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Asian shares nosedived on Monday after the meltdown Friday on Wall Street over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff hikes and the backlash from Beijing.

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The pro-Palestine Youth Demand movement says it has been targeted with over 150 arrests since it began

Katherine Hearst Published date: 5 April 2025 09:12 BST

"On 27 March, some 20 police officers burst in on a group of young women at a Quaker’s meeting house in central London and arrested them on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

The women were activists who had gathered for an open meeting of Youth Demand, a pro-Palestine and climate justice movement demanding an end to UK government arms sales to Israel and new fossil fuel licensing. The group emerged in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza, which began in October 2023."

A military alliance between Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger withdrew their respective ambassadors from Algeria in response to the downing of a Malian drone this week, the group said late Sunday.

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We need to talk about the data. Crap data. We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, never-to-be-read-again reports, files and drawings from cancelled projects, drafts of drafts of drafts, out of date, inaccurate and plain wrong information, and gigabytes and gigabytes of poorly written, meandering content.

It's likely that among the readers of this article there will be many who collect something. Whether it's rare early LEDs or first-year-of-manufacture microprocessors, you'll scour the internet to find them, and eagerly await mystery packages from the other side of the world.

There's a tale emerging from Australia featuring just such a collector, whose collection now has him facing a jail sentence for importing plutonium. The story however is not so clear-cut, featuring a media frenzy and over-reaction from the authorities worthy of Gatwick Airport. [Explosions&Fire] has a rather long video unpacking the events, which we've placed below the break.

Emmanuel Lidden is an element collector, someone who tries to assemble an entire Periodic Table in their collection. He ordered a range of elements from an American element collectors' supply website, including samples of plutonium and thorium. He seems to have been unaware he was committing any crime, with the microscopic samples available from legitimate websites with no warnings attached. The case becomes murkier as the Australian authorities flagged the thorium sample and instructed the courier not to deliver it, which they did anyway. Then a raid of the type you'd expect for the terrorists who stole the plutonium in Back To The Future was launched, along with that Gatwick-esque media frenzy.

We're inclined to agree that the penalty likely to be meted out to him for buying a sliver of a Soviet smoke detector embedded in a Lucite cube seems overly steep, but at the same time his obvious naivety over dealing in radioactive materials marks him as perhaps more than a little foolhardy. It's something over which to ponder though, have we managed to amass anything illegal disguised as outdated devices? Have you? Perhaps it's something to discuss in the comments.

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries has pulled the covers off perhaps the most outrageous concept vehicle we've ever seen. The Corleo is a two-seater quadruped robot you steer with your body, capable of picking its way through rough terrain thanks to AI vision.

'We've become such enemies just because of this one man': South Dakota Farmers Union president

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The pro-Palestine Youth Demand movement says it has been targeted with over 150 arrests since it began

Katherine Hearst Published date: 5 April 2025 09:12 BST

"On 27 March, some 20 police officers burst in on a group of young women at a Quaker’s meeting house in central London and arrested them on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

The women were activists who had gathered for an open meeting of Youth Demand, a pro-Palestine and climate justice movement demanding an end to UK government arms sales to Israel and new fossil fuel licensing. The group emerged in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza, which began in October 2023."

Loss of funding could undo progress in reducing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, especially in war zones, says UN

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Premieres July 2025. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis for the first season from AniList:

Mixed up with another family's child as a baby, high school student Umino Nagi is finally meeting his biological parents. On the day of their meeting, he happens to encounter Amano Erika, a high school student at a prestigious and wealthy girls school. At her request, he's half-forced into pretending to be her boyfriend so she can avoid marrying her fiance....However, not only were they the babies who had been mixed up, they're also engaged to each other! The loving parents of both families officially recognize their engagement, and the couple begins living together. Nagi is in love with his classmate Segawa Hiro, and Erika is determined to rebel against her father, so the couple agree not to get involved with each other. The mixed-up and chaotic romantic comedy starts now!

first spoiler is a CW and spoiler so yea

now the details

I'd rather leave this earthly plane than watch that shock value shit, good god. Which is a shame cause i love Walton Goggins.

Call the school master! Airing @ 2:53 AM EDT 2025/04/07

Better grab your eyeliner!

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Taiwan's top financial regulator said on Sunday it will impose temporary curbs on short-selling of shares to help deal with potential market turmoil from U.S. President Donald Trump's new import tariffs, and will take other steps as needed.

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I feel like if this was in place, it would neatly solve the issue of people not posting because they can't find a fitting community.

A user or a mod spots an incorrectly submitted post, the user that posted it can then move it to a suggested "general" community, or a specific community, possibly suggested by those who spotted the error. A mod could also do it. Maybe just have a default alternative to remove that sends it straight to a preset general community.

I don't know how many communities on Lemmy regularly remove incorrectly submitted posts that are otherwise unproblematic, but if there's a decent amount it could be essentially redirected to be a bit of a unique and interesting, very varied content stream.

I personally think it's unfortunate whenever an otherwise decent user ends up being rejected for not knowing exactly how to fit their submission into the platform. Certainly a lot of that happening on reddit.

I'm thinking if this is practical and feasible, it could give Lemmy a bit of a new growth advantage.

The Coalition has also walked away from plans to sack 41,000 public service employees, raising questions about how it will pay for major election policies

The speaker of South Korea's parliament on Sunday proposed revising the constitution to curb presidential powers, citing public support for such a move after President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted for declaring martial law.

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