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Users dodge A.I. filters to generate pictures of pop-culture characters performing terrorism (kotaku.com)

$6B in frozen Iranian funds remain unspent in wake of Hamas attack, Blinken says (thehill.com)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday the $6 billion in Iranian funds expected to be unfrozen in the U.S. prisoner swap with Iran have remained unspent, pushing back against suggestions that the Biden administration’s deal may have contributed to Hamas’s recent attacks on Israel....

Extreme weather displaced 43m children in past six years, Unicef reports (www.theguardian.com)

At least 43 million child displacements were linked to extreme weather events over the past six years, the equivalent of 20,000 children being forced to abandon their homes and school every single day, new research has found....

[OC] Finally gotten around to documenting my code in org-mode (sh.itjust.works)

The projects:...

Salad with muddled berry vinaigrette (lemmy.world)

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Venice tourist bus plunges from bridge, killing 21 (www.bbc.com)

At least 21 people including several children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near Venice and burst into flames, officials say....

US health officials propose using a cheap antibiotic as a ‘morning-after pill’ against STDs (apnews.com)

U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases....

UK small nuclear competition: Rolls Royce in, Bill Gates snubbed (www.cityam.com)

Italy's coast guard rescues 177 people aboard burning ferry (www.reuters.com)

Ahead of Presidential polls, Argentina parliament passes bill to abolish income taxes (www.firstpost.com)

Behold the world’s oldest sandals, buried in a “bat cave” over 6,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)

In the 19th century, miners in southern Spain unearthed a prehistoric burial site in a cave containing some 22 pairs of ancient sandals woven out of esparto (a type of grass). The latest radiocarbon dating revealed that those sandals could be 6,200 years old—centuries older than similar footwear found elsewhere around the...

Over 2,500 migrants lost to Mediterranean in 2023: UN (www.dw.com)

It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (lemm.ee)

Chevy Chase Bashes ‘Community’: “The Show Wasn’t Funny Enough” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

The actor has once again taken aim at his former NBC sitcom: "I didn't want to be with those people."...

British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts (www.bbc.co.uk)

Last month a member of staff was sacked and police launched an investigation after around 2,000 treasures were reported “missing, stolen or damaged” over a “significant” period of time....

FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers (arstechnica.com)

In one of its many attempts to curb robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission said it is making it harder for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to obtain direct access to US telephone numbers....

Australia 'deeply concerned' by alleged Indian involvement in Canada murder (www.hindustantimes.com)

Falsified public comments loom over Ohio state parks drilling (energynews.us)

The state’s public land leasing commission is still on track to approve drilling under parks and wildlife before year’s end, despite claims that more than 150 people’s identities were fraudulently attached to pro-fracking public comments.

Trudeau accuses India's government of involvement in killing of Canadian Sikh leader (www.cbc.ca)

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso sign Sahel security pact (www.reuters.com)

Federal Judge Again Rules DACA Is Illegal (www.nytimes.com)

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Stolen Van Gogh handed to Dutch art sleuth in Ikea bag (www.bbc.co.uk)

A Van Gogh painting stolen from a Dutch museum in March 2020 is back in safe hands after a three-and-a-half-year quest to recover it....