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Sand Land, the upcoming action-RPG based on Akira Toriyama's manga, has a demo out now (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) (kotaku.com)

Well, this is hardly unexpected....

Rare photographs of war dogs with gas masks, 1915-1970 (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

3 separate shootings erupt within 1 hour in Jacksonville Beach, Florida (abcnews.go.com)

Three separate, unrelated shootings erupted within an hour in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, on Sunday night, leaving one person dead and several hurt, according to authorities....

digiKam, KDE's powerful photo managing software, reaches version 8.3.0 (www.digikam.org)

The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country (www.cnn.com)

All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide....

Sex trade to slavery: A UN agency says criminals reap $236B a year in profits from forced labor (apnews.com)

Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the...

The U.S. bans most common form of asbestos, after decades of pushback from industry (www.npr.org)

Death tolls mount as elephants and people compete for land in Sri Lanka (www.theguardian.com)

Conservationists plead for coexistence as shrinking forests drive conflict, with elephant deaths doubling in a decade...

Killing of teenager in China sparks debate about ‘left behind’ children (www.theguardian.com)

Death of 13-year-old boy has put spotlight on juvenile crime and the plight of children left behind by rural migrant workers...

Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...

Only seven countries meet WHO air quality standard, research finds (www.theguardian.com)

Almost all countries failing to meet mark for PM2.5, tiny particles expelled by vehicles and industry that can cause health problems...

Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order (www.theguardian.com)

New documents detail inner workings of Society for American Civic Renewal, group with an emphasis on Christian nationalism...

Biden speaks with Netanyahu as tensions rise over the war in Gaza (www.npr.org)

Dell finding ways to absolutely suck as an employer (arstechnica.com)

US abortions reach highest level in over a decade, sparked by surge in medication abortion (www.cnn.com)

Abortions are on the rise in the United States, despite bans that have taken effect in more than a dozen states since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to abortion in June 2022....

Kaylee Gain’s family says she still hasn’t regained consciousness after fight near St. Louis high school (www.cnn.com)

The family of Kaylee Gain, a Missouri girl who was critically injured during a fight 10 days ago near a St. Louis high school, said Monday she has suffered a fractured skull and hasn’t regained consciousness....

Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters as residents decry a 'lack of respect' (www.yahoo.com)

Blinken says all of Gaza facing unprecedented food insecurity (www.timesofisrael.com)

“According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified,” Blinken told a press conference in the Philippines, where he is on an official visit.