Japan’s Leader, Fumio Kishida, Will Step Down (www.nytimes.com)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancels performer's next concert following comments on the killing of journalists in Gaza (www.abc.net.au)
NASA scientists hope to use Cold Atom Lab to better understand dark energy (www.upi.com)
German investment in China soars despite Berlin’s diversification drive (www.ft.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19115773...
Turkey hosts another round of talks to ease tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia (www.africanews.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39588407
Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Fires made at least three times more likely by climate crisis and emitted about 2bn tonnes of CO2, data reveals...
EFF’s Concerns About the UN Draft Cybercrime Convention (www.eff.org)
New Zealand to loosen gene editing regulation, make commercialization easier (www.reuters.com)
Passport for one 'Herman the Cat', Expert Mouser, veteran of the US Coast Guard o7, WW2, 1943 AD (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17530611...
Exclusive: Al-Tabin attack ‘deliberately timed to cause maximum casualties’ (www.aljazeera.com)
Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency has probed the details of Israel’s Saturday morning attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin School, which killed more than 100 people, including women and children....
Sanctioned N. Korean official handling missile programs attends arms exhibition in Moscow (m-en.yna.co.kr)
Let's go Arizona! (www.wonkette.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39556349...
British energy giant reports violating toxic pollutant limits at Louisiana wood pellet facilities (apnews.com)
British energy giant Drax Global, already under scrutiny for running afoul of environmental laws in multiple states, has disclosed to the state of Louisiana that its wood pellet production facilities emit hazardous air pollutants above their permitted limits....
Pocklington: Farmer dies after being run over by his Range Rover (www.bbc.co.uk)
Push alerts from TikTok include fake news, expired tsunami warning, other misleading info (arstechnica.com)
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users’ phones, including a false claim about Taylor Swift and a weeks-old disaster warning, intensifying fears about the spread of misinformation on the popular video-sharing platform....
Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Flipboard continues its rollout of federation capabilities, this time implementing a “soft-follow” system for users to try out federated subscription for the very first time.
Putin Reiterates Moscow's Support For Palestine At Talks With Abbas. (www.rferl.org)
Russian Troops Likely Suffering From Lack Of Drinking Water In Ukraine, British Intel Says. (www.rferl.org)
Iran tells European trio it needs no permission to defend national security, create deterrence (www.presstv.ir)
Junta Controls Fewer Than 100 of Myanmar’s 350 Towns: NUG (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/26881068...
Stalker 2 devs' 35-minute in-depth gameplay video and promise of an 'authentic' experience that'll kill you dead finally has me fully on board the hype train to The Zone [actual title] (www.pcgamer.com)
Five Iranian Women's Rights Activists Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison. (www.rferl.org)
Russian Border District Nearly Entirely Evacuated As Ukraine Presses Assault. (www.rferl.org)
"They’re treating us like we’re idiots:" Russian families search for military conscripts who disappeared during the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk. The Kremlin insists they were never there. (meduza.io)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1845331...
Apple vs EU Commission: the FSFE intervenes to safeguard Free Software (Details) (fsfe.org)
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has officially allowed the FSFE to intervene in the litigation brought by Apple against the European Commission to avoid being designated as a ‘gatekeeper’ under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The company has put forward an aggressive policy against Software Freedom and...
