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African startups see their fundraising prospects dry up as capital availability falls yet again in Q3 | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Uber sexual assault survivors call for in-car cameras, tech upgrades | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Greenpeace activists scale tower of Bulgarian coal-fired plant, demanding its closure (www.reuters.com) Romanian

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Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution (www.theguardian.com)

Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages (www.reuters.com)

What an empty offer. You have no value compared to the hostages. Hamas hates the hostages. They might hate this man too, but not in their blood the way they hate the people who have been killing them and their families. There’s no shot at this being accepted....

France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1165004...

Protests in Guatemala Shut Down the Country for More Than a Week (progressive.org)

a massive raid of Geraniums has begun on Ukraine (t.me)

Now, apparently, a massive raid of Geraniums has begun. The strike is expected both in Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kharkiv oblasts and, for example, in Kiev and Kiev oblast...

Two Swedes shot dead in Brussels, Belgium raises terror alert to top level (www.reuters.com)

Document of Hamas that ordered the murder of civilians and their kidnapping (prod-main-kan-cdn.azureedge.net)

Hebrew: www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/defense/566768/...

American leftists are celebrating Hamas? (www.youtube.com)

Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition clears final hurdle as UK approves restructured deal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Israel Readying Emergency Regulations Allowing Arrest of Journalists for Factual Reporting (www.commondreams.org)

Konrad Wolf Prize 2023 goes to Julian Assange for his work and disclosure of "illegal state actions, injustices, murders and war crimes" (www.adk.de)

The German Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) said that Assange’s work and positions have focused “our attention on illegal state actions, injustices, murders and war crimes – things that were meant to remain in the dark, concealed and obscured from the public view, from the citizens.”...

Telegram CEO says app will continue to host 'war-related content' after coming under fire for Hamas videos | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Blue checks aren't protecting sex workers from X's porn crackdown | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Israel-Palestine megathread for the remainder of the weekend

the front page is now like half articles on this currently, so it’s probably time for a megathread because none of us want to keep track of 12 threads on this subject and all the resulting comments. only major subsequent developments (for example, boots on the ground; pronunciations by governments; that sort of stuff) will get...

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