Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...
The main points were reported by the media on Wednesday: Even before Hamas responded to the Netanyahu-Biden proposal, the Prime Minister's Office already knew what it would contain. Hamas' flexibility came as a surprise to the man who said he supported the plan (which had been unanimously approved by the war cabinet) but who...
Teenagers each given a year’s probation after creating and spreading faked images of female classmates in south-west Spain...
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip, the Gaza Government Media Office said, as Israel continues to pound the besieged coastal territory....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17680912
The organizing committee for the Paris Olympics has unveiled backup plans for open-water events if the Seine River is deemed unsuitable for swimming....
LW World News coverage of a similar article by The Guardian
Ukraine seized a foreign cargo ship on the Danube River and detained the captain on suspicion of helping Moscow export Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied Crimea, officials said on Thursday....
U.N. Security Council members confronted Russia on Tuesday over a missile strike the previous day that destroyed part of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, pouring out condemnations at an emergency meeting chaired by Moscow’s own ambassador. ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17817491
World leaders flew into Washington DC on Tuesday for a two-day Nato summit where they are expected to agree enhanced military support for Ukraine against a backdrop of questions about Joe Biden’s mental sharpness....
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia’s culture minister said Thursday....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17827050
