Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says (www.theguardian.com)
‘Busiest Christmas I have seen’: families turn to food banks in Australia’s cost-of-living crisis (www.theguardian.com)
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals “insane” say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years
The last days of Little Eddie: life and death in a New Jersey prison (www.theguardian.com)
[Kory] McClary is a writer for the Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit news organization that provides incarcerated writers with tools and training. From a cell directly below the man’s cell, McClary overheard his decline over several weeks and described it in a harrowing article that was shared with MindSite News, a...
Poland’s new government sacks state TV, radio and news bosses (www.theguardian.com)
The new Polish government has gutted the top management of public television, making good on a campaign promise to reform a broadcaster that functioned as a mouthpiece of its rightwing populist predecessor, but also prompting criticism of their methods from some quarters....
White South Carolina couple ‘harassed Black neighbors with burning cross’ (www.theguardian.com)
More than 100 container ships rerouted from Suez canal to avoid Houthi attacks (www.theguardian.com)
Cape of Good Hope diversion adds 6,000 nautical miles and three or four weeks to delivery times and has driven up oil prices...
Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Shock to the cistern: the riotous, revealing world of graffiti in public bathrooms (www.theguardian.com)
Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship (www.theguardian.com)
‘I feared for my life’: three women in mental distress say they were further traumatised by NSW police (www.theguardian.com)
US officials monitored pro-Assange protests in Australia for ‘anti-US sentiment’, documents reveal (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/uKaZcArchived version: web.archive.org/…/us-officials-monitored-pro-assa…
Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school (www.theguardian.com)
Community members in a Tennessee school district want to banish Satan from their children’s halls after the formation of a new club was announced....
Israeli military says its troops shot and killed three hostages by mistake (www.theguardian.com)
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The Choice of Life: Dr Johnson’s Christmas message (www.theguardian.com)
Trump tells rally immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ (www.theguardian.com)
Like Putin, Viktor Orbán is learning he can act with impunity: the cash keeps flowing | Katalin Cseh (www.theguardian.com)
The EU’s capitulation to the Hungarian PM’s blackmail is a grave mistake. He seeks to reshape the bloc in his image...
Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28 (www.theguardian.com)
Greece to legalise papers for thousands of migrants to counter labour shortage (www.theguardian.com)
‘Never thought I’d be in this situation’: US readers on their housing realities (www.theguardian.com)
Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help (www.theguardian.com)
Yeah, definitely don’t put any of those profits toward a living wage though. Make your employees trauma dump for the chance at a few extra bucks! Probably comes as an Amazon gift card, too.