cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39867783

When seeding a file. Let's say a movie, and all I see are a lot of connections where others try to download that movie. However, they remain at 0% and never download anything.

Almost feels like its something watching, logging connections to everyone connected to that torrent. Just a theory.. No idea. (Privacy conscious)

Maybe someone can shed some light?

Tegucigalpa (AFP) – Honduran right-wing presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla made allegations of electoral corruption on Monday after a stalled ballot count in the November 30 general election.

The accusations come after the ruling left-wing Libre party called for the vote to be annulled and accused US President Donald Trump of election interference.

The ballot count had stalled over the weekend at 88.6 percent since Friday, but resumed on Monday with nearly 99 percent of ballots counted.

Trump-backed Nasry Asfura, a 67-year-old businessman and member of the right-wing National Party, has 40.53 percent of the votes, compared to 39.16 percent for Nasralla, a 72-year-old television presenter from the Liberal Party, the National Electoral Council (CNE) said.

"This is theft," Nasrulla wrote late Monday in a post on X.

Both are well ahead of the Libre party's Rixi Moncada, who was polling third.

The CNE's president, Ana Paola Hall posted on X that "after carrying out the technical actions (accompanied by external auditing), the data is now being updated."

Thousands of voting records with "inconsistencies" also still need to be reviewed, election officials said.

Nasralla claimed "the corrupt ones are the ones holding up the counting process."

Late Sunday, the Libre party demanded "the total annulment" of the elections and called for protests and strikes, while urging officials not to cooperate with the government transition.

The ruling party announced that it would also hold an "Extraordinary Assembly of National Dignity" on December 13. The incumbent president, Xiomara Castro, has not commented on her party's announcements.

The CNE has until December 30 to declare a winner, according to Honduran law.

In the final days before the election, Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was in office from 2014 to 2022 and had been serving a prison sentence in the United States on a drug-trafficking conviction.

In 2023 Honduras issued an international arrest warrant against Hernandez and on Monday the attorney general asked Interpol to act on it, accusing Hernandez of money laundering and fraud.

Trump also declared his clear support for Asfura in the final stretch of the campaign, declaring him a "friend of freedom" and accused Nasralla of merely "pretending to be an anti-communist."

The Libre party had criticized Trump's actions ahead of the vote.

"We condemn the interference and coercion of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in the elections in Honduras," the party said in a post on X.

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New Delhi (AFP) – The owners of an Indian nightclub in the tourist hotspot of Goa fled the country hours after a deadly fire at their business killed 25 people at the weekend, police have said.

The majority of the victims of the tragedy, that struck a club in Arpora in the north of the coastal state, were staff members, including four Nepali citizens.

The blaze was likely triggered by "electrical firecrackers", officials said, with most people dying due to suffocation in the basement and kitchen area after wooden parts of the club caught fire.

The owners of the club -- brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra -- boarded a flight for Phuket in Thailand "immediately after the incident", Goa police said in a statement late on Monday.

AFP did not immediately receive a reply after seeking comment from Saurabh Luthra.

Police said officers travelled to New Delhi to carry out a raid at the brothers' home but discovered the men had left the country.

"It shows their intent to avoid police investigation," police said.

Authorities have appealed to Interpol for help to find the brothers.

On Monday, Saurabh Luthra expressed "profound grief" over the tragedy and promised "every possible form" of assistance to the families of the victims.

"The management expresses profound grief and is deeply shaken by the tragic loss of lives resulting from the unfortunate incident," he said in a post on social media without revealing his whereabouts.

Goa, nestled on the shores of the Arabian Sea, lures millions of tourists every year with its nightlife, sandy beaches and laid-back coastal atmosphere.

The state's Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said that four people had been arrested, and ordered checks on other nightclubs in the former Portuguese colony.

Fires are common in India due to poor building practices, overcrowding and a lack of adherence to safety regulations.

Paris (France) (AFP) – Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for nearly half of all journalists killed this year worldwide, with 29 Palestinian reporters slain by its forces in Gaza.

In its annual report, the Paris-based media freedom group said the total number of journalists killed reached 67 globally this year, up from 66 killed in 2024.

Israeli forces accounted for 43 percent of the total, making them "the worst enemy of journalists", RSF said in its report, which documented deaths over 12 months from December 2024.

The most deadly single attack was a so-called "double-tap" strike -- where dual bombings are staged -- on a hospital in south Gaza on August 25, which killed five journalists, including two contributors to international news agencies Reuters and the Associated Press.

In total, since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, after the Hamas attack on Israel, nearly 220 journalists have died, making Israel the biggest killer of journalists worldwide for three years running, RSF data shows.

The Israeli military says its raids and shelling target Hamas fighters and leaders.

Foreign reporters are still unable to enter Gaza -- unless they are in tightly controlled tours organised by the Israeli military -- despite calls from media groups and press freedom organisations for access.

The RSF annual report also said that 2025 was the deadliest year in Mexico in at least three years, with nine journalists killed, despite pledges from left-wing President Claudia Sheinbaum to protect them.

War-wracked Ukraine (three journalists killed) and Sudan (four journalists killed) are the other most dangerous countries for reporters, according to RSF.

The overall number of deaths last year is down from the peak of 142 journalists killed in 2012, linked largely to the Syrian civil war. It is also below the average since 2003 of around 80 killed per year.

RSF editorial director Anne Bocande noted a growing tendency to "smear" journalists as a way to "justify" the crime of targeting them.

"These are not stray bullets. This is a deliberate targeting of journalists because they inform the world about what's happening on the ground," she told AFP.

The RSF annual report also counts the number of journalists imprisoned for their work, with China (121), Russia (48) and Myanmar (47) the most repressive countries, RSF figures showed.

As of December 1, 2025, 503 journalists were detained in 47 countries, the report said.

Other organisations use different qualifiers to calculate journalist deaths. According to UNESCO, 91 journalists were killed in 2025.

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