The sex of Frederica, one of two of his favourite tortoises thought to be female (the other being Emily), as well as his companion since 1991, was cast into doubt in 2017 when island veterinarian Catherine Man indicated that due to a deformity of its plastron its sex could not be verified,[4] and is now known to be male, being renamed Frederik.[1] While Frederik was undergoing the examination, Jonathan came over and did not leave the side of Frederik and the veterinarian during the entire process.[13]

invades encroaches more into of their northern disputed regions.

Not that I care but invade is a too strong word in geopolitical terms.

there is another very recent clip from ITV news UK showing a guy being killed while their group of 5 holding a white flag to fetch relatives that were left behind. It was posted on Lemmy but I forgot where.

EDIT: I found the link here. It’s sadder that the ITV reporter even Interviewed the victim before he was murdered. It starts at around 2:00. But it’s worth to view the whole thing.

With a population 1/7 of Ukraine, the GDP is 1/3 of Ukraine - not bad at all.

Not to be pedantic but I’d to clarify one aspect that not many people know.

He was right, except for one. At least from the perspective of those Muslim Arab leaders:

Our God is not theirs.

Islam is an Abrahamic religion, regarded by the Muslim as a continuation of the Abrahamic religions before it. So the muslim regard themselves as having the same god as the Jews and the Christians. Thus, the prophets of the Jewish religion (and even the prophets of the Christianity, Jesus) are also regarded as prophets in Islam. Many of them are mentioned in Quran in good faith. The main difference is the jewish doesn’t recognize Muhammad as their prophet while the Muslim regards Muhammad as the last prophet in addition to those before him.

She’s married to a British. Provided that she’s still married, she can apply for spouse visa, no?

After a two and a half hours, the standoff came to an end when a bin was pulled up beside the carriage, giving the animal a platform on which to disembark.

The feline appeared unbothered as it alighted the train, according to station staff, who described it as “swaggering off” into the night as though it had other places to be.

In my country we have an old proverb which can be directly translated to: You can’t straighten up a wet (cloth) thread no matter how hard you try. I don’t know how scientific that is, but the message it implies: When thing is wrong, whatever rhetorical bullahit you throw in to justify your wrongdoings, it will still be wrong.

Was that during the early Nazi period? I reckon at some point, they made it difficult for them to migrate. Am I wrong?

This is their standard SOP, I suppose. There had been another incidence recently where an unarmed Israeli man who had just killed 2 Palestinian attackers at Jerusalem. The man kneeled on the ground, raising his hand, and opened his shirt to signal that he wasn’t a threat. But this IDF soldier rewarded the supposedly Israeli hero by killing him cold-blooded. Not sure if there any video of this on news channels but the clips of this incidence has been circulating around in Telegram about 2 weeks ago, I think.

Yeah, to use the term apartheid is not accurate to explain the atrocity. Don’t overplay ‘apartheid’, it’s not the accurate term. We need a stronger term here; could be zionistheid or Israelitheid.