A group legal claim against South West Water alleging sewage pollution into coastal waters is harming businesses and individuals has been expanded across Devon and Cornwall.

Thousands more individuals could now join the first environmental community group legal action against a water company over the impact of sewage pollution.

Until now 1,400 people from Exmouth had joined the legal action but Leigh Day said on Wednesday it was being expanded to residents and businesses across Dawlish, Sidmouth, Teignmouth in Devon and Newquay and Penzance in Cornwall.

The claim argues failings by South West Water are wide and entrenched in many coastal towns across the Devon and Cornwall region, rather than just the Exmouth area.

"Water companies don’t own the sea. We are an island nation, the sea belongs to us all and for water companies to use the sea in this way feels immoral and ethically bankrupt.”

Before Gordon Brown sent a draft of his 6 February comment piece on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal to the Guardian for publication, he asked friends whether he had gone too far.

The former prime minister had written that he found it “hard to find words to express my revulsion at what has been uncovered about Epstein and his impact on our politics” and the “time is overdue to let in the light”.

On Peter Mandelson’s alleged leaking of market-sensitive documents to the disgraced financier and sex offender during the financial crisis, Brown was particularly vexed.

If it had happened, he said it would be, in his view, “a betrayal of everything we stand for as a country”.

Brown is said to have been searching through the Epstein documents himself but he has also been assisted by Clare Rewcastle, a journalist whose past investigations have included exposing corruption at the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

Asked about Brown’s motivation, Renwick said it should be taken at face value: he had been utterly appalled by Britain’s apparent role in enabling a web of exploitation.

"He might not even be conscious of it or acknowledge it but he will feel guilty,” said a Labour insider. “He was the person who brought Mandelson back in the house.”

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse believe British police are failing them, a former top prosecutor has said.

Nazir Afzal, who prosecuted grooming gangs in northern England, said there has been quick action when state interests are involved while allegations of harm to women have been ignored.

Afzal, former chief crown prosecutor for north west England, said meanwhile claims of serious harm to women have seen little action.

Six forces are examining flights coming into the UK allegedly at the behest of Epstein carrying trafficked women. Two other forces are examining claims of sexual assault.

No allegations linked to harm against women have been judged by any force to merit a full criminal investigation.

Afzal told the Guardian: “When the state is the victim, the state moves at pace. When women are alleged victims the state barely moves at all.

Right now, deleting a post on Lemmy only hides it locally, but doesn’t fully remove it across the fediverse. I understand the technical reasons behind this, but from a user perspective it feels incomplete.

Platforms should give users the ability to fully delete their own content, or at least send a federated deletion request to other instances. This is important for privacy, safety, and user control.

Is full deletion planned, or is there a technical limitation preventing it? I’d like to understand what’s possible and whether this feature is on the roadmap.

Amid the diplomatic tensions over Tehran's nuclear programme, the US has reportedly moved over 150 military aircraft to bases in Europe and the Middle East in recent days. As per the satellite imagery and flight-tracking data reviewed by The Washington Post, the buildup includes cargo planes, refuelling aircraft and combat jets, and marks one of the largest US force deployments in the region in more than two decades. The newspaper added that the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford was near Crete, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln.

"Washington would “never” weaponize energy exports." Yeah, right. Let's trust the word of the Epstein government.

what the fuck

As in, it sync how far you are into the audiobook to the story graph every so often?

TIA.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish Air Force F‑16 fighter jet crashed near a highway in western Turkey early Wednesday, killing its pilot, officials and media reports said.
Radio and radar contact with the jet was lost shortly after midnight after it took off from the 9th Main Jet Base in Balikesir province, according to a defense ministry statement.
Search and rescue operations were immediately launched, the ministry said, adding that the wreckage was soon located and the pilot had been “martyred.”
The aircraft went down near a section of the Istanbul–Izmir highway, scattering debris across a wide area, Hurriyet newspaper reported. Security forces, firefighters, and medical teams were dispatched to the scene.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, the ministry said, adding that an investigation would be carried out by an accident inquiry team.

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The instructions are written on a mobius strip

https://x.com/bookerbiro/status/2026389137385767389

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/51393008

Investigations have traced the contamination of baby milk sold in the EU to arachidonic acid oil imported from China.

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The European Commission announced tighter controls on Chinese imports of arachidonic acid oil from 26 February, after identifying the ingredient as the source of toxin contamination in baby formula that triggered global recalls.

Since December, major producers including Nestlé, Lactalis and Danone have recalled infant formula in 60 countries after tests detected cereulide, a toxin produced by the bacterium Bacillus cereus.

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Notifications through the EU’s food contamination alert system (RASFF), along with investigations by national authorities, traced the contamination to arachidonic acid oil imported from China and used in infant formula production, the Commission said on Tuesday.

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EU countries endorsed emergency measures on 20 February restricting imports of the oil, a spokesperson said.

These rules, which will be implemented from Thursday, require shipments to undergo checks at EU border control posts and to be accompanied by laboratory results and certification confirming the absence of the toxin.

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Experts say the infant formula crisis throws supply chain vulnerabilities into the spotlight.

Three of the world’s largest dairy groups – Nestlé, Danone, and privately owned Lactalis – [rely on a single] supplier reported to be a Chinese company, identified by the Agence France-Presse as Wuhan-based Cabio Biotech.

But how can so many of the world’s biggest companies be dependent on a single supplier for one ingredient? And what does this mean for the future supply chain shocks?

The crisis is just the latest in a series of global supply chain disruptions to hit the sector in recent years, some leading to severe health consequences and even fatalities.

It is well established that in our vast, complex food system, a single point of failure can arise from high dependency on one place for ingredient supplies. Vietnam, for instance, supplies around 80% of the world’s black pepper; in the event of a shock, such as drought that leads to a crop failure, these supply chains collapse.

Experts argue that manufacturers should diversify and further outsource quality control and testing, especially for highly sensitive ingredients; however, research is lacking on how to improve the resilience of infant formula supply chains.

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If you were watching the State of the Union address, and you’re an iPhone user, then toward the end of the speech, during President Trump’s recounting of the story of Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover, you might have had Siri triggered—assuming you have voice activation turned on.

This feature once required the user to say “Hey Siri” but now only requires “Siri.”

At least one other Bluesky user confirmed that she experienced the same thing. A user on X said the erroneous Siri trigger word was “serious” not “searing,” but the timing of the post suggests it was the same moment.

Another Bluesky user (whose posts are off-limits to those who are not logged into Bluesky), posted a Google results page Siri pulled up following the Siri-triggering line, featuring a bunch a results about bullets going through legs.

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Twenty-six civil society organisations, including the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), urged today UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk to address the Chinese government’s alleged crimes against humanity.

The groups called on Türk to use his 27 February global update at the 61st Human Rights Council session to outline his Office’s investigative efforts on the situation in China. They also urged the High Commissioner to explicitly demand that Beijing end and redress its ongoing, systematic human rights violations. The Council’s session runs from 23 February to 31 March 2026.

Inaction on atrocity crimes

Multiple UN bodies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), have documented the scale of China’s human rights violations, some reaching the conclusion that they may constitute international crimes, including crimes against humanity. However, since the OHCHR’s landmark 2022 report on the Uyghur region (Xinjiang), Türk has shared little public information on progress regarding accountability or specific steps taken by the government.

Meanwhile, Beijing’s repression remains ongoing. Since the conclusion of the previous Council session, Chinese authorities have continued to arbitrarily detain religious leaders and journalists.

They have also prosecuted defenders for free expression and subjected activists to forced disappearances, often denying them adequate medical care. Authorities continue to weaponise the vague charge of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ to silence critics, despite Türk’s prior calls to repeal the provision.

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The conspiracies are true — a small group of elites set the agenda for the country.
They're billionaires, politicians, judges and more. And they meet at private camp Bohemian Grove.
The membership is secret, but Daniel Boguslaw came to us with a full list of everyone involved.

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The Hungarian leader wants to portray his main rival, Péter Magyar, as a stooge of his traditional bogeymen: Brussels and Kyiv. But Magyar is proving hard to typecast.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has decided a showdown with Brussels is exactly what his flagging election campaign needs.

Orbán is on the back foot at home — trailing his rival Péter Magyar by some 8 percentage points in polls ahead of the April 12 election. So he’s gone on the attack against two of his favorite bogeymen abroad: Brussels and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In doing so he’s trying to set a trap for Magyar, the 44-year-old member of the European Parliament who is on track to beat him.

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The escalation – now framed as “SEAblings versus K-netz” – is no longer about a single breach of concert etiquette, but about accumulated frustrations over condescension and racism within the global K-pop ecosystem and beyond.