David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers (www.theguardian.com)
Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights (www.theguardian.com)
Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame? (www.theguardian.com)
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, it’s a bigger killer than habitat loss or poaching...
Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report (www.theguardian.com)
Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify (www.theguardian.com)
Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
accidentally posted this in world news before bcs i forgot about the no internal US news rule by accident...
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes (www.theguardian.com)
Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13414347...
New Orleans archdiocese is target of child sex-trafficking inquiry, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T fined $200m by FCC over illegal location-data sharing (www.theguardian.com)
T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T say they will appeal against ‘excessive’ fines meted out by US regulator...
Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law (www.theguardian.com)
Governor Ron DeSantis’s challenging of a ‘continuous eligibility’ rule has booted over 22,000 children off insurance since January...
Dozens arrested at Columbia University as New York police disperse Gaza protest (www.theguardian.com)
Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash (www.theguardian.com)
What they learned is, to me, much less interesting than how they learned it.
First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’ (www.theguardian.com)
Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a US national abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
Ohio company to sell a ‘flamethrower-wielding robot dog’ called the Thermonator (www.theguardian.com)
Coming soon to a battlefield near you. If it can bypass the export controls, that is.
‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest | US universities (www.theguardian.com)
The university’s response was likely the quickest show of police force in response to a divestment protest among the dozens nationwide that have occurred in recent weeks. It was also probably the only one where pepper balls, stun guns and rubber bullets were used against students, faculty and community members – at one of...
Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study (www.theguardian.com)
As people get older, they revise the age they consider to be old upwards...
Utah cat found safe in California after sneaking into Amazon return box (www.theguardian.com)
First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’ as Chinese government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreak (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11615272...
‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute (www.theguardian.com)
First case of walrus dying from bird flu recorded in Arctic (www.theguardian.com)
Utah cat found in California after accidentally shipped in Amazon box (www.theguardian.com)
ICJ rejects request to order Germany to stop selling arms to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
The International court of justice has rejected a request by Nicaragua to issue Germany emergency orders to desist selling arms to Israel, by 15 votes to one....
