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EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term "veggie-burger" and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

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EU-Parlament stimmt für „Veggie-Burger“-Verbot https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article68e6440d14154520ea13701d/eu-parlament-stimmt-fuer-veggie-burger-verbot-eine-wurst-ist-eine-wurst.html

Und bäm gehts mit der Wirtschaft bergauf, keine Kriege mehr, alle sind glücklich. /s

[green is running, screaming, their head is on fire] FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK HELP ME!!! I AM ON FIRE HELP!!! AAAAAAAAAAH IT BURNS

[orange lookis pissed] Could you please scream a bit less? It's getting on my nerves

https://thebad.website/comic/have_you_tried_calming_down

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I consulted an expert: Matt Mitovich, a respected veteran TV industry and entertainment reporter, known for breaking news....The answer came in the most recent edition [of his column]:

“You can rest assured that Wiseman will appear on Starfleet Academy, as a guest star in one episode.”

The 10th Kingdom is an American fairytale fantasy miniseries written by Simon Moore and produced by Britain's Carnival Films, Germany's Babelsberg Film und Fernsehen, and the American Hallmark Entertainment. It depicts the adventures of a young woman and her father after they are transported from New York City, through a magical mirror, into a parallel world of fairy tales.

https://archive.org/details/the-10th-kingdom-theme-song-2-making-of-videos-plus-extras

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – The health of Hannibal Kadhafi, son of longtime Libyan ruler Moamer Kadhafi, is alarming and he should be released after nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Lebanese authorities arrested Kadhafi in 2015 and accused him of withholding information about the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric imam Mussa Sadr nearly four decades earlier.

Kadhafi, 49, was "urgently hospitalised" after experiencing "very strong abdominal pain", French lawyer Laurent Bayon told AFP, adding that his client also suffers from severe depression.

The doctor and judges "explained that this alarming state of health is linked to his isolation in relation to his detention, which has lasted 10 years", Bayon said.

Kadhafi returned to prison on Tuesday, but is expected to have frequent hospital visits, he added.

Kadhafi's lawyers have previously sounded the alarm about his health.

In August, Human Rights Watch urged Lebanon to immediately release Kadhafi, saying it had wrongly imprisoned him on "apparently unsubstantiated allegations that he was withholding information" about Sadr.

Sadr -- the founder of the Amal movement, now a main ally of militant group Hezbollah -- went missing in 1978 during an official visit to Libya, along with an aide and a journalist.

Beirut blamed the disappearances on Moamer Kadhafi, who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, and ties between the two countries have been strained ever since.

Married to a Lebanese model, Hannibal Kadhafi had fled to Syria and was kidnapped in December 2015 by armed men who took him to Lebanon, where authorities ultimately arrested him.

Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, who succeeded Sadr at the head of the Amal movement, has accused Libya's new authorities of not cooperating on the issue of Sadr's disappearance, an accusation Libya denies.

Bayon called Kadhafi a "political detainee", adding: "The only reason that justifies his detention is that he bears his father's name."

He said the public prosecutor had made a recommendation to the examining judge, who must make the final decision on whether to release Kadhafi.

A Lebanese judicial source told AFP on condition of anonymity the public prosecutor "was not opposed" to releasing him.

Drew Scanlon, a resident of San Francisco, said the case was close to him as a friend and his mother are affected

The man whose befuddled facial expression on a recorded video live stream in 2013 birthed what the internet collectively dubbed the Blinking White Guy meme has managed to convert his online notoriety into more than $300,000 for multiple sclerosis research, he said in a new interview.

Drew Scanlon explained to ABC News that donating to the US’s National Multiple Sclerosis Society is important to him because a friend of his and her mother both have the chronic, autoimmune disease that attacks people’s central nervous systems.

Scanlon, a San Francisco resident and video producer for the streaming platform Twitch, participates annually in a fundraising bicycle race supporting the MS Society. And once a year, on his rarely used X account, he posts the oft-deployed meme, writes “THIS IS MY FACE”, and requests that his more than 81,000 followers donate to the bicycle race at the online domain BlinkingGuy.com.

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Istanbul (AFP) – In Sazlibosna village, along the planned route of the vast Canal Istanbul project, 68-year-old Yasar Demirkaya fidgets with worn prayer beads as he sips tea at a cafe, uncertain about the future.

Demirkaya, who sells fruit and vegetables at a local market, fears the controversial government-backed project will threaten his small plot of land, erasing the only life he's ever known.

"I inherited a 5,000-square-metre plot from my grandparents," he told AFP. "It could be taken from us.

"I'm worried, everyone is. Nobody knows what to do," he added.

Although Sazlibosna is currently off-limits for development, that could change.

The project was first announced in 2011 by then-premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is now president.

Its aim is to ease congestion on the Bosphorus Strait by carving a new waterway between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

But the canal's 45-kilometre (28-mile) route also includes plans for sprawling commercial and residential zones: the entire project will cover 13,365 hectares (133,640,000 square metres).

Opponents warn it could destroy nature reserves and farmland, deplete water resources and destabilise the region's fragile ecosystem.

Although a ground-breaking ceremony was held in 2021, work has not started on the canal itself.

Property construction along the route has surged however, especially in the last six months.

Near Salizdere reservoir, AFP journalists saw tower blocks under construction by the state-run housing agency TOKI.

Istanbul's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a vocal critic of the canal, has accused the government of accelerating construction after his March arrest following a corruption probe widely seen as politically motivated.

"Taking advantage of my absence, they began building 24,000 houses around Sazlidere dam, one of the city's most important water resources on the European side, for the 'Canal Istanbul' project, which is all about profit and plunder," said Imamoglu, a leading figure in the main opposition CHP.

Some villagers told AFP they had seen increased building activity since his arrest.

"We can't even sleep because of the noise of bulldozers," a woman called Muzaffer, 67, told AFP in a nearby village, without giving her surname.

"Our animals are in stables because there are no pastures left, they've all been turned into TOKI housing," she said while selling buffalo milk to a customer.

"There are buildings everywhere. Where are we supposed to let our animals roam?"

After Imamoglu's arrest, many of the project's other opponents were detained, including Istanbul's urban planning department chief Bugra Gokce, a vocal critic of the waterway.

Prosecutors ordered the arrest of another 53 officials in April -- a move the CHP linked to the municipality's opposition to the canal.

Many living along the canal route declined to speak on camera, fearing repercussions.

Pelin Pinar Giritlioglu, a professor at Istanbul University, said while the waterway itself had seen almost no progress, the surrounding real estate developments were advancing rapidly.

"There's only one bridge foundation in place across the waterway... and funding has yet to be secured," she told AFP.

"European banks won't finance projects with major ecological impacts, and no alternatives have been found," she added.

For her, Canal Istanbul was less about infrastructure and more of a real estate project.

"The canal development has stalled, but the land grab is in full swing," she said.

In April, Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu insisted the project had not been shelved and would proceed "at the right time with the right financing".

In Sazlibosna, where property agencies are multiplying as the development accelerates, real estate agent Ibrahim Emirdogan said the project had energised the market.

"We can't say if the project will go ahead -- it's a government plan. But the market? Yes, there's movement," he said.

Despite their fears, some villagers are hoping the project will never materialise.

"I don't really believe Canal Istanbul will happen. (If it does) our village will lose its peace and quiet," said the vegetable seller Demirkaya.