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Derryko pub bat, Igande Odoltsuko auzunetik bost minutura. 26 urteko gazte baten ahotan entzuna da hurrengo hau –transkripzioa ez da guztiz zehatza, gitarra-jolearen orroek eta Guinnessak gaztearen ahotan eragindako labainkadek atondutakoa baino–: “Ez duzue hau entzun nahi, baina gatazkak hemen jada ez du inolako zentzurik, 1970eko urteetako berbekin hitz egiten dute; gu jada ez gara hori. Etnikotasunak banatzen gaitu, ez zapalkuntzak: gu ez gaude zapalduta”. Lehen esaldi horrek bueltarazi zuen bertan oporretan zegoen euskaldun baten baino gehiagoren burua, adierazpenaren zorrotzak testuinguru politikoaren anbiguotasuna areagotzen zuelakoan-edo. Garai post-modernoetako adierazpen kutsua zuen gazte harenak. Familia errepublikar sutsu batean jaioa, gatazkaren gordinak ardaztu zuen bere bizitza; eta atmosfera itogarri horretan hezia, handik alde egitea eta berak antzemandako mugez haragoko aldarriak egitea beste ortzimugarik ezin kausitu. Baina gehiago zekarren barnean mutikoak. Elkarbizitza. Hitz magiko eta absolutu hura atera zuen, unionisten eta nazionalisten segregazioa herrialdearen –Ipar Irlandaren, ez Irlanda bateratuaren– kalterako zela, eta hori deuseztatu barik, aurrera egin ezinean geratuko zela herrialdea. Hitza magikoa eta absolutua da, behin berba hori aterata ukaezina baita argudioa; eta ahotan erabili duenari ere ezin arrazoia kendu. Elkarrizketa puntu horretara iritsita, eta oraingo ikuspegitik, zalantza zantzuren bat beharko luke bere elkarrizketa kideak, baina bertako giroak-edo eramanda, bere horretan jarraitu zuen euskaldunaren eta irlandarraren arteko elkarrizketak. Gero herria zaintzeaz hasi zen irlandarra, termino korapilatsuetan korapilatsuena. Eta orduan jaurti zuen bonba: “Guk bertako poliziak behar ditugu, komunitatekoak direnak; bestela, unionistak etortzen dira guregana, gorroto gaituztenak, eta horrela ezin komunitatea egin”. Elkarbizitza eta komunitatea. Bi termino zalantzati, korapilatsu eta era berean eztabaidagai eta eztabaidaezin. Abesti errebeldeak Pazko Iganderako daude gordeta Ipar Irlandan, bestela unionistekin ezin elkarbizitzarik lortu, eta beraz, irakurle, imajinatu hau: Coldplayren musika gitarra-jolearen soka eta ahots-kordetan, dozena bat gizonen berbaroa, eta alboan errepublikar ohi hura musikaren gainetik berbaz, bere barrenak husten. Orduan aitortu zion euskaldunari berak militarra izan nahi zuela, huraxe zuela lanbide desiratu; ez dago zehaztu beharrik zein armadatan eman nahi zuen izena. Eta orduan hasi zen euskalduna bere kabalak egiten eta zer galdetuko eta: “Irlanderarik ba al dakizu?”, eta hark erantzun: “Ez, ezta nahi ere”. Eta orduan jausi ziren anbiguotasun eta abstrakzio denak, deuseztatu ziren absolututasunak, eta euskaldun motelak ulertu zuen parean zuena, etxean dituen bertsuak direlako. Elkarbizitza eta komunitatea eskatzen zituen horietakoa zela ulertu zuen, baina bi kontzeptu labainkor horiek hizkuntza eta kultura gutxituetakoei bakarrik direla aplikagarriak ulertzen dutenak; elkarbizitza eta euskara denontzat eskatzen dutenak, baina antzinako erara: batzuk kalean eta besteak etxean. Euskara eta euskal kultura ez omen dira politizatu behar, elkarbizitza termino guztiz apolitikoaren izenean: Ipar Irlandan eta Euskal Herrian kutsu bertsua dute elkarbizitza zaleek.

Ambasada e SHBA-së në Bagdad përsëriti paralajmërimin e saj të hënën kundër udhëtimit në Irak, duke u bërë thirrje amerikanëve që ndodhen tashmë në Irak të “largohen tani”, transmeton Euronews. “Mos udhëtoni për në Irak për asnjë arsye. Largohuni tani nëse jeni atje”, tha ambasada në një alarm sigurie. Ajo paralajmëroi se milicitë e lidhura […]

À peine deux jours après la fin du dernier round de négociations en Suisse, où l’AFC/M23 et le gouvernement congolais se sont à nouveau engagés à respecter un cessez-le-feu, les combats ont repris dans l’est de la RDC. Les deux camps s’accusent mutuellement de bombardements et de violations de la trêve dans les provinces du Sud-Kivu et du Nord-Kivu.

(The Center Square) – Last year, Tennessee passed a law saying no teacher or student in public schools can face discipline for refusing to call a person by preferred pronouns that contradict their physical sex. Republican state Rep. Aron Maberry said he doesn't think that goes far enough. What if a biologically male teacher tells his class to start calling him "Mrs.," or a biological woman tells students to address her as "Mr."? Maberry, a pastor in Clarksville, told The Center Square it wasn’t a hypothetical scenario, but something that actually came up at least twice in his district – once at his daughter’s middle school, again at a high school. "It’s confusing to the kids, and it puts them in an awkward position that if you don’t call the teacher by the name that they're preferring, then are they going to retaliate against the kid?" Maberry asked. "I believe in objective truth, and I believe that we should not be trying to confuse children." Legislation he sponsored this year would expand on the pronoun law, shielding Tennessee students from discipline for refusing to use social titles that don't match a teacher's biological sex. So there could be no consequences for calling a male teacher "Mr.," or a female "Mrs." The law would also cover teachers, state employees and state contractors. It's one of at least 20 proposals that came up in the current legislative session dealing explicitly with transgender issues, continuing the Republican supermajority’s years-long effort to drive the controversial ideology from all facets of public life. Democrats, meanwhile, have doubled down on defending it. "We can only judge you by the bills that you bring," state Rep. Vincent Dixie, D-Nashville, told Maberry in an April 1 committee hearing, "and your bills are some of the most hateful and derogatory bills that I've seen this year." The "honorifics" bill sailed through the Senate in March in a 26-6 vote along party lines. It's expected to pass the House early this week, which would make it the sixth anti-transgender measure approved by the Tennessee General Assembly this year. Tennessee’s actions on the issue are significant because last year, the state won a major victory at the U.S. Supreme Court that dealt a blow to the healthcare industry's medical interventions on children. The court's 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti upheld a 2023 Tennessee law banning "gender-affirming care" on minors, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. The decision also upheld similar bans in 24 other states. Why Tennessee? While states including Florida, Iowa, Montana and Texas have passed laws protecting students and teachers from punishment for refusing to recognize transgender identities, Maberry’s law may be the first in the nation to specifically address transgender staff potentially asking kids to use Mr., Mrs., Ms., Miss or something else in their monikers. "We may be the first, which would not be the first time we were the first on an issue," Maberry told The Center Square. “We’re taking a firm stance that we’re going to protect children in our state." People who identify as transgender make up an estimated 0.98% of Tennessee’s population, according to data compiled last year by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. That figure includes about 15,600 transgender youth ages 13 to 17. Still, Republicans remain on a warpath. "Honestly, when you think that they’ve taken it as far as they can, they come up with another blow, another version," Minority Leader Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, told The Center Square. "I think it’s just a red meat issue. It’s national. It kind of trickled down." A press secretary for the Senate Democratic Caucus called the trans issue "primary election poll clickbait." "They have picked out a portion of the population that is miniscule and are using them as a punching bag," Brandon Puttbrese told The Center Square. "They’re focusing on something that will never affect 99 percent of classrooms." Republicans have also pushed measures this year to keep transgender concepts out of government, courts, health care and even child-rearing. Of them, five have passed both chambers, five still have chances of approval before the legislature's planned adjournment on Wednesday, and ten have already died or appear stalled. Seven of the 20 were holdovers from last year. "They are trying to seal things up in case there’s ever a Democratic governor," said Chris Sanders, executive director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Tennessee Equality Project. "I think some of the lawmaking is motivated by, 'Let’s seal up as much as we can in case we ever lose our power.' So that it makes it as hard as possible to reverse it." Barrage of bills In the current session, Tennessee lawmakers floated unsuccessful proposals to keep Pride flags and Pride Month off government property, to have sex discrimination laws no longer apply to gay or transgender people, and to make it easier for county residents to request that libraries remove certain books. One bill from last year that didn't move would've named a state park's swimming pool after Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer and activist against men in women's sports. Though not a law, Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution this month designating June as "Nuclear Family Month," supplanting Pride Month. Proposed legislation still in play this year would regulate businesses as adult entertainment if they host male or female impersonators, prohibit governments and school districts from covering gender treatments for their employees, define sex as male and female and designate facilities such as women's jails, domestic violence shelters and restrooms as female-only. Other measures already approved and awaiting the governor’s signature: • Senate Bill 676 / House Bill 754, sponsored by Sen. Brent Taylor and Rep. Jeremy Faison, has been heavily criticized as setting up a state tracking system for transgender medical patients as well as those seeking detransition treatments. The bill, which cleared the House on Wednesday by a 73-23-1 vote, requires doctors to report on transgender-related healthcare, gender clinics accepting state funds to also perform detransition procedures, and insurers covering gender treatments to also cover detransition treatment. • SB 1989 / HB 2082, which cleared the House on Tuesday in a 79-16 vote, says if a parent insists on raising a child as their actual biological sex, that cannot be construed as child abuse, neglect, or endangerment or considered as a negative factor by a judge in determining custody arrangements. • SB 2031 / HB 1872, which cleared the House and Senate earlier this month, allows patients to sue their doctor for "coercing" them into seeking gender reassignment. On Thursday Gov. Lee signed SB 2118 / HB 2498, which prohibits Tennessee’s managed care Medicaid program, TennCare, from providing coverage for medical procedures "for the purpose of enabling an individual to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the individual's sex." The governor has also already signed another ideology-related bill that Maberry sponsored in the House. SB 1664 / HB 1665 prohibits healthcare providers from asking certain gender-related questions to minors, such as whether they feel comfortable in their bodies, without a parent’s consent. Maberry told The Center Square that legislation also originated with incidents involving his own children. "To be quite frank, the way that bill came to me is my own daughters got asked by their primary care providers if they were OK being girls," he said. "And it made me, their mother, and our children very mad." 'Honorifics' origins That’s why Republicans keep bearing down on transgender issues, Maberry said, because they impact even people who have zero involvement. "Because what they're doing is they're planting the thoughts and the seeds," he said. "That's what a lot of this stuff is doing, to try to confuse children, and we're taking a stance in Tennessee we're not going to do that." He said he introduced the "honorifics" bill, House Bill 1666 / Senate Bill 1665, because of stories coming from constituents, including the best friend of his 14-year-old middle daughter. According to Maberry, a biologically female teacher at Richview Middle School in Clarksville told a classroom she wanted to be addressed as "Mx.," a gender-neutral courtesy title typically adopted by people identifying as non-binary. He said he also heard that a male teacher at Kenwood High School who is transitioning told students to start using "Mrs." Messages from The Center Square seeking to verify those accounts weren’t returned by Richview Principal Kelly Daniel, Kenwood Principal Nigel Anderson or Clarksville-Montgomery County School System Chief Communications Officer Anthony Johnson. Maberry said he’s heard nothing about any students being disciplined at either school for refusing to use those preferred titles. His proposal would not only prevent that from happening, but bars teachers from asking students to use opposite-sex social titles in the first place. Asked if free speech doesn't cut both ways, both for a teacher asking for a preferred honorific and a student refusing to go along, Maberry said he's not concerned about the law holding up in court. "Mainly because I’m actually extending a bill that was passed the year before, that has held up," he added. The pronoun law has been criticized for exposing schools to lawsuits if a teacher requests alternative pronouns, or if they use a student's preferred transgender pronouns. Sanders, of Tennessee Equality Project, called Maberry's proposed addition "horrible." "That’s just not the kind of thing we need in schools," he said. "Not to mention, that's possibly workplace harassment, if you're misgendering somebody. I guess that sort of thing will be sorted out in the courts." Sen. Akbari, who voted against the bill, said she can't fathom why anyone would want to address someone by something other than what they want to be called. "At the end of the day," she said of her party, "our fight is to make sure that people are not being discriminated against, or necessary care is being withheld, simply because they are different from who we are."

For many Delhi residents, who, like me, have lived in India’s capital for 50 to 60 years and watched with consternation the desecration of the city — its green lungs and open spaces taken over by multi-storeyed buildings, its once elegant rivers turned into muddy cesspools, and garbage dumps replacing sprightly flowering and fruiting trees […]

Нохчийн эскархоша Белгородан кӀоштарчу дозанехь йолчу Новая Таволжанка гӀаларчу хIусамашкахь къоланаш дина аьлла, хаам бо "Пепель" телеграм-канало. Цу хьокъехь официалехь комментарий ца йина йа Белгородерчу Ӏедало а, йа "Ахматан" спецназо а. "Пепел" гIирсо бинчу хаамца, охан-беттан 9-чу дийнахь лоьмарийн меттана "Ахмат" тIе йаздина масех машен кхаьчна хиллера Гражданская ураме: муьлш бу ца хуучу барзакъ доьхначу наха цӀенойн а, гаражийн а неӀарш йохош, мехала хӀуманаш лечкъийна, шайна...

The Senegalese capital Dakar is hosting the 10th International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa on Monday and Tuesday – an anniversary edition taking place against a backdrop of major geopolitical shifts across the continent and competition over the continent's resources.

„ქართული ოცნების“ მთავრობის მეთაური ირაკლი კობახიძე ბულგარეთის საპარლამენტო არჩევნებში გამარჯვებას ულოცავს მემარცხენე-ცენტრისტული კოალიცია „პროგრესული ბულგარეთის“ ლიდერს, ექსპრეზიდენტ რუმენ რადევს.

Le fonds souverain allemand met fin aux restrictions qui lui interdisaient d’investir dans des entreprises liées au secteur de la défense. Le fonds connu sous le nom de « Kenfo », pourra désormais acheter des actions et obligations émises par des fabricants d’armement.

കേന്ദ്ര സര്‍ക്കാരിന് കീഴിലുള്ള ഫെഡറേഷന്റെ ഉത്തേജക മരുന്ന് വിരുദ്ധ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ നിലവിലെ അപകടസാധ്യതകൾ തടയാൻ പര്യാപ്തമല്ലെന്ന് AIU കണ്ടെത്തി

തിരമാലകൾ ക്യാമറയിൽ എത്രത്തോളം ഭീകരമായി കാണപ്പെടുന്നു എന്നതിലല്ല കാര്യം, മറിച്ച് തീരത്ത് എത്തുമ്പോൾ ജലനിരപ്പ് എങ്ങനെ മാറുന്നു എന്നതിലാണ്

ഫേസ്ബുക്ക് പോസ്റ്റിലൂടെയായിരുന്നു ലോൺ ആപ്പിനെതിരെ അജു വർ​ഗീസ് മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് നൽകിയത്.

BOOM found that the man in the video is Jaspal Singh Sarai, the husband of content creator Pardeep Kaur Dhillon.

Chihuahua, contemplado en proyecto nacional de 400 Casas Comunitarias de Lenguas Indígenas Texto y foto por Karla Quintana/ Raichali. Fecha: 20 de abril, 2026 El proyecto prevé un presupuesto de 125 millones de pesos para 2026, sin embargo la estrategia aún no define su aplicación concreta en la entidad ni las comunidades beneficiarias. El estado […] La entrada Chihuahua, contemplado en proyecto nacional de 400 Casas Comunitarias de Lenguas Indígenas se publicó primero en Perimetral.

Чым «чорны рыцар» небясьпечны для пратэстаў? Калі здраджваюць сілавікі? У чым памыліўся Лукашэнка ў 2020 годзе?

When it comes to tech and kids, America has made serious mistakes. For years, children have been allowed unsupervised access to social media apps in school and at home that were not designed with their safety in mind. This has contributed to an unprecedented rise in adolescent anxiety, depression, cyberbullying and suicide. Americans have every […]

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H.C.M.L próximamente cumplirá 19 años y enfrenta un proceso judicial y penal de altas proporciones tras ingresar al Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta con diversas armas blancas, con las cuales mató a una Inspectora del recinto, dejó gravemente herida a una Asistente de la Educación y a tres compañeros más. La madre del exestudiante habló en […] Este artículo Madre de joven que mató a Inspectora en Calama: “Soy una mamá que trabaja, no podría estar las 24 horas del día con él” fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Le réalisateur allemand Hans-Jörg Heinrich a présenté, samedi 18 avril, l’avant-première de son film « Le Son de la révolution » dans l’enceinte du centre culturel franco-guinéen de Conakry. Un documentaire retraçant l’histoire de la musique guinéenne sous le régime autoritaire du président Sékou Touré (1958-1984), qui a conquis un public très jeune.

Evropska komesarka za proširenje Marta Kos upozorila je pismeno šest država Zapadnog Balkana da rizikuju da do polovine ove godine kolektivno izgube preko 700 miliona evra iz Plana rasta Evropske unije zbog neispunjavanja reformi, saznaje Radio Slobodna Evropa (RSE) iz pouzdanih izvora u Evropska komisija. Kako se nezvanično saznaje, Kos je ovo pismo poslala 17. aprila u sve prestonice regiona. Izvori RSE su potvrdili da je ovim pismom Kos zatražila od svih da ubrzaju reforme predviđene...