Thus the centre right in Belgium long imagined that they were enthusiastic about European security, democracy, and government efficiency, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about cheap fossil fuels.
Hong Kong is fine to welcome Andrew Tate to run amok in LKF, but it will bar journalists/human rights defenders and issue bounties on pro-democracy activists living overseas.
Tate's charges include rape, human trafficking, sex with minors, and bodily harm.
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Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
"managing expectations across multiple audiences: financial markets, domestic political allies, & international partners. Such ambiguity may itself complicate the search for a clear endgame"
The guy looks like a lo-fi version of Ming the Merciless cc @alistaircoleman.bsky.social
This reminds me when a Spanish friend of mine was trolling a French friend over the words 'Galles', 'Gaul' and 'gueule', that was a fun back and forth between them.
*hard* of hearing, perkele...
Now imagine if the other person is a bit heard of hearing and they confuse 'bonfire' with 'flowers'
Would it be 'kaikki kokot vai kaikki kukat'?
And if I wanted to say 'all the bonfires' would that be 'kaikki kokkot/kokkoa?'
And To make things more confusing, 'kokko' seems to have an entirely different origin than 'palo', which seems to be derived from the verb 'to burn'.
So i'm going to interpret this as "bonfires in Finland don't burn" and see where that leads me.
The Netherlands has filed a Declaration of Intervention in the ICJ genocide case against Israel. As a non-party, they are submitting a legal interpretation arguing that forced displacement, starvation, and acts against children can prove specific genocidal intent. icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
IMO a good counter to Trump’s “unpredictable madman!” shtick has always been responding to short term threats with long term consequences. EU should’ve responded to tariff threats with aggressive counter tariffs & snooze for 3 months.
Now with little left to lose, Iran is doing it in an actual war.
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
I was going to suggest the a massive and colossal aqueduct, whose construction should be commissioned to a company based in Rome, but I have to tip my hat - the ICDM does the job much faster, and sounds much cooler too.
The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.
This war in Iran is a perfect illustration of the dangers of autocratic rule — and right now we indisputably have the foreign policy of a personalistic autocracy.
Trump got high on his Venezuelan supply, and immediately got the entire world into a completely unnecessary crisis.
And the multiple meanings of the word "essai": attempt; academic essay; a try in a rugby game; a nuclear test...
Russia’s deportation and forcible transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children amounts to a crime against humanity, according to the UN Commission of Inquiry.
Putin and another Russian official are wanted by the ICC in connection with these allegations:
📖| L’armée belge en guerre contre la drogue à Bruxelles : le pari (risqué) du gouvernement fédéral
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Aproveita as musiquinhas nas estações de combio & metro hehe - um dos meus pormenores favoritos (isso e a dimensão gigantesca da rede ferroviária)
No mesmo ano. Na altura 1 eur = 125 jpy, agora está em quase 185 mas pelo que li nos círculos de jogos as pechinchas já são muito poucas por causa do aumento enorme do turismo e do número de ocidentais a comprar jogos JP graças à desvalorização do iene.
What happened to "actually, it's about ethics in video game journalism"? Did GG get sublimed by Holdo's purple hair?
Por outro lado, eu passei o meu último dia em Tóquio a percorrer lojas de videojogos e trouxe umas pérolas dos anos 90 a preços muito mais amigos do que se as comprasse em lojas online.
Since 1 January 2026, Wolverhampton have won 3 Premier League games and have had 4 draws and 4 losses.
Since 1 January 2026, Spurs have won 0 Premier League games and have had 4 draws and 7 losses.
That's... an achievement of its own.
This is true of most global oppression. Modern industrial extraction techniques work much better than artisanal mining, which is why China is the world's largest gold producer and Sudan (despite being robbed blind by Russian mercenaries for its mineral resources) isn't.
I remember the sanctions - remarkable how this approach came from the other 14 member states, showing how the European Council took itself more seriously when it came to watching over the respect for democratic norms & values within its own members.
Having Zelensky share the same prize with Wolfgang Schüssel, a former chancellor of Austria who made a coalition agreement with the pro-Russian far-right and who sat in the board of Lukoil until he resigned one week after Russia's 2022 invasion was... probably not the best choice.
