Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols (apnews.com)
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest said Thursday they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden....
Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison (apnews.com)
A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection....
NATO starts deploying troops as Russia races to win (asiatimes.com)
Trump hush-money trial judge signals he may fine him again over gag order (www.reuters.com)
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial on Thursday signaled he might impose more fines on the former U.S. president for violating a gag order that prohibits him from talking about witnesses and jurors....
California police flatten pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, arrest protesters (www.reuters.com)
Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, firing flash bangs, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment....
Boeing’s deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage (pluralistic.net)
Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy (fpif.org)
India starts deporting Myanmar refugees (www.bangkokpost.com)
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Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, ECHR rules (www.theguardian.com)
China continues to export its digital authoritarianism playbook across the Indo-Pacific, a new report reveals (www.article19.org)
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David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers (www.theguardian.com)
Myanmar junta bans conscription-age men from leaving country for work (myanmar-now.org)
Breaking the news (lemmy.zip)
Magic6 RSR: Honor releases new Porsche Design smartphone globally with silicon carbon battery technology and 24 GB of RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say (apnews.com)
The Geopolitics of Labor: Israel’s Quest To Replace Palestinian Workers With Indians (orinocotribune.com)
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Biden, speaking on campus protests, says both free speech and rule of law 'must be upheld' (abcnews.go.com)
Starfield is finally getting a 60fps mode on Xbox (www.theverge.com)
Gaza’s new terror: Booby-trapped cans of food for the unwary --- UPDATE: please see comment in the thread (news.un.org)
A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis,” the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said, citing the Strip’s authorities....
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