Spanish investigation launched into fatal boat rescue delay (www.theguardian.com)
US charges Chinese individuals and firms over fentanyl chemical trafficking (www.theguardian.com)
Kenya human rights commission to investigate alleged killings on pineapple farm (www.theguardian.com)
Forced property sales on the rise in outer Sydney as interest rate rises start to bite (www.theguardian.com)
Britons who want to rejoin EU at highest levels since 2016, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawi (www.theguardian.com)
Draft EU plans to allow spying on journalists are dangerous, warn critics (www.theguardian.com)
New Zealand PM disagrees with Joe Biden over Xi Jinping ‘dictator’ remark (www.theguardian.com)
Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’ | Netherlands (www.theguardian.com)
Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt | Geoffrey Lean (www.theguardian.com)
Orca rams into yacht off Shetland in first such incident in northern waters (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating (www.theguardian.com)
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...
Streaming was supposed to stop piracy. Now it is easier than ever (www.theguardian.com)
Slightly older (2021) article I found while searching for this place. It pretty much says what we’ve all been saying.
AstraZeneca considers spinning off its China business (www.theguardian.com)
‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’ (www.theguardian.com)
There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data via John Naughton of The Guardian. (www.theguardian.com)
CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
BBC drops Panorama inquiry into claims of sexual harassment by MPs (www.theguardian.com)
Ecuador: ‘dead’ woman who was found alive in her coffin dies in intensive care (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian’s approach to generative AI (www.theguardian.com)
Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’ (www.theguardian.com)
Attackers use Deepfake of "Kidnapped" Daughter, Demand Ransom (www.theguardian.com)
After being scammed into thinking her daughter was kidnapped, an Arizona woman testified in the US Senate about the dangers side of artificial intelligence technology when in the hands of criminals....
Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance (www.theguardian.com)
Nottingham in shock after three die in early morning attacks (www.theguardian.com)
*Two 19-year-old students and a man in his 50s were stabbed to death, and a further three people injured when a stolen van was driven into them, in an early morning rampage across Nottingham....
Republican official appears to have moved $1.3m from nonprofit to own law firm (www.theguardian.com)
San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is a fixture on Fox News who has garnered support from the likes of Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham; she also helms a nonprofit that appears to have directed more than $1m into her law firm, Dhillon Law Group....
Russian commander claimed the Wagner mercenaries had kidnapped and tortured his soldiers during battle for Bakhmut (www.theguardian.com)
In a video posted online, Lt Col Roman Venevitin, who called himself the “already former commander”, also accused Wagner soldiers of stealing arms, forcing mobilised soldiers to sign contracts with Wagner, and attempting to extort weapons from the Russian defence ministry in exchange for releasing kidnapped (Russian)...
