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A Pakistan court on Friday convicted former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in a landmark graft case, sentencing Khan to 14 years in prison.

Khan has been held in custody since August 2023 charged with around 200 cases but his party claim the latest conviction was being used to pressure him into stepping back from politics.

"I will neither make any deal nor seek any relief," Khan told reporters inside the court room after his conviction.

The anti-graft court convened in the jail where Khan is being held near the capital Islamabad, and convicted the couple for graft linked to a welfare foundation they established together called the Al-Qadir Trust.

"The prosecution has proven its case. Khan is convicted," said Judge Nasir Javed Rana, announcing a 14 year sentence for Khan and seven years for Bibi.

Faith healer Bibi, who was recently released on bail, was arrested at the court after the conviction, her spokeswoman Mashal Yousafzai.

Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said it would challenge the verdict.

The conviction comes a day after a rare meeting between PTI leaders and the government aimed at easing political tensions.

ie. that paginates the feed? I realise that Lemmy clients modeled their design after the for-profit apps, but the incentives that lead to infinite scroll are now gone.

Edit: while I'm at it, I wanted to say that I think it'd be a cool feature if apps supported sharing your blocklists.

Comrades I challenge you to find the stupidest, most convoluted way to run a Windows app !

The rules are :

• You start with Windows and end with a Windows app
• All steps must be different, so no using 4 different VM software

Here is my entry, with a score of 9 beautifully stupid steps :

• Windows > WSL > WSL Wayland compatibility layer > Linux Wayland session > XWayland > QEMU > macOS > Wine > Windows app !

Can anyone do better ? I'm sure whoever get the highest score will gain eternal fame !

Summary

The FDA authorized the sale of 10 Zyn nicotine pouch flavors, marking the first approval of nicotine pouches as a smoking alternative.

Regulators cited evidence that Zyn helps adult smokers reduce or quit cigarettes and contains fewer harmful ingredients than traditional tobacco products.

Critics warn flavored pouches could attract youth, but FDA data shows low teen usage.

Zyn, which does not contain tobacco, competes with similar products like Altria’s On.

The decision adds to debates over flavored nicotine products and their public health impacts.

'Far Too Little, Far Too Late,' Say Critics as Biden Finally Removes Cuba From Terror List

Starship Flight 7: SpaceX reports the Ship vehicle is lost after premature engine shutdown during ascent and telemetry loss.

'At this point we are assuming that we have lost the Ship,' SpaceX's Dan Huot says.

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Random love for Fedora post. I distro hopped so much. Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Fedora, Manjaro, Fedora, Arch, Fedora, EndeavourOS, back to Fedora. I learned so many things. However, there was one app that I used every time to hop.

Fedora Media Writer.

I used all of the different USB boot writers. Ubuntu's would only write Debian derivatives. Maybe I'm dumb for the random Linux hate idk. Through all of it I saw Fedora Media Writer and it worked every time. It didn't discriminate on distro. I used it to write Arch, Debian, Endeavor, whatever.

The point is that it worked. Always. You can get pretty much any DE you can think of also. I wouldn't say it's "bleeding edge" which is an over used term, but for point release it's pretty damn close.

Fedora has been tried and true. I went with Budgie this time around. Looking forward to the Qt switch. It's my in-between of KDE, which is amazing, and Cinnamon, which I think is super underrated. Both pretty traditional with their own flavor.

Shout out to EndeavourOS though if anyone wants to try basically vanilla Arch with admin tools and without the nasty install. Loved it but I work alot and don't have the time to monitor Arch updates. They made it the easiest though. Can't recommend them enough in the Arch based realm.

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Or, as my wife said, sun's hot.

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country faces a rapidly ageing population and persistently low birth rates.

Once the world's most populous country, China was overtaken by India in 2023, with Beijing seeking to boost falling birth rates through subsidies and pro-fertility propaganda.

The population stood at 1.408 billion by the end of the year, Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics said, down from 1.410 billion in 2023.

The decline was less sharp than the previous year, when it was more than double the fall reported for 2022, data showed.

China ended its strict "one-child policy", imposed in the 1980s over overpopulation fears, in 2016 and started letting couples have three children in 2021.

But that has failed to reverse the demographic decline for a country that has long relied on its vast workforce as a driver of economic growth.

Many say falling birth rates are due to the soaring cost of living, as well as the growing number of women going into the workforce and seeking higher education.

Population decline is likely to continue due to gloomy economic prospects for young people and as Chinese women "confront entrenched labour market gender discriminations", Yun Zhou, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, told AFP.

People over 60 are expected to make up nearly a third of China's population by 2035, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research group.

Data released on Friday showed that the population aged 60 and over reached 310.31 million -- just a few percentage points short of a quarter of the country and an increase from nearly 297 million recorded in 2023.

However, the data also showed China's birth rate -- among the lowest in the world -- ticked up slightly from the previous year to 6.77 per 1,000 people.

"This uptick is unlikely to last, as the population of childbearing-age women is projected to decline sharply in the coming decades," said Zhao Litao, a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute. "In the long term, the trends of declining births, overall population contraction, and rapid ageing remain unchanged."

He Yafu, an independent demographer in China, put the uptick in births down to women who deferred having children during the Covid-19 pandemic giving birth. There was also an increase in marriages in 2023 and 2024, the auspicious Year of the Dragon. However, "the general trend of total population decline won't change", He told AFP. "Unless strong policies to encourage childbirth are introduced... the proportion of the elderly population will continue to rise."

The world's second-largest economy now has to contend with slowing growth, while a fast-greying population and a baby bust have piled pressure on pension and public health systems.

. . . and I guess it said this somewhere (though not explicity), but after paying $22.89 for a 20-track album, I'm only allowed to download like 11 of the 20 tracks for rights reasons. What complete and utter bullshit. Caveat emptor. Anyone know how I can pull the flac files off the Qobuz player? Grrr.