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@lemmy.worldhttps://www.reuters.com/world/germany-has-stopped-approving-war-weapons-exports-israel-source-says-2024-09-18/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hezbollah-pagers-explode-injured-israel-iran-b2614334.html
A Hezbollah official said the explosions were the biggest security breach the group had experienced in nearly a year
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/18/japan-faces-demographic-crisis-as-elderly-count-hits-record-high-.html
Japan's number of people aged 65 and over has reached a record high, cementing it as the worlds most elderly country, according to government statistics.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strikes-hit-multiple-targets-lebanon-2024-09-19/
https://apnews.com/article/eu-migration-hungary-fines-funds-asylum-bef928922abffa280bb1bb245fd5f448
The European Union has begun the process of clawing back hundreds of millions of euros in funds meant to go Hungary.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-sends-soldiers-alaska-amid-russian-military-activity-113792347
The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching the state
https://apnews.com/article/mpox-new-strain-outbreak-kamituga-eastern-congo-f9affb7a7d73c8c30daf296c51c920c7
More than 6,000 peoplehave contracted the disease in South Kivu province, officials suspect, in what the World Health Organization has labeled a global health emergency.
https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-first-person-sentenced-under-new-security-law/a-70265142
Chu Kai-pong was convicted for wearing a "seditious" t-shirt. A new law has greatly increased the penalties for acts deemed seditious by the courts.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/sweden-charges-a-woman-with-war-crimes-for-allegedly-torturing-yazidi-women-and-children-in-syria-1.7043982
Swedish authorities on Thursday charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria — in the first such case of a person to be tried in the Scandinavian country.
https://apnews.com/article/moo-deng-baby-hippo-thailand-zoo-27485f0cbc70071252be45d870d507aa
Only a month after the adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally.