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Impressive how well put these words are, though I'm afraid they're spoken to deaf ears (is that a saying in English too?).

Reacting to the EU’s decision not to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, Agnès Callamard Amnesty International’s Secretary General said:

“The EU’s refusal to suspend its agreement with Israel is a cruel and unlawful betrayal – of the European project and vision, predicated on upholding international law and fighting authoritarian practices, of the European Union’s own rules and of the human rights of Palestinians.

“European leaders had the opportunity to take a principled stand against Israel’s crimes, but instead gave it a greenlight to continue its genocide in Gaza, its unlawful occupation of the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and its system of apartheid against Palestinians.

“The EU’s own review has clearly found that Israel is violating its human rights obligations under the terms of the Association Agreement. Yet, instead of taking measures to stop it and prevent their own complicity, member states chose to maintain a preferential trade deal over respecting their international obligations and saving Palestinian lives.

“This is more than political cowardice. Every time the EU fails to act, the risk of complicity in Israel’s actions grows. This sends an extremely dangerous message to perpetrators of atrocity crimes that they will not only go unpunished but be rewarded.

“Victims are entitled to far more than empty words. Member states must now take matters into their own hands and unilaterally suspend all forms of cooperation with Israel that may contribute to its grave violations of international law, including a comprehensive embargo on the export of arms and surveillance equipment and related technology, and a total ban on trade with and investment in Israel’s illegal settlements in the OPT.”

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With the sighting of a Eurasian otter, Tangkulap Forest Reserve becomes the only place in Malaysia where all four East Asian otter species coexist. The three others are the smooth-coated (Lutrogale perspicillata) and Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus), both listed as vulnerable, and the endangered hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana).

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As apex predators in rivers and waterways, otters are indicators of ecosystem health and are very sensitive to changes in their environment.

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Why all the downvotes??

Well it's either that or taxing big tech soo

~~Only~~ at least, yes

Schoolchildren have been arrested by detectives investigating Russian and Iranian plots against Britain, a police chief has said, as he warned hostile state aggression was rising and youngsters were at risk.

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan police’s counter-terrorism unit, said children in their “mid teens” had been investigated. It is understood they were suspected of being hired by criminals paid to carry out acts for Russia and Iran.

Russia, Iran and China are behind most of the hostile state action Britain faces, police said, which has increased fivefold since 2018, when Russian agents used the military grade nerve agent Novichok to try to assassinate a defector in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Depends on the lifespan of said treadmill /s

Thanks for sharing, i read someone earlier Russia did exactly this to a train station. Days before they accused Ukraine of having plans to bomb it (not sure why, but surely they made up something), then bombed it themselves. Though I forgot if they accused Ukraine of doing it or they switched their narrative. Point being, nice to have a word for things like that.

Edit: I wrote the comment above before opening the pdf and learning that the event is also covered in the report. What I wrote above isn't the best summary (check the pdf if you want to know the details), but what is more relevant is this (also quoted from the pdf linked above):

Both Bellingcat and HRW have characterised the attack as a violation of the laws of war and an apparent war crime. Similarly, the Ukrainian NGO Media Initiative for Human Rights has classified the Kramatorsk attack as a war crime, emphasising that the targeting of a railway station with indiscriminate weapons during a civilian evacuation did not result in any discernible military advantage, but instead inflicted severe harm on the civilian population.

An article was posted in this community 3 days ago titled The Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner by the New York Times about how "a criminal gang in Britain was directed to target Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a dissident Russian who owns Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair". This is what I commented on that post:

Just 2 days ago there were two articles posted in this community. One called Russian propaganda group Storm-1516 is using identities of real journalists to target Moldova, Armenia, and France and the other by AP news titled Intelligence officials worry a sabotage campaign blamed on Russia is growing more dangerous which was about a fire at a warehouse in east London storing equipment for Ukraine, plotted by Russian linked to the secret service. They wrote the following: "The fire is one of more than 70 incidents linked to Russia that The Associated Press has documented since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022". I earlier wrote comments on posts some of those 'incidents', this is what I commented below the two posted articles i linked above:

3 days ago someone posted a link to an article by The Insider titled Polish researchers trace Baltic GPS disruptions to Russian military sites in Kaliningrad about finding the source of navigational system failures (by either spoofing or jamming coordinates) on thousands of aircraft and ships in the baltic sea and the airspace of the surrounding countries. This is what I commented on that post:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article by france24 titled The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden on how Russia is suspected to use the Moscow Patriarchate church as a platform for espionage. Recently I commented on a few posts about Kremlin-related activities in Europe. Below is a copy of what I commented the last time:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article on news.err.ee titled Arson attack on Ukrainian restaurant in Estonia ordered by Russian intelligence, I decided it would make sense to copy my comment on that article here.

5 days ago someone posted link to an article by united24media titled Russian Saboteurs Reportedly Torch German Military Trucks in Erfurt in Brazen Attack on NATO Soil. I thought it'd be nice to copy my comment on that post.

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article in The Sun, it's headline was Britain’s migrant crisis being fuelled by Putin’s Russia and other hostile states in secret plot to destabilise UK; I feel I might just as well copy and paste my comment to that post:

The amount of shit Russia pulls without getting any kind repercussion truly astonishes me.

Acount is 2 hours old, all of his comments on multiple instances were removed by mods. Guess it shows moderation is working well on Lemmy.

EU plans to raise more money for Ukraine by putting frozen Russian state funds into riskier investments would amount to “expropriation”, the institution holding the bulk of the assets has warned. Euroclear chief executive Valérie Urbain told the Financial Times that plans to reinvest cash generated by the assets to yield higher profits could risk further retaliation from Moscow, and undermine the central securities depository’s key position in the financial system.

“If you increase the revenues, you increase the risks. And so who is bearing that risk?” Urbain said in an interview.

The European Commission is considering how to extract more value from some €191bn in Russian central bank assets stuck at Euroclear because of western sanctions. Euroclear is reinvesting the cash arising from Russia’s maturing assets — such as coupon payments and redemptions — mainly through central banks. The G7 is using the returns to back a $50bn loan to Kyiv.

If you accuse other of doing something that you're doing yourself you can make what you're doing sound less bad because 'everybody else' does it too. You can also confuse people because if only one of them is true, who should you trust? Maybe none of it is true.