China reaffirms ties with North Korea in high-level meeting (www.theguardian.com)
Top-ranking Chinese official Zhao Leji met Kim Jong-un during three-day visit to Pyongyang...
Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty (www.theguardian.com)
Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in history...
China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)
US officials said that China provided more than 70% of the $900m (£723m) in machine tools – probably used to build ballistic missiles – imported in the last quarter of 2023 by Russia....
Tim Kaine: Biden knows Netanyahu ‘played’ him in early months of Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Senator Tim Kaine, a former vice-presidential nominee and leading foreign policy voice in the Democratic party, has said Joe Biden now understands that Benjamin Netanyahu “played” him during the early months of the war in Gaza but “that ain’t going to happen any more”....
A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him (www.theguardian.com)
Since the start of the war over two years ago, a discreet network of unofficial Russian volunteers like Demidenko has sprung up that have helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war to get out of Russia. Many of the Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia or ended up in the country after finding no...
Ties with US and Japan will ‘change dynamic’ in South China Sea, Philippines president says after critics of China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the region (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13139560...
Iranian attack on Israel expected ‘sooner rather than later’, says Joe Biden (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has said he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran: “Don’t.”...
Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)
However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans. There is also a shortage of willing drivers after repeated incidents of aid trucks coming under fire, of which the WCK bombing has been...
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change (www.theguardian.com)
Pope criticised for saying Ukraine should ‘raise white flag’ and end war with Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)
A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialise, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip....
Menthol cigarettes are killing Black Americans. Advocates are suing the government to change that (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots undercuts campaign pitch to vote early (www.theguardian.com)
Campaign toils to convince Republicans to vote early, crucial to winning the election, while ensuring they don’t annoy Trump...
US seeking to deter Iran from strike on Israel, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Florida can’t ban teacher from asking students to use her preferred pronouns, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
Katie Wood, a transgender algebra teacher, has long gone by ‘Ms Wood’ but the law required students to say ‘Teacher Wood’...
‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse (www.theguardian.com)
Delivering a baby was already risky, but an unprecedented surge in gang violence has forced clinics and hospitals to close...
Post office operator wrongly jailed while pregnant rejects executive’s apology | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’...
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms (www.theguardian.com)
In a first, the state has purchased shoot houses designed for indoor gun training to help school staff ‘respond to active shooter’...
Outrage after US hunter who reportedly took wolf in bar and killed it only fined (www.theguardian.com)
A Wyoming hunter who reportedly ran over a gray wolf with a snowmobile, taped the creature’s mouth shut, took a picture with it inside a local bar and then shot it to death behind the tavern has ignited calls for stiffer penalties in such an egregious case of animal abuse....
Judge denies Trump’s third attempt this week to delay hush-money trial (www.theguardian.com)
Case on Monday will be first ever criminal trial of an ex-president as Trump’s lawyers fight to put it off and try to remove its judge...
US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm sales (www.theguardian.com)
‘Historic’ action by justice department closes ‘doggone dangerous’ loophole in Biden administration’s fight against gun violence...
Neo-Nazi to face trial in killing of former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein (www.theguardian.com)
Sam Woodward, former member of Atomwaffen Division, was arrested in 2018 for murder of gay, Jewish pre-med student...
Blow for Myanmar’s military as rebels say hundreds have surrendered at key border town (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/19142552
OJ Simpson, ex-NFL star who was acquitted of murder, dies aged 76 (www.theguardian.com)
