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Russia needs soldiers, and its authorities are increasingly turning to migrants to fill the military’s ranks. Guest workers from Central Asian countries are often rounded up on the street, taken to recruitment offices and pressured into signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry. This process can involve threats and...

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Russia has been bombarding Ukraine's Danube River ports close to the Romanian border since late July. Why did Romania first deny and later confirm that a Russian drone had landed on its territory earlier this week?...

cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225838...

The Biden administration is suggesting that more student loan forgiveness is coming, possibly sometime this month, under an account adjustment.

Historically, the disaster restoration industry was made up of smaller, independent businesses handling local projects. But after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, private equity firms saw an opportunity to consolidate the market by buying up smaller companies, and some estimates value the US restoration industry as high as $200bn.

Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril....

Rustem Umerov is from the Muslim Tatar community in Crimea that largely resisted Russia’s 2014 annexation.

When a house is demolished due to the illegal activities of one of its inhabitants, all the other residents bear the repercussions of those actions. This practice is referred to as 'collective punishment'.

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Regolith Desktop 3.0 has been released for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 23.10, and both Debian Bullseye and Bookworm....

BNEF journalist Colin McKerracher summarizes trends in China predicting a peak in fossil transport fuel: electric vehicle car sales, two and three wheeled electric kilometers traveled, electric trucks reaching the tipping point and ride hailing legislation.

cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/503354...

Investigators say the security guard had tried to stop two people attempting to break into vehicles inside a parking garage....

There have been a number of attacks on journalists in Kosovo in recent years. Now, conservative Muslims in the southern Kosovar city of Prizren are agitating against a news portal and a journalist.

I’ve seen a lot of people wondering how Prigozhin could make such a terrible mistake. I think that ISW has got the right of it in their analysis from today....

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For a decade until 2018, China sought to recruit elite foreign-trained scientists under a lavishly funded program that Washington viewed as a threat to U.S. interests and technological supremacy....