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Congratulations to the delegation of #Togo 🇹🇬 and the Africa Group on the adoption this morning by the #UNGA of resolution A/80/L.104, “Correct the Map.”
First endorsed by the African Union Assembly in February and officially passed at the United Nations today, this @_AfricanUnion initiative marks a historic step toward accurate and equitable global cartographic representation.
For centuries, the Mercator projection distorted global geography, shrinking Africa to the size of Greenland when our continent is actually 14 times larger. Today’s resolution promotes equal-area maps like Equal Earth across classrooms, media, and international institutions ensuring the world map finally reflects Africa’s true scale, weight, and place in the world.
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Cloudflare's security team spent the last few weeks testing Anthropic's Mythos against fifty of our own repositories. What we learned about offensive AI, why faster patching is the wrong reaction, and what the architecture around vulnerabilities has to look like next. cfl.re/49BRUqW
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A Panicked Race for Barrels Is Gripping the Global Oil Market - Bloomberg dlvr.it/TRzyMc #OilMarket #EnergyCrisis #OilPrices #GlobalEconomy #MarketTrends
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This meets the threshold for intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group as set forth in 18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide.
If any Iranians are killed pursuant to this threat, President Trump will be guilty of genocide, as will those assisting him.
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"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
Whether this is raving lunacy, deliberate hyperbole, depraved strategy or unabashed criminality, this is beyond war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is, essentially, a threat to commit genocide.
@MarkJCarney & @AnitaAnandMP, Canada must react. And must push every world leader to do so as well. We do not know whether these will remain chilling words or are a terrifying harbinger of what may be or even is to come. Neither can be allowed to stand.
This is not about taking the world as it is. This is about standing up for the most basic principles of humanity.
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President Trump threatens not just war crimes but also what sounds like genocide, saying that in Iran "a whole civilization will die tonight." This is obviously morally repugnant and also raises alarms about the mental stability of a man who controls nuclear weapons.
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I join the @iaeaorg in raising the alarm again over the safety of nuclear facilities in #Iran.
The latest incident involving the Bushehr nuclear power plant is a stark reminder: a strike could trigger a nuclear accident, with health impacts that would devastate generations.
With every passing day of this escalating conflict, the stakes and threats are raised higher and higher. We must de-escalate now. Peace is the best medicine.
The IAEA has been informed by Iran that a projectile struck close to the premises of the Bushehr NPP this morning, the fourth such incident in recent weeks. Iran also informed the IAEA that one of the site’s physical protection staff members was killed by a projectile fragment and that a building on site was affected by shockwaves and fragments. No increase in radiation levels was reported.
IAEA DG @rafaelmgrossi expresses deep concern about the reported incident and says NPP sites or nearby areas must never be attacked, noting that auxiliary site buildings may contain vital safety equipment. Reiterating call for maximum military restraint to avoid risk of a nuclear accident, DG Grossi again stresses the paramount importance of adhering to the 7 pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security during a conflict.
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💢 Videos verified by France 24 show missiles being launched from Kuwaiti territory into Iran, directly challenging Kuwait’s claim it has not allowed its land to be used for attacks.
➤ At least 13 missiles were filmed firing on March 24 from near Abdali in northern Kuwait, with a second barrage recorded March 31–April 1 from the same area.
➤ Analysis of footage, including camera angles and sound delays, places the launch site inside Kuwait near oil installations, roughly 55 km from Camp Buehring, a major U.S. base.
➤ Weapons experts say the launches are consistent with U.S.-made GMLRS rockets fired from HIMARS systems — which the Kuwaiti military does not operate but U.S. forces do.
➤ Matching explosions were filmed the same day in Shalamcheh, Iran, about 60 km away, with timing consistent with the launches.
➤ Satellite imagery later showed damage to warehouses at the impact site inside Iran.
Iran has struck Kuwait repeatedly over the past 48 hours, hitting oil, petrochemical, power, and government infrastructure, including buildings housing Kuwait’s national oil and petroleum operations.
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American-Israeli attack on the Pasteur Institute in Tehran, a century-old health research center and a member of the international Pasteur network.
Since 1920, this institute has been one of the pioneers and major hubs of vaccine production in the region.
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Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes.
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More than 1,000 international law experts (myself included) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the U.N. Charter (no evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat that could justify a self-defense claim) and may be war crimes (attacks on civilian sites). trib.al/lyTCOJB
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More than 115,000 civilian units have been damaged during the airstrikes on Iran so far, according to Pir Hossein Kolivand, President of the Iranian Red Crescent Society.
“Of these, 44,391 units are located in Tehran, which demonstrates the high extent of the attacks on the capital,” Kolivand added.
بیش از ١١۵ هزار واحد #غیرنظامی در جنگ آسیب دیدند
رئیس جمعیت #هلالاحمر از آسیب به بیش از ١١۵ هزار واحد غیرنظامی در جنگ رمضان خبر داد و گفت: فقط ۴۴ هزار و ٣٩١ واحد از این مراکز غیرنظامی تخریبشده، متعلق به استان #تهران است و این نشاندهنده حجم حملات گسترده در پایتخت است.
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"The U.S. military’s decision to move troops away from bases under Iranian attack to hotels and office spaces in civilian areas may amount to violations of international humanitarian law and the U.S. military’s own laws of war."
nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/po…
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Ships that want to transit through the Strait of Hormuz are being asked to pay fees in yuan to get a secret passcode bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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First sanctions denied Iranians access to medicine and pharmaceuticals and now targeted bombing is denying them to produce their own. The war is increasingly waged on the people.
Israeli missiles struck and destroyed a major pharmaceutical factory in Tehran on Tuesday, raising hard questions about the limits of "dual use" targeting, and what's left of Iran's medical supply chain after years of sanctions that made it nearly impossible for foreign pharma companies to operate in the country, forcing the majority of medicine production, much of it life-saving drugs, to be done domestically.
our latest: nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world…
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BREAKING: Iran says a US‑Israeli strike hit Tofigh Daru in Tehran, destroying a key supplier of raw materials for hospital, surgical, and some cancer drugs, calling it “a significant blow to the national medical supply chain.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/ej122r
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Greece is preparing for possible Iranian attacks, with its merchant navy holding drills after a drone strike.
While Gulf tankers remain potential targets, the only strike on European soil so far hit a British airbase in Cyprus.
Al Jazeera's John Psaropoulos reports.
