Peru: The government is under fire as LGBTQ+ groups have called for a protest against a new decree that classifies transsexualism as a "mental disorder".
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Presidents Vladimir Putin and To Lam signed deals on education, science, technology, nuclear energy, and disease prevention.
On Thursday, Vietnam and Russia signed eleven cooperation agreements and issued a joint declaration committing to deepen their historical relationship.
At the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vietnamese President To Lam signed agreements on issues related to education, science, technology, nuclear energy, and disease prevention. They also signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation between the state-owned company Petrovietnam and Novatek, Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer.
According to an article published by Putin in the Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper regarding his visit, Novatek plans gas projects in the Asian country, while the state nuclear corporation Rosatom intends to create a center for nuclear energy and technologies.
The presidents signed another agreement between the asset manager Vietnam Partners Investment Management (BVIM) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign investment fund established by Moscow in 2011.
The text reads, “Putin arrives in Vietnam on a state visit. He is received with a red carpet and guard of honor. A joint declaration and the signing of several bilateral documents by both leaders are expected.” President To Lam also announced the signing of a joint declaration to “deepen” the existing strategic cooperation relationship between the two countries, without providing further details at the moment.
“I firmly believe that with the success of President Putin’s visit to Vietnam and the determination of our leaders, relations between the two countries will continue to strengthen in the future,” he said.
After visiting North Korea, Putin arrived in Vietnam accompanied by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov, Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, and the director of the federal agency for military-technical cooperation, Alexander Mikheev.
On Thursday, the Russian leader met with the secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, the most powerful man in the country. Putin is also scheduled to attend a banquet in his honor before departing the Asian country at 8:30 PM local time.
Peruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict
‘Landmark’ case is first to deal with use of sexual violence in state’s conflict with Shining Path rebels four decades ago
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Ten soldiers have been found guilty at a court in Lima of crimes against humanity for rapes committed four decades ago during Peru’s civil war.
In what is being hailed as a landmark verdict, a panel of three judges on Wednesday said the systematic use of rape by soldiers in the Manta y Vilca case – named after the communities where the abuses took place – qualified as a crime against humanity.
“It is not legitimate that strategies of sexual violence be used as an intimidation method,” the court said.
The case is the first collective proceeding in Peru over the mass use of sexual violence during the state’s conflict with the Mao-inspired Shining Path rebels, which caused 69,000 deaths and disappearances between 1980 and 2000.
Six of the nine women who took legal action were in court to hear the verdicts. One, known as Marilia, died in March without seeing justice served. Her friend and fellow survivor, María, was in tears after the verdicts.
“Marilia told me, she would have liked [to see] these wretches behind bars for what they did to us,” said María. “They caused us so much harm. And we haven’t been able to move forward until now because of these soldiers. But I am glad that those guilty will pay for this.”
The convicted men were given prison sentences ranging from six to 12 years and ordered to pay 100,000 soles (£20,500) to each of their victims, who were all Quechua-speaking women from a rural Andean community.
The verdict comes at a crucial moment for human rights in Peru. Earlier this month, its congress voted to pass a bill to make crimes against humanity committed before 2002 subject to the statute of limitations. The bill, which awaits a second vote in congress, has been criticised by human rights organisations for undermining accountability for past human rights violations.
Some of the soundtrack was reused in HOI IV. I think the game was 60 or 70% done.
Mexico: "Why must I fix everything I touch?!" 
tastes good
Mexico failed 
Consequences of the tragedy in southern Brazil:
Recently, there were heavy rains in the southern region of Brazil, which is made up of three states, all of which are governed by opposition parties. The most affected state, Rio Grande do Sul, is under the control of the PSDB (Social Democratic Party of Brazil, which is actually a neoliberal party). The fascists of the PL (Liberal Party, currently Bolsonaro's party) obtained the majority support of the party's previous voters, who were mainly wealthy, middle-class, white, male Brazilians.
Lula da Silva decided to do what any normal, sensible head of state would do. Give aid and support to the states and people affected. He sent the Army, Navy and Air Force to help with rescues and maintain order. He created an emergency council to deal with this and selected a member of his party (PT, Workers' Party, which is a mostly socdem party with some demsoc politicians in it) as the head of this council. This member is someone who was born in the affected state.
Since the powers of the Executive allow the president to grant aid and order things to help a state without the approval of Congress, Lula began to interact with the governor of the state to see what he needed. The work the governor was doing seemed very bad and poorly done. As he is a neoliberal, it seemed that he wanted the private sector to solve everything. In addition, the state has a series of debts that he wanted to be forgiven, but this was refused.
What happened was that the governor was overshadowed by the Emergency Council created by the federal government due to the incompetence of the governor and his allies. Meanwhile, the Bolsonarist opposition (which doesn't like the governor because he defeated the Bolsonarist candidate) decided it would be a great idea to spread lies about the tragedy and the army operation. Talking about Haarp's conspiracy theory and how global warming was fake, and this was God's way of punishing the state (a state that is mostly white and Catholic, and voted for Bolsonaro in 2018 and 2022).
So, recently opinion poll results were released, showing that not only Lula, who was previously rejected by the majority of the population, now has a good margin of approval, but also the candidates in his party's coalition in Southern Brazil. Meanwhile, the governor is now more rejected than before. So how does Jair Bolsonaro react to this? By posting a video of Jordan Peteson saying that it was all HAARPS' fault, that Global Warming doesn't exist and that this is God punishing the State, that they don't deserve to receive donations because they support the "communist" Lula da Silva and are ungrateful.
The measures prohibiting gay relations, dates from the colonial era and subjected to severe punishment any man who maintained a love or sexual relationship with someone of the same gender.
On Friday, the Namibian authorities removed from the constitution two laws that prohibited the affective or carnal relations of homosexuals.
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The measures prohibiting gay relations, dates from the colonial era and subjected to severe punishment any man who maintained a love or sexual relationship with someone of the same gender.
Following the decision an extensive demonstration of the LGBTIQ+ community, which supported and welcomed the decision of the Namibian court, stating that despite the new measures “there is a long way to go”.
Despite the small steps taken by the community, Namibia’s gay, lesbian and transgender people in recent months have been persecuted by the citizenry and the government itself.
An example of this was SWAPO politician Jerry Ekandjo, who introduced a bill in parliament. It includes an amendment to the Marriage Act 1961 which defines marriage exclusively as the union between a man and a woman. It would also criminalize witnessing a same-sex wedding and generally promoting same-sex marriages.
On the other hand, at the end of April 2024, a transgender woman was brutally murdered in an informal settlement in Windhoek. According to the police, the 30-year-old woman was found with dozens of stabs and mutilations.
Despite changes to the law, it would not be uncommon for LGBTIQ+ activists and individuals to be persecuted unconstitutionally, say community members in Namibia.
That won't change US support for Ukraine. The US doesn't care if Russia bombs Paris or Berlin. Proof of this is the fact that Russia installed nuclear weapons in Belarus to threaten Poland and other NATO allies, and the US simply didn't care.
But when Russia sent its nuclear submarine to Cuba, suddenly the US felt threatened by it. If Russia used Cuba or Mexico as a starting point for attacks on the US, the US would start looking for a diplomatic way to end the war.
Russian Ministry of Defence regarding today's massacre in Crimea by Ukraine with cluster munitions:
"The US is responsible for this massacre, and they will get an answer. All flight missions for American ATACMS missiles are programmed by American specialists based on their own US satellite intelligence data."
"Therefore, the responsibility for the deliberate missile strike against the civilian population of Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied this weapon to Ukraine, as well as with the Kiev regime, from whose territory this strike was launched. Such actions will not go unanswered."
It seems that some Russian newspapers are saying that the attack was carried out by US drones from Bulgarian NATO bases, but I haven't been able to find any reliable confirmation of this.
The Boys is capeshit just like marvel movies.
Marvel doesn't have a communist superhero called Love Sausage
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