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I don't want to search for a Syria thread and I feel like most foreign stuff is only going to get a few replies at this point unless it's really major like the Ukrainian war or Israel related. When something really big happens we should still do threads for them.


Assad is out and maybe dead in a plane crash. This is a big setback for Russia and Iran for the moment but the rebels are at least somewhat Jihadist so who knows what will happen there. Israel has taken the chance to seize some territory in the Golan Heights.
 
Tulsi Gabbard will be glad to know that Assad is safe and sound in mother Russia.
 
www.newsweek.com

India warned of "act of war" by Pakistan as relations collapse

The development follows the Pahalgam terror attack which killed more than 26 people, mostly tourists.
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Pakistan warned India on Thursday that it was committing an "act of war" by suspending a landmark water-sharing treaty in response to a deadly terror attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The threat from Pakistan Prime Minister's Office followed a number of diplomatic measures imposed by New Dehli on Islamabad as tensions flare between the neighboring nuclear powers.

On Thursday, India's Ministry of External Affairs "strongly advised" its citizens to avoid travel to Pakistan and those already there to leave "at the earliest. Pakistani nationals in India also had their visas revoked.
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Hopefully this won't lead to anything super serious but it's certainly not a great sign and America isn't likely to help play peacemaker here for SOME reason.
 
www.afr.com

Federal election results from Saturday 3rd May 2025: Anthony Albanese waves Medicare card to mark victory; Peter Dutton apologises to Liberals

Anthony Albanese says he’s ready to get back to work tomorrow after a resounding victory for Labor; Peter Dutton promises the party will rebuild. How the federal election night unfolded.
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Aussies return a Center-Left government and the right wing leader loses his seat. Everyone just wants to be like Canada eh?

More seriously it's nice to see and it seems like the backlash against incumbents is far less powerful than hatred and fear of Trump.
 
cobainwasmurdered said:
www.afr.com

Federal election results from Saturday 3rd May 2025: Anthony Albanese waves Medicare card to mark victory; Peter Dutton apologises to Liberals

Anthony Albanese says he’s ready to get back to work tomorrow after a resounding victory for Labor; Peter Dutton promises the party will rebuild. How the federal election night unfolded.
www.afr.com www.afr.com

Aussies return a Center-Left government and the right wing leader loses his seat. Everyone just wants to be like Canada eh?

More seriously it's nice to see and it seems like the backlash against incumbents is far less powerful than hatred and fear of Trump.
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We saw a global conservative swing in the last 6 years. I'd like to think the current state of the world is reminding people why that may have been a bad idea.
 
cobainwasmurdered said:
www.newsweek.com

India warned of "act of war" by Pakistan as relations collapse

The development follows the Pahalgam terror attack which killed more than 26 people, mostly tourists.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com



Hopefully this won't lead to anything super serious but it's certainly not a great sign and America isn't likely to help play peacemaker here for SOME reason.
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nationalpost.com

India fires missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory, killing at least 26

India said it struck infrastructure used by militants linked to April's massacre of tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
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Might be needing an actual thread at this rate. Lots of dead, heavy exchanges of fire, missile strikes. Looks like this could be heading to outright war.
 

Ceasefire now. Pakistan is claiming victory, The US is claiming their diplomatic intervention is why this ended, India is claiming Pakistan begged for an end, blah blah. Hopefully this is over for now.
 
Apparently they burned down a five star hotel. They were even nice enough to tell tourists to evacuate so there wouldn’t be any casualties. They didn’t just target any hotel either, it was allegedly owned by someone in the government who obtained it through corruption.
 
Also I’d say the Nepal situation warrants a thread, even though the western bias of the board causes it to not pay much attention to world events outside of our little bubble.
 
www.aljazeera.com

More than 130 killed: How did a Brazil raid on a Rio favela turn so deadly?

Residents of favelas gather bodies after police operation turns to 'slaughter' in predawn assault.
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This story is fucking nuts. The cops went in MASSIVE numbers like a military force and drove them into an ambush and killed over 100 of them. The regional government is claiming they "only" killed around 50 and it was a "battle". The other side is saying it was a massacre. The Federal government wasn't informed any of this was going to happen.
 

Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group.
The rapid advance of the jihadists in Africa comes after Islamist groups took power in both Afghanistan and Syria, but, if they take Bamako, it would be the first time militants with direct and current connections to al Qaeda achieve such a feat.
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I don't know that this will get much attention right now but it has the potential to be a big deal in the long term and cause a lot of suffering.
 
It's brown people fighting brown people so US media will ignore it. It's telling that the first I even heard of it was clicking on this thread.
 
www.theguardian.com

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
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there's rumors that he was going to escape to the US and Trump was involved but how valid that is, who knows. I wouldn't be shocked considering all of the pressure Trump has put on Brazil but it would be a giant scandal even for Trump.

It's great to see a leader actually pay for their crimes.
 
www.bbc.com

Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped

Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
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Justice Secretary David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape, murder, manslaughter or other cases passing a public interest test.

An internal government briefing, produced by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for all other Whitehall departments, confirms plans to create a new tier of jury-less courts in England and Wales.

The new courts would deal with most crimes currently considered by juries in Crown Court.

But the MoJ said no final decision had been taken by the government.
The plans, obtained by BBC News, show that Lammy, who is also deputy prime minister, wants to ask Parliament to end jury trials for defendants who would be jailed for up to five years.

The proposals are an attempt to end unprecedented delays and backlogs in courts, and do not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
The MoJ presentation, produced earlier this month, sets out that Crown Courts are facing record backlogs with more than 78,000 cases waiting to be completed.

In practice, this means that suspects being charged with serious crimes today may not have a trial until late 2029 or early 2030.

Officials predict in the document that the caseload will grow to more than 100,000 before then, unless there is further action.
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The backlog is insane but there has to be a better solution that just ending jury trials for everyone else.
 
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Adolf Hitler Slated For Landslide Victory In Namibia

A politician named Adolf Hitler is cruising toward another election win in Namibia. Adolf Hitler Uunona, 59, will likely secure his fifth term as councillor for the Ompundja constituency in northern Namibia when voters head to the polls Wednesday, according to Jewish Telegraphic agency citing...
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No surprise if Trump can't deflect or spin it then he reatreats/blames others/pretends he had no involvement.

abcnews.go.com

Trump backtracks on releasing boat strike video, distances himself from controversy

President Trump, after initially saying he had "no problem" with releasing the video of the Sept. 2 boat strike that killed two survivors, is now reversing course.
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President Donald Trump, after initially saying he had "no problem" with releasing the video of the Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea that killed two survivors, is now reversing course and deferring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

ABC Senior White House Correspondent Selina Wang asked the president in the Oval Office on Dec. 3, "Will you release video of that strike -- so that the American people can see for themselves?"

Trump responded, "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we’d certainly release no problem."

"I didn't say that," Trump claimed when pressed on Monday by ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott about his Dec. 3 comments.

"Whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me," Trump said on Monday.
 
www.cbsnews.com

Violence erupts in Mexico after cartel leader "El Mencho" killed in military operation

Mexico's Ministry of Defense security forces killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," in a military operation.
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"Because we're talking about someone that is almost at the same level as (Joaquin) "El Chapo" Guzman and (Ismael) "El Mayo" Zambada," he added. "(Oseguera Cervantes) is one of the biggest drug capos in the history of drug trafficking around the globe."
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I believe something has to be done about the cartels and Drug Lords obviously, but every time they take one down they're just replaced by someone worse or 5 of them. There has to be more done than just playing Whack-A-Mole.
 
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