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For over a decade, the UK has been a safe haven for Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems. Before embarking on direct action, I believed that, with facts, reason and a popular movement behind us, we would be able to shift our government and public bodies into divesting from and imposing sanctions on Israel’s apartheid regime.

The issue wasn’t just that our pleas were falling on deaf ears – it was that we were appealing to the very institutions which were responsible for driving the colonisation of Palestine. With the “democratic process” failing to create change, and with Elbit continuing to manufacture Israeli weapons on British soil, I was left with two options: continue with tactics which were failing or take direct action to shut Elbit down.

I, and many others, chose the latter option. That’s what led to the formation of Palestine Action and, ultimately, to me being sat in a dock for six weeks on trial in Snaresbrook Crown Court.

Not only were our actions effective in disrupting Elbit’s weapons production and building a global movement – it allowed us to expose Elbit’s crimes in court. To top it off, three companies ended their links with Elbit during the trial. It took a two year campaign for Fisher German to end their property management of UAV Engines, two months for iO associates to stop recruiting Elbit staff and a day for Naked Creativity to end their web hosting services for Elbit’s Leicester factory.

Ukraine said Saturday that it was questioning two wounded soldiers it claimed are North Koreans taken prisoner while fighting for Moscow in Russia's Kursk region.

"Our soldiers captured North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region. These are two soldiers who, although wounded, survived and were brought to Kyiv, and are talking to SBU investigators," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media, referring to the country's security service.

Kyiv did not present direct evidence that the men are North Korean and AFP was unable to independently verify the prisoners' nationality.

Neither Russia nor North Korea has reacted to the claim.

The SBU said the men told interrogators they were experienced army soldiers, and one said he was sent to Russia for training, not to fight.

It released a video showing the two men in hospital bunks, one with bandaged hands and the other with a bandaged jaw. A doctor at the detention centre says the first man also had a broken leg.

Ukraine released no audio recording of the prisoners but said they were talking through Korean interpreters working "in cooperation" with South Korea's National Intelligence Service.

Zelensky said Saturday that it was difficult to capture North Koreans alive because "Russians and other North Korean soldiers finish off their wounded" to cover up "evidence of the participation of another state, North Korea, in the war".

He said he would provide media access to the prisoners of war because "the world needs to know what is happening".

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga wrote on X that the "first North Korean prisoners of war are now in Kyiv", calling them "regular DPRK troops, not mercenaries".

"We need maximum pressure against regimes in Moscow and Pyongyang," he wrote.

The SBU claimed the men's capture provided "indisputable evidence of the DPRK's participation in Russia's war against our country".

It said one POW carried a Russian military ID card "issued in the name of another person" while the other had no documents. It showed an ID issued to a 26-year-old man from Russia's Tyva region bordering Mongolia.

Ukraine has said Russia is hiding North Korean fighters by giving them fake IDs from regions such as Tyva with large ethnic minority communities. "The Russians are giving these Koreans their documents, but they are not fooling anyone," Zelensky said.

One prisoner said he received the Tyvan ID in Russia in autumn 2024 when some North Korean combat units had "one-week interoperability training" with Russian units, the SBU said. The man said he believed he was "going for training, not to fight a war against Ukraine", adding that he was a rifleman born in 2005 and had been in the North Korean army since 2021.

The other man wrote his answers because of an injured jaw, saying he was born in 1999, joined the army in 2016 and was a scout sniper, the SBU said.

Update 20250112

South Korea's National Intelligence Service on Sunday backed up Ukraine's account of having captured two wounded North Korean soldiers this week in Russia, after Kyiv said they were being questioned.

The NIS similarly said one of the captured soldiers revealed during his interrogation that he received military training from Russian forces after arriving there in November.

"He initially believed he was being sent for training, realising upon arrival in Russia that he had been deployed," the NIS said.

The soldier said North Korean forces had experienced "significant losses during battle".

According to Seoul's intelligence agency, one of the men "went without food or water for 4 to 5 days before being captured".

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20250112-seoul-confirms-ukraine-captured-two-north-korean-soldiers

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A drone collision grounded one of two Super Scooper planes battling Los Angeles wildfires, leaving a critical resource unavailable.

The collision damaged the aircraft's wing, forcing its grounding, and temporarily paused other firefighting flights, creating significant delays.

The FAA emphasized the dangers of flying drones near wildfires, noting it’s a federal crime with penalties up to $75,000 and prison time.

Over 36,000 acres have burned, with officials warning that delays in air support allow wildfires to spread rapidly, endangering lives and property.

if I page someone (@user@instance) from my instance to a different one, the user often does not get any notification. what's the standard way of paging another instance's users?

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