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People Leaving Rafah Describe Fearful Flight From Israeli Assaults (www.nytimes.com)
Manal al-Wakeel and her extended family of 30 people thought they were going home....
These 8 countries joined US in opposing UN’s latest Palestinian resolution (thehill.com)
Eight countries joined the U.S. in opposing the UN’s latest resolution to allow Palestine to qualify to become a full UN member....
Press Award goes to DW documentary about death squad – DW – 05/10/2024 (www.dw.com)
South Africa asks World Court to order Israel's withdrawal from Rafah (www.reuters.com)
AMSTERDAM, May 10 (Reuters) - South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah as part of additional emergency measures over the war in Gaza, the U.N.'s top court said on Friday. In the ongoing case brought by South Africa, which accuses Israel of acts of genocide against...
[META] Looking for new mods that reside in APAC/AUS region
As this community continues to grow, we are noticing periods of time that moderation isn’t as responsive, due to most of the moderators being asleep at that time. If you want to help us, and live in Asia/Asia Pacific/Australia/New Zealand area, please comment here that you’re interested, why you think you’d be a good fit...
Just wanted to say a quick hello to all the other women out there on Lemmy
I’ve been happily posting away here on two accounts since just before the Great Migration, and have no problem being openly a woman on the internet. Up to and including correcting people who assume I’m a guy, and even occasionally acknowledging the existence of periods....
Leaked Military Docs Say Russia Could Go to War With NATO in 2024 (www.businessinsider.com)
Poll: US Public Support for Israel Wanes as 68 Percent Call for Ceasefire (theblankpageofficial.blogspot.com)
How cyberscams are drawing China into Myanmar’s civil war (www.vox.com)
Last fall, a coalition of rebel groups known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched a rapid-fire offensive across Myanmar’s northern Shan state, quickly overrunning more than 100 military outposts and seizing several key towns along the country’s border with China....
Pope encourages Marxists and Christians to fight corruption, uphold rule-of-law - Vatican News (www.vaticannews.va)
People who are poor, unemployed, homeless, immigrants, or exploited, as well as all those killed by past dictatorships and turned into rubbish by the “throwaway culture” of the present: the level of a society’s civilisation is measured by the way they are treated, the Pope said....
US climate envoy John Kerry to leave Biden administration (www.scmp.com)
US climate envoy John Kerry will leave the administration later this winter and plans to help President Joe Biden’s election campaign, Kerry’s office said on Saturday....
UN says all peacekeepers will leave DR Congo by end of 2024 (www.aljazeera.com)
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has helped in the fight against rebels for more than two decades, will completely withdraw from the country by December....
Houthi Retaliation Threats Echo After US Airstrikes in Yemen (www.telesurenglish.net)
All U.S. and British interests have become legitimate targets, the Houthi’s Council declared....
Kuenssberg: The thorny politics of Houthi strikes for Sunak and Starmer (www.bbc.com)
“To wake up and find out your country has bombed another country is serious indeed”....
World reacts to Taiwan election as China says reunification ‘inevitable’ (www.aljazeera.com)
China said “reunification” with Taiwan was still “inevitable” after president-elect William Lai Ching-te won Saturday’s pivotal election on the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own....
Colombia landslide kills 23 including many sheltering in house (www.bbc.com)
A landslide in north-west Colombia has killed at least 23 people and injured around 30 more, local authorities say....
‘We are at war’: Ecuador’s president vows to crack down on gangs behind week of violence (www.theguardian.com)
Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has denied that his government is embarking on an indiscriminate campaign to hunt down and kill gang members, as the South American country continues to reel from a week of chaos and deadly violence that he has classified as a war....
4 Ukrainian citizens were among those captured when a helicopter went down in Somalia this week (apnews.com)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign affairs ministry says that four of its citizens were among those captured by al-Qaida-linked extremists in Somalia after their helicopter that was contracted by the United Nations made an emergency landing in territory controlled by the militants earlier this week....
French foreign minister visits Kyiv and pledges solidarity as Russia launches attacks (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — France’s new foreign minister arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Saturday to meet with his counterpart in a sign of support for Ukraine as Russia’s full-scale invasion nears its second anniversary....
Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria after 9 soldiers were killed (apnews.com)
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. This comes a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq killed nine Turkish soldiers....
Dozens of Kenyan lawyers protest what they say is judicial interference by President Ruto (apnews.com)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan lawyers Friday demonstrated peacefully in Nairobi against what they say is judicial interference by President William Ruto, who has said he will disregard court orders from allegedly corrupt judges blocking his key development projects....
New Year, New Mod Drama
Sorry to throw this on everyone in the group, but there has been another mod shakeup and it feels fair to address it publicly....
Iran Deploys Destroyer to Red Sea (theblankpageofficial.blogspot.com)