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If UK government "ignored the law" on asylum seekers, what are the consequences? [duplicate]
The UK government wants to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, but the proposed policy has been ruled unlawful by the UK Supreme Court.
The Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson is widely reported ...
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How did Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo explain why he vetoed a bill that would ban people from acting as fake electors?
Politico's Nov 15, 2023 Nevada attorney general is investigating false electors who aided Trump in 2020 includes the following, quoting Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford:
...an American lawyer and ...
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Does Biden's support for Israel align with popular opinion in the US?
Many Americans, including Jewish individuals, are reportedly protesting against the Israeli government's operation in Gaza. They cite harsh and inhumane conditions as reasons for their protest.
As a ...
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How is this continuing resolution different from what got McCarthy vacated?
CBS:
House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the measure less than a week before funding from a short-term bill passed in September was set to expire.
But dissent from within his own party over its lack ...
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What does Russia have to gain by abstaining during the latest UN resolution?
The resolution, introduced by Malta on Wednesday, also called for
“corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days”
to safeguard civilians, particularly children, ambassador ...
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Is there a difference between lobbying in a supranational government like the EU as opposed to a national government like the U.S.?
Is there a difference between lobbying in a supranational government like the EU as opposed to a national government like the U.S.? I am guessing that lobbying for the EU is a lot less effective than ...
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Who choreographs meetings between China and the United States?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avebny5UeB8
Who choreographs meetings between China and the United States? CNBC claimed in the video above that the whole meeting was choreographed, but by whom and how?...
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Why wasn't Taiwan (ROC) invited to join the IPEF?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pacific_Economic_Framework
Sullivan confirmed on Sunday that Taiwan — which had sought membership
in the IPEF framework— isn’t among the governments that will be
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Are there countries, besides Israel, that declare themselves nation-states for a particular ethnic group?
The Israeli Basic Law, controversially passed in 2018, specifies that
The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, in which it fulfills its natural, cultural, religious, and ...
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Have any countries besides Germany announced plans to increase military aid to Ukraine? (Nov 2023)
VOA, Nov 14:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition has agreed in principle to double the country's military aid for Ukraine next year to about $8.5 billion, a political source in Berlin ...
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Has Azerbaijan announced plans to repopulate Khankendi (formerly Stepanakert)?
There was a bunch of reporting from Stepanakert-cum-Khankendi a month ago, showing it virtually devoid of population, since the Armenians practically all fled.
I alas could find any news in English ...
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Which crime is worse - invading hospital or using it for military purpose [closed]
Due the IDF raid on Shifa hospital in Gaza, Qatar calls for international probe for Israel(1). On the other hand, giving the evidence the IDF claims to find during their raid (2), it seems that Hamas ...
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How many Americans support leveling Gaza? [closed]
This is from Oct 11, but oddly of [perhaps more] relevance [these days]:
“Level the place!” the senator said of Gaza in a Fox News interview in mid-October. He appeared to say it was okay to attack ...
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Can the UK parliament just declare Rwanda a safe-country for asylum purposes?
Earlier today a UK Supreme Court ruling declared that the government policy of relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda was not permissible, due to the risk of relocation back to the countries from which ...
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Did Israelis build bunkers and tunnels under al-Shifa hospital, and if so why?
Sky News:
"We all know there are bunkers and tunnels because the Israelis built some of them when they were in control of the al Shifa hospital before 2005," he [Sky News military analyst ...
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What percentage of buildings in Tel Aviv got hit by a rocket in the past year?
I’m seeing a lot of photos on social media of Israelis in Tel Aviv and it’s suburbs hiding in bomb shelters during Gaza rocket launches, which seemingly implies a relatively high chance of their house ...
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Has China been caught trying to manipulate the elections in other countries than Taiwan?
Although senior Taiwan officials, including the head of the National
Security Council, Wellington Koo, have this year warned that China
could try to sway the presidential and legislative elections ...
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Are any U.S. groups pushing for special licenses for large trucks and SUVs?
A French lawmaker has called for a requirement that drivers of consumer trucks and SUVs acquire a special license, in light of how large and dangerous the vehicles have become in recent years.
https://...
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Is "Mutually Assured Destruction" still valid considering so many conventional missiles are currently getting shot down?
Apologies if this is posted in the wrong place, but I couldn't find "military" stack exchange so this site appears to be the closest.
While following the current Russia/Ukraine war, it ...
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Do negotiations, especially concerning humanitarian concerns, ever include third party "witnesses"?
According to Netanyahu, Hamas refused an offer of fuel for the hospital. Hamas on the other hand claims Gazans don't have fuel for hospitals.
Netanyahu: Hamas refused Israeli fuel offer for Gaza's ...
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Unusual ways to release hostages
When a terrorist organization takes hostages from a country, there are two "usual" ways that the country can use in order to release them: (1) negotiate a deal with the captors, or (2) try ...
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Did the U.S. sign any deal to put guardrails around the use and development of AI for military use according to what's available in the public domain?
When US president Joe Biden meets with his Chinese counterpart Xi
Jinping in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, the pair will have a
long list of matters to discuss, including the Israel-Hamas war ...
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When was the last/prior time a former PM served in another (non-PM) position in the UK government?
CNN:
Sunak then announced he was bringing Cameron back to frontline politics as foreign secretary, in a stunning move that has few parallels in recent British political history.
Cameron served as ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
Western media is constantly reporting casualty figures from the Gaza ministry of health. However the ministry is fully controlled by Hamas and cannot be considered impartial. So why are the casualty ...
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Is there any data to inform a view of the US Nationalization of O&G?
I was wondering if there was any polling or data historic or otherwise to support a position on the US perspective of nationalizing oil and gas. The majority of the world's reserves are controlled by ...
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How can we add by standard to opinion polls a "This is a stupid question" option? [closed]
Standard opinion polls include after the options related to the question also a "Don't know/No answer" option. But often responders who choose that option had a feeling that the poll was ...
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How could the influence of lobbies be nullified in a capitalist society?
One of the defects of current capitalism is that it causes the concentration of power in a few actors who, at some point, decide to influence the politics of countries and organizations seeking their ...
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Are there agreements or laws that prevent U.S. allies to use Chinese drones militarily?
The U.S. and its allies cannot simply integrate Chinese drones into
their forces absent serious security risks, as well as the very real
possibility of Chinese supply-chain disruption if tensions ...
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Are/were anti-US murals and posters in Pyongyang gone for good since 2018?
NY Post claimed in 2018:
Gone are the posters depicting the U.S. as a “rotten, diseased, pirate nation” and promising “merciless revenge” on American forces for an imagined attack on the totalitarian ...
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Besides Jamaica, are there other countries where a "Labour" (or Workers' etc.) party is actually right-wing/conservative?
Wikipedia:
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the People's National Party (PNP). While its name might suggest that it is a social ...
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What's the rationale for spending big on athlete development for the Olympics?
TOKYO -- Countries typically splurge on their athletic teams to win
medals at the Olympics. But how has this improved their athlete's
performance?
An analysis involving investment by governments and ...
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Why does the UK compete in sports sometimes as "GBR" and sometimes as each of its individual nations? [duplicate]
In football and some other sports England, Wales, NI and Scotland compete as one independent country but at olympics, saling, skiing etc compete as "GBR"
What is reason for that?
UK has just ...
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Has UK common budget or every country has its own?
How financial system works in UK?
Must England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland, fill the common budget or every country is completely independent, "keep" his money/profit for itself?
Does ...
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Is there any international law that prohibits the use of nuclear weapon against another country?
Since around 2018, Chinese experts have concluded that Washington’s
nuclear posture now poses increasing challenges to China’s deterrent.
In particular, they have been concerned about shifts in U.S. ...
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Why isn't the Global South pro-Israel like the West? [closed]
Claiming to be neutral and even-handed, President Xi Jinping supports
a ceasefire. Yet he refuses to condemn Hamas for its 7 October
atrocities and criticises Israel. He knows a ceasefire would ...
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Does international law hold an Army accountable for killings done by other groups during a military attack?
Consider a situation where a country is partially occupied by another. An army unit strikes across a border town of the occupying force. Their military objective is to destroy an enemy defensive unit, ...
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Did the UN[GA] ever declare Israel to be a colonizer (state) or to have engaged in colonization projects?
I know of the later revoked UNGA resolution that "Zionism is racism". But did the UN, especially the UNGA, ever declare Israel to be a colonizer, apart from that, and if so to what extent? I'...
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Have there actually been any confirmed cases of Hamas raping Israelis? [closed]
The accusation often seems to be repeated on social media. Typically that they are rapists who have rapped many innocent civilians. But are there any credibly reported incidents of Hamas committing ...
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Does the White House Chief of Staff in the US hold considerable power over others?
In various TV shows I've seen that the CoS has considerable influence over the executive and is shown to be "more powerful" (in some sense) than Secretaries (of State, of Defence, etc).
How ...
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Does Hamas have any particular/concrete demands stated on the conditions of which they intend to release the hostages?
It’s all very well known that Hamas have taken many hostages from their attack in October. But are there any specific demands that they have stated will result in the hostages’ release? Or are they ...
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Destruction of mutilated US currency. Does the BEP or US government agencies track the serial numbers of destroyed currencies?
Does BEP or any other government agency track the serial numbers of mutilated currencies that are destroyed?
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Did Hamas & PIJ manage to smuggle in substantial numbers of fully assembled rockets after 2014?
In 2014, the IDF gave a breakdown of their estimates of the Hamas rocket arsenal. Interestingly, in the 45km range rockets, the whole-piece smuggled ones dominated, but in the 75km range, it was ...
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Why is the humanitarian crisis in Israel seen as an opportunity to violate the human rights of certain groups in certain countries?
With the world’s attention focused on the carnage in Israel and Gaza,
there is an urgent need to protect civilians at risk of further forced
displacement or mass expulsion. Unfortunately, others are ...
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Are people in other countries besides Egypt boycotting Western brands, as a result of the war in Gaza?
The New Arab wrote on Nov 3:
Egyptian consumer goods have, in recent days, flourished as a direct result of a massive boycott campaign targeting the sales of Western products amid an ongoing Israeli ...
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How many construction projects under PA/international supervision has Israel effectively/implicitly approved in Gaza since 2010?
In 2010 news was that Israel was going to allow imports of building materials for international construction projects in Gaza.
The construction materials allowed in under international supervision ...
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Have there been any successful voter turnout campaigns that resulted in an election upset?
In a recent local election in New York, turnout was as low as 11% in some districts:
Usually, Council elections are held every four years. But once every
two decades — thanks to the way the calendar ...
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Has support for providing more help to Ukraine (so they might win the war) tanked in Europe too, after the fizzled counter-offensive of this summer?
Time wrote on Nov 1
Public support for aid to Ukraine has been in decline for months in the U.S., and Zelensky’s visit did nothing to revive it. Some 41% of Americans want Congress to provide more ...
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Is there a reason that the only viable evacuation route is through Egypt, and people can't flee by sea?
Egypt is facing mounting pressure to act as neighboring Gaza gets
pummeled by Israeli strikes after October 7’s brutal assault in Israel
by Hamas.
In the wake of the Hamas attacks, Israel closed its ...
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Can the U.S. president suspend any government officials given a good enough reason?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday suspended the
minister from a far-right party in the coalition government and from
cabinet meetings “until further notice”.
https://www.aljazeera....
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Has the EU, the UN, or even some Muslim countries proposed to fund or construct any bomb shelters for civilians in Gaza?
The EU in cooperation with the UN have at least renovated some [Soviet-era, I guess] bomb shelters in Ukraine (ibid).
So, have they tried to do something like that in Gaza? After all, the EU was ...
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