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16+ min ago (286+ words) Former President Castillo had the support of various groups from the Lima, central, and southern regions of the country, who gathered early in the morning to demand his acquittal and release in front of the Barbadillo Penitentiary, because they believe that "he has not been tried according to the law." It is evident that, in addition to seizing control of institutions such as the Ombudsman's Office and the Attorney General's Office, among others, a campaign of persecution has been launched, and legal proceedings have been initiated against potential candidates. Furthermore, the vote has been fragmented by the registration of 43 political parties that will compete in the upcoming elections. Thus, a report was approved disqualifying former Attorney General Delia Espinoza from holding public office for 10 years. Disciplinary proceedings were also initiated against prosecutor Jos" Domingo P"rez in retaliation for his…...

21+ min ago (1062+ words) The federal Labor government and the state Labor government in New South Wales (NSW) immediately responded to a small protest by the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN) last month with attacks on democratic rights that could be used far more broadly. The NSW Labor government rushed to introduce new laws, purportedly targeting Nazi ideology. The federal administration cancelled the visa of an NSN member from South Africa and is seeking his deportation." The response serves two purposes. First, the governments are covering up the extent to which their own anti-immigrant and nationalist policies have created a fertile environment for the far-right, including the NSN. Secondly, they are seeking to exploit widespread disgust with the Nazis to set precedents that could target political opposition, especially of a left-wing and socialist character. Those unstated motives are indicated by the highly dubious pretext…...

41+ min ago (691+ words) Despite intense efforts by New Zealand's trade union bureaucracy to demobilise and break up the strike movement that erupted in a nationwide "mega-strike" on October 23, thousands of workers are continuing industrial action against the far-right government's austerity agenda. The mass strike, the country's largest since 1979, saw more than 100,000 public sector workers'teachers, nurses, doctors and healthcare workers'mount a militant and unified one-day stoppage. The strike was a demonstration of the potential power of the working class, and an expression of enormous opposition to the attacks on wages and conditions by the National Party-led coalition government." The NZ union bureaucrats promptly moved to contain the developing movement and divert it into safe parliamentary channels. They did not schedule any further joint strikes and, while keeping each section of workers isolated, returned to negotiations seeking deals that would freeze wages and intensify the…...

42+ min ago (345+ words) The actress applauds Ben Feldman for being down to "get weird" and displaying the ego Alyssa might be competing with Note: This story contains spoilers from "I Love LA" Season 1, Episode 5. When Leighton Meester was first considering joining Rachel Sennott's "I Love LA'as Alyssa, the "unhinged" boss of Sennott's Maia, Meester was drawn by both Sennott's vision as the creator, star and co-showrunner, as well as the chance to embody a wackier role than usual. "There was a breakdown that was just like, "Your character is a woman in her 40s who talks while chewing on the phone and coughs a lot,' and I [was] like, "I like that "That's my dream role, to be honest," Meester told TheWrap. "You get to be like, obviously, over the course of a handful of episodes, a little wacky." While Meester noted Sennott and…...

55+ min ago (531+ words) On, November 10, 2025, we had our usual Monday evening general meeting on Zoom for Yves Engler's campaign. It takes place right after the Canadian Foreign Policy Hour which has been reduced to half an hour due to the campaign. At first, a few people would get lost when passing from one Zoom room to the next, but now the system is well oiled and we promptly get into the right Zoom room. First the good news: Yves' Eastern Canada tour went well. He appreciated the preparation and support in Toronto; he especially praised the clean-up following the event. Yes, tour support is not only pompoms and cameras! In Halifax, he found a lot of support for "homes not bombs. Parallel to the tour, messages appear on social media. For instance, Yves' "justice anchored peace, his "Land Back' reconciliation with Indigenous nations…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago (295+ words) Video Shows Israeli Forces Shooting Palestinians Moments after Surrender Far-right minister defends killing of two men who appeared to have given themselves up, saying 'terrorists must die' Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 10:30 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Israeli authorities are reviewing an incident in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, in which soldiers shot two people following a "surrender procedure," according to a joint statement by a military spokesperson and Israel Police.[image or embed] #1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-29 08:12 AM | Reply "Thanks for all the shekels, hardworking American taxpayers, keep'em coming! By the way, is your healthcare system as good as ours? Not even close! Hah!" Signed, Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu US funds that are causing misery and grief to human beings in Gaza and the West Bank: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu #2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-29 10:21 AM | Reply "The president's office said…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago (353+ words) A bride, 10 bridesmaids, a baby and two women were kidnapped during a night raid in Sokoto State. Armed attackers abducted 13 women and an infant during an overnight raid in northeastern Nigeria, marking the latest in a series of mass kidnappings in the West African nation. A bride and 10 of her bridesmaids were among those abducted on the night of Saturday to Sunday from the village of Chacho in Sokoto State, a resident told the AFP news agency. "Bandits stormed our village last night and kidnapped 14 persons, including a bride and 10 bridesmaids, from a house in Zango neighbourhood," said Aliyu Abdullahi, a resident of Chacho village. A baby, the baby's mother and another woman were also taken, Abdullahi added. According to Abdullahi, Chacho had already been targeted in October by bandits who kidnapped 13 people. "We had to pay ransom to secure…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (562+ words) A forty-person delegation from the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) travelled to Israel at the end of October to meet with its counterpart, the Histadrut, in Tel Aviv. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary of cooperation between the two union federations. The DGB carefully concealed the trip from workers in Germany. In this situation, the DGB clearly aligned itself with the Zionist Histadrut and against the Palestinian trade unions, which had urgently called for boycott actions against the genocide. It also opposed workers around the world who'supported by Israeli workers and by Jewish people across the globe'are organising strikes and boycott actions against Israel internationally. Addressing the Histadrut leaders present, Fahimi said: "In the past two years, the international trade unions have not made things easy for you. But for us you are a sister union, and it was always…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago (273+ words) President Donald Trump betrayed what many believed was a clue about a magnetic resonance imaging he underwent last month. "What part of your body was the MRI looking at?" the reporter asked "I have no idea, it was just an MRI- what part of the body?" Trump fired back. "It wasn't the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it " I got perfect part, which you would be incapable of doing! Goodnight, everybody. You, too!" Many social media users felt the president may have volunteered too much. "It was for sure an MRI on his brain, right?" said "The Young Turks" co-host Jordan Uhl. "If Trump denies they did a MRI of his brain, then it sounds like they did a MRI of his brain," opined Bluesky user Zobear. "90% probability MRI was on his brain," posted the…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago (942+ words) James Vanderbilt's new film'Nuremberg'centers on the International Military Tribunal of 22 Nazi leaders, the most famous of a series of trials of high-level Nazi officials after the Second World War. The new film is based largely on Jack El-Hai's 2013 book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, a nonfiction work that traces the investigation by US army doctor Douglas Kelley into the psychological state and fitness for trial of the defendants, particularly Herman G'ring, the number two figure in the Nazi regime after Adolf Hitler. A film that attempts to depict the Nuremberg Trials is certainly welcome at this moment, when genocide and fascist dictatorship have once more begun to threaten humanity.'Nuremberg'is very uneven as a depiction of a vital part of the history of the 20th'century. While it suffers from very serious weaknesses, it is also necessary to recognize several important…...