Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13414347...
The west defends Israel’s skies, not doing the same for Ukraine is a deadly mistake: If Europe doesn’t share its air defence systems now, Putin’s threat will only spread. (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11367607...
Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, ‘may be of largest-ever marine reptile’. (www.theguardian.com)
EPA moves to make US polluters pay for cleanup of two forever chemicals (www.theguardian.com)
Superfund law requires industries responsible for PFOA and PFOS contamination in water or soil to pay for cleanup...
Iran and Israel playing with fire as old rules of confrontation are torn up (www.theguardian.com)
Reported Israeli drone strike on Isfahan may signal that this widening conflict has become more dynamic...
‘Wake-up call’: pipeline leak exposes carbon capture safety gaps, advocates say (www.theguardian.com)
Estimated 2,548 barrels of carbon dioxide leaked from Exxon pipeline in Louisiana on 3 April, triggering alarm among residents...
Middle East crisis live: air defences activated in Iran after explosions reported near Isfahan (www.theguardian.com)
Incarcerated people died 3.5 times more frequently at Covid peak than those outside – report (www.theguardian.com)
Study from University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows prison mortality rate spiked at least 50%...
Canada hands ‘long-overdue’ title over more than 200 islands to Haida Nation (www.theguardian.com)
‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse (www.theguardian.com)
Delivering a baby was already risky, but an unprecedented surge in gang violence has forced clinics and hospitals to close...
UN nuclear watchdog head condemns drone strike on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (www.theguardian.com)
The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident”....
Killing owls to save owls: the US wildlife plan that sparked an ‘ethical dilemma’ (www.theguardian.com)
A government proposal to cull half a million owls, in order to save a related species, has raised complicated questions...
Ukrainian man jailed for life over role in Russian strike on pizzeria (www.theguardian.com)
Man provided information on restaurant in Kramatorsk that was hit last June, killing 13 people including novelist Victoria Amelina...
Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia (www.theguardian.com)
Governments across region grappling for response as temperatures soar to unseasonable highs...
Metro Bank UK stole software (www.theguardian.com)
Metro Bank UK stole software and linked it to their online banking system.
Israel lodges proposal with UN for dismantling of Palestinian relief agency (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has given the UN a proposal to dismantle Unrwa, its relief agency in the Palestinian territories, and transfer its staff to a replacement agency to make large-scale food deliveries into Gaza, according to UN sources....
ExxonMobil accused of ‘greenwashing’ over carbon capture plan it failed to invest in (www.theguardian.com)
Doug Parr, chief scientist for Greenpeace UK, said carbon capture and storage was hailed by the oil industry as a “miraculous silver bullet”, but had failed to deliver. “Carbon capture and storage does not appear to be much closer to reducing carbon emissions, or being affordable, than it did 20 years ago,” he said....
Niagara region declares emergency to prepare for eclipse viewers (www.theguardian.com)
Total solar eclipse on 8 April will be first to touch province since 1979, and Niagara Falls is declared one of the best places to view...
Revealed: San Jose CA is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detect…
Baltimore Key Bridge collapse: six missing now presumed dead, police say (www.theguardian.com)
Maryland state police say the six people who were missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland, are now presumed dead....
‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide (www.theguardian.com)
Aid officials criticise the slow and often arbitrary inspection process, which in practice blocks aid, with trucks waiting weeks for approvals....
At least 115 killed and scores wounded in Moscow concert hall attack (www.theguardian.com)
At least 115 people have been killed and 145 wounded in Russia’s worst terror attack in years, as gunmen in combat fatigues opened fire and detonated explosives in a major concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow....
EU agrees in principle to give profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
EU leaders have agreed in principle to commandeer a large majority of the profits generated from frozen Russian assets and give them to Ukraine....
Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose lived out each other’s lives, the third known such mistake in Manitoba. Now the premier is reversing a decision to deny responsibility...
Death tolls mount as elephants and people compete for land in Sri Lanka (www.theguardian.com)
Conservationists plead for coexistence as shrinking forests drive conflict, with elephant deaths doubling in a decade...
