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For Ghoramara islanders, India election is about climate change and survival (www.reuters.com)
As voters across India cast their ballots in the general election on issues ranging from the cost of living to jobs and religion, the residents of a tiny, ecologically sensitive island have only one concern: Survival. As voters across India cast their ballots in the general election on issues ranging from the cost of living to...
South Africa election: ANC seen losing majority, DA and Zuma's party performing well (www.reuters.com)
The African National Congress appeared on course to lose the parliamentary majority it has held for 30 years, partial results from South Africa's national election showed, in what would be the most dramatic political shift since the end of apartheid....
First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
The early results declared in South Africa’s election suggest the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party could lose its majority for the first time in 30 years. With results in from 13% of polling stations at 10 a.m. local time, support for the ANC stood at 42.5%....
Labour deselecting left-wing candidates and women of colour in first week of campaign (mastodon.green)
Labour has decided to start their campaign with a bang, pruning women of colour and left wingers from the ballot due to reasons such as liking tweets sharing Jon Stewart videos. At the end of the day it boils down to support for Palestine....
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Minister backs trials in paying for more FGM reconstruction (www.dutchnews.nl)
Caretaker medical health minister Pia Dijkstra is planning to experiment with compensating women who have undergone female genital mutilation for the cost of operations if they suffer sexual or psychological complications....
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Israeli campaign against ICC may be ‘crimes against justice’, say legal experts (www.theguardian.com)
Efforts by Israel’s intelligence agencies to undermine and influence the international criminal court (ICC) could amount to “offences against the administration of justice” and should be investigated by its chief prosecutor, legal experts have said....
Louisiana could become first state to require display of Ten Commandments in classrooms | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Alpacas test positive for H5N1 bird flu for the first time (www.cnn.com)
Pedophiles don't deserve rights
Not all humans inherently deserve rights just because they are human. Think of people like Hiter, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the dozens of other evil people. No one would reasonably think they deserve sympathy, because of what they chose to do....
Netanyahu blasts Biden admin for rejecting GOP effort to sanction ICC (www.politico.com)
I have an ancient laptop, need recommendations on which distro to install
I have a very, very old laptop with me. I don’t know the exact specs, but it has a single core celeron processor and 4GB of RAM. It’s an old little thing, maybe 15 years old....
if this post gets 8 upvotes, i will post again with twice as wide en passant (lemmy.world)
Israel sharpens its tone to Spain: "The Inquisition is over. Those who harm us, we will harm them" (www.elnacional.cat)
Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan? (foreignpolicy.com)
Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city....
We found this old matchbook in our kitchen. It's for a coroner's election. The Democrat candidate is on one side and the Republican candidate is on the other. (lemmy.world)