LA Times fires 115 journalists in ‘HR zoom webinar’ following union protests (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli hostages’ families storm Knesset meeting to demand their return after Netanyahu rejects Hamas' ceasefire offer (www.theguardian.com)
The Houthis are not a group that can be bombed into extinction – here’s why (www.theguardian.com)
Philippines president sparks outcry for using presidential helicopter to see Coldplay concert (www.theguardian.com)
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian::Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell – so one Massachusetts school barred them
EU foreign policy chief says Israel failed to engage with Brussels peace summit (www.theguardian.com)
One of the EU’s most senior diplomats has criticised the Israeli foreign minister for not properly engaging with a summit in Brussels designed to pave the way for a peace plan in the Middle East....
UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest (www.theguardian.com)
He said the prosecution of peaceful protesters under “regressive” new public nuisance laws in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which carried a 10-year sentence, and the use of the Public Order Act 2023 was criminalising peaceful demonstrations....
‘You will not replace us’: a deadly attack on a Slovakian gay bar – and its link to a fast-spreading racist ideology (www.theguardian.com)
In Slovakia, the attack on the Tepláreň, a prominent if rare LGBTQ+ hangout, prompted shock and statements of concern. The president, Zuzana Čaputová, called on politicians to stop spreading hate....
More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings (www.theguardian.com)
More than 100,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protest against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans at a meeting of extremists....
How British American Tobacco lobbied Kenya to water down nicotine pouch warnings (www.theguardian.com)
US appeals court revives $10bn lawsuit by Mexico against American gunmakers (www.theguardian.com)
Case seeks to hold manufacturers responsible for coordinating weapons trafficking to drug cartels across the US-Mexico border...
US calls on Israel to protect staff and patients as military reportedly storms Gaza hospital (www.theguardian.com)
The White House has called on Israel to protect innocent people as Palestinian officials said the Israeli military had stormed one hospital in Gaza and placed another under siege....
US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals (www.theguardian.com)
British inventor seeks to take $18bn bite out of Apple in bitter patent war (www.theguardian.com)
UN staff on £1.5bn Iraq aid project ‘demanding bribes’ (www.theguardian.com)
Louisiana court upholds air permits for petrochemical complex in Cancer Alley (www.theguardian.com)
UK sends UN experts photographs of North Korean shipments to Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Two of the three ships were also identified in a recent report by the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. It showed a growth in transshipments from North Korea to Russia that “reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale”. A third was identified by NK News, an independent news website...
Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation (www.theguardian.com)
Georgia-Pacific, owned by Koch Industries, employ controversial legal tactic to circumvent paying millions to sickened workers...
Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney (www.theguardian.com)
The promise of AI is that it will generate the image in your imagination if you can describe it. Yet this promise is limited by whether or not someone else has already created part of the image you imagined.
The west’s complete contempt for the lives of Palestinians will not be forgotten | Owen Jones (www.theguardian.com)
The devaluing of Palestinian life is not a supposition, it is a statistical fact. According to a new study of coverage in major US newspapers, for every Israeli death Israelis are mentioned eight times – or at a rate 16 times more per death than that of Palestinians. An analysis of BBC coverage by data specialists Dana Najjar...
Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk shopping area kills dozens, local officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Zelenskiy slams Trump’s rhetoric on stopping the war as ‘very dangerous’ (www.theguardian.com)
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, fears that if Donald Trump returns to the White House next year he could make unilateral concessions to Russia that override Ukraine’s interests and branded the former US president’s claims he could stop the war in 24 hours as “very dangerous”....