One person has died as stormy weather with high volumes of water is sweeping across Greece, affecting mostly Greek islands. Rhodes is one of the Greek islands severely hit by the bad weather front, while Evia and the Sporades islands (Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonissos) are also at the mercy of the intense weather phenomena. RHODES […]
For Boston Magazine, Kara Baskin explores a growing subculture of tweens and teens who don’t feel entirely human. Some identify as one animal, like a cat or a dog; others identify with multiple animals. One kid Baskin speaks to, Sol, says she “doesn’t summon the animals, but rather they come and go on their own schedule.” These young people call themselves therians (distinct from furries, who are fans of anthropomorphic animal characters). Baskin provides a fascinating glimpse into a world where adolescents can express themselves and explore their identities.
Bafflement is the baseline condition of raising kids right now. The adolescent quest for self-discovery is timeless—but today’s parents experimented in ways that were analog: new hairstyles, inscrutable music, beer snuck in the woods. Their own parents might not have liked it, but they could at least relate.
Now the landscape of adolescent discovery is literally foreign, thanks to social media, which has turbocharged once-obscure subcultures like the furry fandom—and, at its rarer edge, therianthropy—and redefined what “fringe” even means. Even if a kid is the only therian at school, she can find 400 more people just like her online. That’s one of the biggest challenges for parents in the algorithm age: The world your kid actually lives in is one you can’t enter. It touches the fear in every parent, therian kid or not: What happens when our kids inhabit a world we don’t understand, with idols we don’t recognize?
As the US Navy lays the groundwork for its next-generation SSN(X) attack submarine to replace its aging fleet, the US’s longstanding undersea supremacy faces an intensifying test against China’s rapid naval buildup, advancing acoustic stealth and superior shipyard capacity. The US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) issued a sources-sought notice to survey domestic shipyard […]
Rising bond yields have been a warning sign for financial markets in recent months amid the Iran war's risk to global economies, and the IMF says those risks are more of a concern.
Rising bond yields have been a warning sign for financial markets in recent months amid the Iran war's risk to global economies, and the IMF says those risks are more of a concern.
Trump e Putin hanno siglato un accordo per il rilascio di diesel russo pari a 5 milioni di tonnellate. Gli USA hanno sospeso le sanzioni sul gasolio fino ad aprile. I prezzi, secondo Trump, “scenderanno per noi a ritmi record”.
Gli accordi tra russi e americani non finirebbero però qui. Secondo Reuters, l’inviato e genero di Trump, Kushner, avrebbe discusso con il consigliere di Putin, Dmitriev, dell’ingresso di un investitore americano addirittura dentro Nord Stream, l’azienda che controlla i gasdotti sabotati. Precondizione di questo accordo è ovviamente la sospensione delle sanzioni USA, per cui la decisione di ieri sembra perfettamente coerente.
All’UE, mancherà invece il 7% del gas per coprire i consumi invernali. Parliamo di 14 miliardi di metri cubi. Oltre al blocco di Hormuz che ha fermato il GNL dal Qatar, da gennaio partirà il blocco totale autoimposto delle fornitire russe. È poi pronta “la più lunga lista di sanzioni europee mai presentata contro Mosca”: 1600 aziende e personalità. La Commissione ha però versato 1,24 miliardi per droni e missili all’Ucraina e restano da pagare a breve 15,4 miliardi. Ne mancano comunque almeno il triplo per tenere in piedi l’esercito per la prima parte del ’27.
L’UE non è però intenzionata a rivedere le sue regole di austerità. Secondo il vicepresidente della Commisisone Dombrovskis, “non possiamo continuare a introdurre nuove forme di flessibilità” perchè la sostenibilità fiscale “rappresenta una risorsa fondamentale”. Il ministro all’economia olandese dice che bisogna ridurre a tutti i costi il debito, “fuggire dai problemi non è la soluzione”, e che si sente “piuttosto stanco di questa discussione”. Tesi espressa anche dai ministri belga e tedesco. Non importa che, secondo proprio il commissario all’energia, Jorgensen, soltanto per la guerra nel Golfo, l’UE pagherà 90 miliardi di extracosti per l’energia. Saremo in guerra, senza energia, ma il deficit sarà sotto al 3%.
Continua intanto la deindustrializzazione dell’Europa, che procede pari passo alla sua militarizzazione. Avanza l’ipotesi di una reindustrializzazione del sito Beko di elettrodomestici di Siena a opera della Leonardo. Non si produranno più frigoriferi in Europa ma missili per distruggere la nostra economia. Una grandiosa strategia.
Ma c’è qualcuno che seriamente può pensare che questa politica possa farci uscire dalla crisi in cui ci ha portato? Che queste élite abbiano la lucidità e la buona fede per ammettere gli errori madornali e autocorreggersi?
L’UE non è in crisi. È la crisi.
Rappresenta oggi l’ostacolo interno principale all’organizzazione dei popoli europei in vista dei loro interessi e della pace.
Dobbiamo svegliarci, prima che siano le condizioni storiche a farlo per noi.
Doctors and healthcare workers gathered in parallel to the World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly in Rotterdam on October 8-10, demanding the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) over its breaches of medical ethics throughout the Gaza genocide.
Activists held mobilizations warning against the IMA’s attempts to obscure attacks on Palestinian health workers and infrastructure. These actions included a petition demanding the organization’s suspension from the WMA signed by nearly 6,850 health professionals.
“The petition demands that the IMA is suspended by the WMA for its gross violations of medical ethics over decades, concerning Palestinian patients and healthcare services and the complicity of Israeli doctors in the starvation, torture and medical neglect of Palestinian prisoners,” the IMA Out! coalition stated.
On Saturday, October 10, 81 health workers simultaneously removed their scrubs and hung them in a line facing the WMA assembly. Each was marked with the name of a Palestinian healthcare worker currently held in illegal Israeli detention.
“These scrubs should not be empty,” said general practitioner Mejrem Ahmetaj from Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza) in the Netherlands. “Our colleagues belong with their patients, not in Israeli prisons.”
Activists during protest actions near the WMA General Assembly in Rotterdam, October 2026. Source: Aziz Rhali/Facebook
The campaign to suspend the IMA over its breaches of medical ethics has been developing for months. In June this year, a report in The Lancet reported that a petition launched by the People’s Health Movement (PHM) to hold the IMA accountable collected over 1,100 signatures. Working together with other organizations and networks, including chapters of Healthcare Workers For Palestine and Teva boycott groups, the initiative was able to expand.
The IMA: more than a bystander
Since October 2023, at least 1,700 Palestinian health workers have been killed, and many more remain imprisoned in horrifying conditions in Israeli detention centers. Among them is Kamal Adwan Hospital Director Hussam Abu Safiya, whose mistreatment and imprisonment have caused international outcry.
These crimes have been extensively documented by UN experts and human rights associations, yet the IMA – which represents over 90% of Israeli physicians – took no action. Instead, some of its leading figures backed unfounded claims that Gaza’s hospitals are used for military purposes.
“The IMA has said and done nothing about these war crimes against health workers, patients and hospitals,” said Jonathan Fluxman from IMA Out!.
Ahmetaj added that the IMA is not a bystander. “It defends these attacks and blocks international condemnation while Palestinian healthcare is being destroyed,” the physician said. “That is not medical neutrality. That is complicity.”
Hind Rajab Foundation: IMA involved “in the death, torture, and ill treatment of Palestinian detainees”
The protest coincided with a legal action initiated by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF). On October 7, the foundation announced it had called upon the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the involvement of the IMA, the Israeli Ministry of Health, Ministry of Defense, and medical professionals “in the death, torture, and ill treatment of Palestinian detainees held at the Sde Teiman detention facility since October 7, 2023.”
The legal submission addressed the participation of Israeli medics in crimes perpetrated at Sde Teiman’s field hospital. There, health workers and detainees documented abuses spurring from directives issued by the Israeli Ministry of Health in December 2023.
According to the Hind Rajab Foundation, the Ministry of Health guidance instructed medical staff to treat prisoners while blindfolded and handcuffed and required them to sign medical documentation using only their professional titles. It also directed them to restrict transfers to civilian hospitals and authorized forced medical treatment without protections.
PHM Global Coordinator Aziz Rhali during protest actions near the WMA General Assembly in Rotterdam, October 2026. Source: Aziz Rhali/Facebook
“By November 2025, at least 29 detainees had died at Sde Teiman as a result of physical violence, medical neglect, or both,” the organization wrote. The IMA did not initiate any disciplinary proceedings against members involved in these practices – and even used international journals as platforms to obscure them.
“The evidence shows that medical participation in torture and abuse at Sde Teiman was structural,” Natacha Bracq of the Hind Rajab Foundation said. “The Israeli Ministry of Health built the field hospital, dictated the terms of medical treatment; doctors served under Military Police authority rather than the Medical Corps; and a professional association provided ethical cover.”
“Israeli physicians abandoned their neutrality when they agreed to treat patients in chains and erase what was done to them,” Dyab Abou Jahjah from the same organization added. “The WMA must answer why an association that provided institutional cover for torture is still welcome at its table.”
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The Bishop of Leeds is urging Catholics to 'live simply' to protect the planet. But why are bishops banging on about climate change when they're supposed to be saving souls? asks Roger Watson.
Kate Manne, a philosophy professor at Cornell University, situates the lawsuit from a former student alleging she was gang-raped at the Chi Phi fraternity in 2024 within a broader, deeply troubling campus “rape culture.” The specific details of Jane Doe’s case are horrific, but Manne also points to shocking statistics and examples showing that sexual misconduct is rife and often taken less seriously than other student infractions. She is critical of Cornell’s response and culture, but emphasizes that, tragically, this normalization of misogyny is widespread across many American campuses. A disturbing, important read.
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