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halee1 t1_j6otvys wrote

Reply to U.S. curbs exports to Iranian firms for producing drones for Russia by DoremusJessup

Very difficult, if not impossible, to enforce sanctions against non-complying third parties that RESELL tech to Iran, and even to ensure compliance within your own country. The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control only has 250 people ensuring compliance with all sanctions worldwide. They need more.

And the EU doesn't even have an organization for that. All they have is a still pending Sanctions Envoy. Think of what leaks through with so little policing. Only individual member-states have any kind of meaningful mechanisms to address that.

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CMDR_Agony_Aunt t1_j6ot8fe wrote

Reply to Armenia asks Putin to make Russian peacekeepers end what it calls Azerbaijan's blockade of the only road leading to the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave by green_flash

Armenia can ask, but their previous BFFs are now involved in more urgent matters, so Armenia is stuck out on a limb right now.

Doesn't matter whether you are pro-Armenia or pro-Azerbaijan, i think the situation is clear. Any treaty with Russia is worthless.

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RedWojak t1_j6ot4uo wrote

Reply to comment by raininfordays in Ukraine’s Zelensky rejects neutrality in sport at time of war by metrometro45

>I see your point. Personally, I wouldn't see Ivan as suporting the war, just suporting his family to get by.

Well I am this Ivan. Now try to understand - I speak fluent english but my family - don't. My education and work experience isn't being recognized outside my country. I have two children to support and feed. Imagine me moving from owning a property, having a respectable job to somwhere where my children won't be even able to communicate with other people? Also despite not agreeing with the general direction of my government - I did not vote for Putin, I still respect the fact that people like Vlads happily voted him into his presidency and I see a good reason why (because Vlads have it much easier life to live). I absolutely believe that war could and should have been avoided, war is a terrible tragedy yet and nobody sane (even soldiers, and generals) would rather not fight. Yet no matter what my views are - I have to obey the laws, I have to pay taxes just as anyone in US who voted for the government that lost an election.

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reuters OP t1_j6ospe6 wrote

Reply to Canada's British Columbia tries decriminalizing drugs to fight overdose crisis by reuters

The western Canadian province of British Columbia began a three-year pilot program to stop prosecuting people for carrying small amounts of heroin, meth, ecstasy, or crack cocaine, as part of an effort to fight a drug overdose crisis. 

B.C. is at the epicenter of Canada's drug overdose and trafficking crisis that has killed more than 32,000 nationally since 2016. Preliminary data showed there were 2,272 suspected illicit drug toxicity deaths in 2022, the second largest annual number ever recorded, behind 2021, which had 34 more deaths. 

Read the full story for more information.

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Startrail_wanderer t1_j6os7yd wrote

Reply to comment by AbandonedSamurai in Pakistani authorities scrambled to determine how a suicide bomber was able to carry out one of the country’s deadliest militant attacks in years, unleashing an explosion in a crowded mosque inside a highly secured police compound in the city of Peshawar. The death toll now stands at 100 by DoremusJessup

Bomb blasts in India have reduced significantly in the last 5 years

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