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Berlin has been paying for Ukraine's access to a satellite-internet network operated by France's Eutelsat, as Europe seeks alternatives to Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Eutelsat’s chief executive Eva Berneke told Reuters the company has provided its high-speed satellite internet service to Ukraine for about a year via a German distributor.

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Berneke said it was funded by the German government, but declined to comment on the cost.

Berneke said there were fewer than a thousand terminals connecting users in Ukraine to Eutelsat’s network, which is a small fraction of the roughly 50,000 Starlink terminals Ukraine says it has, but she said she expected the figure would rise.

"Now we're looking to get between 5,000 and 10,000 there relatively fast," she said, adding it could be "within weeks".

Asked whether Germany would also fund that additional provision, Eutelsat spokesperson Joanna Darlington said the issue was under discussion.

"We don’t know yet how the EU collectively or country by country will fund efforts going forward," Darlington said.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s more hostile approach to Ukraine since his return to the White House has sparked concern in Europe about reliance on Starlink.

It is part of rocket company SpaceX, owned by tech billionaire Musk who is close to Trump. Starlink provides crucial internet connectivity to Ukraine and its military in the war against Russia.

Eutelsat’s OneWeb division is Starlink’s main rival in providing high-speed internet satellite via low-Earth orbit satellites.

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Cooperation with federal authorities tests bounds of law and policy, stirs fear in immigrant communities

Nucleo's investigation identified accounts with thousands of followers with illegal behavior that Meta's security systems were unable to identify; after contact, the company acknowledged the problem and removed the accounts

Anyone lived in one of those volunteer work in exchange for food and bed arrangements? How was it? Any stories?

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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250404115842/https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-ice-tried-failed-send-torture-victim-mexico-deport-adriana-quiroz-zapata-ice-colombia

Shortly after they landed, according to court filings, El Salvador apparently refused to take them. So they were shipped back, to be locked up again on American soil.

Now, for the first time, two of those women are speaking out in an interview with NBC News, describing the chaos they say they witnessed during the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and how, they allege, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deceived them about where they were being taken.

“We were lied to,” said one of the women, Heymar Padilla Moyetones, 24. “They told us we were going to Venezuela, and it turns out that, no. When we arrived at our destination, that’s when they told us we were in El Salvador.”

Trump administration officials have said all of the people it has sent to El Salvador were Venezuelans who were carefully vetted and had clear ties to Tren de Aragua, a gang from Venezuela that the administration has designated a terrorist organization.

But the vetting process apparently did not include determining whether El Salvador would accept female detainees.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250404115848/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/two-women-trump-admin-tried-send-el-salvador-prison-speak-rcna198958

Apparently there's a peertube instance dedicated to TIL-videos. Right now it seems very focused on tech/open source/linux videos, but there's other content there as well, and they seem to accept video contributions if you have knowledge to share. Worth checking out if you don't like youtube controlling everything.

(I'm not affiliated, I just found out about it)

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5566633

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MechCADdie on 2025-04-04 08:19:11+00:00.

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Related WSJ, "Inside Columbia Student Mahmoud Khalil’s ICE Detention Center: Detainees are woken for breakfast at 3:30 and sleep in bunk beds, advocates say" (archived)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27771988

Summary

Donald Trump warned the UK must accept chlorinated US chicken imports if it wants relief from new 10% tariffs on British exports.

The U.K. has long reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining high food standards, with polling showing 80% of Britons oppose a ch imports.

Critics argue chlorinated chicken stems from poorer production hygiene, with studies showing high bacteria rates in US chicken.

Farming advocates warn a US trade deal with lower standards would be "devastating for British farming."

Heard Island and McDonald Island, two Antarctic outposts, are on the list of places that Trump is putting tariffs on. No human has even visited the islands in a decade. There are only penguins and elephant seals.

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