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If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
Shattered Ed Sheeran claims family ‘abandoned’ him as Macklemore controversy rages on trib.al/bVqK5m9
Lmao our school has a bar inside it. This is going to go well
The Government has announced a complete ban on the promotion and use of alcohol and drugs at any event organised using a school’s name or logo.
Under the new directive, any event using a school’s name or logo will be considered a school event and will be subject to the prohibition.
Education Ministry Circular No. 2026/10 empowers the Secretary to the Ministry of Education to immediately prohibit any event found to be violating the directive.
Officials said the measures were introduced following repeated complaints from parents that students were being exposed to alcohol and drugs during major cricket encounters involving leading schools.
“Any event representing a school or using its logo is prohibited from promoting drugs and alcohol. An event held using the school logo is a school event, and no intoxicating substances should be used at such an event,” an Education Ministry official said.
The ministry said the directive will be strictly monitored, including at major school cricket matches. (Newswire)
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French officials of @Airbus have given evidence of payments that ended up with @RajapaksaNamal , according to @CIABOC_SriLanka. The European aircraft manufacturer had earlier admitted bribing to sell their planes globally, including to @flysrilankan . monetabrief.com/news/sri-lan…
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More than 1,000 people caught spitting betel and urinating inside the renovated Colombo Pettah Central Bus Stand have been made to clean the areas they dirtied.
The offenders, including several bus drivers and conductors, were identified through the terminal’s 24-hour CCTV surveillance system.
Over the past seven months, CCTV cameras have flagged 1,286 incidents, while 64 suspects linked to theft, property damage and other offences have been handed over to Police.
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The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
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TRAGEDY! See what happened to the beautiful Rajanawa Ella Falls in Ratnapura. The ecosystem ruined completely! Sigh 😌 #lka
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Won’t regulate AI and sides with the Epstein billionaire class as opposed to the people in CA struggling with the skyrocketing costs of health care. The billionaire tax is going to his desk and he is planning to veto it. Same as he did with AI regs and the AI safety kill switch, same with PFAS “forever chemical” cookware. Anything for the corporate class. We are over this. We want people that are willing to take up the fight. Fighters not folders. Learn from Mamdani, Gavin.
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Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said reut.rs/4eD9CfA
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It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.
"You're f****** crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your a***. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
That's what a U.S. official tells Axios President Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call over Israel's military actions in Lebanon.
Trump was reportedly furious that Israel's moves risked blowing up U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region, at one point also asking Netanyahu: "What the f*** are you doing?"
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I’m proud to be endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and I look forward to being a partner for him in Congress.
Meanwhile, my opponent couldn’t bring himself to endorse Zohran as the Democratic nominee in the general election, even when the alternative was serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo.
The mayor deserves an ally in Washington, not an adversary in his own backyard, so we can deliver his agenda of a more affordable New York for all. #NY10Debate