Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content (www.theguardian.com)
Global rich must pay more to tackle climate crisis, says architect of Paris deal (www.theguardian.com)
Rich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said....
Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists say calamities on same scale as disaster that has killed 169 will become more common if emissions not cut...
Russian legal foundation Pravfond linked to Kremlin activities spent millions of euros to finance propaganda and legal campaigns in Europe and around the world, leaked documents reveal (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world....
‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes. In the city’s largest ever national security trial – involving the...
Israeli spy chief allegedly ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor to pressure her to drop Palestine investigation (www.theguardian.com)
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Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court must cease immediately.”...
Eight taken to hospital after turbulence on flight from Doha to Dublin (www.theguardian.com)
Eight people have been taken to hospital after a flight from Doha to Dublin experienced turbulence....
Slovakia: Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of prime minister Robert Fico (www.theguardian.com)
Media is barred from hearing as 71-year-old man appears in closed session over attempted assassination of prime minister....
Concerns grow about the wellbeing of Chinese journalists Zhang Zhan after supposed jail release as she failed to make contact with the outside world (www.theguardian.com)
Zhang Zhan, 40, a lawyer turned citizen journalist, was detained in May 2020 after she travelled to Wuhan to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her videos and social media posts drew attention to the government’s stifling of information about the spread of the disease and the harsh lockdowns that were being...
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico ‘in life-threatening condition’ after shooting – Europe live (www.theguardian.com)
Kristi Noem banned by two more Native tribes in South Dakota (www.theguardian.com)
Governor, plagued by dog-killing story, unwelcome in 20% of her state after she accused tribal leaders of benefiting from cartels...
Texas man reclaims world’s oldest skydiver record at 106 years old (www.theguardian.com)
Alfred ‘Al’ Blaschke, who first broke the Guinness World Record for at 103 in 2020, reached an altitude of 9,000ft in November...
Russians try to break through Ukrainian defence lines north of Kharkiv (www.theguardian.com)
Russian forces have attacked across the Ukrainian border to the north of Kharkiv in a potential effort to open a new front in the war and intensify the pressure on Ukraine’s second city....
Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan (www.theguardian.com)
David Cameron says UK will not follow US in withholding arms sales to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
David Cameron has said the UK will not be following the US in withholding arms sales to Israel, saying the positions are not comparable since the UK is not a large state-to-state arms supplier to Israel....
UK surgeon who described Gaza ‘massacre’ denied entry to France (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes (www.theguardian.com)
Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years...
Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks kill three during Orthodox Easter (www.theguardian.com)
Bomb attacks in Congo kill at least 12 people including children (www.theguardian.com)
Union plans strike vote over crackdown on University of California Gaza protests (www.theguardian.com)
David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers (www.theguardian.com)
First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’ as Chinese government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreak (www.theguardian.com)
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