An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted in the Palestinian enclave despite a fragile ceasefire.

The children's uncle said an Israeli drone fired on Fadi and Goma Abu Assi, brothers aged 10 and 12, while they were gathering firewood to help their wheelchair-bound father east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. "They are children...what did they do? They do not have missiles or bombs, they went to gather wood for their father so he can start a fire," Mohamed Abu Assi told Reuters as their funeral took place.

At the funeral, the children's father wept over the body of one of the boys whose white shroud had been peeled back to show his face.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-israeli-fire-kills-2-palestinian-boys/a-74952358

Since the October 10 ceasefire, over 354 Palestinians have been killed in the largely devastated enclave, according to Gazan health authorities. Many of the deaths occur when Israeli forces shoot at Palestinians it accuses of crossing the yellow line set up during the ceasefire to mark territories still under Israel's control in the strip.

On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said their troops "identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities and approached the troops in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat," adding that the troops "eliminated the suspects to remove the threat."

The family of a Wisconsin man and local chapters of the NAACP are seeking answers after Tory Medley was found hanging to death from a tree on a golf course in Brookfield.

His death was immediately labeled a 'possible suicide' by the Brookfield Police Department, before critical questions about how he got there and what truly happened were fully examined," she added.

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Secretary General Mark Rutte bluntly warned against Serbia’s growing defence cooperation with China while acknowledging Belgrade’s sovereign right to pursue it. Unlike most other countries from Eaestern Europe, Serbia is not a candidate for NATO membership.

“Let’s not be naive about China,” Rutte said on 24 November, in an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). “We know that China cooperates with the Russians, North Korea, Iran… What is happening in the Indo-Pacific and what is happening in the Euro-Atlantic area is increasingly connected and intertwined.”

The partnership reached a new level in July, when Serbia and China conducted their first-ever joint military exercise, named Peace Defender 2025, in China’s Hebei Province. Over ten days, special forces from both countries trained together in drone tactics, firearms handling, tactical manoeuvres, and mountaineering, despite clear objections from Brussels and Washington.

Vučić has also overseen major acquisitions from China, including CH-92A drones in 2020, the FK-3 air defense system in 2022, and additional CH-95 drones. Rutte noted that NATO monitors these developments carefully, emphasizing that Serbia’s moves cannot be separated from China’s growing military influence.

The NATO chief revealed he maintains direct contact with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and values the dialogue through the Partnership for Peace program. Yet he explicitly distanced the Alliance from Belgrade’s approach: “In the end, I would really distance myself from what President Vučić is doing with China… There is a more pressing issue, and that is China itself.”

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Use of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims

A new legal petition filed by a dozen public health and farm worker groups demands the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop allowing farms to spray antibiotics on food crops in the US because they are probably causing superbugs to flourish and sickening farm workers.

The agricultural industry sprays about 8m pounds of antibiotic and antifungal pesticides on US food crops annually, many of which are banned in other countries.

The overuse of antibiotics, which are essential to treating human disease, as pesticides on fruits and vegetables threatens public health because it can lead to superbug bacteria that are antibiotic-resistant. Similarly, overuse of antifungal pesticides can lead to fungal infections that are less treatable with medical currently available drugs, the groups say.

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Thailand increasingly depends on its bigger neighbour for trade and security

Mega-thread of Palestine, climate, and labor protests around the globe - Nov. 30

from MiniMia (who was arrested, need to find out more about that.)

https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115637348498631861

#FreePalestine
#Palestine #LaborSolidarity #EndFossilFuels #news #politics #USpol #UKSpol #ClimateAction

@palestine

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.

Netanyahu, who has been at war against Israel’s legal system over the charges, said the request would help unify the country at a time of momentous change in the region. But it immediately triggered denunciations from opponents, who said a pardon would weaken democratic institutions and send a dangerous message that he’s above the rule of law.

Netanyahu had submitted a request for a pardon to the legal department of the Office of the President, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. The president’s office called it an “extraordinary request,” carrying with it “significant implications.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54078278

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Thousands of people gathered this Sunday around the Temple of Debod, in Madrid, to participate in a demonstration, called by the Popular Party (PP), against the government, days after the former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor Koldo García were remanded in custody as part of the judicial investigation into the alleged corrupt scheme to buy masks during the pandemic.

Under the slogan 'Effectively: mafia or democracy?', the main opposition leaders charged against the government of Pedro Sánchez, whom they accused of having allowed, they say, an "unprecedented" institutional deterioration. The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said during his speech that what happened with Ábalos "is not a one-off mistake", and affirmed that "Sanchezism is political, economic, institutional, social and moral corruption", before demanding that he "leave the government".

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Hi,

This is going to be a bit of a crazy story. I heard this from someone and now I am so angry at this other person where I am willing to lose my virginity to put him in his place. But I feel like this is incredibly stupid. So here goes.

I am a man, in my mid twenties and still a virgin mainly because I want to lose it to the right person. I am still in college and we just got some new students to join our fraternity. I meet this new guy (let's call him Ben) and he's really friendly, relaxed and has a positive atmosphere about him. In fact, he even manages to get some more people to sign up, so really good stuff. During parties he also invites over some girls that he know and I get to meet this female friend of his (let's refer to her as Beth). She's also fun to be around, bit of a heavy set woman but a really good dancer none the less. About a month passes, we're at a house party and we're standing outside. Beth is smoking a sigaret, I'm just outside to take a break from all the stimuli. We get to talk and out of the blue she tells me how she doesn't like the fact that Ben keeps calling her a whore. At first I thought she was kidding because of how unexpectedly and nonchalantly she said it. But we keep talking and she let's me in on some drama between her and Ben. Apparently Ben is an extremely jealous type of person, and also a bisexual. He gets extremely sour when Beth is sleeping with the same guy he slept with. So much so that he called her an "ordinary whore" when he found out. I asked her why she would even take such an insult. Well apparently she had an abusive father and doesn't know how to deal with verbal abuse very well. So anyway Ben being the jealous type that he is has decided to "claim" five people, for Beth to stay away from. Even, and I specifically asked about this, if these people are heterosexual. And here comes the kicker I am one those five people.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I absolutely couldn't believe it. I am so outraged, I am absolutely livid, both for my and Beth's sake. How is she an ordinary whore, when you lose your fucking mind at concept of her sleeping with other men??? Even men who aren't even interested in you??? Also how the fuck do you treat a friend like that?? I, and the same goes for the other five, am not some sort of dog for you to claim, that's absolutely disgusting!

So now I am at a point where I am like: "I'll show this sorry son of a bitch where it's at!" You know, by sleeping with Beth. But I don't think I fully like her that way, as I said she is on the heavier side of the scale, and sort wanted to wait until I meet someone I genuinely like. At the same time it would really be fun to put this bastard in his place. But I feel like where I am throwing fuel to the fire and hoping for an explosion I could just as easily make this whole thingamajig even worse.

So what do you guys think? Stupid, right? Well that's what this community is for.

TLDR: There is this guy who is (allegedly) a jealous bounder. I am really mad at him and feel bad for this girl. I feel like getting back at him by sleeping with her. But I don't particularly find her attractive. Anyway, smart or stupid plan?

The owl will live in fear that one day I may say something uncouth like “poopy stinky butthole” and get them CANCELLED on HEXBOOK.

For the second time in just over a month, a large-scale raid by dozens of immigration agents in New York City was met with a similarly large-scale counter-protest. This time, however, the protesters thwarted the authorities' plans before they began. 

Multiple arrests were made on Saturday during scuffles on the edge of Chinatown, during which hundreds of protesters faced off with federal agents and the New York Police Department (NYPD) as they prepared to launch a raid in the area. 

It comes just a month after a raid by 50 federal agents using military-style vehicles stormed Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, and was met with a protest of hundreds in response.

The mass counter-protest of some 200 people, according to the New York Times, demonstrates the challenges federal authorities will face in enforcing Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown in a city that is rooted in its immigrant identity.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46485447

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While Chinese investment has helped revive Zimbabwe’s lithium industry, ZELO [the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation] found widespread concerns over poor labour standards and environmental violations, particularly among medium- and small-scale Chinese operators across the lithium, gold, coal and chrome sectors.

Reported issues included non-compliance with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations, dust pollution, water contamination from mine effluent, low wages, inadequate protective equipment and allegations of worker abuse and discrimination.

The report warns that such malpractices have contributed to the perception that Chinese companies have a poor human rights and environmental record in Zimbabwe. It says this presents reputational risks for the country’s lithium exports at a time when global supply chains increasingly prioritise strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards.

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ZELO's latest study, 'Mine to Market for Critical Minerals: Zimbabwe’s Lithium Supply and Value Chain Situational Report', finds that Chinese companies now control most major lithium mining and processing operations in the country.

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Although Australian and British companies also operate in the sector, ZELO says Chinese dominance has created an imbalance that weakens competition and reduces Zimbabwe’s bargaining power.

“This imbalance restricts the Zimbabwe’s ability to derive optimal value from its lithium resources,” the organisation said. “It also exposes Zimbabwe to external risks linked to fluctuations in Chinese global investment or commodity demand.”

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Data from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) highlights the stark value gap between raw and refined lithium. A tonne of lithium concentrate with 4%–5.5% Li₂O content sells for between US$300 and US$600. By contrast, refined lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate can fetch more than US$26,000 per tonne.

ZELO says this disparity underscores the need for Zimbabwe to prioritise domestic production of high-value, refined lithium products instead of exporting low-value concentrate.

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ZELO recommends increased investment in beneficiation, production of industrial by-products such as sodium sulphate anhydrous and alumina silicate, and stronger local content rules to promote skills transfer and technology adoption. It also calls for tighter enforcement of labour, safety and environmental regulations and strategic partnerships with non-Chinese investors to diversify markets.

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The 29-year-old Afghan national has been detained over the shooting of two soldiers in an ‘ambush style attack’ in Washington on the eve of Thanksgiving

I rediscovered the joy of my own music collection by quitting Spotify and switching to self-hosted Navidrome.

Someone needs to be the struggle session registrar so I can read some juicy hot goss on the toilet

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39513713

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VoidAuth is Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe! 🐈‍⬛🔒

This release includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support through TOTP Authenticators! There are other features in this release, like a migration from pug to ejs for email notification templates and quality of life improvements like a built-in container healthcheck, navigation between some admin pages, and reducing the character minimum for usernames to just three letters (sorry ted); but MFA is the big one! Users can enable MFA on their accounts to require an Authenticator or Passkey during sign in, and admins can add MFA requirements to groups, OIDC Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains to require users to setup and use MFA in specific scenarios.

Since the last major release functionality has also been added to migrate your database between SQLite and Postgres, check out the docs! Here is the release notes:

Features 🚀

• MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys
• MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains
• Email Templates Migrated to EJS, Defaults Templates Are Now Re-Written on Start
• Navigation Between Admin Pages for User and Group

Fixes 🔧

• Change Username and Name Character Requirements (3 Character Minimum)

Chores 🧹

• Added Dockerfile Healthcheck
• Update Dependencies

Docs 📖

• Update OIDC-Guides.md by @Cherryblue in https://github.com/voidauth/voidauth/pull/162

Screenshots

This release includes the first outside contribution to the project as well as the first sponsor! The VoidAuth repository also blew up a bit over the week, going from ~200 to ~600 stars on GitHub. I have no idea why, but seems pretty cool! Thank you to everyone who engages with VoidAuth in any fashion, you are all greatly appreciated 😊

Don't let me catch you in here being silly

Leaving the EU has reduced Britain’s GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study

The latest such assessment comes in the form of a paper from the US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). This concludes that Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6pc to 8pc, far more than most previous estimates.

Investment is worse off by between 12pc and 18pc, employment by between 3pc and 4pc, and productivity also by between 3pc and 4pc. There have been few more devastating assessments than this.