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For 2 Hours, a Soccer Match Offers Palestinians a Rarity: Joy


The national soccer team made it to the knockout stages of the Arab Cup for the first time, uniting fans from Gaza to the West Bank to Cairo to Arab cities in Israel.

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Dec. 12, 2025

In Gaza, nearly 50 men, teenagers and boys made their way through a stormy night and muddy, flooded streets to a makeshift cafe in a tent on the outskirts of Khan Younis, where a technician worked frantically to get the game’s livestream playing on a big TV powered by solar panels and batteries, and the cafe’s owner fed cardboard boxes and paper scraps into a fire to make hot drinks and heat the room.

Ismail Nasser al-Din, 20, sat dripping wet, clutching a Palestinian flag. He said he had lost his brother, a cousin and a friend in the war. “I hope our team will win,” he said. “We need any reason to laugh, enjoy and get some relief.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/middleeast/palestine-soccer-saudi-arabia-arab-cup.html





Students organized a protest action in front of the European Commission building in Sofia under the title “NO to funding the genocide in Gaza!” byteseu.com/1622354/ #Bulgaria #RepublicOfBulgaria #RepublikaBŭlgariya #България #РепубликаБългария



A ski resort in Japan said Friday it had received reports of bear sightings, while separately the nation picked the kanji character for a bear as its symbol for 2025. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/… #japan #society #bears #animals #nagano


Zig compiler is north of 1 million lines

$ wc -l (find src/ lib/std/ lib/compiler -name "*.zig" | grep -v "test.zig")

1,058,435

in reply to Andrew Kelley

That's if you include the standard library. Without:

$ wc -l (find src/ lib/std/zig lib/compiler -name "*.zig" | grep -v "test.zig")

706,021




Breitling-Affäre in OÖ: Direktorin kassiert 6.000 Euro aus Steuergeld exxpress.at/politik/breitling-… Breitling ist weg – und am Ende zahlt der Steuerzahler mit. In Oberösterreich sorgt eine Luxusuhren-Affäre im Sozialverband für heftigen Ärger. Nach dem Diebstahl ihrer privaten Uhr erhielt eine Direktorin dem Bericht zufolge rund 6.000 Euro aus Verbandsmitteln, was vom Vorstand beschlossen wurde. #news #press



Try not to dance challenge impossible !

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Are you kidding me? Taking away the rule that gets us new street trees when sidewalks are being torn up anyway? Daniel Lurie is a cartoon villain. abc7news.com/post/san-francisc… #sfpol
in reply to scott f

Turns out Lurie's tree thing is a lot worse! It would remove the ability to appeal tree removals, too.

Without this, there would be hundreds fewer trees along 24th St right now. Here's me watering one with Mission Verde, a community group that cut a deal with the City to replace ficus being cut down. There was no budget for watering new trees, so volunteers agreed to handle the watering instead of just having no trees. An appeal made this happen.

sfgov.legistar.com/Legislation…



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Die Internationale #Völker hört die Signale!



The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to
1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.

In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from collective bargaining rights.

The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes.”

The bill simply nullifies the order
and says that collective bargaining agreements — known otherwise as union contracts — in effect before the order will be restored.
truthout.org/articles/house-pa…

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