Chobani is my favorite brand too

https://archive.ph/ooQgt

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49664230

September the 26th, 2025 – Croatia has chosen to withhold its recognition of Palestine despite powerful European countries like the UK and France having recently done so.

As Morski writes, the Croatian Parliament has voted on the recognition of the state of Palestine. 121 MPs voted, 44 were in favour, 4 abstained and 73 were against recognising it. 56 MPs sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković in which they urged him to recognise the state of Palestine as soon as possible and to suspend arms exports to Israel, 24sata reports.

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In February 2025, Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for fugitive Moldovan billionaire Vladimir Plahotniuc. [On 25 September], he was escorted from Athens to Chișinău. Justice Minister Veronica Mihailov-Moraru stated that Plahotniuc will be immediately placed in a solitary cell in Prison No. 13.

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Plahotniuc was detained on July 22 at Athens airport while attempting to fly to Dubai. Authorities seized 21 passports and identity documents allegedly issued by the governments of Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Iraq, and Vanuatu. Former Moldovan MP Constantin Țuțu, who was also detained, had five forged documents in his possession.

The Moldovan Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against Plahotniuc in three cases, including the theft of $1 billion from the country’s banking system in 2014. According to investigators, Plahotniuc received $39 million and €3.5 million of that larger sum through entities connected with fellow fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor, who currently resides in Russia.

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In Russia, Plahotniuc is also facing criminal prosecution for forming a criminal group, drug trafficking, and money laundering. However, Moldovan authorities believe that Moscow is using these cases as a tool to protect the Kremlin-aligned oligarch, and that he would not actually be punished if international authorities extradited him to Moscow instead of to Chișinău.

I saw a clip on reddit about such karen and now that scenario is stuck in my head, new fear unlocked.

What's the best response for each scenario:

You are:

1. Undocumented
2. Legal - Visa
3. Legal - Permanent Resident
4. Naturalized Citizen
5. Citizen at Birth

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on Sept. 23 detailing the vast scale of torture committed by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians held in captivity in occupied territories.

Between June 1, 2023, and Sept. 10, 2025, OHCHR documented 508 cases of civilian detainees, including 392 men, 103 women, three girls, and nine boys. These include individuals of all age groups, from adolescents to older adults, as well as 15 persons with disabilities.

"We will leave you to rot. No one will find you. No one needs you. You don't exist. We'll bury you right here; only hungry dogs will find you," one civilian detainee said when describing the threats he received in captivity.

Moscow occupies roughly 20% of Ukrainian territory in the east and the south.

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"People have been arbitrarily picked off the streets in occupied territory, charged under shifting legal bases and held for days, weeks, months, and even years, often with limited contact to their families," Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in the report.

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Former detainees reported experiencing a broad array of torture and ill-treatment during their captivity. Commonly described methods included severe beatings with various objects such as batons and sticks, electric shocks to different body parts, mock executions, kickings, threats of death, and violence directed either to a detainee or their loved ones.

Detainees were also subjected to stress positions, such as "bent walking" and prolonged kneeling on concrete surfaces, and different forms of humiliation, including forced singing of the Russian anthem and patriotic songs.

According to the report, over 92 % of the 216 released civilian detainees interviewed since June 2023 provided consistent and detailed accounts of being subjected to torture or ill-treatment during their captivity. Additionally, 101 interviewees described witnessing torture or ill-treatment of other detainees.

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One civilian detainee held in captivity by Russian soldiers said his captors beat him "heavily with a baseball bat, targeting legs, a knee, and head."

"They damaged my elbow, displaced my kneecap, and injured my feet. I told one of them to be a human being and shoot me dead. He replied that he would not waste ammo to kill me," he said.

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"Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment are absolutely prohibited and the life, well-being and dignity of persons deprived of their liberty must be respected," the report says.

Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on May 9 that Ukrainian authorities had confirmed the ongoing detention of around 1,800 Ukrainian civilians by Russia. The actual figure is likely much greater, as verifying the information is difficult.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4740484

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• Russia will run a 4.6 trillion ruble budget deficit in 2026, its fifth in a row, due to falling revenue and war spending.
• The VAT rate will rise to 22% next year, and more companies will be forced to pay it to boost revenue.
• Russia plans to borrow 2.2 trillion rubles and scrap tax breaks for small businesses to cover the widening gap.

Donald Trump is suddenly bullish when it comes to Ukraine’s chances of repelling Russia’s invasion and regaining all its territory, yet the shift in rhetoric means little unless he is prepared to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin, diplomats and foreign officials say.

Thus far, Trump hasn’t taken these essential steps, they added.

HELP

When you need a few days off.

The entire thread is full of shitlib comedy gold. https://bsky.app/profile/herostratus356.bsky.social/post/3lzd24mxc7c2i

A Paris court on Thursday convicted ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy of criminal conspiracy for accepting illegal campaign funds from late Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

The ruling is the latest in a string of legal hurdles for the right-wing ex-leader, 70, who denied the charges. Sarkozy, who was president of France from 2007 to 2012, has already been convicted in two separate cases and stripped of France's highest honour.

The judgement has been overshadowed by the death on Tuesday in Beirut of Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine, a key accuser of Sarkozy in the case.