‘More killing won’t bring back lost lives’: Tal Mitnick, 18, on going to prison instead of joining IDF (www.theguardian.com)
‘More killing won’t bring back lost lives’: Tal Mitnick, 18, on going to prison instead of joining Israel's military (www.theguardian.com)
On Tal Mitnick’s first morning inside an Israeli military prison last month, he was ordered into a small classroom. Pinned to its walls were various famous quotes. One caught his attention: “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” The name beneath it: Nelson Mandela....
Trump lawyer tries to discredit E Jean Carroll in bizarre exchange during trial (www.theguardian.com)
E Jean Carroll’s New York defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday with the ex-president’s lawyer trying to discredit her on cross-examination with a bizarre dialectic about genitals and by intimating that she has loose morals....
Amazon workers at new Birmingham site to go on strike over pay (www.theguardian.com)
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli airstrikes kill 100 people in one of war’s deadliest nights, say Gaza officials (www.theguardian.com)
Medics have now said that an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed 23 people, bringing total Palestinian fatalities overnight to more than 100, Reuters reports.
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today | Samantha Hill (www.theguardian.com)
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Taters the cat stars in Nasa’s first video streamed from deep space (www.theguardian.com)
Rishi Sunak considers curbing social media use for under-16s | Social media | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Drug lords hunt corrupt police officers who stole shipment in Tijuana (www.theguardian.com)
Danish MPs vote to ban desecration of religious texts after Qur’an burnings (www.theguardian.com)
Powerful Lords committee damns Bank of England over inflation forecasts (www.theguardian.com)
Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence
Rightwing personalities use X to bring antisemitic theories to light in US (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing personalities use X to bring antisemitic theories to light in US::Experts say figures like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson bringing ‘great replacement’ theory mainstream signals growing extremism
Former state department official loses job after Islamophobic tirade at New York street vendor (www.theguardian.com)
Halal food worker might soon be able to take legal action against the explicit and racist abuse after the attacker’s firm offered free representation...
Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds (www.theguardian.com)
Advertising Standards Authority says Hilux poster and video condone driving that disregards ‘impact on nature’
Australian naval divers injured after being subjected to Chinese warship’s sonar pulses (www.theguardian.com)
He’s correctly predicting the US’s most critical elections. He’s still in college (www.theguardian.com)
Nuttycombe runs the forecasting site cnalysis.com, and these little-known legislative races are his expertise. While the science of forecasting presidential, gubernatorial, congressional and senatorial races has exploded in recent years, Nuttycombe is one of the only forecasters focused on the 7,383 state legislative districts...
Trump classified documents trial running about four months behind schedule (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump’s trial on charges that he retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and obstructed justice is running about four months behind schedule after the federal judge presiding in the case in Florida declined to set a crucial filing deadline until at least next March....
Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s class to protest Columbia ‘shaming’ pro-Palestinian demonstrators (www.theguardian.com)
‘Nightmare is over’: Polish election result brings relief for LGBTQ+ people | Poland | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger (www.theguardian.com)
The UK, US, EU and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology....
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel (www.theguardian.com)
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EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: how a little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans (www.theguardian.com)
Major investigation shows local governments are increasingly exploiting a loophole in the Clean Air Act, leaving more than 21 million Americans with air that’s dirtier than they realize
Weighty issue: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make aircraft too heavy to fly (www.theguardian.com)
Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the ‘unusual step’ of transferring sumo rikishi to another flight...
Marine Le Pen should stand trial over alleged misuse of EU funds, say prosecutors (www.theguardian.com)
The Paris prosecutor’s office has recommended that the far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 23 members of her National Rally party stand trial over the alleged misuse of EU funds....
