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6 June 1898 | A Polish Jew, Nachman Windholz, was born in Oświęcim (Auschwitz during German occupation). In #Auschwitz from 26 February 1942. No. 25384 He perished in the camp on 15 March 1942.

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Los centros de reparto de ayuda vuelven a cerrar en Gaza tras nuevos ataques israelíes con varios muertos dozz.es/wcnsn1

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Wie viel Strom produziert eine moderne #Windkraftanlage pro Minute? Genug ⚡️, um mit dem E-Auto 🚗 von Berlin nach München zu fahren – oder mit dem Zug 🚆 nach Rom! Der Strom dafür kostet gerade mal 7€. 33.000 moderne Anlagen reichen für die #Energiewende. 💪 Bauen wir sie! youtube.com/shorts/j5BGz...

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¡¡Récord!! A las 15h05 la fotovoltaica superaba por primera vez los 21.000MW, llegando hasta los 21.262MW. No funciona bien el sistema de REE, así que he tenido que sumar varios sistemas a mano. Cuando haya imágen.

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Les juges de la CPI sont parmi les derniers remparts face aux crimes les plus graves. Ils méritent notre soutien.

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Almaraz1 y Ascó1 paradas por lo mismo

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For those who want it in simple terms, one of the people in charge of ensuring the UK respects human rights for everyone has said some people should accept having fewer rights.

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This week in Germany, a court ruled that the rejection of three migrants at the German border violated EU law. The interior minister, supported by the chancellor, sees no reason to change his policy. The judges on the case are facing defamation and threats. Worrying development for the rule of law.

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“It is genocide. I know people are uncomfortable with that word, but what else can we call it?,” Francesca Albanese told @euobserver.com euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

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Solar hit 700GW in 2020—10x what was forecast in 2006. Why? Feedback loops & non-linear change, not just tech swaps, drive clean energy. Our new @carbonbrief.org piece: Early policy support + smart market design + cross-sector links = faster decarbonisation. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

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At the Cannes Film Festival, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, speaks with EUobserver about the genocide in Gaza, and global complicity.

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Our statement on Gaza, signed by almost 400 Irish writers. irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s... Please share widely.

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Nach der Eilentscheidung des Berliner Verwaltungsgerichts, dass Zurückweisungen von Asylsuchenden auf deutschem Gebiet rechtswidrig sind, werden die beteiligten Richter persönlich diffamiert und bedroht.

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This week’s best archival letterheads: the Semiramis Hotel, Cairo (from the Aga Khan, no less) and the Cataract Hotel at Aswan. Thank you notes sent to David Watt, Scottish engineer of the first Aswan dam and its elevations, from his papers in the Sudan Archive, Durham University. 🗃️📜 #Egypt

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En direct, guerre à Gaza : la défense civile de Gaza annonce la mort de 37 personnes, jeudi, dans plusieurs attaques israéliennes

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And tonight’s song is definitely music.apple.com/gb/album/ket...

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I mean the IRA achieved this with a Nissan Micra 30 years ago…

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This week's comic is now up on @dailykos.com - "A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport" after Richard Scarry - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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"What I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded tented area, and then the drones would come down and pick off civilians, children. And we had description after description. This is not an occasional thing. This was day after day after day." youtu.be/TpVuNncow7k

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Another health breakthrough. This is great.

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Why would it be the “wrong signal”, @aussenminister.diplo.de? Because it would give starving and maimed children hope? Because it would acknowledge an ethnic group as a people? Never in my lifetime did I expect I’d see Germany backing a govt committing persecution, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

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Very high-res satellite footage by Maxar of Russian destroyed aviation during Operation Spiderweb.

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🧵Spotted at a Second-Hand Book Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (60s?) wearing a sequinned black beret and a fluffy pink jumper is showing a friend her cookbook finds. She says: "I LOVE cookbooks. I don't often make the recipes but they're so good for ideas even if you don't follow them." (1)

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Net favourability towards Israel hits new lows in key Western European countries Germany: -44* UK:-46 France: -48* Italy: -52** Denmark: -54* Spain: -55** * lowest since tracking started in 2016 ** lowest since tracking started in 2021 yougov.co.uk/internationa...

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Overall impression of Dutch parliament debate is that yet again, everything is focused on asylum. Rather than income, industry, education, environment, defense. Apparently nobody, including the VVD, has learned the lesson that when you focus on immigration, the PVV wins. Nobody else.

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Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.

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🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Bruselas pide a España que aumente la oferta de vivienda social y reduzca los plazos de los permisos de construcción

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