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Armed gang storms Ecuador TV station as state of ‘internal armed conflict’ declared (www.theguardian.com)

Escaping Xi’s China by paddleboard: ‘I rushed into the water and thought if they catch me, they catch me’ (www.theguardian.com)

Israel and Hezbollah edge closer to war as drone hits key Israeli command base (www.theguardian.com)

Israel and Hezbollah edged closer towards full scale war on Tuesday, as the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group launched explosive drones at a key Israeli command base, declaring the attack part of its response to recent high-level Israeli assassinations in Lebanon....

Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)

French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution, study shows...

Canada blocks citizenship for Russian blogger who criticised Ukraine war. [update: Canada reverses course, will grant citizenship says Minister of Immigration] (www.theguardian.com)

EU announces €4bn state aid to back battery and green tech factories (www.theguardian.com)

The EU has announced €4bn (£3.4bn) of state aid investments in new factories producing electric batteries for cars, heat pumps and solar panels as it seeks to accelerate production and the uptake of green technologies and combat cheap Chinese imports....

2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin (www.theguardian.com)

2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilisation developed....

True blue: Neptune only slightly deeper colour than Uranus, say Oxford scientists (www.theguardian.com)

Both ice giants are similar pale blue, new research finds, correcting earlier beliefs about the planets’ relative hues...

NASA Peregrine 1: moon lander suffering from ‘critical loss of propellant’, abandons moon landing (www.theguardian.com)

Secret Service investigating vehicle crash into gate of White House complex (www.theguardian.com)

‘Everyone is leaving’: bombardments drive tens of thousands from southern Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)

2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin (www.theguardian.com)

‘January 6 never ended’: alarm at Trump pardon pledge for Capitol insurrectionists (www.theguardian.com)

The ex-president has said he would pardon those convicted of violence, obstructing Congress and seditious conspiracy...

An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower (www.theguardian.com)

Flowers become incels due to climate change. (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10458716...

Palestinians desperate to flee Gaza pay thousands in bribes to ‘brokers’ (www.theguardian.com)

Fixers with alleged links to Egyptian intelligence are making a fortune in ‘fees’ from people hoping to exit through the Rafah crossing

Italy urged to cancel pro-Russian events accused of spreading propaganda (www.theguardian.com)

“We need to increase our attention regarding these phenomena and dynamics, all the more so as we approach the European elections, which represent for Putin a functional junction for the destabilisation of our democracies,” wrote Pina Picierno, a vice-president of the European parliament and member of the Democratic party.

In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks (www.theguardian.com)

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Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge (www.theguardian.com)

The climate crisis has been previously identified as a threat to coffee and beer, and its impact could now be stretching to another of life’s joys: dessert....

Global heating will pass 1.5C threshold this year, top ex-Nasa scientist says (www.theguardian.com)

The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiraling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” during 2024, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned....

Meloni urged to ban neofascist groups after crowds filmed saluting in Rome (www.theguardian.com)

Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll (www.theguardian.com)

Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll...

Israel says Gaza fighting could last a year, amplifying fears of regional war (www.theguardian.com)

Israeli defence officials and former senior intelligence officers have said they expect fighting in Gaza to continue for at least a year, raising the prospect of thousands more civilian casualties, a deepening humanitarian crisis and a continuing grave threat to regional stability....