https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/politics/us-military-second-strike-caribbean

A seemingly indispensable aide until today, Yermak was a former intellectual property lawyer and film producer who knew Zelenskyy in his days as an actor and comedian before helping him be elected as president. Yermak became a foreign policy adviser, then the president’s chief of staff in February 2020.

Rapidly he assumed a central position as Zelenskyy’s gatekeeper in the charge of the president’s office. He was routinely consulted on foreign policy, domestic affairs and appointments. Never far from Zelenskyy’s side, the two were particularly close during the early days of the invasion, when Kyiv was under threat.

Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home

Ukrainian president announces departure of Andriy Yermak, who was leading peace talks with US

^{Dan Sabbagh (The Guardian)}

Pro-Palestine campaigners have turned up in their hundreds to a Tesco branch in the small County Down seaside town of Newcastle, protesting disciplinary action being taken against a worker who refused to assist in the sale of items from so-called ‘Israel’. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, objected on the basis that the proceeds from such items go to fund the Zionist entity’s genocidal onslaught against the Palestinian people.

The action from Tesco management had first been highlighted in a post on the social media page of local activist group Mourne for Palestine, whose name is a play on words using the name of a notable nearby mountain range. Alongside the statement can be found more wordplay, with Tesco’s slogan remixed to say “Every little helps genocide”. The group said:

Today’s protest was organised by direct action group BDS Belfast, with activists pouring in from across Ireland, recognising the significance of a worker taking such a stand. A strong union presence was visible, with representatives from Unison, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and union-linked solidarity group Trade Union Friends of Palestine among those in attendance. The action from the worker represents the most noteworthy instance of this form of defiance in the North of Ireland since the Zionist settler-colony began its campaign of mass murder over two years ago.

Tesco worker refuses to sell Israeli products

Just as Dunnes workers led the boycott of South African items, so too is one Tesco worker leading the boycott of Israeli products in Ireland

^{Robert Freeman (The Canary)}

An activist held on remand in a British prison on charges connected to the direct action group Palestine Action has been hospitalised after entering his second week of hunger strike.

Kamran Ahmed is among six prisoners who launched a rolling hunger strike earlier this month after UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood failed to respond to a letter outlining demands relating to their treatment.

These included immediate bail and an end to prison interference with their personal communications, as well as lifting the ban on Palestine Action.

In July, the UK government proscribed the direct action group under terrorism legislation, making it a criminal offence to be a member of or show support for the organisation.

Palestine Action prisoner hospitalised due to hunger strike

An activist held on remand in a British prison on charges connected to the direct action group Palestine Action has been hospitalised after entering his second week of hunger strike.

^{Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)}

As per fsf only those linux distributions are 100% free:

Dragora
Dyne
Guix
Hyperbola
Parabola
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo
libreCMC
ProteanOS

Do you agree or no?

I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But from what i see they tend to migrate to another black boxed/closed os.

What is a trully free os that doesnt included any closed code/binary blobs/closed drivers etc.

Just 100% free open code, no traps.

What are the options and what should one go with if they want fully free os that rejects any closed code?

It's very clear that the ricing community wants to set any given colorscheme in many apps automatically, most tools do so either with wallpapers (which is inherently opinionated), or the base16 spec. The original base16 repo hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and 16 colors simply isn't enough to make rich granular themes, especially when code has many different syntax elements. We need a successor that allows for more colors on both TUIs and GUIs, more than 16 colors (like 24 or even 32), mapped more granularly.

My story:

I've spent lots of time looking at how to have good colorschemes in apps that change dynamically, to make my desktop pretty and with variety. Many tools can apply colorschemes to apps using image / wallpaper colors like Matugen and Pywal. These tools are very well made, but I realized I actually prefer rainbow colorschemes like Catppuccin. Either way I got attached Matugen, fortunately it can be used without wallpapers and supports custom keywords, there are also base16 colorscheme managers like flavours and tinty.

But Cattppuccin's base16 theme didn't look right compared to its Neovim plugin. The plugin is very well integrated and colors a lot things for you that base16 plugins may not, I would have to set certain UI colors myself if I wanted them to match. Some of the major colors (variables, keywords, brackets, etc.) were shuffled around, so out of the box Catppuccin's base16 theme doesn't even match Cattppuccin's original vision / color harmony. All of this probably applies to other colorschemes as well. So if I want to switch between different schemes while staying true to each one, I would need to set up plugins for each app rather than automatically.

GitHub - chriskempson/base16: A Framework for building Themes

A Framework for building Themes. Contribute to chriskempson/base16 development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

A Palestinian nurse says she was abducted by an Israeli-backed gang from the Gaza Strip earlier this year and handed over to the Israeli army, who used her to pressure her detained doctor father during interrogations.

Tasneem al-Hams, 22, was released in Khan Younis on Thursday, nearly two months after she was arbitrarily taken into Israeli custody.

Upon her release, she told local media she was abducted by members of the Israel-backed Popular Forces armed group - otherwise known as Abu Shabab gang.

"They then handed me over to the Israelis, east of Khan Younis," she added.

The nurse was abducted while working at a medical facility in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to her family.

Gaza nurse held by Israel says she was abducted by Abu Shabab gang

^{Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)}

Andriy Yermak, the influential chief of staff of Ukraine's President, has resigned hours after the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) conducted searches in his office.

Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office

Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) are conducting searches in the office of the presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, NABU said in a statement on November 28.

^{RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)}

On another popular site I can refresh my feed and it's instantly all new things to explore. But here on Lemmy when I refresh, I get either the same top posts (with little new activity) or I see them just down a bit.

I've chosen subs that are active, and a mix of subscribed and local subs.

What settings are best to have a similar experience where if you refresh your feed you see new things to subs you're interested in? Even choosing 'new' its like.. there's no new activity when I refresh.

Thank you in advance

The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Dutch Member of European Parliament (MEP) Marit Maij told DW News about plans to “call on the European Commission to stop the trade negotiations with the UAE for as long as we see that weapons are going through the UAE to the RSF,” referring to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The call comes in the wake of the widespread atrocities committed by the RSF during its siege and eventual capture of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, which were abetted by advanced weaponry from the UAE.

But following a lobbying effort from an Emirati delegation to Strasbourg led by envoy Lana Nusseibeh, the final resolution passed on Thursday included no references to the UAE’s role in the war.

UAE launched 'lobbying blitz' on European Parliament over Sudan war resolution

The United Arab Emirates  “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.

^{Shraddha Joshi (Middle East Eye)}