Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Six In The Morning Wednesday 10 July 2024

 





A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on Gaza school




As death toll from strike rises to 31, video broadcast by Al Jazeera captures panicked aftermath

The scene shows a moment of respite and relative calm in Gaza: a crowd of people watching a football match in a school playground. A player fails to control a long pass from a teammate. The opposing goalkeeper gathers the ball and looks to launch it back up the pitch.

But just after he throws the ball, a deafening boom sends everyone present running for cover, including the person filming. “A strike! A strike!” someone screams.

The footage, broadcast by Al Jazeera, showed the moment of an Israeli airstrike next to the gate of al-Awda school in Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis in Gaza, on Tuesday. As the person who was filming the match flees, 



EU designates XNXX a very large online platform under DSA

The adult content platform has an average of 45 million users every month within the EU, a number that means it is above the Digital Services Act's "threshold for designation as a VLOP."

The European Union has designated adult content website XNXX as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under its Digital Services Act (DSA), the bloc said in a statement on Wednesday.

The decision was taken on the basis that the website has an average of 45 million users every month within the 27-nation bloc. This monthly figure "is above the DSA threshold for designation as a VLOP," the European Commission announced on its website.

Stringent rules for XNXX

Having deemed XNXX as a VLOP, the EU now requires it to share data with authorities, as well as undergo external and independent auditing.


Russia issues arrest warrant for Navalny's widow


Russia has issued an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison in February. Navalnaya has vowed to continue the work of her husband from exile abroad. 

Russia on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya, accusing the exiled opposition figure of participating in an "extremist organisation".

A court said it had "approved the request of the investigators and decided a preventive measure in the form of detention for two months". 

Navalnaya has vowed to continue the work of her husband Alexei Navalny, Russian leader Vladimir Putin's main opponent who died in an Arctic prison in February.

Navalnaya slammed the warrant in a statement,  saying : "Vladimir Putin is a killer and a war criminal. He belongs in prison".

VOX POPULI: Dual pricing for foreigners an alarming trend that is spreading

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun.

July 10, 2024 at 12:39 JST



British diplomat and Japanologist Ernest Satow (1843-1929) climbed Mount Fuji in the summer during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) and was completely taken with the view from the summit.

Satow extolled it as "the height of majesty" and "spectacular beyond words" in his guidebook, where he explained Fuji's ascent and descent routes and its flora to European and American readers.

A compilation of his notes, translated into Japanese under the title of "Aanesuto Satow no Meiji Nihon Sangakuki" (literally, Ernest Satow's stories of Japanese mountains in the Meiji Era), contains lessons for alpinists that are just as valuable today as they were nearly 150 years ago.

From $7 graffiti to arson and a bomb plot: How Russia’s ‘shadow war’ on NATO members has evolved


Arson at warehouses linked to arms for Ukraine. Surveillance cameras where NATO trains Ukrainian troops. Blunt vandalism of ministerial cars. Even an apparent, failed bomb plot.


Russia has been engaged in a “bold” sabotage operation across NATO’s member states for more than six months, targeting the supply lines of weapons for Ukraine and the decision-makers behind it, according to a senior NATO official.

Multiple security officials across Europe describe a threat that is metastasizing as Russian agents, increasingly under scrutiny by security services and frustrated in their own operations, hire local amateurs to undertake high-risk, and often deniable, crimes on their behalf.


'Beginning of two legends': Photos of Messi and baby Lamine Yamal resurface


By George Wright, BBC News

In 2007, a young Lionel Messi posed for photos with a baby in the dressing room of the Camp Nou in Barcelona for a charity calendar photoshoot.


Messi, who was 20, was already making a name for himself and would go on to become arguably the greatest of all time.


But little did the photographer know that the baby would also make waves in international football less than 17 years later.


Messi was bathing Lamine Yamal - the 16-year-old who is taking the European Championships by storm.


His goal against France in the semi-final on Tuesday is one that will be talked about for decades.








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