Protests as Atlanta council adopts new rules for referendum on Cop City (www.theguardian.com)
Pilotless drones being tested in Antarctica for use in scientific research (www.theguardian.com)
If tests are successful, Windracers Ultra UAV will be used for research such as surveying marine ecosystems and studying glaciers...
Gene therapy hailed as ‘medical magic wand’ for hereditary swelling disorder (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
Papua New Guinea in talks with China on security cooperation, foreign minister says (www.theguardian.com)
Justin Tkachenko says they are in ‘early stages of negotiation’ with Beijing on its offer to assist with police and security...
Russia-Ukraine war: attacks on Russian enlistment offices signal dissatisfaction with war, says UK (www.theguardian.com)
‘Every noise makes you jumpy’: US election workers confront threats and abuse with resilience training (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly half of all officials have been insulted, a third harassed, and nearly one in five threatened, according to CivicPulse
Thousands across Austria to take part in protests against far right (www.theguardian.com)
US woman jailed for 26 years over mother’s suitcase murder in Bali (www.theguardian.com)
Heather Mack, 28, pleaded guilty to helping boyfriend kill Sheila Wiese-Mack in 2014 to gain access to $1.5m trust fund...
Ocean fungi from twilight zone could be source of next penicillin-like drug (www.theguardian.com)
Large numbers of fungi have been found living in the twilight zone of the ocean, and could unlock the door to new drugs that may match the power of penicillin....
Tree that lives underground among newly named plant species (www.theguardian.com)
Two types of tree and a palm that live underground are among the new plant species named in 2023 and highlighted by scientists at the Royal Botanical Garden Kew in the UK....
‘He disappeared for a year’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures (theguardian.com)
Since 2014, millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been locked up in China and subjected to torture and forced labour. Some of those freed talk about trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Kazakhstan
It’s not just Israel in the dock over genocide, it’s everyone who looked away | Nimer Sultany (www.theguardian.com)
What has been remarkable about the last three months is the chilling disregard shown towards Palestinian civilian lives. Too many lazy talking points were used to enable so many in Europe and North America to look away, or worse, to justify complicity in what South Africa argues is a genocide, through their support for Israel...
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Red Sea crisis: UN security council demands immediate end to Houthi attacks (www.theguardian.com)
The UN security council has called for an immediate end to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea, adopting a resolution despite abstentions from Russia and China....
Italy urged to cancel pro-Russian events accused of spreading propaganda (www.theguardian.com)
“We need to increase our attention regarding these phenomena and dynamics, all the more so as we approach the European elections, which represent for Putin a functional junction for the destabilisation of our democracies,” wrote Pina Picierno, a vice-president of the European parliament and member of the Democratic party.
The numbers that reveal the extent of the destruction in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
The situation in Gaza over the last three months has been so chaotic that much of the data available comes with some sort of asterisk: it might be incomplete, or out of date, or drawn from a source that is claimed to be unreliable....
‘I can ride the bus. I can walk the streets’: the joy of freedom for Rohingya resettled in the US (www.theguardian.com)
A diplomatic breakthrough has allowed 62 refugees to start a new life in America. Yet a million still remain in fear and poverty in the Bangladeshi camps...
‘Journalists see their role as helping to win’: how Israeli TV is covering Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
To someone who made a cursory scan of the country’s TV channels and newspapers after 7 October, the reservists’ anger might be confusing – the Israeli media have rarely presented their audiences with such a uniformly patriotic vision of reality as they have over the past three months....
Aditya-L1: India’s solar mission reaches sun’s orbit (www.theguardian.com)
After four-month journey, Aditya-L1 will measure and observe sun’s outermost layers...
Thermo Fisher stops sale of DNA kits in Tibet after activists raised fears of rights abuses (www.theguardian.com)
African elephant populations stabilise in southern heartlands (www.theguardian.com)
Israel tries to appease US with proposals for Gaza as Blinken heads to Middle East (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli officials are scrambling to head off mounting frustration in Washington in the run-up a potentially difficult meeting between the top US diplomat and Benjamin Netanyahu by offering a series of policy proposals on Gaza that critics say lack detail or commitment....
Third batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed (www.theguardian.com)
A new batch of documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse were released on Friday afternoon....
Nepal bans citizens from working in Russia or Ukraine after deaths in military (www.theguardian.com)
More than 200 Nepali soldiers are believed to have enlisted in the Russian army since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Nepal’s foreign ministry had said, and more than 100 of them have gone missing. A smaller number are believed to be fighting in the Ukrainian army....
