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A first group of 75 soldiers arrived on Friday and another 75 on Saturday, all drafted from the military police, according to Guatemala's government.

A state of emergency has been in place across the Caribbean nation for months as the government battles violent gangs that have taken control of much of the capital Port-au-Prince.

The forces are in Haiti to boost a United Nations-backed security mission led by Kenya that has so far failed to prevent violence from escalating.

Kenya sent nearly 400 police officers in June and July last year to help combat the gangs.

This was the first tranche of a UN-approved international force that will be made up of 2,500 officers from various countries.

A small number of forces from Jamaica, Belize and El Salvador are also in Haiti as part of the mission and the US is the operation's largest funder.

In March 2024, armed gangs stormed Haiti's two biggest prisons, freeing around 3,700 inmates.

It used to work in the past but I noticed recently that mastodon doesn't receive new posts in communities I've followed from mastodon. I can find them by searching for them, however new comments won't federate out and comments left from mastodon don't appear in the post comments either. Does this work for anyone else in latest lemmy version or is it just me?

Transgender dancer Jin Xing’s ascent to the upper echelons of Chinese show business is extraordinary in a nation where it has become increasingly difficult for LGBTQ+ people to live openly.

The 57-year-old has been a transgender icon in China for years, admired by some of the country’s most marginalized as a rare example of both success and acceptance, even within officialdom.

But a recent series of sudden and unexplained cancelations by local authorities of appearances by her dance troupe has sparked fears Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authoritarian drive is ensnaring the country’s most prominent openly transgender personality.

Transgender people in China often face social stigma and institutional discrimination, facing issues in looking for work or simply walking down the street without being stared at.

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Spain's conservative opposition will boycott the start of official commemorations marking the 50th anniversary of right-wing dictator Francisco Franco's death, laying bare the enduring divisiveness of his legacy.

The general overthrew a democratic republic in a brutal civil war that killed hundreds of thousands and ruled with an iron fist from 1939 until his death in 1975.

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced around 100 events in 2025 to "showcase the great transformation achieved" in the half-century since the European country initiated its democratic transition.

Madrid's Reina Sofia art museum -- home to Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" painting, one of the most famous anti-Franco works -- will host the first ceremony on Wednesday.

Sanchez will lead it but neither King Felipe VI nor the leader of the main conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Nunez Feijoo, will attend.

Feijoo believes the initiative is an opportunistic ploy by the minority leftist government to distract attention from its political and legal woes.

Corruption investigations are ongoing against Sanchez's wife and political allies, while the Socialists have to negotiate painstakingly with an array of fringe and separatist parties to pass legislation.

The commemorations planned in schools, universities, museums and streets are the work of a government which "in its desperation constantly looks to the past", Feijoo said.

The Socialists have retorted by pointing to the origins of the PP, born in 1989 as the successor to the Popular Alliance, founded in 1976 by a former Franco minister.

Far-right Vox, the third-largest force in parliament, will also snub the programme. One of its MPs recently said in parliament that Franco's rule "was not a period of darkness, as this government makes out, rather a stage of reconstruction, progress and reconciliation".

At the other end of the political spectrum, the hard-left Podemos has called the commemorations a "facade" to cover up the scant compensation for the dictatorship's victims.

Sanchez passed a "democratic memory" law in 2022 aiming to revive their memory, including the creation of a register of victims and the removal of Francoist symbols.

But the law has not tried or convicted any ex-Franco officials accused of crimes and who remain alive as they benefit from an amnesty approved during the transition, to the disappointment of survivors.

The polarising memory of the 1936-1939 civil war and Franco stems from the regime's tame demise, according to Joan Maria Thomas, professor of contemporary history at the University of Rovira i Virgili.

An ailing 82-year-old Franco passed away peacefully in hospital, in contrast with the spectacular collapse of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy during World War II or the Carnation Revolution that overthrew Portugal's right-wing dictatorship in 1974.

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Original Ynet article in Hebrew:

https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/yokra14200599

Translated paragraph:

An often repeated statement about any extraterrestrial object is: "if it has liquid water it might suport life". On this assumption a lot of space probes, robots and rovers include the sensors and the instruments the search for traces of past life. This has had high priority in many missions to Mars and it will have high priority also in future missions to the satellites of Jupiter.

Now the thought came to my mind that the ability to support life might not be enough. Life on Earth exists in the most inhospitable places, even in lakes that formed below the polar caps. But the theory is that life evolved in the primordial soup, which was a very favourable environment, only later it spread to inhospitable environments.

To repeat myself, what I am saying is that the ability to support life and the ability to support the birth of life might be two different things. How much different is the question. If the answer is that the difference is strong and life needs a cosy environment in order to arise the assumption it had liquid water therefore it might have had life is moot.

So, how strong is the difference? Is just some liquid water in unknown conditions enough to let life arise, even if it might support existing life?

Bo Nix high-fived ecstatic fans all the way around the stadium after the Broncos ended an eight-year playoff drought with a rout of the Chiefs.

The Browns made the playoffs despite cycling through a number of quarterbacks during the 2023 season and responded by firing their offensive coordinator when the year was over.