At least 52 people have been killed and dozens more have been injured in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, officials have said.
![Pakistan: At least 52 killed and dozens injured in suicide bomb attack](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5e569fd4-8048-457d-9b1b-8ace8fea5732.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
At least 52 people have been killed and dozens more have been injured in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, officials have said.
The bombing happened near a Mosque in Mastung, a district in the province of Baluchistan, according to government administrator Atta Ullah.
Photos of major damage to a Russian Navy submarine attacked while in dry dock in Crimea point to the boat being a complete write-off.
![Russian Submarine Shows Massive Damage After Ukrainian Strike](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/da89e0f5-1780-47c3-b1fd-51374d818c1e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Photos of major damage to a Russian Navy submarine attacked while in dry dock in Crimea point to the boat being a complete write-off.
Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they will boycott this year's Nobel Prize ceremonies after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran who had previously been barred from attending. The Nobel Foundation said that invit...
![Anger in Sweden as Nobel Prize organizers invite Russia and Belarus to the award ceremonies](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ec6e124-8c57-4e80-a3db-21d708b091cd.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they will boycott this year's Nobel Prize ceremonies after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran who had previously been barred from attending.
The decision on the robes, worn by some Muslim women, is part of a ban on religious symbols in state schools to uphold France's strict brand of secularism.
![French ban of abaya robes in schools draws applause, criticism](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8d0c396b-07d0-453f-8077-7017b11504e0.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The French government's decision to ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools drew applause on Monday from the right, but also criticism.
A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after he criticized the country's government in a Facebook post.
![Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in the U.S. criticizes government online](https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/7b4bcf8d-6645-491a-991c-d9db8c8e9af5.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after he criticized the country's government in a Facebook post.
As many as 20 aircraft from China either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait or breached the island country’s air defense identification zone.
![China sends aircraft, vessels toward Taiwan days after US arms sale approval](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5cec0867-4a96-432f-9f8e-aa3d2217ee1b.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
As many as 20 aircraft from China either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait or breached the island country’s air defense identification zone.
According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks
![Russian Soldiers Say They Are Viewed With Disgust in Moscow](https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/b2b6ffb9-ac81-4ae2-8112-91df52095e3e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.
Michael Burry, who founded Scion Asset Management, appears to have placed a large proportion of the fund's assets at risk.
![The Big Short investor Michael Burry bets $1.6bn on stock market crash](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1f7aacd4-b35f-4790-96c2-ad626c6c35e0.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Michael Burry, who founded Scion Asset Management, appears to have placed a large proportion of the fund's assets at risk.
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
![Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e00cf893-2df4-4dc0-8500-48796ad1b9b8.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Rouble has lost 25% of its value since the war began.
![Kremlin blames loose monetary policy as rouble slides past 101 vs dollar](https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/7367d067-5870-4b26-8fb4-7a8bda66ce80.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser rebuked the central bank on Monday as the rouble slid past 101 per U.S. dollar, blaming its 30% year-to-date slump on loose monetary policy and revealing growing discord among Russia's monetary authorities.
Two random attacks have led to questions in a society otherwise known for its low level of violence.
!['Don't Ask Why': South Korea grapples with back-to-back 'Mudjima' stabbings](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b59343cc-8635-4196-85c9-8fce7da30f68.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
A knife darting out in a packed subway car. An assailant, chasing shoppers, stabbing wildly in the street.
These nightmares have played out in the minds of many South Koreans following a mass stabbing attack last week - the country's second in as many weeks.
On 21 July, a man attacked commuters in the capital, killing one person and stabbing three more at a subway station. He later told police he lived a miserable life and "wanted to make others miserable too".
Universal Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.
![Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bb80f701-2df0-48d0-8c68-6234263f3251.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.
No... more like. I feel like we have been further from letting these opinions be public in my country than we are now.
This piece of crap is what happens when you let bigotry go unanswered. I feel that we are not immune to it in our society. I see some political parties rising in the polls that have some disturbing ideas.... ow long before this is one of them?
I understand the downvotes. But I feel this kind of post shows what happens elsewhere. This person said these things publicly so, on some level, it seen as acceptable in his circle. I always find it interesting to see how much the world is different from what I consider "normal". But please keep the downvote coming, it's a good meter of how open we are to things that make us uncomfortable.
UEFA Europa Conference League
Third qualifying round - 1st leg
Thursday 10 August 2023
Tobol (KAZ) : Derry (IRL) - 15:00 (GMT+1)
Struga (MKD) : Swift (LUX) - 16:00 (GMT+1)
Sabah (AZE) : Partizan (SRB) - 17:00 (GMT+1)
Bodø/Glimt (NOR) : Pyunik (ARM) - 17:00 (GMT+1)
Valmiera (LVA) : Partizani (ALB) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe (ROU) : Aktobe (KAZ) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
FC Santa Coloma (AND) : AZ Alkmaar (NED) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Neftçi (AZE) : Beşiktaş (TUR) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Omonoia (CYP) : Midtjylland (DEN) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Legia (POL) : Austria Wien (AUT) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Plzeň (CZE) : Gżira (MLT) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Rosenborg (NOR) : Hearts (SCO) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Dila (GEO) : APOEL (CYP) - 18:00 (GMT+1)
Hamrun (MLT) : Ferencváros (HUN) - 18:30 (GMT+1)
Farul Constanța (ROU) : Flora (EST) - 18:30 (GMT+1)
H. Beer-Sheva (ISR) : Levski (BUL) - 18:30 (GMT+1)
Celje (SVN) : Neman (BLR) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
Arouca (POR) : Brann (NOR) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
Adana Demirspor (TUR) : Osijek (CRO) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
B36 (FRO) : Rijeka (CRO) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
Twente (NED) : Riga (LVA) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
Fenerbahçe (TUR) : Maribor (SVN) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
Club Brugge (BEL) : KA (ISL) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
Lech (POL) : Spartak Trnava (SVK) - 19:00 (GMT+1)
Aris (GRE) : Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) - 19:15 (GMT+1)
Hibernian (SCO) : Luzern (SUI) - 19:30 (GMT+1)
FCSB (ROU) : Nordsjælland (DEN) - 19:30 (GMT+1)
Ballkani (KOS) : Lincoln Red Imps (GIB) - 19:45 (GMT+1)
Rapid Wien (AUT) : Debrecen (HUN) - 20:00 (GMT+1)
Hajduk Split (CRO) : PAOK (GRE) - 20:00 (GMT+1)
UEFA Europa Conference League Third qualifying round - 1st leg Thursday 10 August 2023
Tobol (KAZ) Derry (IRL) 15:00 (GMT+1
Struga (MKD) Swift (LUX) 16:00 (GMT+1)
Sabah (AZE) Partizan (SRB) 17:00 (GMT+1)
Bodø/Glimt (NOR) Pyunik (ARM) 17:00 (GMT+1)
Valmiera (LVA) Partizani (ALB) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe (ROU) Aktobe (KAZ) 18:00 (GMT+1)
FC Santa Coloma (AND) AZ Alkmaar (NED) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Neftçi (AZE) Beşiktaş (TUR) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Omonoia (CYP) Midtjylland (DEN) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Legia (POL) Austria Wien (AUT) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Plzeň (CZE) Gżira (MLT) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Rosenborg (NOR) Hearts (SCO) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Dila (GEO) APOEL (CYP) 18:00 (GMT+1)
Hamrun (MLT) Ferencváros (HUN) 18:30 (GMT+1)
Farul Constanța (ROU) Flora (EST) 18:30 (GMT+1)
H. Beer-Sheva (ISR) Levski (BUL) 18:30 (GMT+1)
Celje (SVN) Neman (BLR) 19:00 (GMT+1)
Arouca (POR) Brann (NOR) 19:00 (GMT+1)
Adana Demirspor (TUR) Osijek (CRO) 19:00 (GMT+1)
B36 (FRO) Rijeka (CRO) 19:00 (GMT+1)
Twente (NED) Riga (LVA) 19:00 (GMT+1)
Fenerbahçe (TUR) Maribor (SVN) 19:00 (GMT+1)
Club Brugge (BEL) KA (ISL) 19:00 (GMT+1)
Lech (POL) Spartak Trnava (SVK) 19:00 (GMT+1)
Aris (GRE) Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) 19:15 (GMT+1)
Hibernian (SCO) Luzern (SUI) 19:30 (GMT+1)
FCSB (ROU) Nordsjælland (DEN) 19:30 (GMT+1)
Ballkani (KOS) Lincoln Red Imps (GIB) 19:45 (GMT+1)
Rapid Wien (AUT) Debrecen (HUN) 20:00 (GMT+1)
Hajduk Split (CRO) PAOK (GRE) 20:00 (GMT+1)
Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts
![ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5e725d25-97d3-4726-912c-18634619c875.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a setback to Epic Games, maker of the popular video game "Fortnite," in its legal battle against Apple , declining to let a federal judge's injunction take effect that could force the iPhone maker to change payment practices in its lucrative App Store.
![US Supreme Court refuses Epic bid to let App Store order take effect in Apple case](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/21989354-1d28-46e6-a4bc-f1f4af5945ea.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a setback to Epic Games, maker of the popular video game "Fortnite," in its legal battle against Apple (AAPL.O), declining to let a federal judge's injunction take effect that could force the iPhone maker to change payment practices in its lucrative App Store.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his top general amid a shakeup of the country’s military leadership and wants his army to “gird for a war,” state media reported Thursday.
![Kim Jong Un fires top general, orders North Korean military to 'gird for war' | CNN](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7c91bf16-a486-4858-abaf-0c1765ed7436.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his top general amid a shakeup of the country’s military leadership and wants his army to “gird for a war,” state media reported Thursday.
A bomb squad from Seinäjoki removed the explosives from the vehicles in the Ostrobothnian village.
![Man loads 12 kilos of dynamite into friend's cars, tells police it was a prank](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/08802ed7-cacc-4ff3-8d30-d463b3b65b4c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
A bomb squad from Seinäjoki removed the explosives from the vehicles in the Ostrobothnian village.
The plant that went up in flames reportedly manufactures equipment for the Russian military.
![Massive Explosion Outside Moscow Leaves Dozens Injured](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ad6e7ec-0266-46b1-babe-fc439e609c3e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The plant that went up in flames reportedly manufactures equipment for the Russian military.
Iraq's media regulator has banned the use of the term 'homosexuality' and directed media and social media companies to use the term ‘sexual deviance’ instead.
![Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0b5eba60-3f13-4f74-8f88-a4fa86707ee9.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Iraq's official media regulator has directed all media and social media companies operating not to use the term “homosexuality". The Arab stated told to replace the word ‘homosexuality’ with ‘sexual deviance’, Reuters' report mentioned.
Temperatures in excess of 40C are expected to hit much of the Iberian peninsula this week.
![Portugal battles wildfires amid third heatwave of the year](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/38704e67-ef8e-4e1b-be30-ecb0aba3be55.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Firefighters in Portugal are battling to contain wildfires engulfing thousands of hectares amid soaring temperatures.
Paying Lukaku + €40m for Vlahović seems excessive. But it all boils down to, how badly does Chelsea want to get rid of Lukaku?
No, you are not the only one. I respect people who like this and I am actually jealous of people who enjoy it ... because for me this has turned into a romcom and don't like romcoms.
Maybe because it was released yesterday and people are angry it not fresh news. :)
I think the next step should be that, while you're smoking the smoke writes "Smoking Cause Cancer" in Morse code.
I think the next step should be that, while you're smoking the smoke writes "Smoking Cause Cancer" in Morse code.
I feel like this article should be on c/leopardsatemyface.