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Canada sanctions Russians involved in deportation of Ukrainian children. #RussianWarCrimes #RussianCrimesAgainstHumanity www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

🇲🇹 How does a party win a fourth straight election after 13 years in power? Dominic Fenech tracks Malta's May 2026 election: Labour's margin over the Nationalists halves but stays at 7 points, thanks to a booming economy and an opposition with no real policy alternative. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Questions are being asked after a Blaenau Gwent councillor who joined Reform UK with great fanfare last year quietly returned to being an Independent ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social

For the first time in almost fifty years, the only pandas on Japanese soil are plushies. Devoted fans are travelling to China to visit their beloved former guest Xiang Xiang (and don't forget they have Isao Takahata's Panda Kopanda #anime for consolation.) mainichi.jp/english/arti...

#OnThisDay in London educational history, 1911: National wave of schoolkids strikes hits Islington Deptford & Shoreditch, 1911. History Workshop article on the strikes: files.libcom.org/files/childr...

Georgian aviation authorities pledge full compliance with new US sanctions against a range of Iranian airlines and some of their enablers. Various Iranian airlines fly to Georgia. Meanwhile, Georgian aviation authorities show a lack of commitment re Russian airlines. civil.ge/archives/750...

"Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot JVM starts. Achieve this by compiling application code to native code in a training run, storing the native code in the AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs." 😍

NEW: Dozens of AI data centre projects will escape Australia's proposed energy & water restrictions which aren't expected apply to green-lit projects. While the Prime Minister said they're "smaller", these projects are generally bigger and power hungrier www.abc.net.au/news/...

Right-wing activists establish an unprecedented grip on local electoral infrastructure across battleground states. By replacing nonpartisan officials on county election boards, Trump allies secure the administrative authority to delay certifications and disrupt future midterm and presidential races.

Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.315/365 The final countdown!

Looks like the FOI Directory site, launched by @mattburgess1.bsky.social in 2012, is kaput? www.foi.directory (UK) Last Wayback Machine snapshot web.archive.org/web/20260802... Not sure if it was still being maintained at all, but was still useful

A species can be common in an ecosystem and still be doomed. If it can no longer reproduce, e.g. due to degradation or climate change, it's likely already facing extinctioning. Sometimes ecosystems reflect land-use decisions from 50y ago as much as today's. New piece on ghosts, debts, and credits.

MPs on both sides urge Commons not to take ‘extraordinary risk’ of forcing through assisted dying bill

Newsom signs legislation fining tech companies up to $1 million per child for negligence. The package bans addictive feeds for users under 16, requires pre-launch AI chatbot risk assessments, and lets families opt out of school-issued laptops.

"In a banking system with a $74trn balance-sheet, $54bn is a drop in a bucket. But that is the sum China’s Ministry of Finance plinked into eight state-owned lenders and insurers on September 6th, with most of it going to two giant banks." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Widespread Poverty in Gaza Is Forcing Children to Become Breadwinners “Here I am, thousands of miles away from my dreams,” said one 14-year-old. truthout.org/articles/wid...

My op-ed published at Al Jazeera: "In South Asia, America has stopped asking India for permission" The Pentagon’s return to “Pacific Command” signals a shift away from an India-centric South Asia strategy toward directly engaging others. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

"Very few people are trying to reach the heart these days... I feel strongly that there's a great dearth of the heart everywhere right now." 🎤 #JohnMartyn, British folk-rock-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, was #BOTD 11 September 1948. ▶️ youtu.be/ra_uv0uIY-g

New Dossier video just dropped, part 2 of their Prigozhin in Africa investigation. Subtitles available.

India examines its security landscape and strategic posture amid regional tensions and global conflict dynamics in the 2025 edition of "Facing War." #India

“A controversy around OpenAI’s latest math proof raises a fear that might become increasingly common: that A.I. tools could take valuable insights from one user and hand them to another.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said the agency that regulates TV "threatened" the show and that an interview with James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, will not air on TV but on YouTube—thus bypassing any control or regulation by the FCC. #USA www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced Trump's proposal to deliver $5,000 checks to Americans if Republicans hold their ground in the midterm elections, fearing the infusion of cash will only stir more inflation.

Poland averted a threat to one of its border ​crossings with Ukraine overnight and expects its crossings will ‌be targeted as Moscow strikes trade routes to try to weaken Kyiv economically, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. www.reuters.com/world/poland...

“If you’re technology challenged,” Jarvis said, “it doesn’t help that someone comes up with a technology-based solution.” This is the fundamental problem with shoving AI into everything The single biggest thing needed for better rural health is BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE