbecues, fridges, freezers, dishwashers, hair curling tongs, grills, elevators, bridge and railway structures, agriculture equipment and wind turbines.
It has meant that since 18 August, companies such as Krone and the construction company Liebherr in Germany have to provide an unprecedented level of detail to customs border authorities certifying the origin, weight and value of any steel in their products right down to nuts and bolts.
Asked what his US customers were saying, he said: “Many of them are surprised. When they saw Mr Trump talk about tariffs, they got the impression that the foreign companies are paying these tariffs, but what they now figure out is that it is the customer who pays.
Dutch government seizes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
BRUSSELS — The Dutch government has granted itself the power to intervene in company decisions at Dutch-based Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia.
The highly unusual step, announced late Sunday, grants the country the power to “halt and reverse” company decisions — meaning Nexperia cannot transfer assets or hire executives without Dutch government approval, according to national media.
The move is a significant escalation in relations between the Netherlands and China and could inflame wider trade tensions between Beijing and the European Union, with Europe caught in the middle of a tit-for-tat chips war between the U.S. and China.
Dutch government seizes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
The move could inflame wider trade tensions between Beijing and the European Union.Pieter Haeck (POLITICO)
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Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting
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If you are familiar with Azure there is the project PandaCap by @lizard_socks@lemmy.world which is a self-hosted reader for activity-pub, ATProtocol, RSS/Atom and integrated with DeviantArt and other art sites.
ASP.NET Core Identity is backed by an in-memory database (since 11.1.0); the only allowed login method is via Microsoft account, but DeviantArt and Reddit accounts can be added in user management (which will connect these accounts to Pandacap's main database).
Does this literally mean I need a Microsoft account to run this on my own machine, or is that only for deploying on Azure?
I see, thanks for the explanation!
I've been working on a frontend/browser client for "exploring" activitypub instances in my spare time, and CORS basically requires me to have some sort of separate server process that can fetch and auth using my account(s). I'm unsure of how much sense it would make to try to bolt my client on top of your software, but at least now I know I can try without needing to involve a Microsoft account.
Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in 'highly exceptional' move
The Dutch government has taken control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands, in an extraordinary move to ensure a sufficient supply of its chips remains available in Europe amid rising global trade tensions.
Nexperia, a subsidiary of China's Wingtech Technology, specializes in the high-volume production of chips used in automotive, consumer electronics and other industries, making it vital for maintaining Europe's technological supply chains.
On Sunday evening, the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs revealed that it had invoked the "Goods Availability Act" on the company in September in order "to prevent a situation in which the goods produced by Nexperia (finished and semi-finished products) would become unavailable in an emergency."
Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in 'highly exceptional' move
The Dutch government has invoked the Goods Availability Act to take control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands.Dylan Butts (CNBC)
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Urgent calls for debt relief as study shows health and education cuts in developing world
Urgent calls for debt relief as study shows health and education cuts in developing world
Influential economists want replenishment of funds and new ways to define countries in need before this week’s IMF and World Bank meetingsHeather Stewart (The Guardian)
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Afghan Taliban, Pakistani soldiers fight along border after Kabul air strike
Afghan Taliban forces have attacked Pakistani border posts in what it called "retaliation" for an air strike on Kabul.
Pakistani officials said their forces were responding "with full force" to what they called unprovoked firing from Afghanistan.
Pakistan's government did not confirm it was behind Thursday's air strike, but called on Afghanistan to stop harbouring the Pakistani Taliban, which has targeted Pakistani security forces.
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old??
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Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular?
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KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37518459
This week is KDE’s 29th anniversary. It may not be a nice round number like 25 or 30, but whenever another birthday rolls around for an independent project the size and scope of KDE — powered by the goodwill of its contributors and users — that’s really quite something!This year KDE are celebrating by kicking off their yearly fundraiser. Let’s raise at least €50,000 before the end of the year!
Happy Birthday to KDE
This week is KDE’s 29th anniversary. It may not be a nice round number like 25 or 30, but whenever another birthday rolls around for an independent project the size and scope of KDE — powered by the goodwill of its contributors and users — that’s rea…Happy Birthday to KDE
Serbia: Chinese national dies as overloaded boat capsized on Danube river while attempting to cross the border illegally, flee to EU
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- A group of Chinese citizens attempted to cross the border between Serbia and Croatia illegally; one of them died
- Two such cases of illegal border crossings have been recorded in the last two months
- Some European countries are warning of an increased influx of Chinese citizens arriving via human smuggling routes in the Western Balkans
- Serbia and China have had a visa-free regime since 2017
Serbia: Chinese citizen died as overloaded boat capsized on Danube river while attempting to cross the border illegally and flee to EU
A Chinese citizen died when a boat capsized on the Danube between Serbia and Croatia while attempting to cross the border illegally.
In the last two months, there have been two recorded cases of groups of Chinese citizens attempting to cross the border between Serbia and Croatia illegally.
Miroslava Jelačić Kojić from the non-governmental organization Group 484 [said] that there are trends indicating that Chinese citizens are increasingly becoming victims of human trafficking in the Western Balkans.
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“Italian authorities have warned that there has been an increase in the number of Chinese citizens who have been smuggled and that they have also been moving along the Western Balkan route,” she said.
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Serbia and China have had a visa-free regime since 2017, which means that citizens of both countries can reside or transit through the territory of China and Serbia for up to 30 days from the date of entry.
As a candidate for European Union membership, Serbia maintains close ties with China and is strengthening political, economic, and military cooperation.
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Serbian rescue services found four injured Chinese citizens, while Croatian rescue services pulled five more Chinese citizens from the Danube.
Dragoslav Živković, acting deputy chief of the Vukovar-Srijem police administration, told the media [...] that, according to initial information, the individuals had attempted to cross the state border from Serbia to Croatia illegally.
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The boat reportedly capsized due to overloading, with ten Chinese and one Serbian citizen on board.
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The Western Balkan corridor is also mentioned in a January statement by Europol, the EU police agency, when it announced the dismantling of a sophisticated Chinese criminal network.
The network was involved in illegal immigration and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Raids in Barcelona, Madrid, and Toledo in Spain, and in Zagreb in Croatia, led to the arrest of 30 people, including the leaders of the criminal network.
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Chinese citizens on the Western Balkans human smuggling route - The Geopost
Share the newsSummary A group of Chinese citizens attempted to cross the border between Serbia and Croatia illegally; one of them died Two such casesThe Geopost
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Trump says ‘war is over’ in Gaza as Israel awaits release of hostages
Trump says ‘war is over’ in Gaza as Israel awaits release of hostages
US president says Middle East will ‘normalize’ before he boarded flight to Israel for world leaders’ peace summitGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Israel says Hamas hands over the first seven hostages to the Red Cross as part of the Gaza ceasefire
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas released seven hostages into the custody of the Red Cross on Monday, the first to be released as part of a breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war between Israel and Hamas in the devastated Gaza Strip.There was no immediate information on their condition. Hamas has said 20 living hostages will be exchanged for over 1,900 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
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UK Ministers Criticize PM Starmer’s China Policy Amid Spying Row, urge to reassess policy toward Beijing
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- Senior members of the government are urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to reassess his policy toward China and take a tougher stance on the risks it poses to UK national security.
- At least two cabinet members want Starmer to decline permission for China to build a new mega-embassy near the City of London on security grounds.
- The call for a tougher stance comes after a collapsed espionage case, which has led to intense scrutiny of Starmer's approach to China and allegations that his administration did not provide sufficient support to secure convictions.
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Far-right AfD party fails to secure first German city mayor post in run-off
Far-right AfD party fails to secure first German city mayor post in run-off
The election in Frankfurt an der Oder was between independent candidate Axel Strasser and AfD contender Wilko Moller.Mariamne Everett (Al Jazeera)
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Dutch government intervenes at Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
China’s Wingtech says Dutch court freezes control of Nexperia amid ‘national security’ dispute
Wingtech decries the move as ‘excessive intervention driven by geopolitical bias, rather than a fact-based risk assessment’.Finbarr Bermingham (South China Morning Post)
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Chairman Zhang Xuezheng was suspended from Nexperia's boards by an Amsterdam court order on October 6, and an independent non-Chinese person with a "deciding vote" would be appointed in his place, Wingtech said
Ja, we nationalised the company and installed a white guy as king
fascinating, will dutch people receive free housing, or do Chinese citizens have to purchase the housing before it can be acquired by the government?
Man, can you imagine the uproar if China required companies to have local people on the company's board to be able to operate in China?
What horrible government would allow that?!?
Not surprised a user from a tankie instance is angry about a western country imposing rules on a domestic company for reasons of national security, but is completely fine with China allowing barely any western countries in their market at all and, when they are, enforcing that they must be run by Chinese and have a close relationship with the government.
It's bad when the west takes an inch, but it's good when China takes a mile.
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in reply to Tyrq • • •Haha, I was just joking with my buddy the other day about how liberals only know how to ask for better institutions. When they form an organization, its purpose is to ask malicious institutions to become kinder. You won't be the people to solve this issue.
By the way, you don't use this reply guy alt account enough to make it believable. Are you getting too slow?
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in reply to flango • • •Here in South Australia we are starting to see the effects and it's pretty chilling.
The algae bloom affecting many of our suburban beaches (which is most of Adelaide) and a lot of country ones are seeing huge numbers of dead marine life being washed up.
Anything from leafy sea dragons to fish, stingrays, and sharks. The foam created on some days covers whole sections of beach.
While apparently it's safe, there are warnings that you may experience breathing issues and rashes so your supposed to bring your inhaler and rinse off after you have been in. On windy days it can affect you even if your walking close to the beach.
As we head into summer the damage to local seaford providers (the seafood is fine to consume but people are wary) and cafe owners will be huge and is already starting to take effect.
Because our beaches are so close, people would go down after work for a dip or have a drink at the suburban pubs and cafes.
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