‘Like a bad dream’: Briton’s death in Spain heightens fears about painkiller Nolotil (www.theguardian.com)
The controversial painkiller is being cited in a growing number of deaths in Spain despite warnings about dangerous side-effects...
Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study (www.theguardian.com)
Fishing nets churn up carbon from the sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the atmosphere...
‘We cannot operate, we have no drugs’: Gaza’s indirect casualties mount as health service decimated (www.theguardian.com)
Health services in Gaza are “decimated”, with medical staff exhausted after three months of war forced to extract shrapnel without adequate pain relief, conduct amputations without anaesthetics and watch children die of cancers because of a lack of facilities and medicine....
Major human rights violations at Del Monte farm in Kenya, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
‘Giving us oxygen’: Italy turns to Cuba to help revive ailing health system (www.theguardian.com)
‘The tide has turned’: why parents are suing US social media firms after their children’s death (www.theguardian.com)
While social media firms have long faced scrutiny from Congress and civil rights organizations over their impact on young users, the new wave of lawsuits underscores how parents are increasingly leading the charge, said Jim Steyer, an attorney and founder of Common Sense media, a non-profit that advocates for children’s online...
‘Black bodies are not for sale’: the battle over an African American cemetery (www.theguardian.com)
Activists fight to stop further development on historic Maryland burial site beneath an apartment complex
‘This used to be a calm place’: killing continues in Ecuador’s week of chaos (www.theguardian.com)
As cartels and crime syndicates flock to Ecuador for cocaine trade profits, its murder rate has soared, with a TV station assault the crescendo of a week of bloodshed...
Most want to flee ‘pressure cooker’ of southern Gaza, UN refugee deputy says (www.theguardian.com)
Southern Gaza is turning into a “pressure cooker”, where the majority of people – faced with dwindling food, inadequate water sanitation, overcrowding and a crumbling hospital service – want to flee, the deputy director of the UN agency for Palestinians has said....
Antony Blinken tells Israel: Palestinian rights are key to peace (www.theguardian.com)
Anthony Blinken has reaffirmed the United States’ “unique bond” with Israel, and rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza but told his hosts in Tel Aviv that other regional powers have made clear that a pathway to the realisation of Palestinian political rights is essential for peace in the region....
2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin (www.theguardian.com)
‘Everyone is leaving’: bombardments drive tens of thousands from southern Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)
UN warns Gaza is now ‘uninhabitable’ as war continues (www.theguardian.com)
How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever
UN experts alarmed by Alabama plan to kill prisoner using untried gas method (www.theguardian.com)
Oklahoma 13-year-old believed to be first person ever to beat Tetris (www.theguardian.com)
Previously only bots and AI had got game to its ‘kill screen’ but Willis Gibson managed to get game to freeze with score 999999...
Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
"For the first time that we can remember, the explicit calls to commit atrocious crimes, as stated, against millions of civilians have turned into a legitimate and regular part of Israeli discourse,” they write. “Today, calls of these types are an everyday matter in Israel.”...
NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications (www.theguardian.com)
Missile hits Red Sea container ship, US destroyers shoot down two more (www.theguardian.com)
Warships responded to call from Maersk Hangzhou when they came under fire from Houthi rebel-held part of Yemen, says US Central Command...
California dazzled by ‘extremely rare’ killer whale sightings off southern coast (www.theguardian.com)
A group of 10 orcas has been seen leaping into the air to catch prey, delighting watchers and experts for the past two weeks...
‘I feel like a criminal for quitting’: nurses in the US fight ‘stay or pay’ agreements (www.theguardian.com)
Filipino nurses for Ohio-based company say they have been forced to pay thousands in fees after signing training contracts...
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico: 14 kidnapped from village that rose up and killed cartel members - Farmers in Texcaltitlán in central Mexico, tired of being extorted, chased down gang members and killed 10 earlier this month (www.theguardian.com)
‘Why are they forgetting about us?’: Sudan watches allies turn from war to aid Ukraine and Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
The plight of Gaza’s ‘WCNSFs’ – wounded child, no surviving family: A chilling acronym used by aid workers reflects the reality of a conflict in which 40% of casualties are believed to be minors (www.theguardian.com)
"We had a 14-year-old girl just walk out of some war zone of Gaza City, stunned, mute, bloodied, and she absolutely had no one,” says James Elder, Unicef’s chief spokesperson, who spent weeks in Gaza under bombardment. “How many other children are like that right now? We simply don’t know.”
