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  • It sounds like they are inviting international cooperation and investigators to help them take care of it, so it should be real

    An international taskforce backed by the United States, ⁠Germany, Britain, Canada and France, among others, will track down all remaining elements of the program and destroy ​them under the supervision of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Syria’s ambassador to the United ​Nations, Ibrahim Olabi, said in an interview.

    As many as 100 sites in Syria need to be inspected to determine what toxic munitions remain and how they should be destroyed, OPCW experts have said.

    It will require a time-consuming and costly operation to prevent the ​proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in a region fraught with conflict and political turmoil. The expanding U.S.-Israeli war ​on Iran and broader regional security concerns will make the timing of the mission uncertain, but all the more necessary ‌to prevent ⁠future use, officials said.

















  • Edit: see the reply on my comment

    I’m not sure if I understood this criticism. The Reddit thread links to this page:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20251203060750/https://kagi.com/changelog#5340

    Our image search became even better with the inclusion of two more sources: Yandex Image Search (widely recognized as one of best image search services) and Openverse (vast collection of openly licensed images). Kagi is doing the hard work so that you don’t have to.

    Are they financially supporting or sponsoring Yandex in some other way?

    To me, this sounds like they added the option to run an image search on Yandex? I use a browser extension for image searches that has a number of options including Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, etc., and users are free to choose which ones they want to try searching on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/

    I also remember seeing Bellingcat (who has done excellent investigative reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) using Yandex tools to gather information because it has information on the region that other English/Chinese focused tools don’t.

    I don’t doubt that Yandex tries to manipulate information in favor of the government in Russia. Rather with the right browser protections, someone can take advantage of their free tools and cost Yandex money without Yandex benefiting from it. It’s not necessarily a bad thing for Kagi to let people do that?