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Two humanitarian aid boats en route to Cuba are missing, Mexico says

Two humanitarian aid boats en route to Cuba are missing, Mexico says - Lemmy

MEXICO CITY, March 26 (Reuters) - Mexico’s navy said on Thursday it had activated a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba ‌after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled. In a statement, the navy said the two boats left Isla Mujeres, in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, last week bound for Havana with nine crew members of different nationalities on board. The vessels had ⁠been expected to arrive between March 24 and 25, but there had been no communication from them and no confirmation of their arrival, the navy said.

JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27

World news | The Guardian Mar 27

UN’s landmark slavery ruling energises African Union’s fight for reparations https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/27/un-slavery-ruling-african-union-reparations-slavery-analysis #ReparationsAndReparativeJustice #Slavery #WorldNews #AntnioGuterres #UnitedNations #Ghana #Africa

UN’s landmark slavery ruling energises African Union’s fight for reparations

Despite resistance from states who had role in chattel slavery, many feel this is an idea whose time has come

The Guardian

JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27

Verdant Square Network Mar 27

Nepal’s new PM gives message to nation in rap, ahead of swearing in https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/27/nepals-new-pm-gives-message-to-nation-in-rap-ahead-of-swearing-in?traffic_source=rss

#aljazeera #worldnews #VSN

Nepal’s new PM gives message to nation in rap, ahead of swearing in

Nepali rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah has been sworn in as PM after his party’s landslide election win.

Al Jazeera

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The Japan Times Mar 27

Indigenous firefighters are using drones and treetop cameras to monitor and prevent wildfires in Thailand's forests. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/27/asia-pacific/society/thailand-indigenous-firefighters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #thailand #wildfires #indigenouspeople #environment

Tech-equipped Indigenous firefighters protect Thai forests

Hmong villagers zip through forested slopes and cut through brush with machetes while others scan for smoke on live feeds from their phones.

The Japan Times

JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27

Strange Matters Magazine Mar 26

"Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York in recent years; its symptoms were pustules of steel & glass jutting up out of a face I thought I had known my whole life." strangematters.coop/atlas-dabbed...

Atlas Dabbed

Atlas Dabbed - Strange Matters

Strange Matters Magazine

Strange Matters - Strange Matters Magazine

JMC 🌹🏴Mar 26

‮🅮Dec 16, 2024

So many leftists react like this to any new technology and it's honestly dangerous. I've heard so many people say things like "it's a bubble, it'll burst soon" or "people will reject it in a grand Butlerian Jihad" with regards to AI. What if that doesn't happen? Because these people essentially don't take it seriously and think it'll just go away, they don't make plans on how to deal with it and just cede these technologies entirely to the right. And they have plans on how to use these technologies, certainly not for the average person's benefit.

https://strangematters.coop/political-economy-of-near-future-space-industries/

This article by @beka_valentine talks about this tendency with regards to space exploration, which many decry as "techbro fantasies." People who do this are not prepared to deal with uprisings on asteroid mining colonies and give them support!

Capitalism Storms the Heavens - Strange Matters

Strange Matters Magazine

Strange Matters - Strange Matters Magazine

JMC 🌹🏴Mar 26

Strange Matters Magazine Mar 26

"These [organizational dualist] thinkers argued that, in addition to massive and class-based pluralistic social organizations, specific anarchist organizations would also be necessary to promote their positions more consistently among workers." strangematters.coop/debates-with...

An Historiography of Anarchism

An Historiography of Anarchism - Strange Matters

Strange Matters Magazine

Strange Matters - Strange Matters Magazine

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Verdant Square Network Mar 26

Harrison: ‘There is going to be some kind of a military escalation.’ https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/26/harrison-there-is-going-to-be-some-kind-of-a-military-escalation?traffic_source=rss

#aljazeera #worldnews #VSN

Harrison: ‘There is going to be some kind of a military escalation.’

Ross Harrison says public talk of diplomacy between the US and Iran is hiding hardline positions.

Al Jazeera

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Peter Link Mar 26

Mexican President Sheinbaum says she will uphold Cuban doctor agreement as other countries dip out

https://lemmy.ml/post/45027361

Mexican President Sheinbaum says she will uphold Cuban doctor agreement as other countries dip out - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45027357 [https://lemmy.ml/post/45027357] > March 25, 2026 > >MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday said Mexico will continue to have Cuban doctors work in the country at a time when other nations across the Americas have ditched their agreements with Cuba’s government in the face of mounting U.S. pressure. > > >“It’s a bilateral agreement that helps Mexico a lot,” said Sheinbaum in her morning press briefing when asked if she would uphold the agreement or give in to pressures by the Trump administration. > > >The leader’s support of the Cuban medical program comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has suffocated Cuba by effectively cutting the island off from oil imports and has sought to isolate the Caribbean nation in an effort to push for regime change. The U.S. has pushed to end such missions, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling it a “form of human trafficking.”

JMC 🌹🏴Mar 26

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 26

Israeli judge closes case of Palestinian teen’s death in prison despite evidence of starvation
https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-israel-prison-abuse-west-bank-1889d1a11da9851a1940671ba0de4963

from #AssociatedPress #APNews
March 25, 2026

An investigation into the death of a #Palestinian teenager in an Israeli prison has been closed by an Israeli judge, who said even though it’s clear the boy was starved, the cause of death is undeterminable, a newly-unsealed court decision has revealed.

The ruling provided insight into #Israel’s handling of the case of 17-year-old Walid Ahmad, which gained notoriety because he was the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention, said Palestinian officials.

Ahmad, who was described by his family as a healthy teenager, spent six months in Israel’s Megiddo prison before he collapsed in March 2025.

#SanctionIsrael
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Palestine #news #politics

Palestinian teen who died in Israeli prison 'apparently starved,' judge says

A newly unsealed sentence from a court ruling reveals that an Israeli judge acknowledged that a Palestinian teen had been starved in Israeli prison but stopped an investigation into the case. The judge said he could not prove the starvation led to the teen's death. The decision was partially unsealed after Israel's left-leaning daily called Haaretz filed for it. Haaretz shared the ruling with the AP. The document sheds new light on Israel's handling of the flashpoint case.

AP News

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