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Cake day: February 6th, 2025
  • greenfire@lemmings.worldtoWorld News•Irish president calls on UN chief to use Chapter Seven powers to end Gaza crisisEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Israel has imposed a crippling siege on Gaza since early March, restricting the entry of food, water, and other basic supplies into the territory. The regime has also set up its own aid distribution centers to replace UN-run zones. The centers however have caused global outcry as a growing number of aid seekers have been shot dead by Israeli forces, while waiting to get food.

    According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 1,370 Palestinian aid seekers have lost their lives in fatal shootings by Israeli forces since May 27.

  • greenfire@lemmings.worldtoWorld News•UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search houseEnglish
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    6 months ago

    An 80-year-old woman arrested for holding a placard at a pro-Palestine rally has said she is deeply traumatised after she was held by police for almost 27 hours, during which officers forced their way into her house and searched it.

    Marianne Sorrell from Wells, Somerset was detained at a rally in Cardiff on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action, which earlier this month became the first direct action group to be banned under UK anti-terrorism laws.

    She said officers removed 19 items from her house, including iPads, a Palestine flag, books on Palestine, material related to Extinction Rebellion and the climate crisis, as well as drumsticks for – and a belt that holds – her samba drum. A friend who went to feed the cats and walked in on the police searching the house said there appeared to be a geiger counter – which measures radiation – on the table.

    Sorrell, a retired teacher, said: “At 80, to be treated like a dangerous terrorist is deeply shocking. I’ve been very traumatised by this. Every morning I wake up feeling sick, nauseous. [I have] had to take anti-sickness pills.

  • greenfire@lemmings.worldtoUS News•Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book is one of the most cursed documents ever compiled in this miserable, dying country.English
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    6 months ago

    There are 1,571 names in all, with roughly 5,000 phone numbers and thousands of emails and home addresses. There are celebrities, princes and princesses, high-profile scientists, artists from all over the world, all alongside some of the world’s most powerful oligarchs and political leaders—people like Prince Andrew (circled), Ehud Barak (circled), Donald Trump (circled).

    Shortly before Epstein’s mysterious death in August 2019 in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Facility, an unredacted version of the book popped up on some dark corners of the internet, with almost every phone number, email, and home address entirely visible, and I got my hands on a copy.