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Singapore + Marshall Islands pack leader with this design
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Uganda + Switzerland + Tuvalu + Democratic Republic of the Congo monkeystar with eggfeather"s art
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Island Paradises Compared: Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands for Expats
Choosing an offshore location for living, investment, or retirement is no small decision for an expat. The Pacific Islands, with their stunning landscapes and unique cultures, offer intriguing possibilities. Among these, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and the Republic of the Marshall Islands stand out for their distinctive appeal. But how do these islands compare in terms of…
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driving around the usa iwth 144 'not my president' bumper stickers entirely covering my car bearing images of the current presidents of albania, algeria, angola, argentina, armenia, austria, azerbaijan, bangladesh, barbados, belarus, benin, bolivia, bosnia and herzegovina, botswana, brazil, bulgaria, burkina faso, burundi, cameroon, cape verde, central african republic, chad, chile, colombia, comoros, costa rica, croatia, cuba, cyprus, czechia, djibouti, dominica, dominican republic, democratic republic of the congo, ecuador, egypt, el salvador, equatorial guinea, eritrea, estonia, ethiopia, fiji, finland, france, gabon, gambia, georgia, germany, ghana, greece, guatemala, guinea, guinea bissau, guyana, haiti, honduras, hungary, iceland, india, indonesia, iran, iraq, ireland, israel, italy, ivory coast, kazakhstan, kenya, kiribati, kosovo, kyrgyzstan, laos, latvia, lebanon, liberia, lithuania, malawai, maldives, mali, malta, marshall islands, mauritania, mauritius, mexico, micronesia, moldova, mongolia, montenegro, mozambique, myanmar, namibia, nauru, nepal, nicaragua, niger, nigeria, north macedonia, pakistan, palau, palestine, panama, paraguay, peru, philippines, poland, portugal, republic of china, republic of the congo, republic of korea, romania, russia, rwanda, sao tome and principe, senegal, serbia, seychelles, sierra leone, singapore, slovakia, slovenia, somalia, south africa, south sudan, sri lanka, suriname, syria, tajikistan, tanzania, timor leste, togo, trinidad and tobago, tunisia, turkey, turkmenistan, uganda, ukraine, united arab emirates, uruguay, uzbekistan, vanuatu, venezuela, vietnam, zambia, and zimbabwe and i have to update them every time theres a presidnetlai election anywhere
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MIKU INDEX
List I | List II | List III | Polish List
800+ mikus and counting ↑ in those four links above
French Bretonne Miku
French Auvergne Miku
French Alsace Miku
Spain Galicia Miku
Italian Miku
Belgian Miku
Finnish Miku
Finnish Miku
Swedish Miku
Norwegian Miku
Austrian Miku
Serbian Miku
Serbian Miku
Albanian Miku
Bułgarian Miku
Bułgarian Miku
Romanian Miku
Romanian Miku
Belarusian Miku
Belarusian Miku
Ukrainian Beer Miku
Ukrainian Miku
Grand Duchy of Lithuania Miku
Lithuanian Miku
Lithuanian Miku
Lithuanian Miku
Polish Miku
Polish Miku
Polish Łowicz Miku
Polish Biedronka Miku
Slovak Miku
Slovak Miku
San Marino Guard Miku
Pennsylvania Dutch Miku
Acadian Miku
Colombian Cundinamarca Miku
Chilean Miku
Venezuelan Miku
Surinamese Miku
Guyanese Miku
Guatemalan Miku
Puerto Rican Miku
Grenadian Miku
Trinidadian Miku
Antigua and Barbuda Miku
Dominica Miku
Barbados Miku
Muscogee Miku
Alaskan Yupik Miku
Aleut Miku
Nigerian Miku
Cameroonian Miku the real trendsetter
Cameroonian Miku
Liberian Miku
Liberian Miku
Egyptian Miku
Tunisian Miku
Mauritanian Miku
Congo (Brazzaville) Miku
Sierra Leonean Miku
Reunión Miku
Kikuyu Kenyan Miku
Kenyan Kamba Miku
Rwanda Miku
Ugandan Miku
Seychellois Miku
Bangladeshi Miku
Nepali Miku
Thai Miku
Khmer Miku
Vietnamese Miku
Samoan Miku
Samoan Miku
Tongan Miku
Australian Miku
Filipina Miku
Filipina Miku
Filipina Palay Maiden Miku
Taiwanese Miku
Ming Dynasty Chinese Miku
Qing Dynasty Chinese Miku
Chinese Miku with other Mikus from around the world
Korean Miku
Kazakh Miku
Don Kazakh Miku
Ingush Miku
Mari Miku
Armenian Miku
Syrian Miku
Syrian Miku
Israeli Miku
Jewish Miku
Jordanian Miku
Turkish Miku
Azeri Miku
I have yet to see any for
In Africa
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea Eswatini, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Sao Tome, Tanzania,
In North America
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines,
In Asia
Maldives, East Timor,
In Oceania
Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu,
If I am missing your miku let me know or if you have found a country I have listed that I couldn't find
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HERE is the list of the 134 countries that are NOT supporting South Africa's 🇿🇦 claims of genocide against Israel 🇮🇱:
🇦🇩 Andorra
🇦🇴 Angola
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇦🇺 Australia
🇦🇹 Austria
🇧🇸 Bahamas
🇧🇧 Barbados
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇧🇿 Belize
🇧🇹 Bhutan
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
🇧🇼 Botswana
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde
🇰🇭 Cambodia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇫 Central African Republic
🇨🇱 Chile
🇨🇳 China
🇰🇲 Comoros
🇨🇬 Congo
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇩🇲 Dominica
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
🇹🇱 East Timor (Timor-Leste)
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇸🇿 Eswatini
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇫🇯 Fiji
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇩🇪 Germany
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇬🇷 Greece
🇬🇩 Grenada
🇬🇹 Guatemala
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇭🇳 Honduras
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇹 Italy
🇯🇲 Jamaica
🇯🇵 Japan
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇰🇵 Korea, North (North Korea)
🇰🇷 Korea, South (South Korea)
🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇱🇦 Laos
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇸 Lesotho
🇱🇷 Liberia
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
🇲🇬 Madagascar
🇲🇼 Malawi
🇲🇹 Malta
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
🇲🇺 Mauritius
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇫🇲 Micronesia
🇲🇩 Moldova
🇲🇨 Monaco
🇲🇳 Mongolia
🇲🇪 Montenegro
🇲🇲 Myanmar (Burma)
🇳🇷 Nauru
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇲🇰 North Macedonia (Macedonia)
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇼 Palau
🇵🇦 Panama
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇵🇪 Peru
🇵🇭 Philippines
🇵🇱 Poland
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇷🇴 Romania
🇷🇺 Russia
🇷🇼 Rwanda
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
🇼🇸 Samoa
🇸🇲 San Marino
🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe
🇷🇸 Serbia
🇸🇨 Seychelles
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
🇸🇬 Singapore
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
🇪🇸 Spain
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇹🇼 Taiwan
🇹🇿 Tanzania
🇹🇭 Thailand
🇹🇴 Tonga
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
🇹🇳 Tunisia
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
🇹🇻 Tuvalu
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇬🇧 United Kingdom (UK)
🇺🇸 United States of America (USA)
🇺🇾 Uruguay
🇻🇺 Vanuatu
🇻🇦 Vatican City
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇿🇲 Zambia
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
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I'm not as well versed in the Philippines' history since I read this a long time ago, but the Philippines were taken from Spain as colonies after the US war with Spain in 1898. At the time, the Filipinos were already waging their own independence war against Spain. The Filipinos declared the First Philippine Republic in June 12 1899. However, the United States refused to accept it, which led to a bloody independence war that lasted decades, where the US military commited genocidal acts:
After World War II and the end of Japanese occupation, because of the obvious drag of holding a colonial possession of millions of people across the Pacific* during an era of decolonization, the US eventually "gave" the Philippines their independence in 1946 after World War II. The fact that they choose the 4th of July was not casual at all: they very much tried to imprint themselves, the former colonial power, as the gentle benefactors of a "daughter republic". There are INCREDIBLY racist cartoons of the US setting itself up as a "teacher" to its conquered nations, "preparing" them for self-determination.
This was a common practice by the US. I've read this in depth a long time ago and I'm sure you can find this in better detail elsewhere, but as the US was rising as an imperial power, it presented itself as an "Empire of Freedom", in suppossed contrast to the European powers, at the same time it did the same, if not worse (as shown in the Philipines) exploitation and crimes across the Pacific and Latin America. If they had could, they would have extended an entire plantation economy all around the Caribbean. Countless interventions testify this.
Of course the Philippines became independent, but it wasn't out of the benvolence of the United States. The US was perfectly willing and able to annex places on the Pacific. Of course you know about Hawai'i and Puerto Rico, which centuries after, still does not have self-determination. But how many Usamericans know about the "associated states" of Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, of the military bases at Guam? And let alone the countless genocides in the continental US in the name of manifest destiny.
Anyways. My point is, if you saw a post claiming the Philippines' independence was in the 4th of July, maybe you should have asked yourself why, exactly.
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Weird how this "endemic" German strain is poised to dominate worldwide... That almost sounds like a pandemic :O
By Ahjané Forbes
KP.3.1.1 is still the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States as it accounts for nearly 60% of positive cases, but the XEC variant is not far behind, recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows.
"CDC is monitoring the XEC variant," Rosa Norman, a CDC spokesperson told USA TODAY. "XEC is the proposed name of a recombinant, or hybrid, of the closely related Omicron lineages KS.1.1 and KP.3.3."
The variant, which first appeared in Berlin in late June, has increasingly seen hundreds of cases in Germany, France, Denmark and Netherlands, according to a report by Australia-based data integration specialist Mike Honey.
The CDC's Nowcast data tracker, which displays COVID-19 estimates and projections for two-week periods, reflected that the KP.3.1.1 variant accounted for 57.2% of positive infections, followed by XEC at 10.7% in the two-week stretch starting on Sept. 29 and ending on Oct. 12.
KP.3.1.1 first became the leading variant between July 21 and Aug. 3.
The latest data shows a rise in each variant's percentage of total cases from Sept. 15-28, as KP.3.1.1 rose by 4.6%, and XEC rose by 5.4%. Previously, the KP.3.1.1 variant made up 52.6% of cases and XEC accounted for 5.3% from Sept. 15-28.
Here is what you need to know about the XEC variant and the latest CDC data.
COVID-19:Your free COVID-19 at-home tests from the government are set to expire soon. Here's why.
Changes in COVID-19 test positivity within a week Data collected by the CDC shows a drop in positivity rate across the board, while the four states in Region 10 had the biggest decrease (-2.7%) in positive COVID-19 cases from Sept. 29, 2024, to Oct. 5, 2024.
The data was posted on Oct. 11.
Note: The CDC organizes positivity rate based on regions, as defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Here's the list of states and their regions' changes in COVID-19 positivity for the past week:
Region 1 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont): -2% Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands): -1.9% Region 3 (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia): -1.3% Region 4 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee): -0.6% Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin): -2% Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas): -0.8% Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska): -1.7% Region 8 (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming): -1.2% Region 9 (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau): -1.3% Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington): -2.7% The CDC data shows COVID-19 test positivity rate was recorded at 7.7% from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, an absolute change of -1.8% from the prior week.
COVID-19 symptoms The variants currently dominating in the U.S. do not have their own specific symptoms, the CDC says..
"CDC is not aware of new or unusual symptoms associated with XEC or any other co-circulating lineage of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19," Norman said.
The government agency outlines the basic symptoms of COVID-19 on its website. These symptoms can appear between two and 14 days after exposure to the virus and can range from mild to severe.
These are some of the symptoms of COVID-19:
Fever or chills Cough Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing Fatigue Muscle or body aches Headache Loss of taste or smell Sore throat Congestion or runny nose Nausea or vomiting Diarrhea The CDC said you should seek medical attention if you have the following symptoms:
Trouble breathing Persistent pain or pressure in the chest New confusion Inability to wake or stay awake Pale, gray, or blue-colored skin, lips, or nail beds
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Weekly update:
No new places this week.
The only new thing is that I added a global count to the statistics: we are at 86% of all world countries visited.
List of countries
Thanks for the stats! For those wondering, we're missing:
The republic of congo, equatorial guinea, eritrea, guinea-bissau, malawai, somalia, south sudan, zambia, bahamas, barbados, grenada, haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, saint kitts and nevis, saint Vincent and the grenadines, afghanistan, bangladesh, brunei, iraq, israel, kuwait, qatar, syria, timor-leste, san marino, marshall islands, nauru, and samoa.
Please submit places from these countries if you know of any good ones!
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Reading the World
In 2023, I challenged myself to watch a movie from every country in the world during the year, which I more or less succeeded. At the start of this year I decided to read a book from every country in the world (without the time restraint) and got a map to track my progress along with a challenge on Story Graph.
List of countries and books below the cut
Current count: 46
Afghanistan:
Albania:
Algeria:
American Samoa:
Andorra: Andorra: a play in twelve scenes by Max Frisch
Angola: The Whistler by Ondjaki
Anguilla:
Antigua and Barbuda:
Argentina: Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enríquez
Armenia:
Aruba:
Australia: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Alexis West
Austria:
Azerbaijan:
Bahamas:
Bahrain:
Bangladesh:
Barbados:
Belarus:
Belgium:
Belize:
Benin:
Bermuda:
Bhutan: Folktales of Bhutan by Kunzang Choden
Bolivia:
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Botswana:
Brazil:
British Virgin Islands:
Brunei:
Bulgaria:
Burkina Faso:
Burundi:
Cambodia:
Cameroon: The Impatient by Djaïli Amadou Amal
Canada: The Gift is in the making: Anishinaabeg Stories retold by Amanda Strong and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Canary Islands: Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
Cape Verde:
Cayman Islands:
Central African Republic: Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza
Chad:
Chile: The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
China: The Secret Talker by Geling Yan
Christmas Islands:
Cocos Islands:
Colombia:
Comoros:
Cook Islands:
Costa Rica:
Croatia:
Cuba:
Curacao:
Cyprus:
Czech Republic:
Dem. Rep. of Congo:
Denmark:
Djibouti:
Dominica:
Dominican Republic:
Ecuador:
Egypt:
El Salvador:
Equatorial Guinea:
Eritrea:
Estonia:
Eswatini:
Ethiopia:
Falkland Islands:
Faroe Islands:
Fiji:
Finland:
France: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
French Guiana:
French Polynesia:
Gabon:
Gambia:
Georgia:
Germany: At the Edge of the Night by Friedo Lampe
Ghana: Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
Gibraltar:
Greece:
Greenland:
Grenada:
Guam:
Guatemala:
Guernsey:
Guinea:
Guinea-Bissau:
Guyana:
Haiti:
Honduras:
Hong Kong:
Hungary:
Iceland:
India: Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir Of Surviving India's Caste System by Yashica Dutt
Indonesia: Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
Iran: Darius the Great is Not Okay by Abid Khorram
Iraq: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Ireland:
Isle of Man:
Israel:
Italy:
Ivory Coast:
Jamaica: When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten
Japan:
Jordan:
Kazakhstan:
Kenya:
Kiribati:
Kosovo:
Kuwait:
Kyrgyzstan:
Laos:
Latvia:
Lebanon: Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage
Lesotho:
Liberia:
Libya: Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa
Liechtenstein:
Lithuania:
Luxembourg:
Macedonia:
Madagascar:
Malawi:
Malaysia:
Maldives:
Mali:
Malta:
Marshall Islands:
Mauritania:
Mauritius:
Mexico: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia
Micronesia:
Moldova:
Monaco:
Mongolia:
Montenegro:
Montserrat:
Morocco:
Mozambique:
Myanmar: Smile as They Bow by Nu Nu Yi
Namibia:
Nauru:
Nepal:
Netherlands: We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets
New Caledonia:
New Zealand: Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Nicaragua:
Niger:
Nigeria: Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Niue:
Norfolk Island:
North Korea: A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim
Northern Mariana Islands:
Norway: Blind Goddess by Anne Holt
Oman:
Pakistan: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
Palau:
Palestine: The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
Panama:
Papua New Guinea:
Paraguay:
Peru:
Philippines:
Pitcairn Islands:
Poland: Return from the Stars by Stanisław Lem
Portugal: Pardalita by Joana Estrela
Puerto Rico:
Qatar:
Rep. of the Congo:
Romania:
Russia:
Rwanda: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Saint Barthelemy:
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha:
Saint Kitts and Nevis:
Saint Lucia:
Saint Martin:
Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
Samoa: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel
San Marino:
Sao Tome and Principe:
Saudi Arabia:
Senegal:
Serbia:
Seychelles:
Sierra Leone:
Singapore:
Sint Maarten:
Slovakia:
Slovenia:
Solomon Islands:
Somalia:
South Africa:
South Korea: The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong -Mo
South Sudan:
Spain: Mammoth by Eva Baltasar
Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Sudan: The Translator: A Memoir by Daoud Hari
Suriname:
Sweden: Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot
Switzerland:
Syria: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
Taiwan:
Tajikistan: The Sandalwood Box: Folk Tales from Tadzhikistan by Hans Baltzer
Tanzania:
Thailand:
Togo:
Tokelau:
Tonga:
Trinidad and Tobago:
Tunisia:
Turkey:
Turkmenistan:
Turks and Caicos Islands:
Tuvalu:
Uganda:
Ukraine:
United Arab Emirates:
United Kingdom: Poyums by Len Pennie
United States of America: Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers
United States Virgin Islands:
Uruguay:
Uzbekistan:
Vanuatu: Sista, Stanap Strong : A Vanuatu Women's Anthology edited by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
Venezuela: Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos
Vietnam:
Wallis and Futuna:
Western Sahara:
Yemen:
Zambia:
Zimbabwe: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
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#American Samoa#Congress#Guam#Northern Mariana Islands#Amata Radewagen#Compacts of Free Association#Contextomy#Federated States of Micronesia#Gregorio Sablan#James Moylan#Palau#Republic of the Marshall Islands
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Death to Afghanistan Death to Albania Death to Algeria Death to Andorra Death to Angola Death to Antigua and Barbuda Death to Argentina Death to Armenia Death to Australia Death to Austria Death to Azerbaijan Death to Bahrain Death to Bangladesh Death to Barbados Death to Belarus Death to Belgium Death to Belize Death to Benin Death to Bhutan Death to Bolivia Death to Bosnia and Herzegovina Death to Botswana Death to Brazil Death to Brunei Death to Bulgaria Death to Burkina Faso Death to Burundi Death to Cabo Verde Death to Cambodia Death to Cameroon Death to Canada Death to Central African Republic Death to Chad Death to Chile Death to China Death to Colombia Death to Comoros Death to Congo, Democratic Republic of the Death to Congo, Republic of the Death to Costa Rica Death to Croatia Death to Cuba Death to Cyprus Death to Czech Republic Death to Côte d’Ivoire Death to Denmark Death to Djibouti Death to Dominica Death to Dominican Republic Death to East Timor (Timor-Leste) Death to Ecuador Death to Egypt Death to El Salvador Death to Equatorial Guinea Death to Eritrea Death to Estonia Death to Eswatini Death to Ethiopia Death to Fiji Death to Finland Death to France Death to Gabon Death to Georgia Death to Germany Death to Ghana Death to Greece Death to Grenada Death to Guatemala Death to Guinea Death to Guinea-Bissau Death to Guyana Death to Haiti Death to Honduras Death to Hungary Death to Iceland Death to India Death to Indonesia Death to Iran Death to Iraq Death to Ireland Death to Israel Death to Italy Death to Jamaica Death to Japan Death to Jordan Death to Kazakhstan Death to Kenya Death to Kiribati Death to Korea, North Death to Korea, South Death to Kosovo Death to Kuwait Death to Kyrgyzstan Death to Laos Death to Latvia Death to Lebanon Death to Lesotho Death to Liberia Death to Libya Death to Liechtenstein Death to Lithuania Death to Luxembourg Death to Madagascar Death to Malawi Death to Malaysia Death to Maldives Death to Mali Death to Malta Death to Marshall Islands Death to Mauritania Death to Mauritius Death to Mexico Death to Micronesia, Federated States of Death to Moldova Death to Monaco Death to Mongolia Death to Montenegro Death to Morocco Death to Mozambique Death to Myanmar (Burma) Death to Namibia Death to Nauru Death to Nepal Death to Netherlands Death to New Zealand Death to Nicaragua Death to Niger Death to Nigeria Death to North Macedonia Death to Norway Death to Oman Death to Pakistan Death to Palau Death to Panama Death to Papua New Guinea Death to Paraguay Death to Peru Death to Philippines Death to Poland Death to Portugal Death to Qatar Death to Romania Death to Russia Death to Rwanda Death to Saint Kitts and Nevis Death to Saint Lucia Death to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Death to Samoa Death to San Marino Death to Sao Tome and Principe Death to Saudi Arabia Death to Senegal Death to Serbia Death to Seychelles Death to Sierra Leone Death to Singapore Death to Slovakia Death to Slovenia Death to Solomon Islands Death to Somalia Death to South Africa Death to Spain Death to Sri Lanka Death to Sudan Death to Sudan, South Death to Suriname Death to Sweden Death to Switzerland Death to Syria Death to Taiwan Death to Tajikistan Death to Tanzania Death to Thailand Death to The Bahamas Death to The Gambia Death to Togo Death to Tonga Death to Trinidad and Tobago Death to Tunisia Death to Turkey Death to Turkmenistan Death to Tuvalu Death to Uganda Death to Ukraine Death to United Arab Emirates Death to United Kingdom Death to United States Death to Uruguay Death to Uzbekistan Death to Vanuatu Death to Vatican City Death to Venezuela Death to Vietnam Death to Yemen Death to Zambia Death to Zimbabwe
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Palau's Pioneering Path: Leading the Pacific in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Adoption
The tiny island nation of Palau, nestled in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, is charting a bold course into the future of finance. In a groundbreaking move, the government has embarked on a trial of its own digital currency, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, utilizing the XRP Ledger with Ripple offering technical support. This initiative isn’t just a testament to Palau’s innovative spirit;…
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Who voted against UN resolution calling for humanitarian truce? The United States, Israel, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Fiji, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay and Tonga all voted against the Jordanian-introduced resolution. The resolution called for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas and demanded aid access to Gaza. Forty-five others abstained, including Canada, who had introduced an amendment that would have more explicitly condemned Hamas and “the taking of hostages”. Other notable abstentions included Germany, which has staunchly supported Israel in the war, and the United Kingdom.
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Books around the world
A while ago, I made a post that I want to make a list of books from every country of the earth. The qualifications are rather simple: The author needs to be from that country and the novel needs to take place in that country. The books themselves don't need to be the best from that country, just something I've read. They need to exist in a language that I can understand (which, for me, are German, English, Norwegian and Swedish).
If you have any suggestions, please send them to me 😊 So, without further ado, here is the list! (Books that I've already read are bold, books I have picked out for the country but haven't read yet are not)
Abkhazia:
Afghanistan:
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia: The Gray House, Marjam Petrosyan
Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay
Austria: Liebelei, Arthur Schnitzler
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile: The House of Spirits, Isabella Allende
China: Beijng Comrades, Bei Tong
Colombia
Congo
Costa Rica
Croatia: Marble Skin, Slavenka Draculic
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic: Valerie and her world of wonders, Vitêzslav Nezval
Denmark: Vintereventyr, Karen Blixen
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France: The End of Eddy, Eduard Louis
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany: Krabbat, Otfried Preußler
Ghana
Greece: Medea, Euripides (I would love to read a contemporary greek novel tbh, please recommend me one!)
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland: Moonstone - The Boy Who Never Was, Sjón
India: The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Indonesia
Iran: Reading Lolita in Teheran, Azar Nafisi
Iraq
Ireland: Skulduggery Pleasent, Derek Landy
Israel
Italy: Swimming to Elba, Silvia Avallone
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan: Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
North Macedonia
Norway: Vildskudd, Gudmund Vindland
Oman
Pakistan
Palestina
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland:
Portugal
Quatar
Romania
Russia: Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rwanda
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea: The Vegetarian, Han Kang
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka: Die sieben Monde des Maali Almeida, Sheban Karunatilaka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden: Herrn Arnes Penningar, Selma Lagerlöf
Switzerland: Homo Faber, Max Frisch
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
Ukraine: Kult, Ljubko Deresch
United Kingdom: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
USA: The little Friend, Donna Tartt
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
I am also including some parts of the world that are not independent countries, but that I want to have in this list:
Faroese Islands
Greenland: Blomsterdalen, Niviaq Korneliussen
Scotland: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
Wales: Fire and Hemlock, Dianna Wynne Jones
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The Russian State Duma has introduced a bill to ban the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitions are legal.
What countries would be affected?
The ban would affect not just E.U. member states but also countries like Bolivia, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan, among others. However, according to an explanatory note attached to the bill, the restrictions are primarily aimed at NATO countries.
What countries would be left?
Judging by a report from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), as of 2020, there were 39 countries whose laws would likely exempt them from Russia’s proposed ban. Most of these countries are in Africa, South America, and Asia.
Algeria
Benin
Burundi
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Egypt
Gambia
Liberia
Morocco
Nigeria
Rwanda
Tanzania
Tunisia
Uganda
Jordan
Myanmar
Brunei
Oman
Philippines
United Arab Emirates
San Marino
Bahamas
Belize
Dominica
El Salvador
Grenada
Haiti
Honduras
Nicaragua
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Tonga
Vanuatu
Kuwait
Malawi
Indonesia
Malaysia
Lebanon
South Sudan
Do citizens of these countries currently adopt many Russian children?
None, at least according to official statistics. In 2023, foreign citizens are recorded as having adopted just six children from Russia; in five cases, the parents were Italian citizens, and in one case, they were French citizens. Both Italy and France allow gender transitions.
In its summary of last year’s adoptions by foreigners, the Russian Supreme Court mentions 16 cases; however, in the 10 cases not included in official statistics, the adopting parties were the children’s stepfathers. Their citizenship was not included in the summary due to privacy laws, but the proposed amendments would not affect them regardless of citizenship, because the process of adoption by stepparents is regulated by different legislation.
Only six in total? Were adoptions by foreigners more common before the war?
Yes, though the adoption rate of Russian children by foreign parents began to fall as early as 2012, when Russia banned the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens. In 2012, foreign citizens adopted 2,604 Russian children; in 2019, they only adopted 240.
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