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The FAA had previously only advised that drone pilots avoid flying near “mobile assets” operated by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy, such as naval warships and truck convoys transporting nuclear materials between US national labs. But the “notice to airmen” alert in January—NOTAM FDC 6/4375—had created the equivalent of roving, 3,000-foot no-fly zones around federal agents’ cars and other vehicles operating in cities and towns across the country. And it didn’t just affect those trying to film federal agents. Because it was practically impossible to ensure compliance with the new flight restrictions, any drone pilot could be at risk during any flight.

“It created a whole lot of fear in the community,” said Vic Moss, CEO and cofounder of the Drone Service Providers Alliance, a drone industry trade association based in Lakewood, Colorado. In a post on March 11, Moss described the FAA flight restriction as posing an “impossible compliance problem” for drone operators, who could end up “ensnared inside a restricted zone with no way of knowing it.”

That may have expedited the government’s next move. On April 15, the FAA removed the no-fly zones by replacing the sweeping flight restrictions with a “national security advisory” titled NOTAM FDC 6/2824. The revised notice dropped all mentions of flight restrictions and criminal charges. It instead “advised” drone pilots to avoid flying near “covered mobile assets” belonging to the Department of Homeland Security and several other federal agencies.

Kingdom's sovereign wealth fund to stop funding breakaway competition, as major projects continue to be scaled back.

Bahrain’s decision to strip dozens of its nationals of citizenship after accusing them of sympathising with Iran during the ongoing Middle East war will leave Shia Muslims with Iranian heritage at risk, a human rights group has warned. Bahrain’s Interior Ministry announced on social media this week the 69 people whose citizenship have been revoked included accused individuals and their family members – an act that critics termed as “collective punishment”. They affected people are all of non-Bahraini origin. The announcement came as the Gulf kingdom continues to navigate the fallout from the regional war triggered after Israel and the United States launched attacks on Iran in February, and Tehran retaliated across the region. The ministry said: "The Bahraini nationality has been revoked from ​those individuals for glorifying or sympathising with the hostile Iranian acts, ⁠or engaging in contacts with external parties.” Under Bahraini law, a person can be stripped of citizenship if they are deemed to have caused “harm to ​the interests of the Kingdom or acting in a manner that contradicts ​the duty of loyalty to it."

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Federal officials have ramped up their monitoring of Tehran’s threats against members of the Iranian diaspora in Canada, a senior public safety executive said Tuesday at a conference in Ottawa.

“We’re keeping a very close eye on their actions,” Sebastien Aubertin-Giguere, the national counter-foreign interference coordinator and an associate assistant deputy minister at Public Safety Canada, said at the Ottawa Civic Space Summit.

“Especially the Iranians have a history of, whenever they feel challenged and whenever the diaspora gets active, they have a history of fighting back. And they have also, unfortunately, a history of lethal activities.”

He made the remarks during a panel discussion at a conference held by Co-operation Canada, which represents dozens of Canadian non-profits working in international assistance.

Aubertin-Giguere said technology and rising geopolitical competition have made it cheaper and more advantageous for authoritarian states to reach out “beyond their borders to harass and try to silence the people they disagree with,” including in Canada.

“We’re seeing an uptick. At the same time, Canada’s demography is changing and it means that in many ways, Canada becomes a battleground for the political fights of the home country. So it creates sort of the conditions for transnational repression,” he said.

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Meanwhile, for many members of the Iranian diaspora in Canada, it’s not the oil embargo at the Strait of Hormuz or the diplomacy in Islamabad that is top of mind. They simply want to stay in touch with their families back in Iran.

Eight weeks into the war and far away from flying missiles, the Iranian diaspora in Canada struggles with focusing on their everyday lives as concerns grow about their families in their native land ...The internet blackout imposed by the Tehran government since February 2 has significantly affected the Iranian diaspora ...

Mozdeh Rouz, a Montreal resident, has noticed hair loss due to the extreme stress she has faced from recent uncertainty. She has been able to contact her family, although infrequently – about twice a month for only a few minutes at a time.

“It’s not a normal life … It’s full of stress, full of bad feelings,” she said ..

Set against the backdrop of 1980s Britain, four young men – Boy George, Roy Hay, Mikey Craig, and Jon Moss – formed a multi-racial, ethnically diverse, and sexually liberated band with a style and sound that challenged the status quo during the era of New Romantics and Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.

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The second US circuit court of appeals was divided late on Wednesday in its decision, ultimately, to reject proceeding to a so-called en banc hearing, a rare meeting of all of its judges to consider a conclusion.

The development came almost 18 months after Trump appealed, shortly after winning election to a second term in the White House, to the US supreme court against a decision by a separate jury. That jury awarded $5m to Carroll after concluding that Trump had sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in New York in 1996 and, much later, defamed her.

The highest US court has not yet declared whether it will be willing to hear the case. Lawyers for the US president did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement that her client was “eager for this case, originally filed in 2019, to be over so that she can finally obtain justice”.

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[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Renee is a surgeon from Philadelphia who speaks out against the U.S. government’s economic war on Cuba. After visiting the island, she says the healthcare system is under severe strain: shortages of medicine and basic supplies, limited resources and constant blackouts that disrupt patient care.

According to Renee, these restrictions are harming ordinary people and making medical treatment increasingly difficult. “People are not being saved. People are being harmed,” she says. “If we really supported human rights in the United States, Cuba wouldn’t be in this situation.”

U.S. Voices Against the Blockade is a series featuring U.S. activists who oppose U.S. sanctions on Cuba. Watch Episode 1 to hear Renee’s voice and stay tuned to hear other people from the United States speaking out against U.S. sanctions.

“If it's true that it is the Cuban government that is causing the problems, then lift the blockade, let the oil in and let's see what happens,” she says.

Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf.

The report openly discusses studying Ukraine’s mobilisation methods which include what it calls “ruthlessly efficient trade-offs.” In plain terms, this is an acknowledgment of forced mobilisation practices that would never be tolerated in the UK itself. Even the authors admit such measures would be politically explosive if applied at home.

Western leaders push escalation publicly, while privately acknowledging they are unprepared for the consequences. Ukraine is used to bridge that gap as a proxy battlefield where strategies are tested and costs are externalised.

At the same time, the narrative of a “Russian threat” is repeated, despite the report itself admitting Russia is not on Britain’s doorstep and NATO unity is weakening. The contradictions are becoming harder to hide every day.