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Police (uniformed and plain-clothed) seen firing into residential windows in Ongata Rongai, south west of Nairobi. Gunshots are echoing around the area. Allegedly chasing #SiriNiNumber / #June25th protesters. Happened here: -1.3968815, 36.7517607

A new, highly detailed and distressing Amnesty International report on the scam industry in Cambodia reveals the presence of several large facilities directly on the Thai border, adding a further dimension to the Thai-Cambodia border crisis that has been simmering for weeks.

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Syria: some of the most visited ancient archaeological sites by tourists were extensively plundered during the war: - Apamea (Hama province) 📸 1-2 - Dura-Europos (DeirEzzor province) 📸 3-4 Palmyra and Bosra suffered less damage.

so lovely to see this flag on DVIDS

Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, killed by a Russian missile, won a 2025 Orwell Prize for a book Looking at Women Looking at War. In Trostianets, she interviewed a woman who survived a Russian execution: shot at, thrown in a pit, awoke under two dead bodies, the Guardian. 1/

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

This is a massive story that's not getting nearly enough attention: Chinese diplomats had planned to physically attack the Taiwanese vice-president by ramming their car into her in Prague. Stunning. newsweek.com/china-planned-…

Masked agents arrested Iranian Christian asylum seekers in LA. They throw a sobbing woman on the ground. Their pastor tries to intervene, & is threatened with arrest. "We fled because of our faith" Good coverage from Andy Olsen in Christianity Today: christianitytoday.com/2025/06/ice-ar…

A full month of massacres. For those who don't (want to) believe what Palestinians are saying, what your eyes can see, or in the validity of Ministry of Health data (see image), then read for yourself what Israeli soldiers say about what's been happening. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

How does who somebody's grandfather was (whom they never met and who died in World War 2) have any bearing on their qualification for a job or security clearance in 2025? And what on earth does Jonathan mean by suggesting it proves 'Ukraine's ties to Nazism"? Madness.

Australia's Hong Konger community association is reporting that Hong Kongers who went for an English proficiency test (required for visas and university) were turned away for not putting "China" as their country of residence, despite Hong Kong being an option on the form.

This shows coverage of Google's Open Buildings dataset; they've masked out areas of conflict (for some reason) including West Papua. But they masked the province of "West Papua", but the conflict is mostly on 'mainland' west Papua Island. Another victim of Indonesian bureaucracy.

Name something more Nintendo than seeing users not liking a feature you built and instead of improving it, you just release a patch to force people into the feature they didn't like.