Gaza Children Traumatised by Bombardment With Ground War to Start

GAZA (Reuters) – Gaza’s children are showing ever more signs of trauma two weeks into Israel’s intense bombardment, parents and psychiatrists in the tiny, crowded enclave say, with no safe place to hide from the falling bombs and little prospect of respite. Children make up about half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population, living under near constant bombardment with many packed into temporary…

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Greek President Cuts Short Moldova Trip After Train Collision

CHISINAU (Reuters) – Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said on Wednesday she was cutting short a visit to Moldova to return to Greece following a train collision in which officials said at least 36 people were killed. “Unfortunately, I have to interrupt my visit in order to be close to my people, to support those who need it,” she told a joint news conference in the Moldovan capital…

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I just wanna make art, drink matcha and look like Bella Hadid.

For Ukrainian Fighters Eurovision Win Heralds Coming Victory Over Russia | World News

For Ukrainian Fighters Eurovision Win Heralds Coming Victory Over Russia | World News

(Reuters) – Gathered in a basement used as safe quarters north of Kyiv a small group of Ukrainian soldiers joyfully watched their country win the Eurovision Song Contest, saying it heralded their coming victory in the war to evict Russian forces from Ukraine. The Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision with their entry “Stefania”, surfing a wave of popular support from all around Europe to claim an…

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I based these on the quotes most mentioned in the notes of that post about that telegraph article (btw jkr didn't even win the vote. Dickens did)

edit to show my tags: #i just really love books and want a collection of everyones favorite quotes#feel free to mention quotes that arent in english! it did say world literature

edit 2: I made another poll with non english quotes. And obviously you can make your own version

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons. The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret. The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.

. . . continues at the guardian (24th of may, 2010)

here's also a research paper published in 2004, which, looking at declassified south african documents, lays out apartheid south africa's rational for acquiring nuclear weapons (bombing, or 'deterring,' black liberation groups):

Exclusive-Argentina in Talks With IMF to Ease Reserves Targets Amid Drought - Sources

By Jorgelina do Rosario and Jorge Otaola LONDON (Reuters) – Argentina’s government is in final talks with International Monetary Fund officials to ease foreign exchange reserves targets for 2023 under the country’s $44 billion program, two sources close to the matter told Reuters. The move comes as the South American commodities exporter is facing the worst drought in 60 years, which has…

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projecting on luffy again. get bited.

Russia Welcomes Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, Says Humanitarian Pauses Are Only Way Forward

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia welcomed a ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Palestinian conflict on Wednesday and said humanitarian pauses were the only way to make progress towards a settlement. Israel’s government and Hamas agreed earlier on Wednesday to a ceasefire in Gaza for at least four days, to allow in aid and release at least 50 hostages captured by militants in exchange for at least 150…

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fighting back? against who? they're so happy—they've been waiting for you.

you are wonderful. don't you know that?

bonus: they play sims together :)

pelican town, ‘72

2 Dead, Many Wounded in Norway Shooting; Pride Events Halted | World News

2 Dead, Many Wounded in Norway Shooting; Pride Events Halted | World News

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Two people were killed and more than a dozen injured early Saturday when a man opened fire outside a bar popular with the LGBTQ community in Norway’s capital, Oslo, police said. The events occurred in the early hours as the city was gearing up for its annual Pride parade. Organizers canceled all Pride events planned for Saturday on the advice of the police. A suspect was…

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