my favorite fun fact about bees and bee nests, is that they actually produce a lot of heat, so if you have a nest of bees in your wall, you can tell because your wall will be hot.
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Click here to see the summaryHis breakout role was in BBC TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, where he portrayed Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled - and often failed - to cope with unemployment in Liverpool. Hill, who was from Manchester, was due to return to TV screens in series two of The Responder, a BBC drama starring Martin Freeman, which begins airing on Sunday. Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama, paid tribute to him, saying: “Bernard Hill blazed a trail across the screen, and his long-lasting career filled with iconic and remarkable roles is a testament to his incredible talent.” In Boys from the Blackstuff, Hill drew praise for his gritty portrayal of Yosser Hughes, an intense and memorable character who pleaded “Gizza job” as he sought work. Another of Hill’s memorable BBC TV performances came in the 2015 drama series Wolf Hall, adapted from Hilary Mantel’s book about the court of Henry VIII. Other roles in his decades-long career included the 1976 BBC TV series I, Claudius, an appearance in 1982’s Gandhi, Shirley Valentine in 1989, The Scorpion King in 2002 and 2008 Tom Cruise film Valkyrie. — Saved 60% of original text.
Seriously. Would you trust the Israeli government to tell you where to be if you were a Palestinian at this point? You’d have to be suicidal to trust them.
Can someone please ELI5 why they think that HAMAS won’t just “evacuate” with the rest of these people? What’s the point of destroying a chunk of the city that was abandoned? I understand that they are destroying the “infrastructure”, tunnels etc. but not terrorists? Am I missing something?
Other than destroying the infrastructure as you mentioned, in an evacuation/refugee scenario it’s possible to identify individuals and check them against available intelligence.
Israeli intelligence has had a lot of time to at the very least identify Hamas’s chain of command. While the odd low-level fighter might slip through, any leader would get nabbed before they made it into a refugee camp.
Because people around here don’t like hearing that there’s a strategically valid, logistically viable method for clearing out the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza while minimizing civilian casualties.
Apparently nobody noticed that the moment the IDF started evacuating civilians and moving in Hamas is suddenly open to accepting terms. What I outlined is the thing they fear most: their leadership on the ground getting grabbed.
Hundreds of people are feared dead after flash flooding hit northern Afghanistan, with warnings the toll could rise after further storms across the region.Taliban officials say at least 150 have been killed, while the World Food Programme says more than 300 have died, after heavy rainfall hit five districts in Baghlan province on Friday night.
Pictures on social media showed torrents of water sweeping through houses in several villages, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.The country has been hit by unusually heavy rainfall over the last few weeks, with floods killing scores of people since mid-April.
Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s interior ministry, told the BBC that at least 131 people had died in Baghlan province and 20 in Takhar.Meanwhile, Rana Deraz, from the UN’s World Food Programme, told the AFP news agency there had been 311 deaths in Baghlan.Ms Deraz said 2,011 houses had been destroyed and an additional 2,800 damaged.Three mosques, and four schools were also affected.Many of those who had died came from the province’s Borka district where more than 200 people had been trapped inside their homes.
There are also reports of severe damage in the provinces of Badakhshan, Ghor and western Herat.Local official Hedayatullah Hamdard told AFP news agency emergency personnel including the army were “searching for any possible victims under the mud and rubble”.Tents, blankets and food were provided to some families who had lost their homes, the official added.The main road connecting Kabul to northern Afghanistan is closed.
It comes after flooding last month in the west of the country killed dozens of people, leaving thousands requiring humanitarian aid.
Flash flooding happens when rain falls so heavily that normal drainage cannot cope.Experts say a relatively dry winter has made it more difficult for the soil to absorb rainfall.
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Two children were killed and others were injured after a bomb fell near a paediatric hospital in the western Sudanese city of El Fasher, the medical charity MSF has said.Clashes have recently intensified in the battle for control of the city.It is the last major urban centre in the Darfur region that remains in the hands of the army.It has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in a civil war that has killed thousands and forced millions from their homes.
The army has managed to hold on to El Fasher but tension has been mounting as the RSF has been besieging the city since the middle of last month and threatening an assault.Since Friday, residents have witnessed intense clashes and the exchange of heavy mortar fire, a freelance journalist in the city told the BBC.At some point overnight into Sunday a blast in front of the MSF-supported Babiker Nahar Paediatric Hospital in El Fasher “led to the collapse of the roof above the intensive care unit and the death of two children receiving treatment there, as well as some caregivers”, the charity said in a brief statement sent to the BBC.Patients were also injured and those who could make it sought safety in another hospital, which had already taken in 160 wounded people on Friday.It is not clear who was responsible for the attack.The southern part of the city, once considered safer and a refuge for displaced people, has been under fire.Fear now pervades El Fasher as residents are unsure where to seek refuge.The UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan said that “the violence threatens the lives of over 800,000 civilians”.
“It is heartbreaking to see this nightmare unfolding…
This must stop,” Clementine Nkweta-Salami said.Sudan’s brutal civil war began in April last year, after the country’s two leading military men who had staged a coup together – one the head of the armed forces, the other the head of the RSF – fell out over the future of the country.International efforts to broker a ceasefire have repeatedly failed.
Fear and prayers in Sudan city under siegeThe children living between starvation and death in DarfurA front-row seat to my country falling apart
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I’m not a big fan of political assassinations, or attempts thereof, but I’m going to have to admit that I don’t feel sorry for him. It’s a reasonable balancing act against those who are permissive of right wing shitheads at the threat of violence. Political voilence (or preferably, lack of such) should be more bipartisan and politically evened out.
I’m not going to shed any tears if someone in a certain country south of Slovakia draws inspiration from this either.
I wish him a lengthy and painful recovery.
EDIT for clarification: I hope he survives with no lasting harm. I don’t wish that kind of loss on his friends and family.
We just summarize his personality with friend as “first class asshole” and hope that this will not come across the border to us. (These kinds of politicians)
Let’s hope this isn’t an Archduke Franz Ferdinand moment. Last thing we need is full blown escalation in an already fractured geopolitical situation that could lead to WWIII.
Assassinations were all the rage at the time. We just remember that one especially because it was the nominal match lighting the powderkeg that was bound to blow from something
My guess is that this is going to be a guy with an odd axe to grind sort of like in Japan when Abe was shot. There’s still plenty of political assassinations but they’re usually more sophisticated than “Walk up and start firing away.”
He’s a controversial leader, obviously, but the assassin didn’t seem like a professional.
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