US defense secretary Lloyd Austin transfers duties to deputy after being hospitalised (www.theguardian.com)
Biden’s top military adviser is receiving treatment for an ‘emergent bladder issue’, with deputy Kathleen Hicks taking over his duties...
How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Call for UK utility firms to face higher fines for ‘street scars’ on pavements (www.theguardian.com)
Republicans are redefining the word ‘equal’ in an Iowa anti-trans bill (www.theguardian.com)
India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe (www.theguardian.com)
‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow over ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children (www.theguardian.com)
During the 14 months for which Veronika Vlasenko attended school in Russia, she was regularly told by teachers and fellow students that she would never be able to go home to Ukraine. “Every day they said to me that I would be staying here for ever and would never leave Russia,” she said. “They told me that Ukraine...
In Gaza, there’s a war on women. Will the west really ignore it because they’re ‘not like us’? | Nesrine Malik (www.theguardian.com)
‘Always a bed in prison’: Australia’s housing crisis blamed for rise in unsentenced prisoners (www.theguardian.com)
US military stockpiling supplies in Australia in readiness for any confrontation with China (www.theguardian.com)
Imran Khan, Pakistan former PM, sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption (www.theguardian.com)
Ruling against Khan and wife Bushra Bibi comes just a day after a 10-year sentence was handed down, and just before Pakistan goes to the polls in a general election...
Theresa May to confront Home Office over ‘appalling’ secret policy on trafficking victims (www.theguardian.com)
Department has admitted that it hid the policy due to concerns about former PM’s reaction
Babies born in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ record lower birth weight, preterm births – report (www.theguardian.com)
New report shows babies born in notorious industrial corridor experience low birth weight at three times the national average...
NYPD investigating alleged chemical attack on pro-Palestine Columbia University students (www.theguardian.com)
UK sends UN experts photographs of North Korean shipments to Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Two of the three ships were also identified in a recent report by the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. It showed a growth in transshipments from North Korea to Russia that “reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale”. A third was identified by NK News, an independent news website...
Zelenskiy slams Trump’s rhetoric on stopping the war as ‘very dangerous’ | Volodymyr Zelenskiy (www.theguardian.com)
Italian province orders all dogs to be DNA tested in poo crackdown (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...
Big tech firms recklessly pursuing profits from AI, says UN head (www.theguardian.com)
EU bans ‘misleading’ environmental claims that rely on offsetting (www.theguardian.com)
On Wednesday, members of the European parliament [MEPs] voted to outlaw the use of terms such as “environmentally friendly”, “natural”, “biodegradable”, “climate neutral” or “eco” without evidence, while introducing a total ban on using carbon offsetting schemes to substantiate the claims.
Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights (www.theguardian.com)
‘We don’t have a say’: workers join push to unionize flagship Volkswagen plant (www.theguardian.com)
Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night (www.theguardian.com)
Video included! Of course they picked the worst thumbnail lol
Meloni urged to ban neofascist groups after crowds filmed saluting in Rome (www.theguardian.com)
Flowers become incels due to climate change. (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10458716...
Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said....