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2023-06-25 16:31:49

The LGBTQ+ Pride March once more defied the ban and marched past the police on Sunday in Istanbul, a month following elections marked by a virulent homophobic campaign from the presidential camp.

As every year now, the Pride March had been banned by the governor of the city, but the demonstrators waving rainbow flags gathered several hours before the announced start of the demonstration, in places carefully silenced until at the last moment.

Organizers hailed their “21st Pride Parade despite the ban”.

“We exist, we are here my love! announced the lesbian association Solidarité mauve on Twitter, under a photo of exulting girls.

The organizers reported around forty arrests at the start of the rallies, but this number has not been confirmed by official sources.

Last year more than 200 people were arrested.

Since a spectacular parade that brought together more than 100,000 people in Istanbul in 2014, the Turkish authorities have gradually banned the Pride March, citing security reasons.

Homosexuality, decriminalized in Turkey since the middle of the 19th century (1858), remains largely subject to social opprobrium and the target of hostility from the ruling Islamic-conservative party, the AKP.

Throughout the campaign that led to his re-election on May 28, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stigmatized the LBGTQ+ communities that he copiously whistled until the evening of his victory, accusing them of wanting to destroy the traditional family. .

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2023-06-25 16:00:00

A moment of sharing and conviviality between families, Aïd el Kébir takes place in France over a period of one to three days, during which more than 100,000 sheep are slaughtered for sacrifice. To support the organization of this celebration, particularly with regard to the logistics for the slaughter of animals in certain departments and local authorities, the Ministries of Agriculture and the Interior have produced a practical guide, indicates the Ministry of Agriculture on its website.

To read: Here is the date of Eid Al-Adha in France, according to the CTMF

The document contains a set of rules to be respected for the slaughter of animals in the standards during the three days of Eid el-Kébir. It was distributed to prefectures and departmental directorates for the protection of populations, and to all stakeholders (professionals, Muslim associations, animal protection association, etc.) with the aim of sharing good organizational practices.

To read: Here is the date of Eid Al-Adha 2023 in France

In collaboration with the Oeuvre d’assistance aux animaux d’abattoirs (OABA) and with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, the National School of Veterinary Services (ENSV), for its part, produced small awareness posters to individuals, operators of supply sites and temporary slaughterhouses.

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2023-06-25 13:36:07

A YouTube user published his experience inside the submarine “Titan”, days before the catastrophe of its disappearance, and he also met with the captain of the submarine, Rush Stockton, who shockingly indicated problems with it.

The shock was that Stockton, who was among 5 passengers killed inside the “Titan” a few days ago, expressed during the video his concern regarding “problems related to the submarine’s control systems.”

Jake Kohler posted a nearly 30-minute video clip on his DALLMYD YouTube channel, Friday.

Kohler’s channel has more than 13 million subscribers, and he often posts videos of himself searching for lost items while scuba diving.

The final video chronicles Koehler’s trip to St. John’s in Newfoundland, Canada, where he joins the submarine Titan on its third mission. It is noteworthy that the submarine “exploded”, according to experts, on its last, “fifth” mission, on June 18, while trying to search for the remains of the Titanic’s hull.

The video was filmed days before the “disastrous” fifth flight, according to Koehler.

What did the video show?

Before lowering the submarine into the ocean, company president Rush Stockton decided to cancel the dive, because the submarine was having problems with functionality and bad weather conditions, which Oceangate’s president explained in the video.

Asking the crew why the dive was called off, Rush said something “just didn’t feel quite right” with the submarine’s control system, which he called the “brains” of the submarine.

“That’s why the flight is now cancelled,” Rush says in the video.

The problem, Rush said, was that two of the “control capsules” on top of the submachine weren’t “consistently communicating.”

Kohler cuts the video following Rush’s comments. Kohler says he wasn’t sure if the problem with the control pods was the same one that later caused Titan’s catastrophic implosion.

And the US Coast Guard announced, on Thursday, that the wreckage of the submarine “Titan”, which was carrying 5 people on a voyage to the Titanic that sank more than 100 years ago, had been found, and that its destruction was caused by a “catastrophic internal explosion” that claimed the lives of all those on board, to end. Thus, a multinational search operation that lasted 5 days.

Among the passengers is Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of Ocean Gate Expeditions, which operated the missing submarine, and he was its captain during the voyage.

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