Syria reportedly cancels deal with Russian construction firm following Assadβs downfall
Syria's port of Tartus has terminated a 49-year investment agreement with Russian construction company Stroytransgaz, the independent Russian outlet Important Stories reported on Jan. 21, citing Riad Joudeh, head of customs in the city of Tartus.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Donβt comment on national affairs: AMU to Afghanistan, Iraq & Iran students | India News
AGRA: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has issued new guidelines for students from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, barring them from commenting on national or international incidents on social media and requiring them to seek prior permission for leaving β¦BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
"... there are many, many instructions in this one executive order, including this directive to HUD to... exclude trans people from various forms of shelter system, under the auspices that a trans person is an inherent threat to nontransgender women..."
Chase Strangio: Trumpβs Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People While Claiming to Defend Women | Democracy Now!
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Chase Strangio: Trumpβs Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People While Claiming to Defend Women
On his first day back in the White House, Donald Trump moved to roll back protections for transgender people. In his inaugural address, Trump declared the U.S. governmentβs policy is βthere are only two genders: male and female.Democracy Now!
Canadian catches meteorite strike on camera with sound in a worldβs first β luckily no one got hurt from the rock crashing down next to the home at 200 km/h:
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Inside TikTokβs Influencer Party to Welcome Trump
TikTok sponsored an inauguration-eve bash for content creators, proving that the stigma around being MAGA on social media is gone.Taylor Lorenz (Rolling Stone)
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#PPOD: Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces. Arranged around Earth are images from NASA spacecraft of, clockwise from the top, Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's moons Callisto and Ganymede, Neptune's moon Triton, Saturn's moon Titan, and Jupiter's moon Europa, the target of NASA's Europa Clipper mission. Shown to scale. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/University of Arizona/DLR
South Africa's cannabis bill now essentially means that private citizens can no longer be prosecuted for growing and consuming a limited amount of cannabis for recreational purposes β so long as it is grown and/or consumed within the confines of their own private property.
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South Africa Becomes the First African Country to Partially Legalize Cannabis - UNICORN RIOT
South Africa's new cannabis laws have legalized medical and recreational cannabis use in "private spaces," but still bans recreational sales.D (UNICORN RIOT)
Endangered and exceptional: New insect species highlights Kosovo biodiversity hotspot
A new species of caddisfly, Tinodes lumbardhi, was found in a sidestream of the Lumbardhi i Deçanit River in Kosovo's Bjeshkët e Nemuna National Park.Pensoft Publishers (Phys.org)
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Musk says media racist to whites, Asians amid βDilbertβ backlash
Billionaireβs claim comes amid backlash against βDilbertβ creator Scott Adams over comments about Black people.Al Jazeera
How fast can a train go?
The world speed record, which still stands, was set by a French train Γ grande vitesse (TGV) in 2007, when it topped out at 574.8 km/h (357 mph).
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Just re-upping this fantastic explainer thread, on how an EO cannot just rename an international body of water, and we need to stop describing patently illegal EOs as "doing" the things they legally cannot do. And if any big international corp (Apple, Google) buckles, hope other countries push back
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