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India to spend $3.7 bln to fence Myanmar border, source says (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/18255989...

‘Star Trek 4’ Beams Up New Screenwriter: ‘The Flight Attendant’ Creator Steve Yockey (variety.com)

How The Dinosaurs Actually Died (piped.privacydev.net)

The young are now most unhappy people in the United States, new report shows (www.usatoday.com)

Baltimore Key Bridge collapse: six missing now presumed dead, police say (www.theguardian.com)

Maryland state police say the six people who were missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland, are now presumed dead....

Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobble (www.bbc.com)

UK High Court puts Assange on the brink of extradition to the United States (www.wsws.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes deal to end securities fraud charges weeks before trial (www.pbs.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday agreed to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution under a deal to end criminal securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade....

Argentina: trans women among victims of ex-officers guilty of dictatorship-era crimes (www.theguardian.com)

Texas man changes his name to ‘Literally Anybody Else’ and launches presidential bid (www.independent.co.uk)

The presidents of France and Brazil meet and announce a $1.1 billion investment plan for the Amazon (apnews.com)

The Brazilian and the French presidents on Tuesday announced a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in the Amazon, including parts of the rainforest in neighboring French Guiana....

Radahn, Scourge of Socks (lemm.ee)

Japan approves plan to sell fighter jets to other nations in latest break from pacifist principles (apnews.com)

Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s developing with Britain and Italy to other countries, in the latest move away from the country’s postwar pacifist principles....

Haitians Don’t Need More “Dumbasses” From the US State Department Weighing In on the Crisis (www.thenation.com)

In 2021, envoy Foote started to work with this coalition, which was called the Montana Accord and eventually included some 650 organizations and individuals—labor unions, community organizations, Catholic and Protestant churches, women’s groups, chambers of commerce, and a range of political groups. The State Department...

Israel Continues to Bomb Gaza and Block Aid in Defiance of UNSC Ceasefire Resolution (peoplesdispatch.org)

Argentina claims to be sheltering Venezuelan opposition leaders in embassy (www.aljazeera.com)

Utah basketball team’s experience in Coeur d’Alene shows history of racism still ‘very much alive’ in North Idaho (www.spokesman.com)

The Utah team was staying at the Coeur d’Alene Resort after it was selected to play in the NCAA Tournament hosted by Gonzaga University. As team members walked from the hotel to a downtown restaurant, they were followed by a driver in a truck who was shouting racial slurs at them....

North Korea censors Alan Titchmarsh's trousers (news.sky.com)

Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

State department official’s resignation highlights rifts over US Gaza policy (www.theguardian.com)

A human rights official has resigned from the US state department over Gaza saying the Biden administration is flouting US law by continuing to arm Israel, and is hushing up evidence that the US had seen on Israeli human rights abuses....

TIL Mitsubishi made a Jeep CJ until 1998. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

While picking up my daughter from school today, I noticed an old jeep in the parking lot, but did not think much of it until I saw the tri-spoked Mitsubishi logo above the grill and did quite the double-take. Apparently a number of foreign companies were licensed to produce them after WW2.