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In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.

President Donald Trump has accused Iran of shooting down a United States military helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, saying that he will respond to the attack.

“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday.

“There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/65844184

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48508563

April 19, 2026

Hundreds of supporters of the Cuban Revolution arrived in Cuba in March, as part of the Nuestra America Convoy, whose goal was to show solidarity with Cuba’s right to self-determination amidst a complete oil blockade and 67-year general blockade sponsored by the US government, operating with US taxpayers’ money.

Because Cuba refuses to bow to the Monroe Doctrine, aka the US government’s imperial project, US sanctions have sentenced the island to a slow genocide, which is playing out in real time currently with Cubans encountering on a daily basis: food shortages, blackouts that last for days and that have led to patients dependent on ventilators dying in hospitals, epidemics of diseases spread by mosquitos and more.

Longtime organizer Brenda Lopez of US Hands Off Cuba Committee recently returned, and is reporting back on how critical it is for people in the US to fight to end the blockades against Cuba, since our taxes are fueling this genocide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47947981

Like releasing his taxes? Like a universal healthcare plan? Like the Epstein Files?

Face it, Trump has planted the US face-to-ass into another forever war.

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As Iranian authorities carry out executions at a pace unmatched in decades, death row prisoners and political detainees across the country have sustained an extraordinary act of resistance: a weekly hunger strike against the death penalty that has continued for more than 120 consecutive weeks and spread to 56 prisons across the country.

For more than two years, prisoners across Iran have staged these weekly hunger strikes in protest against the state’s escalating and unlawful use of the death penalty. This campaign of resistance, by Iran’s most vulnerable people against the Islamic Republic’s most inhumane state practice, is known as “No to Execution Tuesdays.”

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The prisoners themselves made a conscious decision from the outset to reject distinctions between political prisoners, ordinary criminal defendants, drug defendants, qisas cases, and others facing execution, instead putting the spotlight where it should be—that all executions in Iran are carried out unlawfully, after sham prosecutions and unfair trials.

At a moment when executions in Iran have reached alarming levels and political hangings are rapidly increasing, these prisoners have sustained one of the most visible and enduring campaigns against the death penalty inside Iran.

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More Than 2100 Hanged in 2025: The Deadliest Year for Executions in Decades

The Islamic Republic of Iran is the leading per capita executioner in the world. In absolute numbers, it is second only to China.

Executions in the Islamic Republic violate every single international legal standard on the use of the death penalty. They are carried out for religious and political “crimes” and for drug offenses that are all impermissible under international law, and they are routinely handed down following grossly unfair trials, with defendants denied access to independent legal counsel and convicted solely on the basis of forced “confessions” that were extracted under torture.

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The executive body of the International Criminal Court decided on Monday to suspend Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor, disregarding a judicial panel's opinion that found no evidence of misconduct against him.

According to an official press release published late on Monday, a qualified majority of the 21-member bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) decided to suspend the prosecutor “with immediate effect” pending the final decision of the ASP as the competent decision-maker on the matter.

The decision was made under rule 28 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, which indicates that a two-thirds majority of bureau members present and voting recommended a finding of “serious misconduct”, paving the way for a vote at the larger ASP which first needs to uphold the decision, then vote on whether to remove the prosecutor.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48488873

ROME, June 8 (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors put Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir under investigation over the ​treatment of activists who were part of a Gaza flotilla last ‌month, a judicial source said on Monday.

The source, who asked not to be named, confirmed earlier reports by Italian news agencies and said Ben-Gvir was being investigated ​on suspicion of torture and kidnapping of Italian citizens who were ​among the activists.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48392218

June 5, 2026
[weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Major media outlets have largely told the story of Cuba's medical missions through the voices of U.S. officials, politicians and U.S. government-funded "experts" who portray Cuban doctors as victims of "forced labor." Rarely do audiences get to see the missions themselves — or hear directly from the doctors still serving in them.

In our latest documentary, From Cuba to Calabria, we follow Cuban doctors as they travel from the island to work in public hospitals in one of Italy’s poorest regions. The film offers a rare inside look at a Cuban medical mission, letting the doctors speak for themselves about why they volunteer to leave their families and travel thousands of miles to care for patients in another country.

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