UN calls for return of Russia-abducted Ukrainian children in US-backed vote

The #US supported the resolution, while #Russia , #Belarus and #Iran have voted against it. Fifty-seven countries, including #China, #India and #Brazil, #abstained from voting.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, #Ukraine has identified over 19,500 #children who were illegally transferred to Russia, Belarus, or Russian-occupied territories. Fewer than 1,300 have been brought back.

"There will be no just #peace in Ukraine without the unconditional return of #UkrainianChildren. This resolution is not about politics. It is about humanity," Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa said at the U.N. General Assembly debate.

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#WarCrimes #RussianInvasion #HybridWar

UN calls for return of Russia-abducted Ukrainian children in US-backed vote

Russia, Belarus and Iran have voted against the resolution. Fifty-seven countries, including China, India and Brazil, abstained from voting.

^{Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)}

Just read @pluralistic 's article on the Eurostack, and de-Americanization.

Here's a brief piece on the topic I wrote 12 years ago, that has aged well.

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#foss #opensource #GNU #GNULinux #China #India #History #Tech #Software

📦 This is not only via #Amazon, it's common practice, many many packages from #China I have checked are mislabeled either in content or price.

Has anyone else ever noticed that? If so from where did you order? Please let me know below ⬇️

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#News #Chinese #Delivery #Package #Customs #Products #Product #smuggling #heise #mail

Smuggled Chinese products? Raids at Amazon in Italy

A police force in Italy responsible for combating economic crime has searched Amazon buildings. The fraud allegations could expand.

^{Martin Holland (heise online)}

Carriers are strategic assets, & the #US uses its fleet of 11 — many of which are in scheduled maintenance & not available to sail at any given time — for power projection & deterrence in its top-tier #security concerns, notably countering #China in the Indo-Pacific region & maintaining a deterrent presence in the #MiddleEast, said Mark Cancian, a senior #defense adviser at CSIS.

#Trump #law #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy

‘I Deliver Parcels in Beijing’, by Hu Anyan.

I like this book. Describes the various very low paid jobs the author did.

As The Guardian’s book review puts it, ‘The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market.‘

theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

#books #reading #china #economics

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translation

^{Joe Moran (The Guardian)}