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500+ Students Senior Skip Day Water gun event turns fatal, as 5 students have been confirmed to be shot by live rounds. 11 teenagers have been arrested as of last update

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Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from App Store under orders from China https://www.axios.com/2024/04/19/apple-china-whatsapp-threads-app-store This is a good thing, many US companies are known to spy on users and harvest data.

Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say. Some cities are subsiding rapidly, with one in six exceeding 10mm per year. China's rapid urbanisation in recent decades means far more water is now being drawn up to meet people's needs, scientists say. In coastal cities, this subsidence threatens millions of people with flooding as sea levels rise. Put another way, this means 67 million people are living in rapidly sinking areas. The researchers say that the cities facing the worst problems are concentrated in the five regions highlighted on the map shown. The scale of decline is influenced by a number of factors, including geology and the weight of buildings. But a major element, according to the authors, is groundwater loss. This essentially means the extraction of water underneath or near cities for use by the local population. This has already been seen in several major urban areas around the world including Houston, Mexico City and Delhi. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68844731.amp Welp.

Both CNN and ABC are reporting multiple explosions in the Iranian city of Isfahan. This city is home to an airport, military base, and nuclear plant. Against the advice of the US, Israel may have just started another world war. Footage of strikes

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Arsenal, the smallest football club in London, has crashed out of the Champions League after a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich. The tournament is the highest level club competition in the world. The club's failure to achieve any success in Europe in its history stands in stark contrast to its neighbours. Tottenham Hotspur has won the Uefa Cup (now known as the Europa League) twice, giants of the game Chelsea have won two Champions Leagues and two Europa Leagues, and even West Ham boast a Conference League title to their name. Arsenal's latest failure is sure to come under internal and external scrutiny after the club spent £1 billion and trusted former Barcelona B player Mikel Arteta with the keys over the last five years. The club hasn't won major silverware since the 2003/4 season and has suffered the indignity of one of its players, Declan "Basmati" Rice, pooping himself on the pitch.

In a mind-boggling scene straight out of "A Weekend at Bernie's,” a Brazilian woman reportedly wheeled the corpse of an elderly man into a Rio de Janeiro bank Tuesday to try to get him to co-sign on a loan. The bank customer, identified as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, was captured on video standing next to the deceased seated in a chair and seemingly holding up his drooping head. The wild footage, which was first aired by TV Globo, Brazil's largest broadcaster, captured Nunes talking to the dead man, whom she addressed as her "uncle,” and asking him to sign financial documents that would allow her to take out a $3,400 loan. "Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign [the loan contract]. If you don't sign, there's no way, because I can't sign for you,” Nunes says in the video, while thrusting a pen between his limp fingers and instructing him to hold it "hard.” "Sign so you don't give me any more headaches, I can't take it anymore,” she adds. When a bank worker tries to point out that the man's color looks off and he appears "not well,” Nunes dismisses his concerns. "He is like that. He doesn't say anything,” Nunes says. "Uncle, do you want to go to the [hospital] again?” Unnerved bank staffers quickly called the police, who arrived and arrested Nunes. "She tried to pretend to get him to sign the loan. He already entered the bank dead,” Police Chief Fábio Luiz told TV Globo. "The main thing is to continue the investigation to identify other family members, and find out more about this loan.” Nunes could face charges of theft through fraud, or embezzlement, and abuse of corpse. TW (censored pic): Censored video with English subtitles below: https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/lifestyle/brazilian-woman-brazenly-wheels-elderly-mans-corpse-into-bank-to-co-sign-a-loan-for-her-uncle-are-you-listening/

Couple Gordon Burton and Charlotte "PS2 Hagrid" Stevens, as well as Paul Bennett, are the proprietors of Burton and Bennett Snacks, a new business that opened in Burnley, England in March 2024. On opening they received considerable attention due to their limited stock, individual sale of multipack items, and the fact all the furniture seemed to have been obtained for free on Facebook Marketplace. Since then, other businesses have started donating stock to them, a floor fitter paid for and installed new flooring for them, and a local graphic designer created a new logo and signage. But the shop is still covered in mould and their attempt at painting the walls is shoddy at best. Their first attempt at selling baked potatoes was immediately put to a stop by health inspectors given the fact they were preparing food on an old office desk (which doubles as the point of payment) and had neither a sink nor a refrigerator to store the ingredients. Since then, some worktops have been installed for food preparation but there's still no sink The shop has recently had its first official food safety inspection and fans are eagerly awaiting for the report to be published and the star rating revealed. Recently some clips have circulated of the gang farting and smoking in the store, near the food preparation area. https://www.tiktok.com/@notburtonbennett/video/7358555393817300257 (this one won't embed properly) The saga hasn't been without controversy as various allegations have been made about Paul, who apparently appeared on Jeremy Kyle. A prank caller uploaded a video of what is allegedly a stream of homophobic abuse from Gordon and Paul in response to his call. In conclusion, what a mess.

Infuriating The valedictorian is a muslim woman, but the school canceled her commencement speech because of her pro-Palestine stance You already know what would've happened if the valedictorian was pro-Israel

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Sudan on brink of collapse and starvation as country marks one year of civil war | CNN As Sudan marks the grim anniversary of a year-long conflict, aid agencies have warned that the country teeters on the edge of collapse, facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has been largely ignored by the rest of the world. Islamic Relief, a humanitarian and development agency, painted a stark picture of Sudan's situation, warning that it is on the brink of mass famine, with young children facing the prospect of starving to death. The situation in Sudan is dire, with over 8.4 million people, including 2 million children under the age of 5, forced to flee their homes in the wake of the conflict, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Despite these alarming figures, the international response has been woefully inadequate, with only 5% of the 2024 humanitarian response plan for Sudan funded thus far, Islamic Relief said in a statement.

The private sector arm of the World Bank is facing claims that it contributes to global heating and the undermining of animal welfare by providing financial support for factory farming, including the building of pig farming tower blocks in China. A coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups is calling on the World Bank to phase out financial support for large-scale "industrial" livestock operations. More than $1.6bn was provided for industrial farming projects between 2017 and 2023, according to an analysis by campaigners. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is owned by 186 member countries including the UK, which has a 4.5% shareholding. Andrew Mitchell, the minister for development, is a governor of the IFC. Kelly McNamara, a senior research and policy analyst at Friends of the Earth US, said there was a "mismatch" between the World Bank's commitments on the climate crisis, sustainable development and animal welfare, and its financing of intensive farming. "Expanding industrial livestock production is a threat to climate, sustainable development and food security,” she said, adding that investing in such projects put smallholders out of business and increased meat consumption, fuelling global heating. In June last year, the IFC approved a $47.3m (£37.4m) loan to the Chinese company Guangxi Yangxiang providing capital for four multistorey industrial pig-rearing complexes and a feed mill. "There are big advantages to a high-rise building,” a company manager told Reuters during early construction of the blocks at Yaji Mountain in southern China in 2018. "The land area is not that much, but you can raise a lot of pigs.” The farms, known as "hog hotels", can be 13 floors high. The Yangxiang group says it has combined "internet technologies such as artificial intelligence [and] cloud computing" with the traditional pig-rearing business. The company says on its website: "Yangxiang has created an industrial model with multifloor pig farming as the core and strives to build a high-end intelligent 'meat factory'.” Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser at Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), said: "I'm appalled by some of these developments, which have limited space and barren conditions. They are not just damaging for animal welfare, but also for food security and the environment.” Stevenson said intensive agriculture undermined food security because animals converted cereal feed inefficiently into meat and milk. He said it would be better to produce more crops for direct human consumption and reduce the amount of cereals used for animal feed. Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/07/world-banks-funding-of-hog-hotel-factory-farms-under-fire-over-climate-effect

THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israel's war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" and to "avoid" using the phrase "occupied territory" when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine "except in very rare cases" and to steer clear of the term "refugee camps" to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees. The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — "offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.” While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paper's deference to Israeli narratives. "I think it's the kind of thing that looks professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” said a Times newsroom source, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, of the Gaza memo. "But if you do know, it will be clear how apologetic it is to Israel.” First distributed to Times journalists in November, the guidance — which collected and expanded on past style directives about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict — has been regularly updated over the ensuing months. It presents an internal window into the thinking of Times international editors as they have faced upheaval within the newsroom surrounding the paper's Gaza war coverage. Full article:https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

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Sleepy Don was caught sleeping during day one of his criminal Trial. update: Trump falls asleep again on day 2 of his criminal trial. Sleepy don