Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere (www.theguardian.com)
Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere::The dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. Focusing on public transport would be much smarter, says transport writer Christian Wolmar
India’s supreme court upholds decision to strip Kashmir of special status (www.theguardian.com)
Chief justice says government did not overreach its powers when it revoked autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019...
Sweden demands immediate release of EU diplomat from Iran jail (www.theguardian.com)
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah ‘killed by Israeli tank shell’ (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands call for Gaza ceasefire on central London march (www.theguardian.com)
Cop28: China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels’ (www.theguardian.com)
Cop28: China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels’::But country’s climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, would not say whether it would support phase-out wording in climate deal
Maduro’s land grab in Guyana is a cynical ploy to hang on to power in Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)
It also seems clear that the dispute, which centres on control of the Essequibo region in western Guyana, a sparsely populated area the size of Greece that constitutes about two-thirds of Guyanese territory, is mostly about oil. In 2015, the US oil giant, ExxonMobil, discovered a big field off Guyana’s coast, largely within...
Lost in space no more: missing tomato found in space station after eight months (www.theguardian.com)
It might have remained one of the greatest mysteries of the universe, destined never to be solved until a freak recent discovery by the crew of the International Space Station (ISS)....
US retail group retracts claim that half of $94.5bn inventory loss was from theft (www.theguardian.com)
National Retail Federation says 2021 data was flawed and based on congressional testimony from president of an advocacy group...
Texas attorney general says he will sue doctor who gives abortion to Kate Cox (www.theguardian.com)
Ken Paxton issues threat after judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, can get an abortion...
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli forces continue push into southern Gaza amid ‘apocalyptic’ humanitarian situation (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas claims Israel launched series of ‘very violent raids’ targeting city of Khan Younis on Sunday, a day after ordering fresh evacuations
Almost 100 journalists killed and 400 imprisoned in 2023, says report (www.theguardian.com)
California teenager who passed bar exam at 17 is now practicing attorney (www.theguardian.com)
A teenager from California’s Central Valley has become the youngest person to ever pass the state’s bar exam and is now working as a practicing attorney....
Danish MPs vote to ban desecration of religious texts after Qur’an burnings (www.theguardian.com)
Clash between criminal gang and villagers leaves 14 dead in central Mexico (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin to run for Russian president again in March 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has said he will run for president in the March 2024 election, moving the longtime Russian leader a step closer to a fifth term in office....
Failure to agree fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 ‘will push world into climate breakdown’ (www.theguardian.com)
Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows (www.theguardian.com)
Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes
Six teenagers convicted in France over teacher’s beheading in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)
Samuel Paty had shown pupils caricatures of the prophet Muhammad during a class on freedom of expression...
US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show (www.theguardian.com)
Abortion clinics saw record surge in out-of-state patients post-Roe, report says (www.theguardian.com)
One in five patients crossed state lines to obtain an abortion in 2023, compared with one in 10 patients in 2020...
‘People are fearful’: Guyana alert for land grab by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro (www.theguardian.com)
Despite their proximity to Venezuela, inhabitants of the Guyanese border town of Mabaruma have little to do with their Spanish-speaking neighbors, says Brentnol Ashley, governor for the Barima-Waini region....
US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show (www.theguardian.com)
On the scope of the latest revelations, German said: “At a time where there’s much more public sensitivity to foreign influence in domestic affairs, having a foreign country’s security services aligned with the beat cop on the streets of American neighborhoods is concerning.”