‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes. In the city’s largest ever national security trial – involving the...
‘My whole life is in that house’: survivors fleeing domestic violence can lose much more than their home (www.theguardian.com)
In Australia, victim-survivors can only take out property recovery orders before an apprehended domestic violence order (ADVO) is finalised....
Police investigate theft of more than 200 Pride flags in Massachusetts (www.theguardian.com)
US calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza with draft UN resolution (www.theguardian.com)
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study (www.theguardian.com)
Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance (www.theguardian.com)
‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)
The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....
‘Virtually complete’ Stegosaurus fossil to be auctioned at Sotheby’s geek week (www.theguardian.com)
Makes me sad it’s being sold instead of studied. “For Profit Paleontology” leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation (www.theguardian.com)
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit (www.theguardian.com)
‘They call us Nazis’: inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise (www.theguardian.com)
Counter rallies in Kaufbeuren show split between supporters of AfD and locals who acknowledge the Bavarian town’s Nazi past...
Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national record (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16243336...
New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
Millions were in germ war tests (www.theguardian.com)
Large Area Coverage Trials’, the MoD describes how between 1961 and 1968 more than a million people along the south coast of England, from Torquay to the New Forest, were exposed to bacteria including e.coli and bacillus globigii , which mimics anthrax. These releases came from a military ship, the Icewhale, anchored off the...
Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa (www.theguardian.com)
A long-standing US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda, including a governing party member who endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ laws by saying gays “should be castrated”, and a virulently homophobic founder of a “militaristic” Christian boys camp....
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
(water is wet and fire is hot).
‘Hong Kong 47’ trial: 14 pro-democracy activists found guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion (www.theguardian.com)
Fourteen people have been found guilty in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial, the prosecution of the so-called “Hong Kong 47” pro-democracy campaigners....
Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies after assault in prison (www.theguardian.com)
Quarter of political donations in EU go to extremist and populist parties, data reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Figures from 200 parties in 25 countries suggest hardline groups have had rise in donations in recent years, increasing war chests before European parliament elections...
Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage (www.theguardian.com)
Security services say spate of fires and infrastructure attacks could be part of systemic attempt by Russia to destabilise continent...
‘Time is our life’: Volodymyr Zelenskiy on balancing urgency with diplomacy in the war against Russia (www.theguardian.com)
The interview came at perhaps the toughest moment for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Zelenskiy insisted, however, that it was too early to write off the country, and that he remained positive despite all his frustrations. “I’m not in despair at all … I don’t feel like we are on a sinking ship which is going to...
Third person tested positive for bird flu in the US, CDC says (www.theguardian.com)
Farm worker who had contact with sick cows tests positive for H5N1, making it the second case detected in Michigan...
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....
The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right | Mariam Lau (www.theguardian.com)
Massive change is afoot within Europe’s far right. Just as voters across 27 countries prepare to go to the polls in EU elections, a split over the German far right’s allegiance to the Third Reich is driving a realignment....