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As a human, I wouldn't want to say it, but as a cringy dad, I would feel compelled.

KYIV — U.S. President Donald Trump finally labeled Russia the aggressor in the war against Ukraine, further demonstrating a hardening of his position toward Moscow.

Referring to Ukrainian and Russian troop casualties, Trump told reporters Sunday: “8,000 soldiers have died this week, from both countries. Some more from Russia, but when you’re the aggressor, you lose more.”

Trump has previously refused to condemn Moscow for the invasion, with his administration siding with Russia and North Korea in February to reject a U.N. motion backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemning Russia. The U.S also objected to a G7 statement calling Russia an aggressor in February. Trump has blamed Ukraine for the war, saying in April: “You don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

But Trump’s stance toward the Kremlin has changed over the summer, with his administration exerting increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as the Russian president stonewalls Trump’s efforts to broker direct peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

I'll usually first notice it sometime in the afternoon, a stale, rubbery, maybe sour smell on my hands, especially the fingertips. Like a weak version of the smell that develops after wearing rubber gloves, even though I hadn't touched gloves all day. Quite annoying and makes me want to grit my teeth. Washes off with soap and water 9 times out of 10, but I'm also not bothered enough to do anything about it until I bundle it with a trip to the restrooms. I've never been able to trace down the source and it's been that way through school, work, and since at least 10 years ago in general. Anyone else experience this or know what might cause it?

For years, conservatives on the court have claimed to be “colorblind.” Yet when it comes to criminalizing our communities, suddenly race matters. This is the contradiction at the heart of the Roberts Court: no race in college admissions, but race is admissible in immigration stops.

"it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state"

"I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide. I can't. It's as simple as that, and we shouldn't be able to do that. In this industry, and in any other industry,"

Court rules former president, sentenced to 27 years for coup attempt, must pay R$1m for ‘cockroaches’ comment in 2021

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/16/bolsonaro-damages-brazil

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Bogotá (AFP) – A Colombian court on Tuesday held seven leaders of the defunct Colombian guerrilla army FARC responsible for the kidnappings of tens of thousands of people during the group's half-century of war with the state.

The transitional court, which was set up under a landmark 2016 peace agreement signed by FARC, spared the seven prison time, ordering them instead to make reparations by working towards reconciliation.

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, known by its Spanish acronym JEP, took more than seven years to issue its findings against the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist group that waged a five-decade campaign of bombings, assassinations and kidnappings.

It found seven FARC commanders, including its last leader Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, alias Timochenko, guilty of 21,396 kidnappings.

The kidnappings constituted "war crimes, torture and cruel treatment," Judge Camilo Suarez told reporters in Bogota.

In a statement, the former FARC commanders described the kidnappings as "a moral burden that we will carry for many years" and said they were committed to the task of "repairing Colombian society."

The court ordered them to engage in eight years of activities to promote healing, to help locate missing victims of the conflict and to take part in mine clearance campaigns and other acts of restorative justice.

Their sentence is the maximum provided for under the peace deal.

But one prominent former FARC hostage, French-Colombian former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, said she felt "outraged, humiliated, mocked" by the ruling.

Betancourt was held by FARC for over six years in the jungle between 2002 and 2008.

The 63-year-old, who opposed the peace deal, accused the JEP of being "biased towards FARC."

Soldiers, police officers, businesspeople and political leaders were nabbed by FARC over the course of its bloody campaign for a communist state and whisked off to bases deep in the jungle, sometimes never to return.

Suarez, the JEP magistrate, said that kidnapping "became a systematic practice" under FARC that left "open wounds that persist in families, in (rural) territories and in the daily life of the country."

One person was held for 14 years.

The JEP added that the kidnapping victims were mistreated and humiliated and that some were treated like slaves by the guerrillas.

As part of the peace deal, FARC members agreed to confess to their crimes and make reparations to the victims in exchange for being spared prison and being allowed to engage in politics.

A number of politicians and paramilitaries accused of human rights abuses during the conflict have also confessed to their crimes.

But many Colombians, including numerous kidnapping victims, bitterly opposed the deal, seeing it as too lenient on FARC.

The accord was rejected in a referendum but later ratified by Congress.

JEP's ruling comes as Colombia suffers its worst violence in a decade, with FARC dissidents who refused the peace deal and other armed groups stepping up their attacks on the state after the collapse of peace talks.

Over 130 soldiers and police were killed in such attacks between January and mid-August, defence ministry figures show.

In one of the worst recent attacks, conservative presidential candidate Miguel Uribe was shot in the head at a campaign event by suspected FARC dissidents.

He died of his injuries two months later.

I am looking for a site or a service that just give me a title and a link for news stories.

Basically, if for example the news is Executive Order from Donald trump, I want them to just show debullshitted title and a link to the executive order.

Does that exists?

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Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage that blocked the street.

Robinson was suddenly flush with US funds that transformed him from rightwing agitator to self-styled “citizen journalist”, with slick videos and a vast social media following that helped his Unite the Kingdom demonstration draw 110,000 protesters to the streets of London on Saturday.

Money from one man – US tech billionaire Robert Shillman – ties Robinson to a Who’s Who of far-right influencers with millions of followers online. Among them was US conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was murdered in Utah last week.