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Haiti qualified for the World Cup. But the Trump administration says its fans aren’t welcome. The Caribbean nation joins Iran as World Cup competitors covered by travel ban.

This is why you don't award hosting of any international event to the US.

The UN headquarters should be moved too.

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Darfur Governor Minni Minnawi says RSF killed 27,000 Sudanese in el-Fasher Former rebel leader tells MEE that several of his relatives were 'eliminated' when the UAE-backed paramilitaries overran the city

Darfur Governor Minni Minnawi says RSF killed 27,000 Sudanese in el-Fasher - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/darfur-governor-minni-minnawi-says-rsf-killed-27000-sudanese-el-fasher

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Palestinian teenager left to die: 15-year-old shot by Israeli forces and denied help

So much Israeli cruelty that even extraordinary stories like this barely cause a ripple. A 15-year old Palestinian boy in the West Bank was shot point-blank by the IDF last week. Wounded, soldiers prevented paramedics from reaching him. Video shows him writhing on the ground
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Wasn't expecting this. That's for sure.

A pet peeve:

When someone says he/she 'believes' something that strikes you as clearly true (eg. 'Trump is a corrupt'), don't say, "That's not a belief' because you think it's clearly true. The strength of a proposition doesn't make it any less a belief. 'I believe 2+2 =4' is a normal thing to say.

🚨 BREAKING: Families woke up Thu. to find themselves suddenly on the wrong side of Gaza’s “yellow line” as Israel pushed the boundary about 300m further west during a tank incursion in eastern Gaza City. The physical blocks were shifted in Tuffah and Shujaiya, Abd Sabbah (X: @AbdSabbah91) reports...

This will ensure that Carney buys the American fighter jets. Sadly.

What she is saying, I think, is that despite the vast imbalance of military power, and scenes of carnage on just one side, the truth is more complicated. But when you look at things like sniper fire, IDF soldier testimonies, etc. it confirms the genocidal slaughter is just what it appears to be.

In 2024, I began reading a long post on X that I quickly realized was explicitly arguing that the lesson of the Holocaust is not "Never again, for anyone," but "Never again, for Jews." I was horrified, and had to stop reading. Here Hurwitz isn't saying anything so abhorrent, but it's still troubling

That's not what she says, which is not to say that I agree with it.

🚨BREAKING: A pregnant woman and many children are among at least 23 Palestinians Israel has killed in a series of attacks on Gaza City & Khan Younis, Al Jazeera English reports citing hospital sources.

According to reports:

▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...

Canadian-made jet fighter maintenance parts, bombs shipped to Israel via U.S., report suggests | CBC News Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleg...

Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleges, examining export data and U.S. Department of Defence contracts.
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Sorry but Robinson and Current Affairs published an absolutely scurrilous review of Kamala Harris' recent book. It permanently lost me, after becoming a semi-regular reader earlier this year.

The simple truth from @craigmokhiber.bsky.social.

After successfully making Gaza unlivable, Israel moves to begin the 'voluntary' emigration of Gazans, which of course is anything but voluntary in any real sense.

This is astonishing when you consider how controversial slavery became in Britain by the end of the 18th century, not to mention how recently some of these islands still had ties to Britain (some still have). Makes you think that they don't know this history because they don't know British history.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour How sanctions imposed by Trump are taking a toll on the International Criminal Court

Trump is destroying the ICC in order to protect Israel.

This is not getting the attention it deserves.

From @pbsnews.org.

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Must read account of some of the horrors happening to children in El Fashir.

What are you doing. Even if true, you'll be hard pressed to find a state more spectacularly illegitimate than Israel.

This general statement papers overs Israel's distinctive flaws (by making it seem to be in the same boat as all other states).

Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.

Canadians thought @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social would stand up to Trump for Canada. Instead, he's Trumpifying Canada.

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Sudan’s El Fasher: survivors agonise over loved ones left behind - Geneva Solutions Two weeks after the fall of North Darfur’s capital, tens of thousands of residents remain trapped. Survivors, aid workers and researchers report ethnically-motivated mass killings.

Between 95,000 and 105,000 people remain in El Fasher and are at risk of being killed.

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Israel wants to implement the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners. Here’s what you need to know. Israel is advancing a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry…

Israel is advancing a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings.

Say that if you must, but I hope the truth is otherwise.

This is an unusually scathing attack on a political figure. It is unseemly. You can be harshly critical of Harris without being so nasty about it. For a journal aspiring to more mainstream appeal, this is not how you get it. The editors erred in letting this one get through, as is.

Really out of character for Brandon, I think.

You don't take this exceptionally cruel step unless you're in the maniacal grip of anti-Palestinian hatred.

Israel needs deradicalization much more than Gaza does.

"The campaign, however, requires syringes and solar-powered refrigeration units. Vaccines need to be kept cold or they lose their potency. UNICEF is complaining that Israeli authorities are blocking importation of these essential items, since they consider them 'dual use,' with military purposes."

Israel should be made to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza, certainly for everything it has destroyed since the ceasefire began.

Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do

President Trump threatens a military attack on Nigeria because of jihadi attacks on Christians — which are indeed a real problem. But Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...