If you're looking for the best Ascendancy classes in Path of Exile 2, this guide will help you out.

Take the whole list with a grain of salt, since I have no idea how good or bad the author of this article is at the game.

Typically, I define the Weird West genre to be movies that take place in the Wild West and include some supernatural element. This usually means some sort of horror element like vampires or zombies, but that isn't really a requirement. So a movie with cowboys and dinosaurs fits my definition, even though it isn't really what I picture when I think of Weird West.

Yes, it has legendary Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion action, but the whole movie just seems silly to me. I don't know, I guess I'd call this one "Weird West, but I don't care to watch it".

Here's a trailer. I don't think it's streaming anywhere right now though.

Build levels very easily as bow from the beginning. Although the first few levels I used a unique crossbow with no level requirement that had chain. The cold shot thing is stupid good.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29770107

Tesla is recalling almost 700,000 vehicles because of an issue with the warning light on the tire pressure monitoring system.

The drones damaged buildings in Kazan, capital of the Tartarstan republic, with a population of more than 1.3 million, but there were no victims, local officials said. Kazan City hall said some fires had started and were being tackled by the fire brigade. The city's airport was temporarily closed, the Russian civilian aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said.

Some residents were evacuated, but authorities did not give figures. Authorities said that all major public events in Tartarstan had been cancelled as a precaution. Videos on Russian social media networks showed drones hitting high rise buildings setting off fireballs. AFP could not immediately verify the authenticity of the images.

"Today Kazan suffered a massive drone attack," Rustam Minnikhanov, the Tartarstan republic leader, said in a post on Telegram. "While before industrial enterprises were attacked, now the enemy attacks civilians in the morning," he added. Minnikhanov's press service said at least eight drones had been detected.

Russia's defence ministry accused Ukraine of targeting "civilian infrastructure" in Kazan. It said six drones had been neutralised or destroyed but did not say how many had been involved.

The ministry said the Russian army had captured a new village near the key city of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine where Russian forces have made major advances in recent months. Russian troops had "liberated" the village of Kostiantynopolske, just eight kilometers (five miles) from Kurakhove, an industrial town that is a looming Russian target, a statement said.

Russia's security service said meanwhile that a man had been sentenced to 19 years in jail for sending information to US intelligence services about the Russian military, The unidentified man, who was born in 1993, was found guilt of "high treason" and other charges, the FSB agency said. The inquiry "confirmed that he had established a confidential cooperation relationship with representatives of the US intelligence services," the agency said. The man was accused of sending information about the identity and other personal details on Russian soldiers. He was arrested in January 2023. A regional court at Orenburg in the Urals ordered the jail term and sent the man to a "strict regime" penal colony, the FSB said.

As the country's new president took office last week, following a peaceful election in a region otherwise in turmoil, Somaliland hopes to see its independence recognised by the international community – having declared it in 1991.

The self-governing region within Somalia – which has never been recognised by the latter's authorities – appears to be closer to being recognised than ever before.

Speaking at his inauguration in Hargeisa on 12 December, President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi said he would give "special importance to foreign policy" and pursue recognition for Somaliland from the international community based on a “valid legal argument". "My new government's first job is to renew its relations with the rest of the world in order for us to be able to create a new Somaliland that will help the security of the entire region, including the Red Sea," he declared.

The United States Ambassador to Somalia, Richard H. Riley, attended the president's inauguration and said that Somaliland was "one of the best examples of democracy in action in Africa".

The presidential election was held in November, following weeks of uncertainty. The results saw Mohamed Abdullahi, 69, leader of the Waddani party, also known as “Cirro”, secure the presidency with 64 percent of the vote, defeating the incumbent candidate, Muse Bihi, of the Kulmiye party. Approximately 53 percent of registered voters turned out – lower than the previous presidential election in 2017, when 64 percent of those registered voted.

Rumours began circulating last week that the US could declare Somaliland the world’s newest country when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January. "Although not an official publication of incoming US President Donald Trump’s campaign, the Project 2025 conservative manifesto issued by some of his allies makes the case for official recognition of Somaliland," wrote East Africa analyst Omar Mahmood on the think tank Crisis Group's website.

Support for the region has grown among Republican US-Africa policy leaders – who are likely to be Africa advisors in Trump’s White House. Peter Pham, a former Africa envoy in Trump’s first term, told newsletter Semafor Africa that Somaliland’s democratic process had “demonstrated its attractiveness as a partner for the United States and other countries".

For Hafed Al-Ghwell, executive director of the North Africa Initiative at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC, the incoming US administration could view Somaliland’s stability as "a strategic asset" against the backdrop of its "volatile neighbour" Somalia – and an opportunity to counter expanding influence in the region from Washington’s geopolitical rivals. Recognising Somaliland could also enable US intelligence to set up long term operations to monitor the movement of weapons in the region and the activities of China, which has a military base in neighbouring Djibouti, according to Semafor.

Somaliland announced de facto self-rule when declaring its independence from Somalia in 1991, after the fall of the infamous Somali leader Siad Barre. However, its existence has not been officially recognised by any country, restricting access to international finance and the ability of its 6 million inhabitants to travel. It has developed into a self-governed state, issuing its own currency and maintaining security forces and civilian administration from Hargeisa.

The recent election was the sixth in a row to be organised peacefully and bring political alternance. "Somaliland reinforced its reputation as one of the Horn of Africa’s stronger democracies by staging a successful presidential election and ushering in a peaceful transfer of power," Crisis Group expert Omar Mahmood wrote in a report. "On paper, Somaliland would welcome official recognition by a great power," Mahmood added. "But if this is done unilaterally and with no major diplomatic spadework in advance, it would also supercharge tensions between Somaliland and Somalia, particularly along the contested boundary with Puntland."

If Ethiopia has been open to building relations with Somaliland, recognition, Mahmood continued, could "prompt furious objections from Mogadishu’s allies in the region, such as Djibouti and Eritrea, as well as their friends farther afield, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt – further dividing the region".

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Pakistan military courts have convicted and sentenced 25 people for involvement in pro-Imran Khan unrest last year, the armed forces said Saturday, with the majority handed decade-long prison terms.

Ex-prime minister Khan was arrested in May last year after being ousted from office and mounting an unprecedented campaign of defiance against the nation's powerful military leaders. His detention over graft allegations sparked nationwide unrest, some targeting armed forces installations, and prompting rare prosecutions of civilians in military courts.

Amnesty International called the move "an intimidation tactic, designed to crack down on dissent" and said it was "contrary to international law". Military courts are largely opaque, but after months of confidentiality the military public relations wing named 25 people who have been prosecuted.

All of the convicted are men and 14 have been sentenced to a decade of "rigorous imprisonment", the military said with the remaining 11 set to serve lesser prison terms. "All sentences announced by the military courts are disproportionate and excessive," said a spokesman for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. "These sentences are rejected."

The verdicts were announced just three weeks after the capital Islamabad was gripped by fresh unrest, as tens of thousands of Khan supporters flooded in to demand his release. The government said at least five security personnel were killed whilst PTI allege at least 10 of their own were shot dead by security forces before crowds retreated.

A United Nations panel of experts found in September that Khan's detention "had no legal basis and appears to have been intended to disqualify him from running for political office".

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