‘I can’t sing any more’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures (www.theguardian.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10619587...
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10619587...
Head of psychiatry at Tel Aviv medical centre says hostages have undergone worst abuse she has witnessed
An electric vehicle owner has used her car’s emergency power system to run her 11-year-old son’s lifesaving dialysis machine and another has ridden to the rescue of his neighbours after devastating storms cut power in south-east Queensland....
Just in time for Christmas, Adams county SPCA adopts out 598 animals and reunites 125 with their owners...
Cross posted from: lemmy.nz/post/4701018
"There is that idea that we always thought China would liberalise economically, get freer and freer,” says Lai. “But I think Dad realised very early on, and he said in an interview, that wishful thinking doesn’t work. You’ve got to put the work in. And that’s what he did.”...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9812294
"We had a 14-year-old girl just walk out of some war zone of Gaza City, stunned, mute, bloodied, and she absolutely had no one,” says James Elder, Unicef’s chief spokesperson, who spent weeks in Gaza under bombardment. “How many other children are like that right now? We simply don’t know.”
It’s nice to see more car free places, but it’s also hard not to criticise the capitalistic hellscape in which your neighbourhood has a CEO