Heftige Kämpfe im Grenzgebiet von Pakistan und Afghanistan
Angriff und Gegenangriff: Pakistan und Afghanistan liefern sich heftige Kämpfe im Grenzgebiet. Die Sorge vor einer Eskalation in der sicherheitspolitisch schwierigen Region wächst. Von Peter Hornung.
Pakistan has sentenced a 22-year-old student to death over photos and videos he is believed to have shared over WhatsApp. The BBC has the details: https://flip.it/Z-1IVV
The Universal Declaration of #HumanRights Art. 19 states you have the right to "receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".
@protonvpn will make #VPN available for free, starting 2 weeks before important #elections, until 1 week after, from:
Watching the #AmbaniWedding makes me so proud of our last month
On one hand, you have billionaires burning 1000 tons of carbon to fly into an airport granted "international status" to accommodate so many private jets, for a multi-day bash that will release even more CO2 into our atmosphere
On the other hand, Risham & I went up against centuries of tradition to have a one day #ClimateChange themed #ClimateWedding, winning friends&fam over to the cause
🥰 #ClimateDiary
Ex-Premier Shehbaz Sharif tritt erneut an die Spitze Pakistans
In Pakistan tritt mit Shehbaz Sharif wieder ein Vertreter einer Polit-Dynastie an die Staatsspitze. Die Entscheidung für den 72-Jährigen ist eine weitere Überraschung nach umstrittenen Parlamentswahl vor drei Wochen.
Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Updated Thu, February 29, 2024 at 8:24 AM
#ClimateChange is fueling disasters, increasing concerns
"Experts say the #TexasWildfires highlighted the dangers natural disasters could pose to America's widespread #NuclearWeapons and energy networks. Eleven states are home to nuclear weapons, 28 to #NuclearPowerPlants and spent #NuclearFuel storage.
"In Texas, the fire's flames were spread by strong winds, dry conditions and unseasonably high temperatures, which broke records across the country — just the kind of conditions that experts have long warned are more likely as Earth warms.
"'We need more attention on the nexus of climate and nuclear,' said Kwong.
"Climate change effects have already caused nuclear concerns around the world: 'Places like #NorthKorea and #Pakistan are already facing these threats,' said Kwong.
"North Korea has experienced increases in #typhoons, #droughts and #flooding, according to the Royal United Services Institute, a United Kingdom-based defense think tank.
"In 2022, massive flooding covered more than one-third of the nation of Pakistan, affecting more than 33 million people."
⚠️ Update: Metrics show that X/Twitter remains restricted in #Pakistan despite brief moments of availability; any decision to restore access to the service, banned on 17 Feb amidst concerns over election fraud, will be deferred to an incoming government per local media reports 📉
A misunderstanding over a woman’s attire, which featured Arabic script and was misconstrued as containing Quranic text, led to her being targeted by an agitated group in Pakistan. Another woman, a police officer, saved her from the mob.
Children balance a wheelbarrow with water jerrycans, which they filled from a nearby hand pump, as they head home in Karachi, Pakistan. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Un policier pakistanais est salué comme un héros pour avoir négocié l'escorte en toute sécurité d'une femme accusée de blasphème par une foule à Lahore. La femme portait une robe avec une calligraphie arabe que la foule a confondue avec des versets du Coran.
Russians staying in Sri Lanka have showed their gratitude by creating a number of “whites only" night clubs, denying access to local Sri Lankans. So Sri Lankan authorities now decided to help the racists by telling all 288,000 Russians in Sri Lanka to take the next flight back to good old Moscow, where the average skin color is more to their liking.
@pjw@randahl i dont think you understand the sensitivity of a "whites only" club being launched in #SriLanka again.
British Colonization ended less than a century ago, horrifying stories of how locals were treated at the hands of the Racist White Colonials are still widely known.
This is an under-reaction if any. If it were #India or #Pakistan, its very likely mobs would be stirring to punish the 're-colonials'.
Sri Lankan Gov is trying an incredible balancing act.