Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Malawi soldiers search mountain forests after plane carrying vice-president goes missing (www.theguardian.com)
'I did not want to disappear in silence’: Chechen woman livestreamed attempted abduction by her family (www.theguardian.com)
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EU expected to impose import tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (www.theguardian.com)
The EU is expected to notify China that it will impose tariffs on electric vehicle imports this week, firing the starting gun on a potential summer trade war with Beijing....
The cat in the flat: Singapore lifts ban on pets in public housing (www.theguardian.com)
‘They have no options’: Texas court dims hope of timely abortion care for high-risk patients (www.theguardian.com)
Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence (www.theguardian.com)
Hungarians rally for former ally leading the charge against Viktor Orbán’s rule (www.theguardian.com)
Man arrested after attacking Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian: ‘It’s emotionally very difficult’: mobilisation squads face hostility as Ukraine tries to boost army ranks (www.theguardian.com)
The warring conmen at the heart of a €5bn carbon scam (www.theguardian.com)
Daphne and other scammers’ pillaging of Europe’s carbon market constitutes what the media have called “the fraud of the century” – billions of euros were stolen in a matter of months. The shadowy scheme attracted established crime rings and amateur hucksters alike, many of whom knew one another. Its web reached the...
Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs (www.theguardian.com)
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calls audacious request ‘definition of corruption’ amid investigation into Mar-a-Lago meeting in April...
‘My whole life is in that house’: survivors fleeing domestic violence can lose much more than their home (www.theguardian.com)
In Australia, victim-survivors can only take out property recovery orders before an apprehended domestic violence order (ADVO) is finalised....
Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing NZ government accused of ‘war on nature’ as it takes axe to climate policies (www.theguardian.com)
Government of Christopher Luxon has made sweeping cuts to climate projects in its first budget, with no new significant environmental investments
Only seven EU countries require parties to reveal identity of all private donors (www.theguardian.com)
Spain and France are among the most opaque when it comes to declaring who party funders are, analysis shows...
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
Spain to give Ukraine €1bn in military aid in decade-long defence deal (www.theguardian.com)
Spain will provide Ukraine with €1bn in military aid this year after the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, met in Madrid to sign an “enormously important”, decade-long defence and security deal....
Six newborn babies die after fire tears through Delhi hospital (www.theguardian.com)
Bystanders ran in to rescue 12 newborns from fire at children’s hospital as PM Narendra Modi says deaths are ‘heart-rending’...
Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy (www.theguardian.com)
Lambeth Palace documents show purchase of enslaved people in 18th century approved by Anglican archbishop...
Whistleblowers allege widespread abuses at Israeli detention camp (www.theguardian.com)
Prisoners held at an Israeli detention camp in the Negev desert are being subjected to widespread physical and mental abuses, with at least one reported case of a man having his limb amputated as a result of injuries sustained from constant handcuffing, according to two whistleblowers who worked at the site....
