The leader of Palestinian movement Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, had reportedly been fighting against the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip for 18 days before his death as he did not want to stay out of the battlefield.
> ISTANBUL (Sputnik) - The leader of Palestinian movement Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, had been fighting against the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip for 18 days before his death as he did not want to stay out of the battlefield, the Turkiye newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a source from the movement.
> Sinwar was advised to avoid hostilities after he headed the movement's political office in August replacing assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, the source said.
> "However, he did not want to stay out of the battlefield, he wanted to die in battle. He had been fighting against Israel in [the southern Gazan city of] Rafah for 18 days and was engaging in a battle with four comrades on the day of his death, a battle that lasted about two hours," the source added.
> The source also expressed opinion that Sinwar was alone at the moment of his death, as other Hamas fighters sought to divert the Israeli military in another direction. He intentionally covered his face when filmed by a drone to avoid artificial intelligence recognition, the source was cited as saying by the newspaper.
Is this the birth of a new Che?
Jeremy Loffredo compiled a revealing report that uncovered significant damage to the occupying regime’s bases.
Israeli authorities have detained investigative journalist Jeremy Loffredo following his groundbreaking report that exposed extensive damage to Israeli military bases struck by Iranian missiles last week.
To prepare his report on the Israeli bases hit by Iran, Loffredo, an independent journalist based in New York City, traveled to the Israeli-occupied territories and documented several impact sites that had not been reported by Israeli authorities, including areas near the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv.
On Wednesday, American journalist and filmmaker Max Blumenthal, the Grayzone editor, announced on his X account that Loffredo was among several journalists detained by Israeli authorities.
The UN says a convoy carrying workers for the polio vaccination in Gaza has been held at gunpoint by Israeli forces at a military checkpoint.
The main UN aid agency operating in Gaza has said that members of its polio vaccination convoy in Gaza were held at gunpoint by Israeli forces at a military checkpoint and shots were fired.
UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at a news briefing on Tuesday that the Israeli military had detained a convoy of international and local staff members from various UN bodies at gunpoint as they traveled to northern Gaza to help roll out the polio vaccination campaign.
A high-intensity explosion claimed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad ripped through southern Tel Aviv on Sunday, creating more panic among the already befuddled Israeli settlers.
A high-intensity explosion ripped through southern Tel Aviv’s Lehi Road on Sunday night, leaving casualties and creating more panic among the already befuddled Israeli settlers.
The explosion came amid the uneasy anticipation of a retaliatory military operation over the assassination of top-ranking Axis of Resistance commanders in Tehran and Beirut that has paralyzed the Israeli regime and settlers in the past three weeks.
Several hours after the explosion took place, which immediately grabbed news headlines worldwide, the Israeli police and the Shin Bet military agency termed it a “suicide bombing.”
In a statement on Monday morning, police and Shin Bet said the explosion resulted from the “detonation of a powerful explosive device.”
Source to the story-> https://www.today.com/parents/girl-7-sells-lemonade-help-pay-brain-surgery-t210529
A recent study finds drug addiction is on a “spectacular” rise in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian land since the regime began its onslaught in Gaza last year in October.
A recent study finds drug addiction is on a “spectacular” rise in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian land since the regime began its onslaught in Gaza last year in October.
According to the study, which the Israel Center on Addiction conducted in November and December on a representative sample of 1,000 Israelis one in four Israelis have increased their addictive substance use since the war began on October 7.
The study highlighted that in 2022, before Israel’s devastating war on Gaza began, one in seven Israelis struggled with drug addiction.
It added that there is a link between indirect exposure to the October 7 events and an increase in addictive substance consumption of about 25 percent.
“The closer individuals were to the trauma on October 7, the higher the risk” of addictive behaviors, it found.
King’s College London has become the first college in London to halt investing in companies supplying arms to Israel.
King’s College London (KCL) has become the first college in the British capital to divest from companies supplying arms and military equipment to Israel, which has been waging a brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip for the past ten months.
Under pressure from pro-Palestine student protest rallies and the anti-war sentiment across the United Kingdom and the rest of the world formed in the wake of the ongoing war on Gaza, the KCL decided to no longer invest in companies involved in the manufacturing of cluster bombs, land mines and depleted uranium weapons used by Israel’s military.
The divestment entails KCL halting all direct investments in companies like Lockheed Martin, L3Harris Technologies, and Boeing. These companies are prominent military suppliers for Israel, manufacturing cluster bombs, land mines, depleted uranium weapons, and other armaments.
“The university will no longer invest in companies engaged in the production or distribution of controversial weapons,” he added.
Palestinian people engage in fresh clashes with Israeli forces and settlers in different cities across the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian people have engaged in fresh clashes with Israeli forces and settlers who raided different cities across the occupied West Bank.
The confrontations took place after the Wednesday assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group, in the Iranian capital Tehran.
In the al-Khalil governorate, south of the West Bank, Israeli troops carried out a series of raids and detained nine Palestinians, Wafa news agency reported.
Energy giant promised to turn 1m tonnes of plastic waste into oil each year, but now says goal is unfeasible
The energy giant Shell has quietly backed away from a pledge to rapidly increase its use of “advanced recycling”, a practice oil and petrochemical producers have promoted as a solution to the plastics pollution crisis.
“Advanced” or “chemical” recycling involves breaking down plastic polymers into tiny molecules that can be made into synthetic fuels or new plastics. The most common form, pyrolysis, does so using heat.
Shell has invested in pyrolysis since 2019, touting it as a way to slash waste. That year, the company used oil made via pyrolysis in one of its Louisiana chemical plants for the first time. And it began publicizing a new goal for the technology: “Our ambition is to use 1m tonnes of plastic waste a year in our global chemicals plants by 2025.”
But recently, the company rolled back that promise with little fanfare: “[I]n 2023 we concluded that the scale of our ambition to turn 1m tonnes of plastic waste a year into pyrolysis oil by 2025 is unfeasible,” it said in its 2023 sustainability report, published in March.
A Seoul city councillor is criticised for saying a growing "female-dominant society" may be to blame.
I thought this was an onion article but guess what? It is real.
They are blaming literally anyone except the true culprits: capitalism...
World Benchmarking Alliance says companies should take greater responsibility for UN Sustainable Development Goals.
More than 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies, including Amazon, BMW, Nestle, Rio Tinto, Pfizer, Shein, and Standard Chartered, are failing to meet societal expectations towards human rights, working conditions and corporate ethics, a first-of-its-kind assessment has found.
Despite commanding revenues equal to 45 percent of the global economy, the world’s top companies are missing the opportunity to positively affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, the nonprofit World Benchmarking Alliance said in a report released on Tuesday.
“The companies have resources and influence equivalent to some of the biggest countries, impacting more people than the populations of many nations. The fact that 90 percent of these companies are failing to act on fundamental social expectations shows the state of play of the private sector,” said Namit Agarwal, social transformation lead at the WBA, which tracks companies’ commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Like a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic plot, rising temperatures are causing fungi to mutate in ways that not only make them hyper-infectious but drug-resistant, too.
Like a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic plot, rising temperatures are causing fungi to mutate in ways that not only make them hyper-infectious but drug-resistant, too.
This is deeply concerning as our world warms, Nanjing Medical University researcher Jingjing Huang and colleagues warn.
“The danger and importance of new fungal pathogens is believed to be seriously underestimated,” they write in their new paper.
“Temperature-dependent mutagenesis can enable the development of pan-drug resistance and hypervirulence in fungi, and support the idea that global warming can promote the evolution of new fungal pathogens.”
President of Bolivia denounces irregular mobilization of military units
La Paz, June 26 (RHC)-- The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, denounced this Wednesday irregular mobilizations of Bolivian military units.
Through social network X, the head of state stated: "We denounce irregular mobilizations of some units of the Bolivian Army. Democracy must be respected!"
Bolivia was the scene of a coup d'état in November 2019. It was organized by the United States and the local right with the complicity of the Organization of American States (OAS).
US president first announced decision to elevate Kenya to such designation in May - Anadolu Ajansı
US President Joe Biden designated Kenya as a "major non-NATO ally" on Monday, making it the first sub-Saharan African nation to receive the designation.
The move comes as Washington seeks to push back against growing Russian and Chinese influence in the region.
Biden then pointed to Nairobi's assistance with the US's national security priorities, including efforts to defeat the Daesh/ISIS terror group as well as al-Shabab in East Africa, what Biden described as "mutual support" for Ukraine and ongoing efforts to deploy a Kenyan security force in the instability-wracked Caribbean island nation of Haiti.
Niger has confirmed one of the world's biggest uranium mines has returned to public control after revoking the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano.
Last week, Orano said it had been excluded from the Imouraren mine in northern Niger, in a move that has highlighted tensions between France and Niger's military rulers.
The junta-led government had not reacted before releasing a statement on Monday saying the Imouraren mine had returned "to the public domain of the state".
Source -> https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/drugs-prostitution-they-are-part-gdp-too-u-k-says-n118286
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome kills up to 30 percent of patients and is “highly associated” with flesh-eating infections. Symptoms include fever and a red rash.
A record number of cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) in Japan this year has focused attention on the rare and potentially deadly bacterial infection. There have been 1,019 cases of STSS in the first six months of 2024, surpassing the total number recorded last year in the country.
Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases warned of a rise in cases in March, after 77 deaths from the illness were recorded. The majority of the cases at that time were of people above the age of 50.
Thousands of Australian protesters block a major intersection in Melbourne solidarity with Palestinians.
Thousands of protesters in Australia have staged a rally, blocking a major intersection in Melbourne to show support for innocent Palestinians trapped for months under Israeli fire in the besieged Gaza Strip.
"Today, the city was witness to the scenes and sounds of the war in Gaza," a statement from the protest organizers read on Sunday.
The protesters lit flares and waved mock missiles and drones while others lay like casualties on the ground in an attempt to show the death and damage caused by the Israeli forces genocidal war on Gaza.
Belgium’s University of Ghent (UGent) is severing ties with all Israeli educational and research institutions which it says no longer align with UGent’s human rights policy.
One of the major universities in Belgium has broken off relationship with all Israeli universities and research institutions which it says no longer align with its human rights policy.
University of Ghent (UGent) said in a statement that an investigation by the public research center highlighted concerns regarding connections between Israeli academic institutions and the Israeli administration, military, or security services.
This part was a crazy read for me:
One former American engineer said some local co-workers referred to him as a “white breeding pig,” implying he was only in Taiwan to sleep with local women. At a meeting, a manager said Americans were less desirable than Taiwanese and Indian workers, according to people who saw leaked notes, which circulated among trainees.
Yep, that's exactly what it sounds. Just another scheme to launder tax payer money into private hands. However, it is certainly interesting to read about the toxic work culture.
Wow, from reading the article, the taiwanese work culture sounds hellish. I am pretty sure that this type of work culture can be found where I live as well but damn I am lucky than I am not in a hell like the one described in the article.
Wow, this is an interesting article and it makes sense.
This excerpt is certainly interesting to read:
But traders at the Canton Fair say the world will need Chinese goods no matter what. They’re coming up with workarounds for tariffs. And even buyers who are looking into supply-chain alternatives said they still expect China to remain their top source, because other countries lag in quality and cost.
In other words, sanctions will not work. Even if it does, China has plenty of clients from the emerging markets.
These ghouls really love projecting and being hypocrites.
I am pretty sure that they are expecting to crush any resistance in the country while destabilizing the region. Ben Norton also commented on that as well.
If I could define it, it will be as this user from the r/berserk subreddit did: https://www.reddit.com/r/Berserk/comments/qsadk0/the_concept_of_the_struggler_and_why_it_could_be/
Thinking on Guts, it occurred to me that he's never been the type to look for meaning as to why his life has sucked. He'd simply accepted/resigned himself to the fact that it was harsh, and kept trying to push forward however possible. Hence him being dubbed a "struggler", one that fights against fate and cruel reality.
The manga has put the main character Guts through some horrible and mind breaking stuff. That's why it is impressive to see how he pushed forward regardless.
I wonder how those ghouls sleep at night after cheering for Pelosi and their government. It is sad that they outright dismiss the protestor and acted as cheerleaders for Nancy Pelosi. Disgusting scum
Thank you for your explanation comrade! This helps a lot!
Just to avoid misunderstanding this graph, could you explain to me what was your conclusion comrade?
This will help me understand the message!
Wow, so Ecuadorian sentiment leans heavily right wing?
Looks like a funny Freudian slip from that smug liberal
What the capricious Noboa has done, is something so scandalous that it will be interesting to see who and how they will throw in the towel, surely Milei and Netanyahu. Even for the US it will be difficult to justify the unjustifiable, they will blame AMLO as a provocateur and Glas as a terrorist. Just as they invented the euphemism "unlawful combatants" to violate the UN Charter on the treatment of prisoners, just as they erroneously interpreted Article 25 of the UN Charter to say that the Security Council's demand for a ceasefire in Gaza is "not binding", so perhaps now they will say that the Vienna Convention does not apply in this case.
It is the "rules-based world", the rules of the empire, which changes them at whim and convenience, but it is the world that is dying, dysfunctional, and that step by step will be replaced by a fairer and more rational one.
The author is Kouji Mori, which is the guy that is helping Kentaro Miura(RIP) finish the Berserk manga.
GIGA BASED!!!!!!!!!!
Another great reason to join BRICS. If Russia was able to improve this much even with sanctions, I can't help to imagine what will happen to Cuba, Venezuela, and ton of countries that want to run far away from western hegemony.
The quickest way will be to search for an org within your country that has already a way to send cargo containers with any materials or resources for Cuba. In Portugal, there was an org that sent educational materials; as well as medicines, articulated beds, walkers and medical instruments for the Cuban health system.