So... rubber ducks were censored in china from 2013, ever since people started photoshoping them into the tank man photograph. The artist had his ducks removed, so it's interesting they're back.
I would imagine it'd be a lot like being conscripted, but harder since the people you're trying to force into a lesser paying position are armed and trained.
The remains of more than 100 Māori and Moriori are returning to Aotearoa New Zealand this week from Germany.
Alongside six toi moko (Māori mummified tattooed heads), 95 koiwi tangata (Māori skeletal remains) and kōimi t'chakat Moriori (Moriori skeletal remains) and other taonga Māori were repatriated from seven German institutions, including the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History and the Georg August University in Göttingen.
The remains had already been handed over during ceremonies across Germany in May and early June, and a private pōwhiri will be held at Te Papa on Wednesday to mark their return.
The United Nations on Tuesday slammed the Myanmar junta’s “unfathomable” suspension of travel authorizations for aid workers trying to reach over a million people in the cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state.
Cyclone Mocha brought lashing rain and winds of 120 miles per hour to Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh last month, leaving nearly 150 people dead in Myanmar, according to AFP. It destroyed homes and brought a storm surge to Rakhine state, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya minority refugees live in displacement camps following decades of ethnic conflict.
Yet, the UN said last week that junta authorities suspended “existing travel authorizations… for humanitarian organizations.”
Rakhine state is home to around 600,000 Rohingya, who are regarded by many there as interlopers from Bangladesh and are denied citizenship and freedom of movement.
Russia is desperately attempting to develop a buffer zone between itself and NATO using an entire vassal-state such as Belarus to act as a sacrificial region in the event of an extremely unlikely NATO incursion.
We all know how it will go down though if shit hits the fan: Russia will literally allow the destruction of Belarus in order to develop a contingency and rally what's left of their dogshit military to defend their oligarchs.
NAIROBI, June 13 (Reuters) - Eritrea has rejoined a regional East African bloc it left 16 years ago, its information minister said, in the country's latest move to rebuild ties with its neighbours.
The Asmara government quit the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Eastern Africa (IGAD) in 2007 to protest Ethiopian troops' entry into Somalia to force out its Islamist rulers.
"Eritrea resumed its activity in IGAD and took its seat at the 14th Ordinary Summit in Djibouti," Information Minister Yemane Meskel wrote on Twitter late on Monday after the summit. He did not say what had prompted the decision but said Eritrea wanted to join other IGAD members and help advance peace and stability in the region.
I asked man Ibrahim Dara's
Eritrea, which has been ruled by Isaias Afwerki since gaining independence from Ethiopia in 1993, fought a bloody border war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000, and has repeatedly fallen out with its neighbours.
It is also under U.S. and EU sanctions for alleged human rights abuses.However, it has taken steps in recent years to repair regional ties.
Seventeen schools girls taken hostage by armed men in the Mount Bosavi area on the border of the Southern Highlands and Hela provinces in Papua New Guinea have been released by their captors.
A Bosavi local said family members of the girls negotiated with the captors and were eventually able to secure their release last Wednesday (June 7).
The local resident also reported that the 17 girls were later airlifted to the Ridge Camp - a base owned by Oil and Gas Company, Santos, where they received medical treatment.A spokesperson from Santos told RNZ Pacific that Santos "will not comment on a police matter."
Police Commissioner David Manning has confirmed the release of the hostages.
There is a body of published research now that supports an animal to human crossover event occurring at the Wuhan wet market. The US government is going to have to provide more than circumstantial evidence if they want to be taken seriously by the scientific community. They can’t just claim that a few scientists had flu like symptoms during flu season therefore Covid-19 must have been a lab leak.
Maybe the first human infection did happen from animal crossover at the wet market-- and Patient Zero just happened to be a scientist who worked at the lab, who went back to work after lunch and infected all their colleagues.
Survivors from a fishing boat that sank off southern Greece in one of Europe's worst migrant disasters say up to 100 children may have been on board.
At least 78 people have already been confirmed dead in the disaster. But many more could still be missing at sea, with reports suggesting that up to 750 people were aboard the vessel.
Nine people, including several Egyptians, have been arrested on suspicion of people trafficking, Greek TV is rereportin The coastguard has been criticised for not intervening earlier but authorities say their offers of aid were refused.
Rescuers are still searching the area where the boat capsized almost 50 nautical miles off the south-west coast, as hopes of finding more survivors dwindle.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's more powerful lower house passed a contentious bill on Tuesday to promote understanding of sexual minorities, paving the way for enacting the legislation by the end of the current parliamentary session through next week.
The bill is aimed primarily at banning unjust discrimination against people based on sexual orientation as Japan lags behind the other Group of Seven advanced nations in terms of legal protections for sexual minorities.
One of the most controversial aspects of the bill is a clause stipulating, "All citizens can live with peace of mind," which has been lambasted by critics for prioritizing safeguarding the rights of the majority in society rather than sexual minorities.
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