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If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

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It has nothing to do with Russia. It's a formal process started by South Africa (who have a long-standing interest in Palestinian human rights because of Apartheid). They have so far been formally joined by Nicaragua and now Colombia.

A bunch of other countries have expressed support and may join at a future date, including Ireland and the African Union.

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And what is the picture in the background? It sort of looks like breasts.

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How did I get here?

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@shit_of_ass yes. I have just the show for you if you're tired of that stuff.

Detectorists.

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It really is. I heard they are going to have a movie!

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds (phys.org)

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The article, "Plastics in the deep sea—A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir," was published in Deep Sea Research Part I:...

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From the article:

Dr. Denise Hardesty, Senior Research Scientist with CSIRO, said this is the first estimate of how much plastic waste ends up on the ocean floor, where it accumulates before being broken down into smaller pieces and mixed into ocean sediment.

"We know that millions of tons of plastic waste enter our oceans every year but what we didn't know is how much of this pollution ends up on our ocean floor," Dr. Hardesty said.

"We discovered that the ocean floor has become a resting place, or reservoir, for most plastic pollution, with between 3 to 11 million tons of plastic estimated to be sinking to the ocean floor.

"While there has been a previous estimate of microplastics on the seafloor, this research looks at larger items, from nets and cups to plastic bags and everything in between."

Alice Zhu, a Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Toronto who led the study, said the estimate of plastic pollution on the ocean floor could be up to 100 times more than the amount of plastic floating on the ocean's surface based on recent estimates.

"The ocean surface is a temporary resting place of plastic so it is expected that if we can stop plastic entering our oceans, the amount would be reduced," Zhu said. "However, our research found that plastic will continue to end up in the deep ocean, which becomes a permanent resting place or sink for marine plastic pollution."...

The ROV results also reveal that plastic mass clusters around continents—approximately half (46%) of the predicted plastic mass on the global ocean floor resides above 200 m depth. The ocean depths, from 200 m to as deep as 11,000 m contains the remainder of predicted plastic mass (54%).

Although inland and coastal seas cover much less surface area than oceans (11% vs. 56% out of the entire Earth's area), these areas are predicted to hold as much plastic mass as does the rest of the ocean floor.

"These findings help to fill a longstanding knowledge gap on the behavior of plastic in the marine environment," Zhu said.

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No, but here's an archive of the account of it in Haaretz, you should probably read that one.

Australia should prepare for 20-year megadroughts as the climate crisis worsens, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

Australia should prepare for “megadroughts” that last more than 20 years and will worsen due to human-induced global heating, new research has found. Megadroughts are exceptionally severe periods of below average rainfall that last decades. Climate modelling by the Australian National University, published in the journal of...

Kyrgyzstan’s Repatriation of Foreign Fighters’ Wives and Children from Syrian Camps Marks the End of an Era (jamestown.org)

Kyrgyzstan recently finished repatriating women and children who were detained in Syria and Iraq for having been connected with men who fought with al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS). This has been hailed as the end to Central Asia’s struggle with large-scale jihadism, but the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan and the ongoing...

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From the article:

On February 20, Kyrgyz authorities conducted the sixth repatriation operation and repatriated 28 women and 71 children who had been stranded in refugee camps in northeastern Syria since the fall of the Islamic State (IS) in 2019 (Kaktus Media, February 20). This operation brought the number of Kyrgyz nationals returned from Syria and Iraq to 511, including 129 women and 382 children, and completed the repatriation program that began in March 2021 (Kaktus Media, March 16, 2021, February 16, 2023, October 22, 2023, August 30, 2023; Fergana, December 8, 2023).

Upon arrival, these women and children will enter the long and complex rehabilitation and reintegration (R&R) process. This ensures that they will adapt to peaceful life in Kyrgyzstan and present no security threat to their home country. Questions pertaining to their prosecution and the provision of psychological, social, and economic support will decide the fate of Kyrgyzstan’s R&R program. In broader terms, Kyrgyzstan’s latest repatriation operation signaled the end of a Central Asian jihadist era, which saw thousands of Central Asians join terrorist groups in the Middle East since the advent of the IS and its caliphate. However, it is too early for the region’s governments to relax, as the terrorist groups in neighboring Afghanistan and the ongoing war in Gaza may provoke another wave of extremism.

Kyrgyzstanis in International Terrorist Groups

According to the Kyrgyz security services, 850 Kyrgyz nationals left for Syria and Iraq between 2013 and 2020 (United Nations Development Program/Kyrgyzstan, June 21, 2022). The evidence suggests that foreign fighters from Kyrgyzstan who took part in hostilities in Syria and Iraq were divided into two contingents based on their loyalty to al-Qaeda or IS. The group that sided with al-Qaeda was based around Aleppo and fought within the ranks of groups linked with al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing, Jabhat al-Nusrah. One of these groups was Katibat Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), established in 2011. Its most notable Kyrgyzstani fighter was Sirojiddin Mukhtarov. Widely known as “Abu Saloh,” he established his own group, Katibat Tawhid wal-Jihad (KTJ), in 2014. He also allegedly orchestrated several high-profile attacks, including the 2016 bombing of China’s Embassy in Bishkek (by a Uyghur born in China) and the 2017 Saint Petersburg metro bombing (conducted by a Kyrgyzstan-born ethnic Uzbek Russian citizen) (24.KG, September 10, 2022).

The second contingent was based around Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq and fought within IS’s ranks. Kyrgyz nationals appeared in several IS-produced videos. The most notable one came in July 2015, when IS published a nine-minute-long “Address to the People of Kyrgyzstan” on YouTube. A religious man speaking in Kyrgyz urged Kyrgyzstani Muslims “to move to the lands of the Islamic State from the countries of kufr (infidelity)” (Kloop, July 26, 2015). Kyrgyzstan’s security services identified the individual as a Kyrgyz national from Jalalabad Province but did not provide further details.

Around 150 out of the 850 Kyrgyz who joined these contingents were men, nearly all of whom died in battle. This left their wives and children stranded in Syrian refugee camps and Iraqi prisons (United Nations Development Program/Kyrgyzstan, June 21, 2022). The Kyrgyz government ended the repatriation of Kyrgyz nationals from Iraq after allowing 79 children to be returned home in March 2021. This is because Iraqi authorities refuse to release the remaining women, who were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences. Thus, Kyrgyzstan has focused on repatriating its nationals from the al-Hol and Roj refugee camps in northeastern Syria, where women and children are not imprisoned. In total, 432 individuals (around three-quarters of which were children, with almost all of the remaining returnees being women) were repatriated from Syria in five repatriation operations carried out in a roughly one-year span through 2023 (Kaktus Media, February 16, 2023, October 22, 2023, August 30, 2023, February 20, 2024; Fergana, December 8, 2023).

Uncertainty Mixed with Clarity and Confidence

The Kyrgyz authorities’ approach to R&R of children consists of placing them at special centers, where they spend several months under the care of medical doctors and psychologists before returning them to family members. This was the country’s approach in 2021 and 2023, when the repatriated children were placed “in a rehabilitation center to receive appropriate services to help them adapt to life in a peaceful and safe environment” (Kabar, February 16, 2023). International partners, such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and US-funded NGOs, are expected to continue playing a key role together with the receiving families and communities in Kyrgyzstan’s R&R program. ...

Let in UN human rights mission to West Papua – stop Indonesian impunity, says Pacific Network on Globalisation (asiapacificreport.nz)

The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) has declared its solidarity with civil society groups and student protesters demonstrating against the torture of a Papuan man, Defianus Kogoya, by Indonesian troops in West Papua last February....

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In the same video incident, two other Papuan men, Warinus Murib and Alianus Murib, were also arrested and allegedly tortured. Warinus Murib died of his injuries.

Reports state that 62 protesting students have been arrested and interrogated before they were released, while two people were seriously injured by Indonesian security forces.

In an earlier protest, 15 people were arrested for giving out pamphlets. Protesters demand all military operations must cease in West Papua.

“We condemn the excessive military presence in West Papua and the associated human rights violation against Papuans,” said the PANG statement. “We also condemn the use of heavy-handed tactics by the Indonesian police to violently assault and detain students who should have the right and freedom to express their views. This demonstrates yet again the ongoing oppression by Indonesian authorities in West Papua despite decades of official denial and media censorship.”

United Nations experts have expressed serious concerns about the deteriorating human rights situation in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, citing shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans, including child killings, disappearances, torture and mass displacement of people.

In its concluding observations of Indonesia’s second periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted on 26 March 2024, the Human Rights Committee expressed deep concern over: patterns of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, and other forms of cruel and degrading treatment, particularly of or against indigenous Papuans and the failure to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions.

The committee also highlighted continuing reports of media censorship and suppression of the freedom of expression....

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Really good article on the destruction of cultural heritage and historic buildings in :
https://newrepublic.com/article/180082/israel-demolishing-gazas-cultural-heritage

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And by "believe" we mean "want", in the case of Israel.

Netanyahu is attacking Israel's neighbours because he's trying to drag more countries into this mess.

Once that happens, the US will get further involved and the Israeli genocide against Palestinian civilians becomes just one front rather than the focal point.

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@ernest actually fixed this at one point but it broke again with the big changes last month. I'm thinking he will fix it again sooner or later.

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Ha ha ha I didn't have a walkman, I had an Mp3 player that could fit 15 songs at a time and they were all random stuff I'd downloaded off Napster.

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2001 weren't we all using mp3 players?

I know I was. It was really big and could hardly fit anything.

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My first mp3 player was a SoulMate omg.

I think by 2001 I probably had something smaller with more storage though.

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If I ever win a lottery I'm legit going to pay someone to do this.

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Great! But I need to win the lottery in order to be able to pay your moderate fee.

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He honestly sounds more creepy not less creepy after that part.

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Granted, your free healthcare system is homeopathic and your surgeon general is Gwynneth Paltrow. But it's completely free!

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The kids hate them rn. Probably the real reason they are trying to shut down TikTok, it's full of young Palestinians.

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We were hoping it made you drunk faster but most likely we just got kidney damage and neurotoxicity.

What can I say, it was hazardous being a bored teenager in the days before the internet.

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