#gaza #journalists #famine
#BBC #AFP #AP #Reuters
@palestine
"In an unprecedented joint appeal, four of the world’s leading news agencies have warned that their Palestinian journalists in Gaza are now facing death by Israel’s policy of mass starvation"
"With Israel continuing to block access for foreign media, Palestinian reporters—many of them freelancers—have been the sole witnesses to the devastation inflicted by Israel’s campaign of extermination"
«Ces #journalistes sont les yeux du monde, ils risquent de mourir de faim»: le cri de détresse des rédactions internationales. Via le média : Le temps
« Leurs photos témoignent d’une détresse ultime. La faim, la soif – celles des autres et les leurs. L’Agence France-Presse, l’américaine Associated Press, la canado-britannique #Reuters et la chaîne britannique #BBC News lancent un cri de détresse (..) » #Journalisme #DroitsHumains #Gaza #AP #FrancePresse
#AP, #AFP, #Reuters & #BBC joint statement Thursday says their #journalists in #Gaza face #starvation: "…these independent journalists have been the world's eyes & ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering…
The statement called on Israel to allow journalists in & out of Gaza & allow adequate food supplies into the territory." | CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/news-organizations-journalists-gaza-face-starvation-1.7592779
See the joint statement: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/joint-statement-on-gaza-from-afp-ap-bbc-news-reuters
Booming clean energy hit global tipping point for even lower costs
NEW YORK — The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point” where solar and wind power…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ap #cleanenergy #Climatechange #country #globaltippingpoint #guterre #guterres #lastyear #Latvia #lowest-costfossilfuel #LV #renewable #Renewableenergy #Report #unitednationsreport #wind #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/13692/
The full US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit kept in place a June 6 decision by a divided 3-judge panel that the #Trump admin could legally restrict access to the #AP to news events in the Oval Office & other locations controlled by the White House including Air Force One.
The D.C. Circuit order denied the AP's request that it review the matter, setting up a possible appeal to the #SCOTUS.
WTF
US appeals court won't lift limits on #AssociatedPress #access to White House
A US appeals court on Tuesday declined to lift restrictions imposed by #Trump's admin on White House access by #AP #journalists after the #news organization declined to refer to the body of water long called the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America as he inanely prefers.
#law #democracy #Constitution #FreeSpeech #FreePress #WHCA #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsAssociation
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-wont-lift-limits-associated-press-access-white-house-2025-07-22/
Concept for discussion: Replacing HTTP Signatures with Bearer Tokens for ActivityPub Federation
Curious what other people think about this idea. What if federation security was re-worked to use target-assigned bearer tokens to authenticate GET/POST requests? This would remove the need for complicated signing schemes and reduce system load under heavy traffic bursts (as no cryptography is required).
A basic implementation could look like this:
1. When instance A (a.example.com) first attempts to federate with instance B (b.example.com), a POST request is made to a dedicated registration endpoint. (for discussion, we'll say it's https://b.example.com/activity-pub/register-instance). This request includes fields necessary for verification, including the source domain name, target domain name, and a securely-generated verification token. Other metadata could be included to allow instance B to selectively allow/prohibit federation based on other criteria, but this is optional.
2. Instance B makes a POST request back to a dedicated verification endpoint on instance A (for discussion, we'll say it's https://a.example.com/activity-pub/verify-registration). This request must include the target domain name and verification token provided in step 2.
3. Instance A checks the verification token (and verify that it matches the target domain name) and return a successful value. The verification code must be invalidated after this call!
4. Instance B, after verifying instance A's request, returns a securely-generated federation key back to instance A. This federation key is a bearer token used to authenticate all requests from instance A to instance B. This key must be unique to instance A!
5. Instance A completes the original request with the Authorization header set to Bearer {federation_key}.
6. Instance B receives the request, detects the federation key, and checks it against the list of registered instances.
7. If the key does not exist or A has been defederated, then a 403 Forbidden error is returned.
8. If the key is expired or revoked, then 401 Unauthorized error is returned. Upon receiving a 401 error, instance A should start over from step 1 to re-authenticate and complete the request with a new token. This process should not be repeated for recursive failures!
9. If the key is approved, then a 200 OK response or 202 Accepted response is returned, and A can consider the request as successful.
Advantages versus HTTP Signatures:
- No cryptography requirements.
- Simple logic, no edge cases around HTTP query parameters or header order.
- Equally effective for all request types.
- Keys can be easily revoked or rotated.
- Supports authorized fetch and defederation use cases "by default".
Disadvantages versus HTTP Signatures:
- Breaks the actor model - instances are required as a first-class concept. (but really, the actor model is basically dead already. you can't even federate reliably without a WebFinger server, at minimum.)
- Requires multi-request "handshake" before communication. (but this is already required in practice, since a signature can't be validated without first requesting the signing actor.)
- Out-of-band protocol - communication can't happen over ActivityPub / ActivityStreams because this is a prerequisite to authenticate any request. (but again, we already require WebFinger and some software requires NodeInfo for full support.)
So, what are your thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? Did I miss something? Please let me know, I welcome replies here!
#ActivityPub #AP #Federation
UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’
[now let's see if they do something]
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.
The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”
The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...
https://apnews.com/article/europe-israel-hamas-war-gaza-e4062cffa9585790061105236a93d8e5/
#StopStarvingGaza
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #EU
#news #press #politics @palestine
Summer in the UK usually involves a visit to the pub 
At the Newsmast Foundation, we're spending our summer at a different kind of pub - Activity Pub (but yeah, we'll probably be at the other kind once or twice too)!
The structure of the AP protocol means social is in its DNA, just like it is at your local! Our hope is that, just like your local, AP can provide a hub for your community too 
Good still exists in America...
"A diverse group — faith leaders, college students, grandmothers, retired lawyers and professors — has been showing up at immigration courts across the nation to escort immigrants at risk of being detained for deportation by masked ICE officials."
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-court-arrests-ice-bd145fae56c0d493ba52418cc66ef3b7
#Immigration #News @apnews @apnews_bot #AP #APNewsroom #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Project2025 @apnews
Trump pulls $4 billion in funding for California bullet train project – NBC News and the Associated Press (AP)
Ironworkers with the California High-Speed Rail Authority work on the Hanford Viaduct in Kings County, Calif., on April 15. Godofredo A. Vásquez / AP filePresident Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have called the project, first approved by California voters in 2008, a “train to nowhere.”
July 16, 2025, 7:46 PM PDT / Source: The Associated Press
By The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration revoked federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project on Wednesday, intensifying uncertainty about how the state will make good on its long-delayed promise of building a bullet train to shuttle riders between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The U.S. Transportation Department announced it was pulling back $4 billion in funding for the project, weeks after signaling it would do so. Overall, a little less than a quarter of the project’s funding has come from the federal government. The rest has come from the state, mainly through a voter-approved bond and money from its cap-and-trade program.
President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy both have slammed the project as a “train to nowhere.”
“The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This project was Severely Overpriced, Overregulated, and NEVER DELIVERED.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump pulls $4 billion in funding for California bullet train project CA.gov
See also Governor Newson’s statement on Trump’s failure… https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/16/governor-newsom-responds-to-trumps-latest-gift-to-china-defunding-americas-only-high-speed-rail/
#2025 #America #AP #AssociatedPress #BulletTrain #California #DonaldTrump #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NBCNews #Politics #Resistance #Science #Travel #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCancelsTrain #UnitedStates
The latest version of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for Musk’s stance on an issue before offering up an opinion.
The unusual behavior of Grok 4, the AI model that Musk’s company xAI released late Wednesday, has surprised some experts. #ap #tenessee jed
@ErikJonker Laar de #ap daar eens naar gaan kijken wie worden eruit gepikt? #grenscontroles #asiel
Freed from #ICE detention, #MahmoudKhalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025
[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]
"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.
Meanwhile, the #Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against #Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "
#NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil
#StopTheDeportations
#NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @palestine
@Kletskous De #ap voert een persoonlijke jihad tegen alles wat #belastingdienst is. Het verhaal is voor een groot deel onjuist. En ja, je kan zien of een vrouw met een vrouw partnerschap heeft en met een man man maar ook man vrouw. Dat is gemeentelijke informatie. Wat is daar zo vreemd aan? #google en #facebook weten meer dan alle informatie die de belastingdienst heeft. Het suggereert dat medewerkers een hele dag naar zogenaamde privacy informatie zitten te kijken.
"But under the hood, the #ActivityPub protocol doesn’t use full mentions at all. Instead, it uses actor IDs."
The actor ID for my main account is https://mastodon.social/users/crepels. In my case, there is a direct translation between the full mention and the actor ID, but that doesn’t have to be the case."
@crepels, 2023
https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/understanding-activitypub/
Intriguing. So in theory, the Actor ID for a fediverse account could also be represented in an app as @username@email.service or @username@xmpp.service 
The terrorists were clearly seen in wire service videos and social media posts from that day. But they don’t appear in the still photos distributed by Reuters, AP, or The New York Times, whose photojournalists at the site chose to leave the terrorists out of the frame and include only the wounded and dead.
https://honestreporting.com/revealed-reuters-ap-nyt-photos-of-gaza-hospital-leave-hamas-out-of-the-frame/
#bias #photojournalism #gaza #shifa #reuters #ap #nyt #terrorists #hamas
TRIGGER WARNING
Truly SHOCKING video reporting here by #AP, about US contractors in Gaza firing live ammo at Palestinians as they come for food aid. IMHO, this is one of those times when it's important to bear witness, unless it would be too distressing to watch the footage. Will be shocked if this does not explode in the news.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=63XTo2EyLZA&si=w9W1uKIMznffVone
.#Israel #Hezbollah #Hamas #Houthi #Gaza #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #MiddleEast #War #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #News
Amerikaanse huurlingen bij hulppunten Gaza: 'Burgers lijden onnodig'
17:29 | NOS Nieuws