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[Link] Shell and Vitol accused of prolonging Ukraine war with sanctions ‘loophole’
Read: 20/2/2023 www.theguardian.com
Oil company Shell and energy trader Vitol have been accused of prolonging the war in Ukraine by exploiting a “loophole” in the EU sanctions regime to bring products derived from Russian oil into Europe through Turkey.
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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.
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[Link] This Town in Ukraine Is Deserted, Except for the Man With a Pet Panther and Leopard
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
In the last two weeks, 40-year-old Girikumar Patil has settled into a new routine in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. Every morning at 8AM, when the curfew is lifted in his small town of Severodonetsk, he treks to neighbouring towns to buy five kilos of meat.
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[Link] Doctor Apologizes for Ranting About ‘Console Wars’ From Operating Room
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
The anesthesiologist, who goes by Dr. Shreeveera on Twitter and his YouTube channel, filmed himself supposedly in an active operating room where he had just anesthetized a patient and was preparing for an invasive procedure to remove a gallbladder.
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[Link] Lawmakers Say This Holy City’s Airport Code Is Too GAY
Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com
As Indian lawmakers double down on their efforts to change a pilgrimage city’s airport code “GAY,” LGBTQ rights groups say the move speaks of their increasing homophobia. On Feb.
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[Link] India Expands Piracy Blocklist to Tackle ‘Hydra Headed Rogue Websites’
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Pirate site blocking is a common practice in many countries and India is no exception. The language used in Indian courts tends to be more colorful though. This is exemplified by a blocking extension several major Hollywood studios requested recently.
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[Link] Court Orders WhatsApp To Block Groups Sharing Pirated Newspapers
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
India's largest newspaper publishing group has filed a complaint at the Delhi High Court against dozens of defendants said to have illegally offered its copyrighted publications via WhatsApp.
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[Link] Why Farmers Are Still Unhappy Despite Modi Withdrawing Controversial Farm Laws
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
In a surprise televised address last week, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi apologised to farmers and announced that the controversial farm laws they had been protesting for a year would be withdrawn.
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[Link] India Has Millions of Crypto Investors. A Proposed Ban Has Them Petrified.
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
In a move that has led to panic selling among local crypto investors, the Indian parliament announced on Nov. 23 that it is deliberating a bill that seeks to “prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India” to pave the way for a single official digital currency to be issued by the government.
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[Link] Indian police charge local Amazon executives over marijuana trade
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men with 20 kilograms of marijuana on November 14 and found they were using the Amazon India website to order and further smuggle the substance in the guise of stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, to other Indian states.
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[Link] Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement.
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[Link] Inside a Booming Black Market for Heroin in the Shadow of the Himalayas
Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com
We spoke to a dealer who dodges Indian soldiers and checkpoints to sell drugs in the world’s most militarised zone. Srinagar, KASHMIR – Javed has been looking over his shoulder more often than he'd like.
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[Link] Satellites Spot Full-Scale Mockups of US Warships in Chinese Desert
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Satellite images show China has built what look like mockups of U.S. warships, including an aircraft carrier, in its northwestern desert, possibly to prepare the Chinese military for potential future conflicts.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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[Link] Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Japanese police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for using artificial intelligence to effectively unblur pixelated porn videos, in the first criminal case in the country involving the exploitative use of the powerful technology.
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[Link] Man Gets Double Life Sentence For Killing His Wife With a Cobra
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
According to prosecution lawyers, Sooraj Kumar killed his wife, Uthra, for her gold jewellery and wanted to marry another woman. This was Kumar’s third attempt to murder his wife, they said. In March last year, Kumar allegedly set a viper to bite Uthra while she was staying with her in-laws.
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[Link] North Korea’s Passport Is Apparently More Powerful Than These Countries
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s top passport ranking authority released a list that shows how COVID-19 regulations have made travel even more difficult, particularly if you’re from South Asia.
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[Link] 900 Detained After Seven ‘Targeted Killings’ in the World’s Most Militarized Zone
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Teachers. A principal. And a well-known pharmacist. They were all shot dead in broad daylight last week in India-controlled Kashmir, heightening fear in the world’s most militarized zone.
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[Link] These Gangsters Pretended to Be Lawyers To Kill Their Rival in Court
Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com
Stunning footage captured the moment after two gangs went head to head at a courtroom in India, resulting in three deaths and raising questions about security.
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[Link] Girls as Young as 5 Were Paraded Naked to Appease the 'Rain Gods’
Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com
One video showed the girls, some of whom looked no older than five, being paraded naked while carrying a wooden shaft bearing a frog, and begging from door to door as a group of older women trailed behind in procession.
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[Link] Mother Who Made 200 Videos Brutally Beating Her 2-Year-Old Is Finally Arrested
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
In the horrifying footage, Thulasi can be seen brutally attacking the toddler until he bleeds and cries in pain.
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[Link] This Family Used Kids to Sell Drugs From Their Secret Basement for Years
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
For decades, Haji Taslim ran a profitable family business from the basement of his home. Together, Taslim, his wife Nasheen, their two sons and two son-in-laws managed to keep their illegal drug operation afloat for 30 years, 60 miles from India’s capital in a city called Meerut.
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[Link] First China, Now India: How Drug Cartels Get Chemicals for Meth and Fentanyl
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Restrictions in China have pushed drug traffickers to source the chemical “precursors” they need in India. Shopping for the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other illicit synthetic drugs is still easy—if you know where to look.
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[Link] He Preached Slow Fashion. Then He Collaborated With Fast Fashion Icon H&M.
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
This week, a hyped-up collaboration between Indian couturier Sabyasachi and fast fashion brand H&M dropped amid much media frenzy.
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[Link] He Built a Helicopter From Scratch... It Worked, Then It Killed Him.
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
Ismail Shaikh, a 28-year-old school dropout from the Indian state of Maharashtra, had a dream: to own a helicopter. After asking around, he soon realised that helicopters cost millions – money he didn’t have.
[Link] How Truck Drivers Helped This Girl Achieve Her Olympic Dream
Read: 6/8/2021 www.vice.com
Mirabai Chanu, the weightlifter who opened India’s medal count on the first day of Tokyo Olympics 2020 with a silver, has had quite the homecoming.
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[Link] Third day of protests in Delhi over alleged rape of nine-year-old girl
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl from India’s lowest caste has sparked a third day of protests in India’s capital, in the latest case to spotlight the country’s high levels of sexual violence.
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[Link] Tokyo Olympics: Sony Obtains High Court Order to Prevent Piracy
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, is being held mostly without spectators but the reach of global TV will ensure it is seen around the world.
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[Link] National Gallery hands $3 million in looted art back to India
Read: 29/7/2021 www.smh.com.au
The National Gallery of Australia is set to finally purge its collection of artworks associated with disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor with the return of 14 objects worth $3 million to the Indian government.
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[Link] Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data
Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus project includes the mobile phone numbers of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and 13 other heads of state and heads of government, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] On the Feasibility of Secure Traceability in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
Read: 3/6/2021 nadim.computer
WhatsApp recently published an article titled “What is traceability and why does WhatsApp opposite it?”, in which it argues that “some governments” (a reference to Facebook’s current lawsuit against the Indian government) “are seeking to force technology companies to find out who sent a
[Link] Maoist insurgents in India kill 22 police officers in ambush
Read: 7/4/2021 www.abc.net.au
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[Link] CA confirms Indian cricketers were racially abused at SCG — but not by spectators filmed by the media
Read: 27/1/2021 www.abc.net.au
Cricket Australia has confirmed Indian players were racially abused during the third Test at the SCG, but says it does not yet know who was responsible.