June kicked off strong and this week we got some interesting news, such as Canonical’s plans to create an immutable Ubuntu Desktop, touchpad/touchscreen gestures for Cinnamon in upcoming Linux Mint releases, the end of standard support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and new features for LibreOffice.
On top of that, this week brought us two new Linux-powered laptops, a new GNOME 44 maintenance update, and a couple of distro releases you might want to check out. Read the hottest news of this week and get access to all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for June 4th, 2023, below.
Linus has released 6.4-rc5 for testing.
We often look at software that’s in an alpha stage of development. Some projects fizzle out without ever reaching a mature release. Others grow into mighty oaks. That’s the nature of open source.
Resonance is an example of a project that’s in a very early stage of development. This is an intuitive music player application written in Rust (with a smattering of Python), built with a clean user interface using GTK4 / Libadwaita.
Resonance is published under an open source license.
The free and open-source DJ mixing software, Mixxx, announced the beta version of the next major 2.4 release series a few days ago! The new Mixxx 2.4 added support for saving loops as hotcues, and native Apple Silicon support for better performance on M1, M2, etc., devices.
One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is the calculator. We recommend the finest terminal-based calculators.
This article spotlights alternative tools to bc.
The cowsay is a fun little Linux command line utility that can be enjoyed in so many ways. Here are several examples.
Chat on IRC with ESR, the Emacs IRC client. Use the ZNC IRC bouncer to stay 24x7 online.
This sparked a discussion that touched on having exporters randomly pick their TCP port when they start and being set up in Prometheus through some service discovery mechanism, including low-tech ones where some external program updated files that Prometheus was reading, as if you'd manually edited them. Reading this sparked a realization for me that you almost certainly don't want to do this.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install TYPO3 on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, TYPO3 is a robust and popular open-source content management system (CMS) that empowers website developers and administrators to create and manage dynamic websites efficiently.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Duf on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know,
One of the reasons many people use Linux instead of Windows is the simplicity of installing software updates. Not only are they simple, but they’re also very fast, a clean install of Ubuntu, for example, can be brought up-to-date within 20 minutes or so.
You can also see exactly what’s going on during the update, there are no ambiguous messages that make it look like something has crashed. Despite these perks, the additional package formats such as Snap, are complicating things a little bit.
In today's fast-paced technological landscape, companies rely on software to streamline processes, improve productivity, and achieve business goals.
Docker has revolutionized the way developers build and deploy applications.
Hello, friends. Today, you will learn how to install Rust on Fedora. As we all know, Rust is one of the most popular languages nowadays. Many people dare to say that it is the natural heir of C++ for many projects, and it has even started to be present in the Linux kernel.
Learn how to set up Nextcloud effortlessly using Docker Compose. Get step-by-step instructions to host your private cloud server today!
Slow disk speeds lead to sluggish application performance, which results in frustrated employees and customers.
Docker is a popular open-source containerization platform that enables developers to create, deploy, and run applications in a more efficient and predictable manner. One of the key benefits of Docker is its ability to provide a highly efficient networking environment for containers.
The Rise of Docker and the importance of Containerization In recent years, Docker has emerged as a leading technology in containerization.
Docker is a popular open-source platform for building, deploying, and running applications. With its containerization technology, Docker allows developers to package software into portable, self-contained units that can run on any infrastructure.
Docker is a popular platform for containerization that allows developers to create, package, and deploy applications easily. It is designed to run each application in its own isolated environment, which makes it ideal for building microservices architectures that require scalability and portability.
Between 2023-05-28 and 2023-06-04 there were 90 new games validated for the Steam Deck. Here’s a quick pick of the most interesting ones: Steam Deck Verified OTXO Released on 20 Apr,
Asus's ROG Ally is arriving next month and it's the first serious challenger to Valve's Steam Deck, which was released just over a year ago. Although most agree that each device has its pros and cons, there are some hot takes out there that I've got to talk about. These range from arguments that the Ally has effectively replaced the Deck to trying to convince people not to cancel preorders over negative reviews, to downplaying the high price of the Ally, to claims that low battery life is not only okay in a handheld PC but just the way things will be. Nobody needs to be defending Asus this much.
Dungeon Drafters is a deck builder, turn-based dungeon crawler. Developed by Manalith Studios and published by DANGEN Entertainment.
WOW I can plug an external disk into my pc and it shows up on my MS look-alike filemanager right away, without even being an admin of the system!
Project Title: Create a New “System” panel in GNOME Settings
Mentor€ : Felipe Borges
Contributor€ : Gotam€ GorabhIntroduction
Implementing Remote Desktop page will allow users to access and control a computer or a desktop environment remotely from another location. It enables users to connect to a remote computer or server and interact with it as if they were physically present in front of€ it.
Earlier this year, I took a first look at blendOS as another immutable Linux distro that promised to offer a blend of Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, and Ubuntu systems as containers that are automatically created on demand using Distrobox/Podman.
blendOS 2 arrived a few months later with out-of-the-box support for Android apps using WayDroid and two flavors featuring the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments. Now, the developer, Rudra Saraswat, is working on blendOS 3, which looks to bring even more goodies for immutable distro fans.
We compiled a list of the 10 best Linux distributions for everyone in 2023 based on their stability, attractiveness and time required to configure after installation. The Linux Distribution space is heavily fragmented to the point that a new fork is being created almost daily.
We have some news about MakuluLinux Max Beta 1, see video for more Details.
Recently, the article “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”, by Martijn Braam, was published to criticize a few things regarding Flatpak. I want to go over the article and address some points that were raised.
While Martijn, the author, contrasted Flatpak with Alpine Linux, I’m going to be contrasting Flatpak with popular Linux distributions, as, to me, it makes sense to contrast Flatpak with some of the most used distributions.
I recommend reading his article before my response, as I won’t be replying to every point raised.
Something I found tricky about evaluating Liya was the project didn't list much in the way of specific goals or features. The website mentions it is intuitive with a graphical package manager and open source. All of these points are true. However, beyond being an Arch-based desktop distribution, Liya doesn't seem to be trying to fix a problem or fill a niche.
Liya does some things well. It offers good performance and some useful (if uncommon) application choices. Its hardware support on physical hardware seems to be good.
There were a few areas where Liya struggled in my trial. The system installer crashed and aborted a couple of times before I managed to get it to finish an install successfully. When running in a virtual machine Cinnamon crashed frequently, interrupting work. These crashes didn't occur on my physical workstation, so this seems to be an issue with a video driver.
Package management was the consistent weak point once the install was finished with Pamac repeatedly failing to apply updates and locking up or crashing a few times. Package management from the command line worked well.
In short, Liya seems like a pretty typical Arch-based desktop distribution, just with a few unusual choices - such as running Cinnamon instead of Xfce or Plasma, and using OnlyOffice instead of LibreOffice. The project doesn't seem to have found a specific goal yet and it still needs some polish. It's off to a decent start for a young project, but I feel like it needs more time to mature before I'd recommend it over other Arch-based desktop systems.
IBM's continued war on Desktop Linux has new casualties
He said the Red Hat Display System team, which looked after most of the company's desktop efforts, had been maintaining LibreOffice packages for Fedora, as part of its work to support the office suite in RHEL.
"We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what’s needed for colour-sensitive work, and a host of other refinements required by Workstation users," Clasen added.
{loadposition sam08}"This is work that will improve the workstation experience for Fedora as well as RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively received by the entire Linux community."
However, the downside is that "we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora".
Debian 12, codenamed Bookworm, is set to release next Saturday (June 10) but despite its reputation for being rock solid, it could ship with up to 100 bugs. Paul Gevers from the Debian project mentioned the number of known bugs in the Debian mailing list but said the release was still going ahead regardless.
Gevers said that it’s likely even more bugs will be found once Debian 12 has been installed on more computers after release and these issues shall have to be patched afterwards and deployed as an update. He said that the bugs will be listed in the Release Notes, so if stability is critical for you, consult the Release Notes to check you won’t be affected.
According to plan [1], we entered the quiet period leading up to the release of bookworm on 2023-06-10. We have even managed unblock requests filled well beyond the deadline and even unblocked a couple of packages with RC bugs fixed but without a request to make bookworm the best we can have.
Diego Trujillo Pisanty is using a Raspberry Pi to power this blind camera that has no lens and relies on sound to generate an approximation of its surroundings for photos.
Adnan Aga created a giant nose that detects objects and prints a poetic description of their odor on a receipt through one of the nostrils.
TheAmateurRunner is integrating ChatGPT with an old Big Mouth Billy Bass to bring it into the modern era.
There is a range of sensors that allow Arduino to collect data from its environment and interact with the physical world in various ways.
Arduino board core is essential for programming any microcontroller board. We can add any board core using the additional board manager in IDE.
In my previous post I mainly focused on the Cumana proTeus drive. Today I'm going to turn my attention to the SyQuest 88MB drive. About the SyQuest drive SyQuest created removable media hard drives, you might think of the Iomega Zip drive when you think of these, but SyQuest goes back further.
coreboot 4.20 The 4.20 release was done on May 15, 2023. Unfortunately, a licensing issue was found immediately after the release was completed, and it was decided to hold the release until that was fixed. The 4.20.1 release contains 4.20 plus that single additional fix.
Our community in Asia let us know about an event they're organising LibreOffice Conf Asia x UbuCon Asia 2023 (hereinafter referred to as LOUCA23) is an event that brings together Linux and Open Source Software (OSS) activists, contributors, users, communities, and businesses in the Asian region, mainly related to and focused on the LibreOffice...
In this post, I showed how to preview GitLab Pages and share the preview’s URL with teammates in a couple of steps. The hardest part was to realize that web artifacts are rendered regularly with the browser.
Highlights of Firefox 114 include a revamped DNS over HTTPS feature that has been implemented in Settings > Privacy & Security and it’s enabled by default. It now offers you three layers of protection: Default Protection, Increased Protection, and Max Protection.
Another new feature in Firefox 114 is called Cookie Banner Reduction, which is disabled by default. When enabled, it promises to do its best to reduce cookie banners on websites and automatically reject cookie requests on cookie banners on supported websites.
pg_statement_rollback is a PostgreSQL extension to add server side transaction with rollback at statement level like in Oracle or DB2.
Release v1.4 of pg_statement_rollback was released. This is a maintenance release to add support to PostgreSQL 16.
4 June 2023: Unifont 15.0.06 is now available.€ This is a minor release, but significantly is planned to be the last release to include TrueType files in its default build.€ This release also includes a new Hangul Syllables block contributed by Minseo Lee, with his modifications to three combining patterns in the johab2ucs2 Perl script.€ Minseo Lee also modified other Plane 0 Hangul glyphs so their style would match those of the modified Hangul Syllables.€ This release also includes a few changes to Chinese ideographs.€ Details are in the ChangeLog file.
Hello all,
This is my week 1 report for my project “Modern C porting of Gentoo
packages” as a Google summer of code student at Gentoo Linux foundation.
Some of you might recognize me from last year, yep this is my second
time (and unfortunately last).I’ll try to divide my report into two sections, current which is where
I’ll discuss the current status and next which is where I’ll discuss what
I’m going to do it next.
Hugo supports the WordPress-style
<!--more-->tag in blog posts, which split your text into a summary and body. What if you wanted your template to always show the full text of a post, unless you provided a manual summary?Define this in your
index.htmltemplate: [...]
The pathinfo() in PHP is used to get the information about the file path. Learn more about this function in this guide.
The realpath() in PHP is used to find the absolute or real path of the file or a directory. Read about the usage of realpath() function in this guide.
The “clear()” method allows the users to remove the local storage item stored in the current domain i.e., browser or from the particular domain.
The “getBoundingClientRect()” method computes the associated HTML element size and its relative position on a web page corresponding to the viewport.
In JavaScript, the Style “vertical alignment” property sets the vertical alignment of the associated HTML element to “middle”.
JavaScript offers the “innerHTML”, “innerText”, “textContent”, and “value” properties to change the button text created using “” or “” tags.
The HTML DOM provides the “createElement()” for creating the desired HTML element and then adds it to the existing element through the “appendChild()” method.
The “\ (backslash)” escape character escapes a single quote(‘) from a string. It treats the next specified character as a literal instead of special character.
The log() function in PHP is used to find the logarithm of the number. Learn how to use the log() function in this guide.
There are various built-in methods including typecasting, floatval(), and number_format() to convert the string to float in PHP.
Both MATLAB and R have their unique strengths for mathematical programming. Follow this guide to learn about them in detail.
The round function in MATLAB is used to round numbers to the nearest whole number or a specified decimal place.
PHP developers can easily use index.php instead of index.html by following the guidelines mentioned in this article.
The “offset()” method in jQuery sets or retrieves the current position(top, and left) of the HTML elements corresponding to the window or document.
The form “action” property is associated with the “action” attribute to set and retrieve its value after clicking on the “Submit” button.
FTP master
This month I accepted 157 and rejected 22 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 160.
This was my hundred-seventh month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.€
- [DLA 3430-1] cups-filters security update for one CVE
- [DSA 5407-1] cups-filters security update for one CVE
- [unstable] upload of cups-filters to fix CVE-2023-24805
- [#1036548] unblock bug to fix CVE-2023-24805 in bookworm
- [unstable] upload of sniproxy to fix CVE-2023-25076
- [DSA 5413-1] sniproxy security update in Bullseye for one CVE
- [cups] working to fix CVE-2023-32324 in unstable, Bookworm, Bullseye, Buster
Fred saw "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" post:
https://bkhome.org/news/202305/skippy-the-bush-kangaroo.html
And has replied with "Trunk Monkey" from Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qtG82HJB2I
Changing the subject completely, Andres has enhanced my shellCMS (Content Management System) and created a github repository:
Apache Portable Runtime ( **apr** and **apr-util** ), **argon2** , **aspell**
, **at-spi2-atk** and **at-spi2-core** and accessibility.
Here's a demo simple `cat` command coded with Apache Portable Runtime:
#include
int main(){
//setup
apr_initialize();
apr_pool_t *mypool;
apr_pool_create(&mypool, NULL);
apr_file_t *file;
char *myfile = "text.txt";
//cat
apr_file_open(&file, myfile, APR_READ, APR_OS_DEFAULT, mypool);
apr_off_t offset = 0;
apr_file_seek(file, APR_END, &offset);
apr_size_t size = offset;
char *mybuffer = apr_pcalloc(mypool, size +1);
offset = 0;
apr_file_seek(file, APR_SET, &offset);
apr_file_read(file, mybuffer, &size);
printf(mybuffer);
//cleanup
apr_file_close(file);
apr_pool_destroy(mypool);
apr_terminate();
return 0;
To compile:
$ gcc -I/usr/include/apr-1 -lapr-1 -o mycat mycat.c
shasum -a256=5f412c41c0e1855658efe3962e3a87573f73102e56f32588c214451074fdb840
Linux's Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) is a hypervisor built into the Linux kernel. Whereas in the past Xen proved a more popular hypervisor for multi-tenant clouds — being the original basis of AWS EC2, for example — over the years Linux's own hypervisor has matured and grown in popularity, and now eclipsed Xen as the hypervisor of preference for many clouds. AWS at some point switched to KVM (though it's unclear to me if they still use it or a custom hypervisor at this point), and Google Cloud has used KVM from the beginning.
Now, a supposed "review bombing" campaign against The Little Mermaid's is challenging that in the world of entertainment, or perhaps showing that the way we judge, interpret and understand media is about to change
The bombs, in this case, are one-star reviews posted to aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb, which draw not just from published reviews from critics but crowd-sourced input.
If you want to start a heated discussion in 3D printing circles, ask people about the requirements to print safely. Is ABS safe to print without ventilation? Can you drink out of a PLA cup? How nasty is that photo resin if you spill it on yourself? If you are at home, it’s more or less up to you. But if you are building a shared hackerspace, a corporate workstation, or a classroom, these questions might come up, and now, the UL has your answer. The UL200B document is aimed at 3D printers in “institutions of higher education,” but we imagine what’s good for the university is good for us, too.
Having acquired some piece of old electronic equipment, be it a computer, radio, or some test gear, the temptation is there to plug it in as soon as you’ve lugged it into the ‘shop. Don’t be so hasty. Those power supplies and analog circuits often have a number of old aluminium electrolytic capacitors of unknown condition, and bad things can happen if they suddenly get powered back up again. After a visual inspection, to remove and replace any with obvious signs of leakage and corrosion, those remaining may still not be up to their job, with the oxide layers damaged over time when sat idle, they can exhibit lower than spec capacitance, voltage rating or even be a dead short circuit. [TechTangents] presents for us a guide to detecting and reforming these suspect capacitors to hopefully bring them, safely, back to service once more.
Restitution efforts were underway, fueled by news that a museum was being planned in Nigeria to house the treasures. Then a surprising announcement sowed uncertainty.
This post is satire. Don't treat it as something that is viable for production workloads. By reading this post you agree to never implement or use this accursed abomination. This article is released to the public for educational reasons. Please do not attempt to recreate any of the absurd acts referenced here.
Underground, no less!
Australian artist and video creator Ben from Bens Worx has been hitting it for six lately with all his projects, but this latest episode might be among his most impressive and beautiful works yet.
Sometimes, all it takes to learn something new is a fresh perspective on things. But what’s to be learned from reversing your perspective completely with a hypercentric lens? For one thing, that you can make humans look really, really weird.
Can new weight-loss drugs curb addictions?
"It is hard for me to convey... how important this finding is."
It keeps surprising us.
This is a moment for the global community to come together — much like we did fifty years ago at the Biological Weapons Convention — to ensure safe and responsible AI development. If we don’t act soon, we may be dooming a bright future with AI and our own present society along with it.
A new initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) plans to combine data from satellite images and artificial intelligence (AI) to keep track of cotton certification in India.
The project is a collaboration between ESA, GOTS and AI company Marple that will automatically classify cotton fields in India in line with cultivation standards.
The health department’s management of grants worth $2 billion under the Morrison government has been slammed for its “deliberate breaches” of legal requirements.
The auditor-general’s scathing report released on Monday found the department’s administration of the€ Community Health and Hospitals Program was “ineffective and fell short of ethical requirements”.
Abortion bans in 14 U.S. states since the 2022 Dobbs decision "have made abortion services largely inaccessible and denied women and girls their fundamental human rights to comprehensive healthcare including sexual and reproductive health."
I met up with my dad a few days ago for coffee and lunch, and we got to talking about his recent trip to Europe. It was fun hearing his first-hand experience having coffee in Italy, which he’d always wanted to try.
Australia brands itself as a country of easy-going rural larrikins in tourism ads, but we’re one of the most urbanised countries in the world, and we do take certain things extremely seriously. We get tea and phrases like “put the kettle on” from our English colonial past, but just as serious is our coffee culture, which was moulded from decades of Greek and Italian immigration. Coffee in Australia is spectacular, eclipsed only by New Zealand across the pond.
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. The vaccines just keep on coming This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s new mRNA-based RSV vaccine for use....
"We are now in the midst of a planet-wide rebound of viral transmission."
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These abscesses usually follow a respiratory infection – including COVID-19, the flu, or sinusitis – underscoring the importance that children remain up-to-date with their vaccinations, the CDC says.
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As election activists rally against new voting machines, they are drifting into territory now dominated by conspiracy theorists.
[...]
Election integrity advocates, like Ms. Friesdat, now find themselves in an uncomfortable position, pushing for election security while sometimes amplifying claims made most vocally by conspiracy theorists, including those involved in the so-called Stop the Steal movement.
Some election activists warn that election machines could be hacked or compromised, for example, while some conspiracy theorists say, without evidence, that those hacks have already taken place. Election officials say no hacks have taken place.
All of this sudden concern raises several questions.
iHeartMedia is joining other companies like Spotify, Apple, and Verizon, warning their employees not to use ChatGPT. An internal memo signed by iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Rich Bressler outlined the expectations surrounding OpenAI’s new technology.
A ransomware group that first emerged in May has added the government of Martinique to its leak site.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical vulnerability in Progress Software Corp.'s MOVEit file transfer software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and€ reportedly ordered all federal agencies to patch their systems by June 23.
Josh and Kurt talk about namespaces. They were a topic in the last podcast, and resulted in a much much larger discussion for us. We decided to hash out some of our thinking in an episode. This is a much harder problem than either of us expected. We don’t have any great answers, but we do have a lot of questions.
As Mission Community Hospital in California continues to investigate a cyberattack in April, more details have emerged as to how the attack by RansomHouse threat actors occurred.
[...]
RansomHouse reportedly does not encrypt their victims’ files, instead focusing on just exfiltrating data and demanding a fee to delete it and to provide a security report. The filelist they provide as part of their leak shows a number of folders with patient data from past years as well as current files. Depending on what is in those files, and whether RansomHouse actually got them all, MCH may have a significant number of former patients to notify under HIPAA, HITECH, and California state requirements.
DataBreaches reached out to both RansomHouse and the hospital with questions about this incident, but no replies have been received. At this point, Mission Community Hospital has not even publicly confirmed that they were the victim of an attack even though data is already being leaked.
Organizations face countless potential cybersecurity threats as they pursue digital transformation and criminals evolve their attack techniques. Even the most well-funded enterprises cannot address every one of these threats. Responding effectively is about validating and prioritizing the risks that are most impactful for the business.
A decade ago, many Americans were still exploring the technological wonders of cellphones and other electronic devices. Few were thinking about how governments or private companies could monitor citizens on the devices.
[...]
There's no sign Snowden's case will be resolved anytime soon.
Snowden said when he landed in Moscow in 2013, he expected to have a one-day layover in Moscow.
This article was written on the basis of information relating to the so-called “8 December” case1For a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in this Revue Z article, this Lundi matin article, the following support committee articles (here and here). ︎in which 7 people were indicted for “association of terrorist criminals” (“association de malfaiteurs terroristes”) in December 2020. Their trial is scheduled for October 2023. This will be the first counterterrorist trial targeting the “ultra-left” since the fiasco of the Tarnac case[^2].
China’s defense minister says the best way to avoid accidental conflict is for countries outside the region, like the United States, to leave and “mind your own business.”
Israeli officials were investigating a series of mishaps and failings that led to the killings of three Israeli soldiers by an Egyptian border guard.
About a week before Louisiana's Ardoin made his reference to "media reports," the Gateway Pundit began targeting ERIC. The website published a series of articles that falsely said the bipartisan partnership was a "left wing voter registration drive," bankrolled by billionaire George Soros, aimed at helping Democrats win elections.
It's become clear the site ignited the election denial movement's fixation on ERIC.
Robert Keohane was one of the first to challenge the theory of “hegemonic stability,” where power is no longer the monopoly of a hegemonic country, but is diffused through the interdependence of states. The professor emeritus at Princeton University talks to Kathimerini and explains how the war in Ukraine has undermined the power of international institutions. Is the decline of Russian power the factor that makes Russia even more dangerous?
The bill to "End New York funding of Israeli settler violence Act" would establish a civil penalty for nonprofits that help fund settlements. The pro-Israel backlash has predictably described it as antisemitic.
Federal researchers detailed huge racial disparities in deadly police violence, but crucial data is still missing.
When he turned a deeply unjust 100 last week, U.S. media feted Dr. K as an urbane "elder statesman" who wielded power "with wisdom and compassion." WTF, said a horrified world that recalled "history's bloodiest social climber," "one of the 20th century's most prolific butchers," and a pitiless strategist for American empire-building. Hence the rise of caustic sites like "Is Henry Kissinger Dead?" Given a "back-of-the-envelope" body count of 3 or 4 million, they argue, "The least he could do is add his own body to it."
A sonic boom rang out across the D.C. region as authorities responded to an unresponsive pilot flying a Cessna that prompted officials to place the U.S. Capitol complex on alert on Sunday afternoon.
State of play: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it deployed F-16€ fighter aircraft to intercept the plane that later crashed. Officials in Maryland said the boom was caused by an authorized Defense Department plane out of Joint Base Andrews.
The noise, which startled residents and shook buildings, was caused by an authorized military flight that responded to an intrusion into restricted airspace, U.S. and military officials said.
On a two-block stretch of Brownsville in April, the police stepped aside and let residents respond to 911 calls. It was a bold experiment that some believe could redefine law enforcement in New York City.
Michael Tisius was convicted of murdering two jail guards. He is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday.
Light sentences were doled out to several crying Oath Keeper seditionists over two days of high drama in a federal courtroom.
There may be a blank Blue Thumb Drive in the FBI's evidence lockers where Rodney Joffe's Alfa Bank data should be.
In the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy ship and a US Navy ship came within 150 yards of a collision. The US says the Chinese warship crossed the bow of ...
Li Shangfu’s comments come after reports of a China, U.S. near-miss in the Taiwan Strait.
U.S. officials scrambled jet fighters in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft that violated airspace in the Washington D.C. area and later crashed into mountainous terrain in southwest Virginia, officials said.
The United States warned the Australian Defence Force (ADF) that it may need to end its alliance with Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment because of allegations of war crime committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, according to Wednesday testimony from General Angus Campbell to the Australian Senate.
Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week,€ Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country.
Saudi Arabia and the United States have urged Sudan’s warring parties to agree to and “effectively implement” a cease-fire amid renewed fighting in the northeastern African nation. In a joint statement on Sunday, Washington and Riyadh urged both sides to agree to a new cease-fire following the latest one which expired late Saturday. Sudan descended into chaos after fighting broke out in mid-April between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. For weeks, Saudi Arabia and the United States have been mediating between the warring parties. Their efforts were dealt a blow when the military announced on Wednesday it would no longer participate in the cease-fire talks held in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah.
Tunisia was the best case, Sudan the last hope, Syria the bloodiest of all: The countries that not long ago sparked optimism for a democratic wave in the Arab world have descended into dictatorship, and Washington shouldn’t ignore them.
Syria's opposition urged on Sunday the resumption of moribund United Nations-sponsored talks with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, who has returned to the Arab fold after years of isolation.
President Biden's fall on stage at the Air Force Academy graduation adds to the perception of an enfeebled America, vulnerable to the predations of its enemies.
Almost inconceivably, the fact that the parliament of Fiji has been without an opposition for weeks has largely escaped the attention of the international media.
The undertakings made by Australia regarding the AUKUS security pact promise to be monumental.€ Much of this is negative: increased militarisation on the home front; the co-opting of the university sector for war making industries...
Former submariner Rex Patrick looks under the hood of the second-hand Virginia-class nuclear submarines to see what Australia has bought. Even AUKUS fans might not like what they see.
February 2011 is a time many in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) would certainly prefer to forget. Within the month, the Defence Minister Stephen Smith had announced a number of trouble-plagued military landing craft would be disposed of and a review would be conducted into Support Ship Repair and Management Practices. Four months later Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Russ Crane, was gone.
Tell elected officials to stop the arms race and pursue arms control treaties before autonomous weapons of mass destruction and miscalculations lead to World War III – the final world war.
The physical and psychological distances of high-tech killing have encouraged belief in frequent claims that American warfare has become humane. Such pretenses should be grimly absurd to anyone who has read high-quality journalism from eyewitness reporters like Anand Gopal, who worked in Afghanistan for several years while often going to remote areas, bringing into focus lives usually relegated to US media’s unseen shadows. Civilian deaths were “grossly undercounted” during the 20-year US war in Afghanistan, Gopal said during an interview on Democracy Now! soon after the withdrawal of US troops from that country in August 2021. With 70 percent of the Afghan population living in rural areas, Gopal was one of the few reporters for US outlets to spend a lot of time there—particularly in such places as the large Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, “really the epicenter of the violence for the last two decades.”1
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack in northwestern Pakistan that left two soldiers and two militants dead.
Pakistan's embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the powerful military and its intelligence agency of openly trying to destroy his political party, saying he had "no doubt" he would be tried in a military court and thrown in jail.
Russian Orthodox believers are celebrating Trinity Sunday with Russia’s most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow’s main cathedral despite the keepers’ vociferous protests. The Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev that was kept in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery since the 1920s was moved to Christ the Savior Cathedral for the holiday on President Vladimir Putin’s order. Putin’s sudden order to hand over the 15th-century icon to the church came despite protests from the Tretyakov keepers that the icon was too fragile to move. Observers saw Putin’s abrupt order to transfer the icon to the cathedral as a reflection of his desire to strengthen ties with the church which has strongly supported the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s war has killed at least 500 Ukrainian children since it started more than 15 months ago. Zelenskyy provided the number on Sunday hours after rescue workers found the body of a 2-year-old girl who died in one of the latest Russian strikes. He said of the young people who have lost their lives since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, “Many of them could have become famous scholars, artists, sports champions, contributing to Ukraine’s history.” Zelenskyy said it was impossible to establish the exact number of children who were casualties due to the ongoing hostilities and because some areas are under Russian occupation.
An Atlantic Council delegation's trip to Kyiv this week highlighted how important additional support is to Ukraine.
Russia said on Monday that€ its forces had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive at five€ points along the front in the southern Ukrainian region of€ Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops.€ Read our live blog for all the latest developments.€ All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
Popular Russian singer Zemfira, who left the country because of her opposition to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, was spotted at the French Open on June 4 sitting in the player's box of her compatriot Daria Kasaktina.
A senior Ukrainian government official expressed "disbelief" on June 4, warning that nearly half of Kyiv's bomb shelters inspected during an initial audit were closed or unfit for use.
Russian authorities on June 4 called on residents of an area on the Ukrainian border to leave their homes "temporarily."
Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov said late Sunday night that “the terrorists who invaded the Belgorod region could be dealt with by Chechen units.”
The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that on the morning of June 4, the Ukrainian military launched a large-scale offensive in five areas of the front in the southern Donetsk area.
A drone was shot down in Dzhankoy in Crimea, a Russian-installed official in the region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014 said on June 4.
It is time for the United States to provide Ukraine with the support it needs to win against Russia.
Fresh battles broke out on the Russian side of the Ukrainian border on June 4, as anti-Kremlin fighters said they had captured several Russian soldiers and turned them over to Kyiv after the governor of the Belgorod region failed to show up for negotiations on a prisoner swap.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an unusually personal speech, urged his compatriots to show their gratitude to the country’s soldiers.
The Ukraine conflict is causing soul-searching among the Doukhobors, a peace-loving group that emigrated to Canada in 1899.
The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday. Navalny turned 47 on Sunday while serving a nine-year sentence at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow. He was convicted of fraud and contempt of court. He says the charges were trumped up to punish him for his work exposing official corruption and organizing anti-Kremlin protests. He now faces a new trial on extremism charges that could keep him in prison for decades. Navalny supporters in Russia risked their own prison terms. Some marked his birthday by holding individual pickets and others painted graffiti. Police quickly detained many for questioning.
On Friday, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that he was proposing amendments to the current law on Russian influence that is set to take effect next week.
Russia's most famous icon -- the Trinity by Andrei Rublev -- was moved from the Tretyakov Gallery Arts Museum to Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral despite protests by the museum community.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made no breakthrough on June 4 in talks about Sweden's membership in the military alliance with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with officials from the two countries to meet on June 12 to try to bridge their differences.
On June 4, the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) posted a video addressed to Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, “inviting [Gladkov] to a dialogue at the church in [the border town of] Novaya Tavolzhanka.” The fighters in the video say that they’re prepared to hand two prisoners over to Gladkov “as a gesture of goodwill.” They asked the governor to come to Novaya Tavolzhanka in an ambulance, unaccompanied except for the ambulance driver and unarmed. The footage shows two prisoners, reportedly Russian servicemembers from the Tver and Pskov regions. One of the prisoners is lying on a hospital bed with an IV hookup nearby.
On June 3, rescue workers found the body of a two-year-old girl in the rubble of a building destroyed by Russian shelling in the Dnipropetrovsk region, reports regional governor Serhiy Lisak. Lisak says that a total of 22 people, including five children, were injured in the attack.
The Secretary of State called for Washington to continue to put militarism before diplomacy
Abubakar Yangulbayev, a former lawyer for the organization Committee Against Torture and the son of retired Chechen judge Saidi Yangulbayev, reported that his mother, Zarema Musaeva, who has been in a Grozny prison for the last six months, has been hospitalized.
Evgeny Prigozhin’s press service has published a report from the commander of a Wagner Group engineering and sapping brigade that says that on May 17, Wagner forces engaged in combat against Russian Defense Ministry servicemen after they were hit with shelling near the village of Semigorye in the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut district.
Finland's first flag day since joining Nato features a flyover of aircraft from the Defence Forces.
The ACCC has just released its latest report on domestic airline competition. It concludes that there isn’t enough of it, hence we – air travellers – get poor service and pay too much. So what’s the scam?
The scam is that the ACCC knows this, the Government knows this, travellers know this. Except for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, everyone who has either been on a plane or knows someone who has, knows this. And we’ve known this for years. Yet nothing happens.
Coastal states are already rushing to prepare for an Atlantic hurricane season that forecasters warn will be unusually unpredictable.
Why it matters: Just a decade or two ago, fretting about hurricane season in June was akin to putting up Christmas decorations before Halloween.
At least there's no ice, said an Yle meteorologist.
Increasingly severe and more frequent weather disasters is driving up insurance costs and causing financial stress for many people.
Some said it was only a myth.
Humbled by centuries of fatal€ colonial expeditions, Canada’s military is learning Arctic survival strategies from the austere area’s only inhabitants.
If emissions continue, will we all be migrants someday?
Most of the victims’ families live in towns and villages hundreds of miles away, officials and medics said.
Desperate relatives searched Sunday for loved ones missing after India's worst train disaster in decade claimed the lives of at least 275 people as India's railway minister said the cause and people responsible for the crash had been identified, pointing to an electronic signal system without giving further details.
An Indian railway official says the derailment that killed 275 people and injured hundreds more was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train. Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday night in Odisha state in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters in decades. The railway official says the root cause of the crash was related to an error in the electronic signaling system. She said a detailed investigation will reveal whether the error was human or technical. Despite efforts to improve safety, several hundred accidents occur every year on India’s railways, the largest under one management in the world.
Tourist hotspot Phillip Island has officially opened a big battery to support power supply during summer holidays and the grand prix.
Powering more than 8000 homes for two hours, or 700 homes for a whole day, the $10 million battery will reduce the cost, emissions and noise of running extra diesel generators during the influx of tourists.
Train travel in the country has gotten much safer, Friday’s disaster notwithstanding, but the government still puts high-profile projects ahead of basic safety improvements, analysts say.
Officials suggested human error, even sabotage, could have led to the crash that killed 275, as crews raced to restore service and families struggled to reach the site to identify loved ones.
Characterizing the aerodynamic performance of a vehicle usually requires a wind tunnel since it’s difficult to control all variables when actually driving. Unless you had some kind of perfectly straight, environmentally controlled, and precision-graded section of road, anyway. Turns out the Catesby Tunnel in the UK meets those requirements exactly, and [Tom Scott] recently got to take a tour of it.
The “caterpillar drive” in The Hunt for Red October allowed the sub to travel virtually undetected through the ocean, but real examples of magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDs) are rare. The US Navy’s recently announced Principles of Undersea Magnetohydrodynamic Pumps (PUMP) intends to jump-start the technology for a new era.
America has paid a steep price for devoting too much space to storing cars.
A recent experiment showed that parrots seem considerably enriched by the ability to video call other parrots. It’s important that the activity be done in a healthy and ethical way, so researchers do not recommend bird caretakers immediately slap a spare tablet in front of every bird — but the results are as heartwarming as they are encouraging.
Banks are starting to look at the problem of funding nature destruction but must put stricter€ conditions on loans to agriculture enterprises and property developers, environmentalists say.
A report released on World Environment Day suggests most agribusinesses that unlawfully clear wildlife habitats in Queensland are financed by an Australian bank, via a mortgage or other security.
Stop mowing. See what happens.
According to the latest US census data, more than 1.4 million people in the United States identify themselves as Hungarian or of Hungarian descent, the president of the Hungarian American Coalition said in an interview with the Hungarian Public Media (MTI) on the occasion of the Day of National Unity. (the Day of National Unity is June 4th in Hungary, as it is the anniversary of the 1920 Trianon Peace Treaty, as a result of which Hungary lost a significant part of its territory and population to neighbouring countries. -TN)
The state attorney general said the migrants carried documents that specified a Florida government agency and a company that dropped migrants in Martha’s Vineyard last year.
A fire at a refugee shelter in eastern Germany has killed one person and injured at least 10 others. Police in the German state of Thuringia said the fire broke out around 5 a.m. Sunday at a facility in the city of Apolda and that one body had been recovered from the burned building. They say a 9-year-old child is missing but didn't reveal if the body might have belonged to a child. Germany's interior minister says an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the fire. A local government spokesperson told German news agency dpa that the shelter housed 300 people and was evacuated.
Once more, the bizarre Washington debt ceiling ritual ends in a bad deal. The mainstream media and establishment pundits hail it as a revival of the “vital center” over what The New York Times called a “far right and hard left revolt.” While relief about avoiding debt default is understandable, celebration of this wretched concoction is preposterous.
The trend of layoffs continues as ZoomInfo, a US-based marketing technology company, announces its intention to reduce its global workforce by approximately 3%.
According to a report from IANS, the company stated in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it has informed employees about plans to streamline the organizational structure, expedite decision-making, and allocate resources to strategic growth opportunities while maintaining profitability.
This move aligns with the actions taken by other tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
The highest-valued cybersecurity IPO in history was that of Israel-founded company SentinelOne, which has been managed since its inception by Tomer Weingarten. The offering, which was launched at the height of the bubble in 2021, was carried out at a value of $9 billion, yielded the company $1 billion in funding and guaranteed its financial stability over time.
However, quite a bit has changed since it went public. The high-tech market has slowed down, capital raising has stopped, and the manpower recruitment that characterized the previous years has been replaced by layoffs. At the end of last week, it was also the turn of SentinelOne to announce cutbacks, laying off around 5% of its employees. But this was not the only negative announcement by the company, which revealed in its reports on the first quarter of the year that it did not meet the revenue target, that it is required to correct previous reports, and also lowered future revenue expectations.
Data: Federal Reserve Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking; Chart: Axios Visuals
Americans are not happy with the economy. Which is weird, given that it is doing just fine.
Why it matters: It's hard to see what could turn sentiment around. That's largely because of Fed chair Jerome Powell, who doesn't want and won't allow some kind of economic boom — he thinks the economy is running too hot already.
With the debt ceiling debate behind them for another two years, vulnerable lawmakers in swing districts — from both parties — are breathing a sigh of relief.
Why it matters: Both sides risked potential backlash from their respective ideological flanks, but many feel they came out with a compromise that projects serious governance and puts them on a stronger political footing.
Homeownership is a uniquely American scam. Of course, homeownership itself is not unique to the United States. Yet “the emphasis Americans place on homeownership sets us apart from many other nations of the world,” according to Mel Martinez, who was President George W. Bush’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Nurses, firefighters and other NSW public sector workers have been offered the highest wage rise in 12 years but will still fall further behind inflation.
The offer of 4.0 per cent plus a 0.5 per cent increase in superannuation would mean an annual increase of $2484 for a school support officer, $2694 for a registered nurse and $3189 for a second-year paramedic.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers believes inflation is still moderating, despite a recent uptick in price pressures.
Annual inflation rose to 6.8 per cent in the year ended April, from 6.3 per cent previously,€ monthly data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics last week showed.
What comes next?
S&P Global restated a negative outlook for France’s ability to repay mounting debt. Two other ratings agencies have lowered their views in recent weeks.
With single-party statehouse control at its highest level in decades, legislators across much of the country leaned into cultural issues and bulldozed the opposition.
An enormous anti-government march took place in Poland's capital Sunday, with citizens traveling from across the country to voice their anger at a right-wing administration that has€ eroded democratic norms and created fears the nation is following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy.
Bipartisan collaboration was once a point of pride in Oregon, where Republicans have brought the Senate to a halt with a political boycott.
The gist is that people who grew up very rurally (as I did) can have a hard time adapting to the city life, and [Internet] life. He describes two kinds of relationships: one where you know someone thoroughly and another where someone is just a faceless nameless replacable radar blip.
The country’s largest antigovernment gathering in years sought to reclaim the legacy of the Solidarity movement that led the struggle against a Communist system imposed by Moscow.
The Nine and Murdoch media declared war was coming this morning, a “full-scale IR war” by business against the government’s “Same Job, Same Pay” labor hire laws. What’s the scam?
The scam is they are not even laws, not even a draft at this point, rather a proposal. But that did not stop this coalition of lobby groups – which don’t even pay tax, which are predominantly financed by foreign shareholders, and which cheered on the waste of $40bn in JobKeeper hand-outs for their members – from playing the victim. Not a single business man or woman has been heard from yet, but “Business” vows the war will not stop!
President Biden is asking voters to keep him in the White House until age 86, renewing attention to an issue that polls show troubles most Americans.
In “Happiness,” one of the short stories included in Ferit Edgü’s The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales, an architect is appointed to work in a village in eastern Turkey. The locals inhabit caves that are threatened with collapse in that land of earthquakes, yet they refuse the architect’s offer to help. So he undertakes a deceptive scheme: Using the money allocated to build safe houses, he pays the villagers to haul sand and cement on muleback from a nearby city to repair their caves. After six months, he adapts to this way of living precariously, throwing away his plans for safer, earthquake-proof homes. He writes fake progress reports to his bosses at the ministry as though he is making the mountain town safer; fearing eventual prosecution for abusing his office, he cuts ties with his past, refuses to return to his family as he told them he wanted to, and settles fully in the mountains: becoming a local, no longer counting the days, living “as a hunter,” lighting candles at night for entertainment.
Repeating the municipal elections in northern Kosovo, which were marred by unrest, could save the Hungarian Government from the controversial situation it finds itself in with regard to its foreign policy towards Serbia, after twenty-seven Hungarian soldiers of the NATO peacekeeping force KFOR were injured during the protests of Serbs in northern Kosovo.
Bissau-Guineans voted Sunday in a highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau's national legislature, more than a year after the West African nation's president dissolved parliament.
An highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau’s national legislature is underway more than a year after the West African nation’s president dissolved parliament. The Centre for Democracy and Development, an African human rights organization, said nearly 1 million voters were registered to elect more than 100 lawmakers from six parties with active seats in the National People’s Assembly. President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, a former army general, took office after he was declared the winner of a December 2019 runoff election. He survived a February 2022 coup attempt when assailants armed with machine guns and AK-47s attacked the government palace. He subsequently dissolved parliament and postponed the legislative elections scheduled for last December.
NYT: Twitter "has regularly fallen short of its US weekly sales projections."
One report by Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, predicted that as much as 90 percent of content on the [Internet] could be created or edited by AI by 2026. Already, spammy news sites seemingly generated entirely by AI are popping up. The anti-misinformation platform NewsGuard started tracking such sites and found nearly three times as many as they did a few weeks prior.
Disinformation can be state-sponsored or by the private sector. At present, information literacy is finely utilized by countries to wage war against one another. (Barnes and Sanger 2020) have stated that countries such as Russia and China have taken [social media platforms] such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to create and amplify conspiratorial content designed to undermine trust in health officials and government administrators, which could ultimately worsen the impact of the virus in Western societies”. (King et al, 2017) have stated that according to research “the Chinese government has shown to deploy disinformation campaigns, sometimes to distract and disrupt (for example, concerning events in Hong Kong, Xinjiang or the South China Sea), as to push a particular agenda (for example, to win support for its ‘Belt and Road’ initiative)”.
Time is relative depending on your frame of reference. Maybe truth is too?
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Hundreds of people gathered in Taipei on Sunday to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement in China, which was crushed by the Chinese military.
With candlelight vigils to the victims of the 1989 crushed student uprising in Beijing now only a memory, the anniversary is also a reminder of the freedoms Hong Kong has lost.
The US consulate and the office of the EU in Hong Kong have displayed commemorative candles in their windows on the anniversary of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
Hundreds gathered in Taiwan’s capital on Sunday to mark the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown – a show of solidarity as Beijing continues to censor all trace of the 1989 incident.
Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday,€ including four arrested for "seditious" intent, as€ authorities tightened security€ for the€ 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
China has tightened already strict access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on the anniversary of 1989 pro-democracy protests. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, police detained at least eight protesters on the eve of the anniversary at Victoria Park. The large public space had been the scene for an annual candlelight gathering to remember the hundreds or thousands killed when army tanks and infantry descended on central Beijing on the night of June 3 and into the morning of June 4, 1989. Discussion of the events has long been suppressed in China and become increasingly off-limits in Hong Kong since a sweeping national security law was imposed in June 2020.
The federal tax agency should review whether the school is engaging in political or lobbying activities that would violate the non-profit status currently held by the City University of New York, wrote the National Jewish Advocacy Center and International Legal Forum to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel on June€ 2.
Aleksei Navalny, the Kremlin's biggest foe and Russia's most prominent political prisoner, marks his 47th birthday on June 4 in solitary confinement in prison, as supporters held rallies and individual protests to highlight his plight, leading to dozens of arrests and detentions.
On June 4, 2023, Alexey Navalny celebrated his 47th birthday in an isolation cell in a penal colony in the Vladimir region. He’s been punished with isolation 16 times since summer 2022. The oppositionist published a post on social media describing his feelings on passing his birthday in solitary confinement. He reminded his supporters that “some people are willing to pay for their right to hold beliefs,” and greeted all his fellow political prisoners in Russia, Belarus, and other countries, saying “Most of them have it much harder than I do.” Meduza is sharing a translation of Navalny’s post in full.
In one school district, the Bible and the Book of Mormon were flagged for “sensitive materials review.”
Sean Bailey is in charge of live-action remakes of films like “The Little Mermaid.” It’s a job that puts him in the middle of a partisan divide.
A car with the licence plate “US8964” – the date of the Tiananmen crackdown – was impounded in Causeway Bay on Sunday, the 34th anniversary of the crackdown. The car’s owner, Anthony Chiu, told HKFP that officers cited his embossed licence plate, and brake as reasons to impound the vehicle.
Amid a heavy police presence and the arrests of several prominent pro-democracy activists, some Hongkongers attempted to mark the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown at Victoria Park, where the city’s annual candlelight vigils were once held, albeit on a more private scale than seen in the past.
Human rights monitoring project OVD-Info reports more than 90 arrests across Russia at rallies in support of Alexey Navalny, who turned 47 on June 4. Half of the arrests were in Moscow.
>Hong Kong police have deployed en masse at key sites on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, apprehending several people in Causeway Bay, including Tsui Hong-kwong, who was among the organisers of the Tiananmen vigils, unionist Leo Tang and chairperson of pro-democracy group the League of Social Democrats (LSD), Chan Po-ying.
“There was always a huge risk of being arrested and having film confiscated,” Widener said.
Martsen, the student who helped Widener get into the Beijing Hotel, put the “Tank Man” film in his underwear and smuggled it out of the hotel. The pictures were soon transmitted over telephone lines to the rest of the world.
Several media outlets took a photo of “Tank Man,” but Widener’s shot was the most used. It appeared on the front pages of newspapers all around the world, and it was nominated that year for a Pulitzer Prize.
Chinese troops moved into the capital from all sides on June 3 and attacked unarmed protesters with automatic fire, clubs, and bayonets. Estimates suggest that up to 2,00,000 Chinese soldiers and hundreds of tanks and military armoured vehicles were used to crush the protests on 3-4 June.
The Chinese government has since censored the massacre within its borders. It's not taught, discussed, and all its mentions on the internet are censored.
Here we explain what the protests were about, how China crushed them, how many people were killed, and how Chinese remember (or do not remember) it.
Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday, including four arrested for "seditious" intent, as authorities tightened security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the largest vigils marking the anniversary of the bloody crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy demonstrators, leaving cities like Taipei, London, New York and Berlin to keep the memory of June 4 alive.
The distinction appears to mean little to Russian authorities amid their tightening crackdown on dissent against the war: the brothers and their father have been stripped of their Russian citizenship and banned from the country for 50 years after being deemed threats to national security.
The ban and loss of citizenship, which the brothers call retribution for Arshak Makichyan's activism, has left the brothers stateless and forced them to scramble to build new lives in exile.
Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith was “not an honest and reliable witness” who lied about his involvement in war crimes to gain financially from his now failed defamation cases against the media.
In a Federal Court judgment published on Monday, Justice Anthony Besanko launched a scathing criticism against the former SAS corporal who had “motives to lie” about the events in Afghanistan.
US citizen Gonzalo Lira faces a long prison term in Ukraine for criticizing the country’s government. Shunned by the US government, his father is fighting to stop the “slow death of a son.”
Ben Norton breaks down the recent deployment of U.S. troops to Peru, and the shocking events that have led to this moment.
Chuck Todd, the longtime moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," will step down from the hourlong political show later this year.
Driving the news: Todd, who has hosted "Meet the Press" for nine years, will depart the show in September he said at the close of the June 4 show.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounced on Friday Macau’s decision to expand their national security law, which takes effect this week. The effect of these changes, according to RSF, “increases the pressure on journalists and further threatens the residents’ right to information.
Prince Harry has become the royal family's most famous litigant in London. The Duke of Sussex has five active legal cases, three of them involving his battle with the British tabloids. He is expected to testify Tuesday in London's High Court in the first of three cases accusing newspaper publishers of hacking his phone and other invasions of privacy. If he takes the witness stand, he’ll be the first member of the royal family to testify in court since the late 19th century. Harry's other two cases are focused around the British government's decision to withdraw his security detail when he stepped away from royal life in 2020.
Major employment groups have joined forces to hit out at the government’s labour hire worker reforms.
The government is seeking to introduce “same job, same pay” laws, which would close loopholes allowing companies€ that have negotiated a pay rate with their workers to then pay labour hire contractors less for the same job.
State legislatures across the country are making it easier to hire minors in low-paid and dangerous jobs.
The New York State Legislature could by the end of this week pass groundbreaking legislation requiring child protective services agents to read people their constitutional rights, just like the police have to do.
But New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services, despite publicly claiming to support the “family Miranda warning,” has in recent weeks quietly proposed gutting the measure, according to eight lawmakers, staffers and lobbyists involved in the negotiations.
Child marriage is one of many pressing issues for teens that the show has addressed. Past plotlines have taken on cervical cancer vaccines, menstrual pads and female genital mutilation. It's also a show that seeks to create gender equity in its staff – this season the majority of its writers and directors are women.
It also needs to be noted that the Taliban has banned girls from attending senior secondary and higher secondary schools. Therefore, the girls who were poisoned may have been in grades one to six.
The Taliban barred girls from attending secondary schools after taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, while the ban on higher education was announced in December last year.
The regime is gradually erasing women from public life in Afghanistan. They also banned women from pursuing education during their rule in the 1990s. Women have been denied even the most basic rights.
[...] Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade. [...]
The poisoning, which targeted a girls' school in the Afghan province of Sar-e Pol, comes after intense scrutiny of girls' education in the war-torn nation since the Taliban took over and barred most teenage female students and after a wave of poison attacks on girls' schools in neighbouring Iran.
Support for the Indigenous voice proposal has the backing of fewer than half of all Australian voters, a survey suggests.
The€ Newspoll conducted for The Australian newspaper and reported on Sunday night shows 46 per cent of all voters support the voice to parliament while 43 per cent are opposed and 11 per cent don’t know.
The Green Party will select its new leader at a meeting in Seinäjoki later this week.
A previous citizens' initiative went to Parliament in 2021, but it expired at the end of the parliamentary term.
Hong Kong journalist Bao Choy’s conviction for making false statements to access vehicle records has been quashed after five judges ruled unanimously in favour of her appeal at the city’s top court. Her sentence has also been set aside.
Lebanon's foreign ministry said Saturday it would send an investigation team to Paris following reports that Beirut's ambassador to France, Rami Adwan, has been accused of rape and intentional violence.
It is common for people in this West African desert nation to divorce many times. And when they do, the women celebrate.
The Senegal government announced a blanket ban on the use of social media Friday, following clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko that left nine people dead. In a televised press conference,
Guest Post: The two largest populations in the world, India and China, also boast the most IPv6 users in the world.
The looming headache of this summer’s travel season only strengthens the argument against the JetBlue/Spirit merger.
Japan's largest manga piracy site 13DL is no more. The site closed its doors shortly after a DMCA subpoena required CDN provider Cloudflare to uncover the identity of the site's operator. Anti-piracy group CODA says that Cloudflare has yet to hand over the information but, together with publishers and 'ethical hackers', the group will do everything in its power to hold the site owner responsible.
Through several lawsuits, Danish publishers tried to send a clear message: educating oneself through pirated textbooks is illegal. This message has thus far failed to make an impact. New research published by the Rights Alliance shows that more than half of all students find it acceptable to use pirated books. Prison threats are not much of a deterrent but they are willing to change if prices drop significantly.