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Biden and Xi to announce deal cracking down on fentanyl export due to hunter's creeping addiction (www.theguardian.com)

Gunmen take seven staff hostage at Procter & Gamble factory in Turkey (www.theguardian.com)

Two gunmen have taken seven people hostage at a factory in Turkey owned by the US company Procter & Gamble, according to media reports, in an apparent protest over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza....

Huge and secretive prison expansion in Myanmar revealed by satellite images (www.theguardian.com)

‘At this point it’s not just a game’: the making of Ukrainian RPG Stalker 2 – during wartime (www.theguardian.com)

First penguins die in Antarctic of deadly H5N1 bird flu strain (www.theguardian.com)

How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation (www.theguardian.com)

Satellite imagery and open-source evidence lay bare the destruction to civilian infrastructure by Israel in its war on Hamas

Ukraine’s top general refuses request from Zelenskiy to step down (www.theguardian.com)

Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked his most senior military commander, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, to step down on Monday but the popular general refused, triggering speculation that he will be dismissed instead....

Police raid villa of Jair Bolsonaro as part of spying investigation (www.theguardian.com)

Australia urged to reconsider support for Israel after ICJ ruling (www.theguardian.com)

UN agency investigates staff suspected of role in 7 October attack on Israel (www.theguardian.com)

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the 7 October attacks in Israel by Hamas, and that it had severed ties with those staff members....

Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X: Investigators uncover concerted onslaught on Berlin’s support for Ukraine involving more than 1m posts (www.theguardian.com)

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Scientists use robot dinosaur in effort to explain origins of birds’ plumage (www.theguardian.com)

Model used by researchers in South Korea suggests early feathers may have helped creatures such as Caudipteryx to flush out prey...

New York Daily News and Forbes staffers walk out amid US media job cuts (www.theguardian.com)

Israeli hostages’ families storm Knesset meeting to demand their return after Netanyahu rejects Hamas' ceasefire offer (www.theguardian.com)

How British American Tobacco lobbied Kenya to water down nicotine pouch warnings (www.theguardian.com)

UN staff on £1.5bn Iraq aid project ‘demanding bribes’ (www.theguardian.com)

Louisiana court upholds air permits for petrochemical complex in Cancer Alley (www.theguardian.com)

Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney (www.theguardian.com)

The promise of AI is that it will generate the image in your imagination if you can describe it. Yet this promise is limited by whether or not someone else has already created part of the image you imagined.

Gaza activist tells of beating and abuse in Israeli detention (www.theguardian.com)

Palestinian state only way to lasting peace for Israeli people, US says (www.theguardian.com)

"The impossible choice for my family in Gaza: stay and be killed together, or move and risk dying apart." (www.theguardian.com)

“The UK and US governments claim they are upholding international law by attacking the Houthis in Yemen. But they are not doing enough to uphold international law in Gaza,” writes Ghada Ageel, a third-generation Palestinian refugee who is currently visiting professor at the department of political science at the University...

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