#Bilateral Ties

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पुतिन का भारत दौरा: रूस-भारत रिश्तों में नया अध्याय, तैयारियां शुरू #News #BreakingNews #LatestNews #CurrentNews #HindiNews

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PM Modi Nigeria Award: Strengthening Ties

Share your thoughts on PM Modi's recognition and its impact on India-Nigeria relations!

Welcome to an insightful exploration of a significant milestone in international relations. PM Modi recently received Nigeria’s highest civilian award. This event marks a pivotal moment in the growing bond between India and Nigeria. This recognition not only celebrates Modi’s contributions but also underscores the importance of collaboration between these two vibrant nations. In this blog post,…

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Major agreement between Japan and the Philippines formally signed, up for ratification

A major agreement between Japan and the Philippines pertaining to defense matters and accessibility has been formally signed in the presence of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., at Malacañang Palace, according to a Philippine News Agency (PNA) news article. It should be remembered that Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro mentioned this past June that the signing would happen in July. The…

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PM Modi's Visit to Qatar: How a Country Rose from Poverty to Become the Richest in the Middle East in 50 Years

PM Modi’s Visit to Qatar: How a Country Rose from Poverty to Become the Richest in the Middle East in 50 Years PM Modi’s Visit to Qatar: How a Country Rose from Poverty to Become the Richest in the Middle East in 50 Years Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Qatar has drawn attention to the remarkable transformation of the country, which has emerged as the wealthiest nation in the…

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Healthcare Bias

I wanted to share my recent experience because it’s been quite a journey, and I know others might relate. I’ve never wanted children, ever since I was a child myself. On top of that, I have a serious fear of pregnancy (tokophobia). Since I was a teenager, I’ve been set on getting sterilized. Two months ago, I started actively pursuing a bilateral salpingectomy. I went to a couple of consultations, but the doctors were dismissive, with that frustrating “I know you’ll change your mind” attitude. Unsurprisingly, they rejected my request.

Determined to be taken seriously, I got a letter from my therapist explaining my phobia and reasons for seeking sterilization. Armed with this, I approached another doctor. Despite still facing skepticism, the doctor agreed to schedule me for the surgery. Then, just three days before the scheduled date, I received a devastating call. The doctor canceled the surgery, citing his belief that I would regret my decision later in life and feel incomplete without children. It’s incredibly frustrating to encounter such attitudes in the medical community, where women’s choices about their own bodies are often undermined or dismissed.

I’m feeling disheartened, but I’m not giving up. I’m moving to Aus soon, and my search for a supportive doctor will continue.

This type of thing happens way too commonly within the medical community, not just to women who are and want to stay childfree, but to all women. Our feelings, pain, and concerns are often dismissed as “just hormones” or being “overdramatic.” It’s frustrating and dehumanizing when decisions about our own bodies and lives are undermined in this way. The assumption that we’ll change our mind about major life choices like parenthood or that our fears and preferences are insignificant only perpetuates the lack of trust and respect many of us experience in healthcare settings. It’s a systemic issue that needs to be addressed and changed. We need to be our own biggest advocate and not give up just because some doctors won’t help us. Our voices matter, and we deserve to be heard and respected in all aspects of our healthcare.

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JUST IN: Cuban Foreign Minister Arrives in Nigeria to Strengthen Bilateral Ties

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla has arrived in Nigeria to strengthen diplomatic relations and explore new areas of cooperation between both nations. His visit is expected to focus on enhancing bilateral ties, with discussions likely to cover trade, health, education, and cultural exchanges. Nigeria and Cuba have maintained longstanding diplomatic relations, and this visit signals…

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The Foreign Minister discusses bilateral relations and ways to strengthen ties with the Iraqi ambassador.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Meets Iraqi Ambassador Today, Dr. Shaya’ Al-Zandani, Yemen’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, engaged in a significant discussion with Qais Al-Amiri, the Iraqi Ambassador to Yemen. The two leaders focused on enhancing bilateral relations and coordinating political stances on shared regional issues. Historical Ties and Future Cooperation During the meeting,…

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Issa Saleh Abdullah Appointed Patron of Indo-Oman Film and Cultural Forum to Strengthen Bilateral Ties

Noida – In a landmark event, H.E. Issa Saleh Abdullah Saleh Al Shibani, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to India, was officially presented with the patronship of the newly established Indo-Oman Film and Cultural Forum. This forum, created under the auspices of the International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry (ICMEI) and the Embassy of Oman, is dedicated to fostering and promoting cultural and artistic relations between the two nations.

During the ceremony held at the ICMEI headquarters at Marwah Studios, Film City Noida, Ambassador Al Shibani expressed his pride and enthusiasm for leading the forum. “I am happy to be the patron of the Indo-Oman Film and Cultural Forum. Together, we will definitely create a strong and powerful impact on our relationship and friendship,” he remarked, emphasizing the potential of this forum to enhance the deep-rooted ties between India and Oman.

Ambassador Al Shibani brings to this role over twenty years of distinguished service in the Foreign Ministry of Oman. His career, which began in a translation office, has seen him take on diplomatic roles in London and Paris, culminating in his current position as Ambassador to India. Reflecting on his journey, he stated, “Throughout this fulfilling journey, I have developed invaluable skills, forged lifelong connections, and encountered brilliant minds that have left an indelible mark on my life. I eagerly look forward to continuing this incredible adventure and making a lasting impact in the world of diplomacy.”

The Chancellor of AAFT and President of ICMEI, Dr. Sandeep Marwah, expressed his gratitude and excitement about the association with Ambassador Al Shibani. “We are proud to be associated with you, and we will enjoy working under your leadership and guidance,” said Dr. Marwah. He further emphasized the significant role that the Indo-Oman Film and Cultural Forum will play in strengthening bilateral relations through various cultural initiatives and exchanges.

This collaboration is expected to set the stage for numerous joint ventures, including film festivals, cultural programs, and academic exchanges, aimed at bringing the people of India and Oman closer together through the universal language of art and culture.

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Here is the child free friendly doctors list. the people on this list are compiled by other childfree people who do not want children. people submit doctors who did their sterilization regardless of age, children, or marital status.

here is a breakdown of how the ACA (affordable care act) works, and how it applies to sterilization. this is only for AFAB people however. vasectomies do not count. You cannot be charged for this surgery. No coinsurance, no deductible, nothing. my hospital originally wanted $4k from me. I told them to bill me and I'll discuss with my insurance. they might be pushy, and try to get you to pay for it ahead of time, but refuse and have them bill it.

If you are getting a bilateral salpingectomy (shortened: bisalp) (COMPLETE TUBAL REMOVAL not 'tubes tied', which is where they snip the tubes and tie them with clips [called a 'tubal ligation']) there is no possible way you can become pregnant. and it does not effect your hormones at all. im being so fr, do not let people say it effects your hormones, because theres no hormones in your tubes. those are carried in ur ovaries.

If you have a family history of reproductive cancer, a bisalp greatly reduces your risks of getting those cancers. insurance codes are CPT codes of either 58661 or 58670 and the ICD-10 code of Z30.2 you might have to plug both in and talk to insurance. if someone on the phone is an asshole to you, just hang up and try again with someone else. On the other side, I've been on plenty of birth control options. for 6 years I had a copper IUD. it does make your periods heavier, and crampier if you can stand that, but it has no hormones in it and it lasts 12 years.

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राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मुर्मू की पुर्तगाल यात्रा: 27 साल बाद ऐतिहासिक दौरा, संबंधों को मिलेगी नई उड़ान

President Dropadi Murmu: भारत की राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मुर्मू इन दिनों पुर्तगाल और स्लोवाकिया की राजकीय यात्रा पर हैं। इस यात्रा का पहला पड़ाव पुर्तगाल है, जहां उन्होंने सोमवार, 7 अप्रैल 2025 को पुर्तगाल के राष्ट्रपति मार्सेलो रेबेलो डी सूसा के साथ गहन चर्चा की। यह दौरा 27 साल बाद किसी भारतीय राष्ट्रपति की पुर्तगाल यात्रा है, जो दोनों देशों के बीच ऐतिहासिक संबंधों को नई मजबूती देने का वादा करता है।…

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In an effort to strengthen diplomatic ties between the global superpowers’ most oafish representatives, sources confirmed Thursday that schlubs from the United States and China met in Australia this week for a series of lowest-level talks.

The noisy, poorly dressed delegations, which convened for multiple sessions of bilateral discussion at a Best Western motor inn just outside Brisbane, reportedly addressed a range of issues important to schlubs in both countries, including reducing tariffs on microwaveable mozzarella sticks, establishing worldwide manufacturing standards for foam beer koozie production, and generally fostering a spirit of goodwill and cooperation within the international slob community. Full Story

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this might be a silly question, but. ive recently learned more about the devastating effects of sanctions on countries like cuba, dprk, or venezuela, and how much unnecessary suffering they cause among the population, especially when it comes to food or medicine shortages. but then bds also calls for sanctions against israel, and im wondering, is there any meaningful difference between that and the sanctions already imposed by the US on other countries? i feel a bit hypocritical when i argue against sanctions while at the same time supporting bds, i feel like they are very different situations with different outcomes but i lack the understanding to really grasp how they are different, if that makes any sense

Sanctions are the systematic blockade of all or certain sectors of trade under military or economic threat by the sanctioner (mostly just the USA in recent history) to any potential agents who might try to ignore the sanction. These sanctions typically include things like medical supplies, food if the country is dependent on imports (like most countries who get sanctioned), electricity, fuel, both light and heavy industry, agricultural products and machines, the global financial system, and other such key sectors. These sanctions, overwhelmingly, only serve to impoverish the country, create undue suffering and political strife. This political strife/instability is usually the main goal of sanctions, to destabilize the target government. However, this political instability more often than not does not result in a magical restoration of "democracy" or "human rights", it usually leads the country down a path of further isolationism and political violence that only worsens its general situation. It also makes it much easier for factions like ISIS to gain popularity and support, since people are desperate. Sanctions are inhumane measures which only makes a country suffer for no good reason. The sanctioners know this, they don't care, and I'd wager that suffering is often the actual point of these sanctions. What has the 60 year old blockade achieved in Cuba? It has only caused pointless poverty, and the stated goal of the sanctions, which is to ultimately remove the communist government, has failed, is failing, and Cuba is managing to make due with what they have.

BDS call for sanctions mostly in regards to military equipment and related products/services, for NATO to stop aiding the genocide, or the banning of Israel from international events such as the olympics. No Israeli will ever go hungry because they no longer get European-made ordinance or because they don't get to participate in Eurovision. This is what BDS says in their Sanctions and governments campaign (which is behind two menus, this is also not the main focus of BDS, by far):

The BDS movement calls for sanctions against Israel, similar to the sanctions that were imposed against apartheid South Africa. These sanctions could include a military embargo, an end to economic links and the cutting of diplomatic ties. In the meantime, the BDS movement is calling for states to take steps to meet their legal obligations not to be complicit in the commission of particular Israeli crimes and not to provide recognition, aid or assistance that help Israel maintain its regime of settler colonialism, apartheid.. This includes, for example, the obligation for states to immediately end to all trade that sustains illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the suspension of free trade agreements and other bilateral agreements with Israel.

Notice the greater emphasis on military and diplomatic ties, and how economic/trade sanctions are only called for when it «sustains illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory». Sure, this will (if it is ever adopted by Israel's significant trade partners) cause some suffering for the poor illegal settlers who had just moved into their shiny new apartment blocks built atop acres of land that sustained the surrounding Palestinian villages. The mere existence of these settlements cause more suffering than any sanction could ever cause.

Calling for these sanctions against Israel, which again, don't even come from comparable agents, are both less harmful towards the total population of Israel, and occur in a completely different context. I'm not going to pretend I care about the wellbeing of settlers whose houses didn't even exist 10 years ago. If these sanctions ever do occur in a significant enough scale (dubious), and those settlers don't want to find themselves in a food desert because Carrefour closed all their stores in the west bank, they shouldn't have moved into land stolen from a people facing genocide in the first place. We're also wagering hypothetical and non-global suffering against the now more than 100,000 dead Palestinians in Gaza in the past year, not even counting those who died ever since the first Nakba.

Like BDS points out, these types of grassroots and targeted boycotts/sanctions worked in South Africa, and the white South Africans didn't even suffer that much. Wager these short-lived and targeted sanctions against these other half-century long sanctions sustained by the US' strongarm policy that have prevented basically anything from getting into Cuba or the DPRK.

While those two things are both called sanctions, they have radically different objectives, methods, range, timescale, and character. I can't reiterate this enough, the North Korean collective farmer and the Israeli settler in the west bank have nothing in common when it comes to their position. Only one of them is complicit in genocide through their own actions, only one of them has any degree of blame, and only one of their governments is actually doing anything that warrants any kind of international action. And again, the BDS strategy focuses much more on military sanctions. Let's also be practical for a second, and acknowledge that the US is never going to withdraw their support for Israel, and especially will never sanction Israel. Israel is simply never going to face the same kind of sanctions that Venezuela or Cuba are facing, nor with the same severity, nor with the same restrictions on products essential for life.

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Do you have any headcanons about Franco?

i wrote a whole thing and tumblr shit the bed and didn’t save them omg

second times the charm! but yes i do have some franco headcanons i never stop thinking about him ever

HATES the taste of anything sour/bitter, can’t stand food that isn’t sweet. Trying to get him to eat anything with vegetables in it is a down hill battle at best, if you blend them up and into food he’ll still find away to pick them out

Medical time! Franco’s probably got bilateral exophthalmos which is why both his eyes wig out of his skull like that, and why he has a misalignment in his left eye, however that’ll probably also be because of the shotgun recoil he took to the face when he was 10

He has Hydrocephalus, which causes his head to be so large! how he’s up right i have no idea, but he’s also got pretty chronic headaches and eye strain because of it

Intelligent, yeah it’s fun to think he’s a bit stupid, but he’s probably amazing with numbers due to being a drug lord

As we know he can speak Italian, but he’s probably also fluent in French (growing up in new orleans), and Spanish due to being “stationed” in Cuba for a while, he probably uses this to piss off Coyle

Speaking of Coyle, Franco obviously dislikes him for being a cop, but he probably sees some of Salvatore in Coyle, since he’s a disciplinary figure who’s a big macho man. Everything Franco isn’t at his core

Even if people think his baby thing is weird, he’s well respected for how lethal his aim with Lupara is, if Franco sees you better say your prayers because you’re gonna meet whoever you believe in soon!

Despite this, i do think he’s probably got mild vision and hearing issues, that’s why he is so quick to shoot, kill first ask questions later

Strong as hell, this guy can one tap barricades down and swing grown men over his arm like they’re a stuff animal, even without Lupara he’s probably good with hand to hand combat and could rip a dudes jaw off if he really wanted to

His Hydrocephalus also causes pretty bad mood swings, which is why his attitude is so flippant (thank you @wendigoruble for this factoid!)

Sometimes you can genuinely have a completely normal conversation with him, like no mobster related shit and no baby talk, and oddly it’s eerie as hell because he’s not supposed to do that 😭

Short, i don’t care if the wiki says he’s 5’9-5’10, he’s at MAX maybe 5’5, personally my version is 5ft on a good day

Rejection sensitive as hell, if you tell him no he’ll loose his mind completely and throw the biggest tantrum, even over small things

Can’t handle certain textures because of his teeth rotting, and can’t have metal cutlery because it hurts, mainly eats with plastic utensils except for a metal knife for cutting things

Collection of the same suit all in different colors, with matching bow ties and pacifiers

He would wear jewelry in my mind, gold rings and chains, but never anything too flashy because he thinks it’s gaudy. He might be dramatic but he’s got some class

Closeted bisexual disaster, i speak no further on this

That’s pretty much all i have!!! there are nsfw ones but since this was asked on main they’d have to wait, HAHA

but hope these suffice! <3

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I love your art!!! I just want to say I love how you draw medic and the headcannon of knee support/cane user, HES LITRELLY ME FR

Anywayyyy carry on doing such a good job and do you have any other headcannons about him???

ah you’re so kind! thank you! and in this case, yes, i do have more info & hcs to share about his disability in particular; whenever i’m drafting ideas about characters i tend to draw them out/write stuff down, so i realized when i saw this ask that i already happened to have a lot of the visual aids that would make my reply more comprehensive :]

i draw medic with chronic bilateral knee joint pain which, like many of the other mercs, he’s forced to manage while under the expectation of being able to fight a war every day for money- and because of the nature of their work involving constant, high physical demand, he’s certainly not the only one dealing with pain or other issues either caused by or made worse from exertion in (and out of) combat.

between battles/missions/outings he tries to rest his joints as much as possible, basically in a daily cycle of strain-rest-strain (a lot of these ideas are also tied pretty closely to my thoughts about the medigun and respawn and how they would work & interact with the mercs’ bodies, maybe i should make a post about that, hmmm,)

he has a few different types of canes, which he alternates between depending on the day or whether he’s misplaced one and can’t find it (why he has three of them, lol) the ones i’ve drawn are an adjustable offset handle cane and this fancy custom one with more of a fashion handle spy gave to him (one of the only instances of them having a nice interaction. in my mind they don’t like each other much on the red side) i may have also drawn him before using a derby handle custom, though i can’t remember. generally, he prefers using quad bases for their greater support + freestanding ability

a cane isn’t always supportive enough, though, since his pain is even-sided (notice him alternating hands) and it also doesn’t relieve as much weight from his joints as needed. here’s a rough chair design i made a while back + some notes on its features:

the fact that you’re able to see yourself in a character through a hc of mine makes me really happy! thanks again for your nice message ^_^