“Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 250 people since Thursday morning, local health authorities said on Friday, one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in March” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"Flooding on US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents weakens, according to a new study — an alarming glimpse into the future as some scientists warn the current system could be just decades from collapse." @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/05/16/c...

Excited to be at today’s Reimagining PEACE conference bringing together nearly 300 peace researchers from around the world! Grateful to be part of this global exchange of ideas and insights. #ActionPEACE2025 | Organized by the Flemish Peace Institute

NEW I The Israeli government has threatened additional airstrikes if the Syria fails to stop violence against the Druze. Both airstrikes and the pressure campaign are unlikely to protect the Druze. 1/9 www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...

US Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg recently reaffirmed that Ukrainian officials remain committed to resolving the war in Ukraine, despite ongoing Russian refusals to accept US President Donald Trump’s repeated proposals for a general ceasefire in pursuit of lasting peace in Ukraine.

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An update from @stratcomcentre.bsky.social on the flight paths of the drones and missiles used against Ukraine in yesterday’s complex attack by Russia.

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thank you Elon and DOGE! what the world definitely needs is unchecked drug resistant gonorrhea

Finland will withdraw from the international agreement banning antipersonnel mines and spend 3 percent of GDP on defense, the country's President Alexander Stubb said Tuesday.

🇺🇸 Trump's administration is planning an executive order that would ease rules governing exports of military equipment, and could announce it as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday, Reuters reports. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... #usa

Russian officials continue efforts to undermine the proposed US-Ukrainian mineral deal by promoting potential US-Russian rare earth mining projects. (1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar033125

🇷🇺 Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik surfaced in Moscow on Monday night, as authorities in Sarajevo demand an international arrest warrant following his conviction for defying the country’s Constitutional Court and advancing a separatist agenda. www.politico.eu/article/milo... #Russia

"Insgesamt ist alles, wirklich alles, was ich hier jeden Tag sehe, es ist unfassbar. Also es ist unbeschreiblich, empörend und niederschmetternd - unbegreiflich." Ein deutscher Arzt aus dem Gazastreifen berichtet. MONITOR www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...

Insanity.

Wie kann ein Blick in die Geschichte helfen, die regelbasierte Ordnung zu verteidigen? Auf dem #PRIFblog zeigt @chrismeth.bsky.social, wie das Völkerrecht besonders von kleineren Staaten aus Asien und Afrika verteidigt wurde – und was Europa jetzt daraus lernen kann. blog.prif.org/2025/03/18/f...

ICYMI:Trump has put a 90day hold on most US foreign aid, with devastating effects on a system built over decades for preventing famine. Result may be more & deadlier famines, greater impunity for parties using starvation as weapon of war @crisisgroup.org (2/28/25) www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

Man kann Baerbocks Nominierung ja gern kritisieren. Aber so? Helga Schmid sei erfahrene Diplomatin - stimmt, und Baerbock ist Außenministerin. Baerbock sei ein „Auslaufmodell“ - Schmid ist 64, bald endet für gewöhnlich eine diplomatische Karriere. Kurzum: finde die Wortwahl ziemlich drüber.

Gerade beginnt die zweit mündliche Verhandlung der Klimaklage #SaulvsRWE. Eine Entscheidung über die nächsten Schritte könnte schon heute fallen. Folgt @duycks.bsky.social für regelmäßige Updates aus der Verhandlung.

Die #Koalitionsverhandlungen fokussieren sich auf Deutschlands militärische „Hard Power“- zur Lasten der #Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Darin sehen nielskeijzer.bsky.social & Svea Koch einen strategischen Fehler der nächsten #Bundesregierung. 💡 Via @makronom.bsky.social: makronom.de/warum-die-na...

Die 100 Milliarden Euro für den Klima- und Transformationsfonds klingen gewaltig. Doch im Schnitt sind das nur 8,3 Mrd. Euro mehr pro Jahr. 2025 und 2026 langt das nicht mal, um die bestehende Deckungslücke („globale Minderausgabe“) im KTF zu schließen. Mehr Infos (€): table.media/climate/anal...

President Trump declared US broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among other government-funded broadcasters like Voice of America, “unnecessary” & ordered it “eliminated” @ambdanfried.bsky.social says the demand belies these outlets’ history of success: www.justsecurity.org/109219/us-go...

On 16 March 2022, the Mariupol Drama Theater was attacked. It served as a shelter for civilians from the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine & was clearly marked with the sign ‘CHILDREN’. The research group CST for has compiled an archive showing the attack's extent theater.spatialtech.info/en

Dies Woche verhandelt das Oberlandesgericht Hamm die Klimaklage #SaulvsRWE. Kläger Saúl Luciano Lliuya kämpft dafür, dass große Emittenten wie der deutsche Konzern RWE Verantwortung für ihre Rolle in der Klimakrise übernehmen. Das Verfahren könnte zu einem weltweiten Präzedenzfall werden.

" ‘We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia’s fragile Tigray region." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ethi...

Democracy dies in silence.

ICYMI: Parties in Germany agree on historic debt deal - The CDU/CSU bloc and the SPD have reached an agreement with the Greens on a massive increase in government borrowing. DW www.dw.com/en/germany-p...

NEW | The outbreak of violence between competing factions in #Tigray, Ethiopia, risks escalating into another civil war. A renewed war in Tigray could cause a regional war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. 1/7

An important piece by two leading experts. Explainer on First Amendment and Due Process Issues in Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Student Activist(s) By Ahilan Arulanantham (@ahilantoolong.bsky.social) and Adam Cox (@adambcox.bsky.social)

The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his transfer to the International Criminal Court is a historic step toward justice. This sends a message to human rights abusers everywhere that they could be held to account.

Die „menschliche“ Migrationspolitik der SPD - und was nach den Sondierungsgesprächen mit der Union davon übrig geblieben ist.

"Die Streben nach Wahrheit ist wesentlicher Bestandteil moderner Gesellschaften. Wenn wir das zerstören, zerstören wir dieses Land. Der Rest der Welt sollte darüber sehr besorgt sein. Wenn sie das mit Klimawandel und Gesundheitswesen tun können, können sie es mit allem tun." youtu.be/48JpNm4Xqwg?...

🗣 #Moldova is facing increasingly blatant Russian attempts aiming at destabilising the country, which shares a border with #Ukraine and wants to join the European Union by 2030, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. www.reuters.com/world/europe... #russia #france

Remarkable

Ja, wissen wir jetzt auch nicht, wer von beiden richtig liegt. Vielleicht mal Sandra Maischberger fragen:

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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Clara Perras spoke to Ukrainian activist & researcher Olena Zinenko: What are the challenges for Ukrainian civil society in times of war? And are there feminist perspectives for peace? Read the interview on #PRIFblog. blog.prif.org/2025/03/08/o...

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Hanuš Harzstark, 14 years old - one of an estimated 1.5 million children murdered in the Holocaust. Lest we forget.

Scientific study from Polish university finds evidence for mobile GPS jammers on ships in the Baltic Sea gpspatron.com/gnss-interfe...

Gestern Abend veröffentlichte @exifrecherche.bsky.social, dass es Verbindungen des Attentäters von #Mannheim in extrem rechte Szene -auch nach #Thüringen- gibt. Auf Foto ist nicht nur Täter bei rechtem Aufmarsch 2018 in Berlin zu sehen, sondern auch der Thüringer #AfD-MdL Wolfgang Lauerwald. #thread

“A deal with the Trump administration that sidelines Ukraine would hasten both Russian short-term and long-term objectives while validating aggression as a legitimate strategy. If Putin emerges victorious…it will reshape global security in dangerous ways.” www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero" now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

NY Times : never in the history of the USA has an administration sided with the aggressor of an democratic country...until now www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

ICYMI: "DefSec Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's 1st female chief, last week without any clear explanation - part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint Chiefs chairman, who is Black." @militarydotcom.bsky.social www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Fast jeden Tag ein Femi(ni)zid in Deutschland. Das neue Gewalthilfegesetz verspricht Lösung – greift jedoch zu kurz und adressiert die Ursachen patriarchaler Gewalt nicht, argumentieren Irem Demirci & Helena Hirschler auf dem #PRIFblog. blog.prif.org/2025/02/21/m...

📰 new blog-Bundestagswahl 2025🚨 Was sagen die Wahlprogramme zum §218 StGB, Selbstbestimmungsgesetz und feministischer Außen- und Entwicklungspolitik in Zeiten von globalem Anti-Feminismus? @simonewisotzki.bsky.social und ich haben uns dazu @prif.org Gedanken gemacht. blog.prif.org/2025/02/17/d...

Was sagen die Parteien zur #Bundestagswahl über Selbstbestimmung über den eigenen Körper und die eigene Identität? @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social und @simonewisotzki.bsky.social analysieren im #PRIFblog die Wahlprogramme und betten sie in globale Entwicklungen ein. ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2025/02/17/d...

[1/3] The Trump Administration’s Attacks on International Law and Institutions: Public Statement by 16 US Human Rights Experts, Current and Former Members of UN Bodies www.justsecurity.org/107687/state...

Italian authorities arrested a Libyan general wanted by the ICC. But instead of transferring him to The Hague, he was released. ECCHR's @chamelons.bsky.social analyzes on @justsecurity.org how the case impacts cooperation between States and the ICC. www.justsecurity.org/107175/italy...