Bug meat and other fake news inundate EU voters (www.dw.com)
Conspiracy theorists are trying to influence European election campaigns with disinformation and lies. Much of the fabrication comes from Moscow, but plenty is homegrown....
India summer: Eight more die as country faces 'longest' heatwave (www.bbc.com)
World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’ (www.theguardian.com)
Libre and Free A Linux Legacy (song) (testaccountpleaseignore.bandcamp.com)
European Parliament set for shift to the right as final votes cast (www.reuters.com)
Voters in 21 EU countries including France and Germany were casting their ballots on Sunday in an election for the European Parliament that is expected to shift the assembly to the right and boost the numbers of eurosceptic nationalists....
Russia mocks Macron following EU election defeat (www.politico.eu)
Russia was definitely watching the results of the EU election....
American troops begin withdrawal from Niger | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
This withdrawal follows the departure of the French army from Niger at the end of 2023 and the arrival of Russian military instructors, as Niger seeks to diversify its defense partnerships.
Researchers find higher levels of dangerous chemical than expected in southeast Louisiana (apnews.com)
Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology....
The Time I Built an Remote Operated Vehicles to Solve Missing Person Cases (suanto.com)
Trump Can Only Think of Himself After Fans Collapse at Town Hall (www.thedailybeast.com)
Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall (www.vg247.com)
Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand (www.rawstory.com)
The father of a Baraboo High School graduate blocked his daughter from shaking the hand of the Black superintendent as she graduated, video of the incident shows....
What does Israel’s rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks? (apnews.com)
Microsoft announces a disc-less Xbox Series X console in white (www.theverge.com)
The new console option won’t include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it’s identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99....
France’s far-right forces hold talks on teaming up to beat Macron (www.politico.eu)
An alliance with Reconquest would strengthen Marine Le Pen’s National Rally ahead of a snap election....
Hanoi in High Gear: Vietnam’s Spratly Expansion Accelerates (amti.csis.org)
Iceland issues license for 128 fin whales to be hunted this year (apnews.com)
Union: 4 Florida police officers indicted for 2019 shootout that left UPS driver and passerby dead (apnews.com)
Malawi's vice president and 9 others have died in a plane crash, the president says (apnews.com)
Malawi’s vice president, Saulos Chilima, was among 10 people killed when a small military plane crashed in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51....
These are all the devices compatible with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 (arstechnica.com)
Eastern NATO and EU allies discuss barring Hungary from their club (www.ft.com)
According to a report by the Financial Times (paywalled link), members of the Bucharest Nine (B9) group are considering excluding Hungary from their talks in the future....
Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts (www.pcworld.com)
Should Hollywood look north after latest southern snub? (www.cityam.com)
Hollywood bigwigs have been called on to look north to stage their latest box office hits after the UK film industry was dealt another major blow recently as £750m plans for a new film studio in Buckinghamshire were quashed....
