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Inside Barbados' Historic Push for Slavery Reparations (time.com)

Nigel Farage is now considering whether “life was worth living” in the UK. (inews.co.uk)

That moment when you are walking down the street and you accidentally tread in a steaming pile of irony.

Aspartame sweetener used in Diet Coke a possible carcinogen, WHO’s cancer research agency to say-sources (www.reuters.com)

MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now

please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread

Putin's invasion of Ukraine after 900 days of war: 500,000 Russian soldiers died, $211bn warfare costs (www.forcesnews.com)

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"If you save Ukraine, you will help a free Russia:" Freed Russian prisoner Ilya Yashin urges supporters to 'save Ukraine' in Berlin (www.euronews.com)

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China to raise retirement age in next five years (www.bbc.com)

Forced labour is widespread and institutionalized across North Korea, maintained through violence and recrimination, the UN human rights office says (news.un.org)

In a report based on 183 interviews with victims and witnesses of forced labour who managed to escape DPRK and now live abroad, the UN human rights office OHCHR cited one person’s testimony that if a daily work quota was not met, workers would be beaten and have their food ration cut....

Trump rally shooting is being investigated as an assassination attempt, officials say (apnews.com)

At least 550 hajj pilgrims die in scorching temperatures (www.abc.net.au)

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/13270546

'Mitigating factors’: Russian soldiers found guilty in domestic violence cases are getting off with just small fines (meduza.io)

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Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel (www.theguardian.com)

Australian helicopter forced to take evasive action after Chinese fighter intercepts with flares (www.abc.net.au)

An Australian citizen under surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party: "I’m not the only China scholar who lives in fear of abduction or assassination" (www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au)

Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12976581...

UK: Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 legal experts in calling for the UK government to end weapons sales to Israel (www.bbc.com)

In a letter to the prime minister, they said exports must end because the UK risks breaking international law over a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza....

The Brazilian farm workers exploited to harvest an everyday ingredient (www.bbc.com)

Carnauba wax is a product you may not have heard of, but you have almost certainly consumed it - it is added to sweets to stop them melting, to pills to make them easier to swallow and as a thickener in lipstick and mascara....

NORAD fighters intercept high-altitude balloon flying over Utah (abcnews.go.com)

8-Month-Old Baby Drowns in Bathtub While Mom Was Allegedly on Her Phone for 20 Minutes (menzmag.com)

A tragic incident unfolded in Sparta Township, Michigan, as 23-year-old Olivia Miller faced arrest on Thursday in connection with the drowning of her eight-month-old son, Asher Johnson, back in November 2023.

Rejection of two-State solution by Israeli leadership 'unacceptable', says UN chief (news.un.org)

“This refusal [of a two-state solution], and the denial of the right to statehood to the Palestinian people, would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says....

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