Saturday, December 2, 2023

After Russian Supreme Court labels LGBTQ movement 'extremist', Moscow police raid gay bars

A woman is surrounded by fellow demonstrators as she holds a rainbow LGBTQ pride flag.

Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country's top court banned what it called the "global LGBTQ+ movement" as an extremist organization.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/moscow-gay-bars-raid-lgbtq-supreme-court-ruling-1.7047488?cmp=rss

Prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj arrested again by regime forces, his whereabouts unknown

A man with dark hair and facial hair, wearing jeans, a black T-shirt and a silver necklace, poses for a portrait under an underpass.

Prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime, has been arrested again less than two weeks after being freed on bail, after spending more than a year in prison, according to a close confidante.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-toomaj-rapper-arrest-1.7047425?cmp=rss

As temperatures rise, dengue fever infections keep surging around the world

An Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.

The explosive spread of dengue offers a case study in how climate change, human movement, and rising temperatures are all coaligning to fuel the expansion of potentially deadly threats to human health.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/dengue-fever-climate-change-1.7043918?cmp=rss