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Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes A local in Tehran tell BBC Verify that the city has been turned into a

BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.

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Want another chance to contribute to Kirkcaldy's bid for UK Town of Culture? 💜

Vanessa Gibson is hosting a workshop at Greener Kirkcaldy on Wed 11th March, 6-8pm where participants can collage, draw & write to make a Community Artist's book to support the bid 📖

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Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings Children may be forcibly removed from the UK in handcuffs to “overcome noncompliance” as part of new proposals Home Office is considering to send more asylum seeker families back to their home countries. Since coming into office, the government has pledged to deport more migrants and has increased both voluntary and enforced returns, although some of those who have left the UK voluntarily did so without informing the Home Office. Continue reading...

Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs

Ryan Grim @ryangrim An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water. I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit. Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal • 10h The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts.

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To protect his herd, a shepherd & his herd have been walking for 2 days, fleeing the south. He is from Naqoura, Lebanon’s southernmost point, heading to west Bekaa. He expects to walk for 3 more days. The distance is 128km across hilly mountain terrain.

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They should send a bill to Joanne Rowling.

‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food

Puffins 😔 How very sad.
We really have made a mess of things ...
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Nearly 10,000 online and open access collections of historical documents relating to radical, labour and anti-colonial history are listed here.

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Nothing to Declare Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions...

By @tante.cc who is on point as always.

"So there is a new declaration in town called the “The Pro-Human AI Declaration“...before we go into the details, let’s look at who is pushing this for a second because the declaration keeps talking about how broad their coalition is"
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At least 13 hospital and health facilities in Iran hit since US-Israel attacks began, WHO says Global health body is following up reports that four medics have been killed among the 1,230 or more deaths in Iran since start of war * Middle East crisis – live updates At least 13 hospitals and other health facilities have been hit during the US-Israel attacks on Iran, global health chiefs have said. The World Health Organization said it was checking reports that four medics were killed and 25 others injured. Continue reading...

At least 13 hospital and health facilities in Iran hit since US-Israel attacks began, WHO says

EN DIRECT - Guerre au Moyen-Orient : le président libanais Joseph Aoun demande à Emmanuel Macron d’intervenir auprès d’Israël pour empêcher le bombardement du sud de Beyrouth La guerre au Moyen-Orient est entrée ce jeudi dans son sixième jour avec des bombardements israéliens sur la capitale iranienne et sur Beyrouth au Liban, où Israël se prépare à une incursion terrestre...

Aoun asks Macron to intervene after Israel bombs south Beirut

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Trump’s War With Iran Is Also a Climate War Fossil fuels are structurally embedded in modern warfare.

“The linkages flow in both directions. Wars unleash gargantuan amounts of planet-warming emissions…Those extra emissions drive deadlier heat…and other impacts that..[make] armed conflict more likely… Yet war has the perverse effect of pushing the climate story down the news agenda.”

What we know about the strike on a school in Iran as the death toll rises Iranian authorities said at least 168 people, many of them children, were killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab.

There were THREE strikes on the girls school in Minab in southern Iran. THREE. And the "military" compound it was located on - it had closed fifteen years ago. The school was there all on its own. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/k...

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

As per former Indian Foreign Sec Kanwal Sibal - the Iranian warship sunk by the US was effectively unarmed as it was returning from a naval exercise in India & protocol dictates that participating ships don't carry ammunition.

Good op ed in FT Lanka calling on the SL govt not to engage in diplomatic cowardice: www.ft.lk/ft_view__edi...

It's like when the fascist Oswald Mosley's grandson, who Palantir hired to run its UK operations, appeared on Laura Kuenssberg wearing a black T-shirt.

None of this is accidental: it's all answering the question, 'what message do I want to send?' 'Fascism to immigrants' is the message Mahmood does.

Look frankly there's no point increasing all this performative cruelty Shabanaji..reform voters won't vote for you.

The only point of this is to exploit and further impoverish already vulnerable people who will be driven to do desperate things. Does she think asylum seekers and refugees have massive offshore assets?

This is ridiculous. For the record when you are in this process you are fingerprinted regularly, and your records are excessively checked. You also already have to submit proof of English capacity. And they check bank and tax records. All this is already done. And there is already a 10 yr route.

Introduction: roaming and rooted – migration, religion, spirituality and the transnational lives of African youth This Special Issue examines the intersections of migration, religion, spirituality and the transnational lives of African youth, offering a decolonial and youth-centred perspective on mobility and ...

Delighted to share word of this special issue of @ersjournal.com co-edited by our own Dominic Pasura and colleagues. 'Roaming and Rooted' brings together 11 articles rethinking migration via lived religion/spirituality and African epistemologies across Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa & the UK.

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all | Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood

Proper pant gnomes logic here.

I didn't know about the proposed changes to student visas. That'll have an interesting impact on university admissions 😬

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Landslide kills over 200 people at Congo's Rubaya mine, mines ministry says More than 200 people died on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains ​at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic ‌of Congo, the country's mines ministry said on Wednesday.

Landslide kills over 200 people at Congo's Rubaya mine, mines ministry says reut.rs/4ra71O8

'We deserve a normal life,' Iranians tell BBC, as US warns it will strike deeper into country The Pentagon has confirmed that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

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'We deserve a normal life,' Iranians tell BBC, as US warns it will strike deeper into country

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

An anecdotal observation: many progressive ministers are running for office & winning suggesting the regime’s overt xtian nationalism is inspiring progressive xtians to fight back.

But, it seems like RW xtian nationalists have moved “separation of church & state” to “which Xtians are right”.