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GOOD NEWS: For the first time in over 40 years, rhinos have returned to the wild in Uganda, after being wiped out by poaching in the 1980s!

BREAKING: Israel orders to accelerate demolition ​of Lebanese homes ​in 'frontline villages' 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/ohi6b8?update=…

This looks really serious. Russia has closed down the internet even in Moscow. GPS does not work, not even for taxidrivers. Modern Russians live of and with the internet. This Stalinist nonsense suggests that the authorities sense they are losing political control.

American tech oligarchs are universally despised, and rightly so. By constantly demonstrating that they will burn down society just to add another zero to their net worth, they have become the single best advertisement against unregulated capitalism

Apparently, and most conveniently, Morgan McSweeney's mobile phone with texts to Peter Mandelson was stolen. According to officials, these messages may now be lost forever, meaning there will be gaps in the Mandelson files released by Downing Street. The claim that the phone was nicked and reported to police last year is one thing... But text messages don’t just vanish into the ether. They were not only on McSweeney’s phone. They would also have been on Mandelson’s phone, servers, backups, WhatsApp servers, email archives, telecom records, and government systems. In the modern world, messages don’t disappear. They leave footprints everywhere. Phones get stolen. Cloud backups don’t. Telecom records don’t. Server logs don’t. Recipients’ phones don’t. So when we are told the messages are gone forever, what we are really being asked to believe is not that a phone was stolen. We are being asked to believe that every copy of those messages, everywhere, somehow vanished at the same time. That would be quite a coincidence. In politics, when the evidence disappears, it rarely disappears by accident.

ICE detained a dialysis patient the morning of her treatment. She died 36 hours later in a detention infirmary. They logged it as "natural causes." When policy kills, call it what it is.

For centuries, women and men in Afghanistan celebrated Nowruz side by side, marking the arrival of spring with joy and unity. This video, captured in Mazar-e-Sharif—the cultural heart of these celebrations—was filmed shortly before the Taliban’s return to power. Today, the Taliban have banned Nowruz festivities and excluded women from public celebrations, erasing a shared tradition that once brought communities together.

Because it would be crazy if a violent country led by religious zealots went to war to hasten the Apocalypse, right? … right?

This administration still finds way to shock. Trump's buddy was in a custody battle with his ex-girlfriend. So he called a top ICE official and asked she be detained. The ICE official calls the Miami office to pick the woman up from jail, telling them that "the case was important to someone close to the White House." She was deported. These people simply see government as a vehicle for advancing their own personal interests. There's no shame about it. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…

Google removing call buttons Google hiding links to websites It's almost like Google isn't a search engine anymore

@higashidanaoki2 maybe it would be nice to visit Bali

@higashidanaoki2 yes, maybe it would be useful to you to visit some other countries, if there is a way you could do that. everyone has rules, but they are different rules in other countries, and in some places they don't mind if you break the rules.

Don’t you think that having too many rigid rules about how we must respond ends up exhausting not only service users but also support staff? Rather than treating rules as absolute, I think it’s okay to revisit them and adapt them to the people involved.

The US is the world's biggest exporter of weapons of war with 42% of all arms transfers originating in the US - meanwhile Cuba is the biggest exporter of doctors and healthcare workers in the world, with nearly 30,000 doctors helping to save lives in over 50 countries. Basically, the country that exports death wants to destroy the country that exports life. This tracks.

@BlokeOnWheels all the money they make out of court fees and fishing licences is on top of that of course

40% of people claiming UC are in work, but have to claim because they aren't paid enough to live on without top ups. Also, the total Matthew is referring to here no doubt includes the state pension, I'm 100% sure that pensioners would be pretty pissed off if they knew he was talking about them. Finally, Matthew Elliott worked very closely with Truss when she was PM and was regarded as one of the main ideological driving forces behind her disastrous economic policy, you know the one that meant she had to resign after 6 weeks in office, and it would have been four weeks if the Queen hadn't died. So, I suggest we don't take him seriously

@SlopeOfHope ken griffins probably doing ok out of it

I wonder if the inbred hayseeds who put this man into office realize how badly they've been screwed yet.

Almost a week ago, US First Lady Melania Trump chaired a UN Security Council meeting on "children in conflict" while the US and Israel killing children in Lebanon, Gaza and Iran. Today, US envoy Tom Barrack, who is accused of raping children on Epstein Island, is chairing the UN Security Council on the human rights situation in the Middle East. This is the most hypocritical things we have seen in the history of the Security Council.

Great news. The economic inactivity rate has now equalled a record low. The press will no doubt be celebrating this amazing turn of events.

Ombudsman highlights failings at council after it made resident homeless dlvr.it/TRZlFp #ukhousing

This says everything you need to know about Reform - this was in Wales