UK grocery inflation falls to single digits for first time this year (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza becoming ‘a graveyard for children’, says UN secretary general (www.theguardian.com)
Blockbuster show on Genghis Khan opens in France after row with China (www.theguardian.com)
The museum row in 2020 focused on the project’s collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China. Chinese authorities demanded that certain words, including “Genghis Khan”, “empire” and “Mongol”, be taken out of the French show.
Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians (www.theguardian.com)
As Gaza crumbles, those speaking up for innocent Palestinians are being silenced and sacked (www.theguardian.com)
Japan investigates foreign YouTubers accused of dodging train fares and stealing food (www.theguardian.com)
‘Pervasive and relentless’ racism on the rise in Europe, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
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Xi says China willing to cooperate with US as hopes rise for talks with Biden (www.theguardian.com)
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Threats against rape victim, 10, lay bare Bolivia’s culture of sexual violence (www.theguardian.com)
‘Not proportionate’: Australian government urged to axe extraordinary terror powers amid low threat level (www.theguardian.com)
Radio Free Europe journalist and US citizen Alsu Kurmasheva detained in Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Man accused of Finland psychotherapy hack charged with 21,000 counts of extortion (www.theguardian.com)
Poland exit polls: PiS party wins most votes but opposition coalition possible (www.theguardian.com)
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Amanda Knox to face new trial in Italy over slander conviction (www.theguardian.com)
Knox had been found guilty of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher...
Ferdinand Marcos Jr drops Philippines holiday marking toppling of father (www.theguardian.com)
Court blocks Kenya from deploying police officers to Haiti to fight gangs (www.theguardian.com)
UK says Russia plotting to sabotage Ukrainian grain tankers with sea mines (www.theguardian.com)
Based on ‘declassified intelligence’, UK says Russia targeting civilian shipping on approaches to Black Sea ports...
Armenia’s parliament defies Russia in vote to join international criminal court (www.theguardian.com)
Moscow criticises ‘inappropriate’ decision that would oblige former ally to arrest Putin if he visits...
Trump ally is first to plead guilty in Georgia elections case (www.theguardian.com)
Former Republican bail bondsman Scott Hall, one of the 19 people charged alongside Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia, entered into a plea agreement on Friday, becoming the first defendant to plead guilty in the sprawling criminal case....
Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil launches biggest ever operation against illegal cattle farms in Amazon (www.theguardian.com)
The Brazilian government has launched its biggest ever operation to remove thousands of cows owned by illegal land grabbers from indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest....
‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platform (www.theguardian.com)
New Zealand woman discovers surgical instrument ‘size of a dinner plate’ left in her body after operation (www.theguardian.com)
Invasive species cost humans $423bn each year and threaten world’s diversity (www.theguardian.com)
Invasive species are costing the world at least $423bn every year and have become a leading threat to the diversity of life on Earth, according to a UN assessment....
Banks pouring trillions to fossil fuel expansion in global south, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
“They say that money makes the world go round, but money is making the world go backwards,” Teresa Anderson, global lead on climate justice for ActionAid International, told reporters....
