General World News

Blitz might need definition of terms table. Fraught and confusing otherwise

Welcome news to some that lived through those recent years.
Being held accountable, eventually, would be nice for once.

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An UNRWA official was among those killed in Latakia, along with whole families.
The Homs Latakia road has been blocked.
The UN has reported difficulties in getting its people to the regions and is mostly reliant on civilians informing the UN office in Damascus. Additionally the Caretaker Government has restricted Journalists access within Syria.
The UNSG has called on the caretaker government to investigate and bring to account the military responsible for the Latakia massacre of civilians. This has been supported by civilian protests in Damascus opposed to discrimination against minorities.

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Bring back Assad

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Now things are starting to make sense.

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Too many foreign actors actively engaged in combat in Syria and fostering internal division, in what is being labelled as a Civil War ,presented as bring down Assad regime and all will be well.

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Certainly not a land grab, and anyway who mentioned that?

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It was my first thought.

I am so confused…“In countries with no sugar tax, they contain much more glucose and often no glycerol at all, the authors say.”

I’d say that glycerol bypasses the tax definition of sugar and so they pour it into child marketed drinks to save a bit of cash.

The Phillipines Government seems to have used an Interpol red notice to justify shipping Duerte to the Netherlands where the ICC writ runs.
Good international citizen. It also serves to keep him away from domestic politics.

It’s interesting also that his daughter, current VP has dashed over to The Hague to provide legal counsel.
Asking for proof of charges, accusations of kidnapping.
It’s different when the shoe is on the other foot.

There are a lot of pinoys dancing in the street, a minority shouting support. It seems to be a generational thing, maybe. Those that remember Marcos hate him. Some younger generations drank the Koolaid.

My wife lost her uncle during Durterte’s reign of extrajudicial killings. He wasnt into drugs, just on the other side of local politics in Samar.

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Earthquake hits Naples. Theoretically not related to Vesuvius , but you’d be jumpy I reckon.

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Just after I finished Robert Harris’s Pompeii, which is an excellent read. Polanski was going to make a movie of it but it never eventuated.

Someone else made another version, not the Harris one, and apparently, it’s crap.

The Doctor Who about Pompeii episode was quite good.

NYT Paywall, but this sounds like an interesting read


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