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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/bluewing on 2025-08-22 21:52:19+00:00.

I spent an hour trying to remember the keyboard shortcut to show hidden files today. I had to finally use Phind to search for the the keys-- ctrl-h

Time to send me off the island.

Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Friday ruled out an immediate meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, as diplomatic tension with the Ukrainian president escalated and US mediation efforts appeared to stall.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said "no meeting" between Vladimir Putin and Zelensky was planned, as NATO chief Mark Rutte visited Kyiv, largely to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump had raised expectations for a swift summit between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents by saying earlier in the week they had agreed to meet, but on Friday compared the two men to "oil and vinegar".

"They don't get along too well, for obvious reasons," he told reporters in Washington.

Lavrov also poured cold water on hopes for direct Putin-Zelensky talks to resolve the conflict, now in its fourth year, by questioning the Ukrainian president's legitimacy and repeating the Kremlin's maximalist claims.

"There is no meeting planned," Lavrov said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker".

Lavrov told the US broadcaster Putin was "ready to meet Zelensky" as soon as an agenda was prepared, adding that the agenda was "not ready at all".

In Kyiv, speaking alongside Rutte, Zelensky said Ukraine had "no agreements with the Russians", saying Ukraine had agreed only with Trump on how the diplomatic direction could proceed.

On Thursday, he had accused Russia of "trying to wriggle out of holding a meeting", adding that Moscow wanted to continue the offensive.

The question of eventual security guarantees for Ukraine has been front and centre during the latest US-led diplomatic push to broker a peace deal to end the conflict.

Trump earlier said Russia had agreed to some Western security guarantees for Kyiv.

But Moscow later cast doubt on any such arrangement, Lavrov saying on Wednesday that discussing them without Russia was "a utopia, a road to nowhere".

"When Russia raises the issue of security guarantees, I honestly do not yet know who is threatening them," said Zelensky, who wants foreign troops in Ukraine to deter Russian attacks in the future.

The Kremlin has long said it would never accept that, citing Ukraine's NATO ambition as one of the pretexts for its assault.

"There are several principles which Washington believes must be accepted, including no NATO membership, including the discussion of territorial issues, and Zelensky said no to everything," Lavrov told NBC.

On a visit to Kyiv, during which an air raid alert sounded across the city, Rutte said security guarantees were needed to ensure "Russia will uphold any deal and will never ever again attempt to take one square kilometre of Ukraine".

Russia violated that first by taking Crimea in 2014, and then by starting a full-scale offensive in 2022, which has killed tens of thousands of people and forced millions to flee their homes.

It was about the Election Rigging Response Act. Looks like Obama made the boss call and the DNC has their man. Ger ready for 2.5 years of liberals telling us Gavin is the "only person" who can defeat Trump.

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A deadly explosion at a U.S. Steel coke plant near Pittsburgh has brought renewed attention to the steel industry’s aging facilities. Steelworkers and community activists say the Trump administration has put their health at risk by delaying and potentially scrapping pollution monitoring rules meant to protect nearby neighborhoods from dangerous toxins released into the air by the nation’s steel…

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Drop Site Daily: August 22, 2025

Israel has killed 52 Palestinians since dawn, as the UN officially declares a full-blown famine in Gaza that threatens to starve more than half-a-million people. New reports highlight the extent of torture, famine, and medical shortages—leading to painful surgeries without anesthetic—in the Gaza Strip. Hamas heads to Doha, signalling its continued willingness to Gaza on the same day Netanyahu says he will “take over Gaza” The State Department plans to ramp up surveillance of visa seekers. ICE plans to spend millions on gilded SUVs bearing the phrase “DEFEND THE HOMELAND.” Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan gets bail on the same day his niece is abducted. The FBI raids the home and office of John Bolton, former national security adviser in Trump’s first administration.

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Graham Platner wants to oust Sen. Susan Collins — and disrupt national Dems’ plans to unite around Gov. Janet Mills.

By Holly Otterbein
08/19/2025

Platner is running on several progressive tenets — though he rejects the label “liberal” — and his announcement sets up the possibility of a clash between Democratic Party factions over generational change, Israel and other issues. In an interview with POLITICO, Platner said he would not support Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader if Democrats managed to take back control in the 2026 midterm elections.

Platner embraced a number of progressive causes in his announcement video, calling for universal health care, saying “the enemy is the oligarchy,” and asking, “Why are we funding endless wars and bombing children?” He also zeroed in on high prices, a top concern of voters and one that helped fuel Mamdani’s rise in New York City.

Cali (Colombia) (AFP) – Colombia's defense minister vowed Friday to defeat "desperate" armed groups after twin guerrilla attacks killed 19 people and deepened the country's worst security crisis in decades.

Minister Pedro Sanchez huddled with top security officials in the tropical city of Cali, where a truck bomb exploded on a busy street killing six and wounding 60 on Thursday afternoon.

Although the vehicle-mounted cylinder bombs detonated near a military aviation school, all of the victims were civilians, the authorities said.

"All of a sudden, something incredibly powerful exploded and everyone fell to the ground," eyewitness Jose Burbano told AFP.

Just hours earlier, guerrillas in the northwest of the country used rifles and drones to down a police helicopter, leaving 13 officers dead.

Despite the attacks, Sanchez claimed the military was making inroads against armed groups on several fronts.

"The impact on criminal groups has been to drive them to a state of desperation" he said.

Sanchez said that in five areas of operation, extortion, murders and child recruitment had fallen, so "they attack with the most criminal and insane weapon that exists: terrorism."

President Gustavo Petro's leftist government has blamed both attacks on guerrilla groups that split from the once-powerful Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in rejection of a 2016 peace accord.

"We are facing an international mafia, with armed gangs here," Petro said around midnight Thursday.

But he is facing mounting questions about security failings, and his strategy of engaging rather than fighting armed groups.

"This is an intelligence failure that has to be corrected," Cali mayor Alejandro Eder told local radio Friday, revealing that a second truck bomb had failed to go off.

"If both had exploded, the situation would have been infinitely worse" he said.

Police said they had taken one of the suspected attackers into custody after he was apprehended by the public at the scene.

Named only as "Sebastian," the man was said to be a member of the Central General Staff (EMC) dissident guerrilla group.

Colombia's 2016 peace deal brought relative tranquility to the country after decades of armed conflict that had killed hundreds of thousands of people.

But it also spurred an alphabet soup of dissident guerrilla groups, paramilitaries and cartels that rejected peace and continue to vie for control of territory and the lucrative cocaine trade.

Guerrillas have been blamed for dozens of recent attacks, including the assassination of a conservative presidential candidate, which have left Colombians wondering whether this is a return to the bad old days.

Laura Bonilla, an analyst with the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, said dissident groups were trying to "destabilize the country."

"What they want is to put the government on the ropes and generate a climate of fear that has a lot to do with the 2026 elections," she told AFP.

Next May, Colombia will elect a new president. Petro, who has led the country's first-ever leftist government, is constitutionally barred from running again.

Security, along with bread and butter economic issues, looks set to dominate the campaign.

Under Petro, Colombian cocaine production, which funds many rebel operations, has hit record highs according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.