‘It is all lining up’: Plan for Ukraine to finally start using F-16 jets this summer (www.theguardian.com)
After delays in delivery and training pilots and ground staff, Netherlands says Ukraine should get first planes in summer...
Russia and North Korea sign mutual defence pact (www.theguardian.com)
Washington Post publisher alleged to have advised Boris Johnson to ‘clean up’ phone during Partygate Covid scandal (www.theguardian.com)
Israel-Gaza war live: Israel’s use of heavy bombs raises ‘serious concerns’ under laws of war (www.theguardian.com)
In a report published on Wednesday, the OHCHR provided details on six Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, which it said were emblematic of a concerning pattern, involving the suspected use of up to 2,000-pound bombs on residential buildings, a school, refugee camps and a market....
US surgeon general calls for cigarette-style warnings on social media platforms (www.theguardian.com)
Dr Vivek Murthy asks for required labels that state ‘social media is associated with significant mental health harms’...
Judge blocks Iowa law allowing police to charge people facing deportation (www.theguardian.com)
‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right (www.theguardian.com)
‘We’re excited’: arthouse hits draw young UK filmgoers to a summer of subtitles (www.theguardian.com)
This time last summer, British cinemas were holding their collective breath, looking forward to the biggest box office weekend of the year. “Barbenheimer” came to the rescue, with the doubleheader of blockbusters jointly chalking up an initial total of £30m when released in mid-July....
Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines (www.theguardian.com)
British schoolchildren are taught that the last full-scale military engagement on their soil was the battle of Culloden in 1746. But this should change: on 18 June 1984 the battle of Orgreave, the subject of Daniel Gordon’s documentary, was the bitterest moment of the miners’ strike of 1984-85. It was the last stand for both...
Murder conviction of Missouri woman overturned after 43 years in prison (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine war briefing: Sanctions to strike at Putin’s oil ‘shadow fleet’ (www.theguardian.com)
China’s maritime militia: the shadowy armada whose existence Beijing rarely acknowledges (www.theguardian.com)
They look like simple fishing boats but are capable of swarming in huge numbers to help Beijing stake its territorial claims in the South China Sea...
Louisiana supreme court hands major victory to child sexual-abuse victims (www.theguardian.com)
Anne Sacoolas said she ‘drove like an American’, Harry Dunn inquest told (www.theguardian.com)
EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms (www.theguardian.com)
The EU has notified Beijing that it intends to impose tariffs of up to 38% on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, triggering duties of more than €2bn (£1.7bn) a year and a potential trade war with China....
World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’ (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine war briefing: Ukrainian intelligence ‘strikes Su-57 warplane deep inside Russia’ (www.theguardian.com)
EU elections: Macron to dissolve French parliament after crushing loss to far right (www.theguardian.com)
As National Rally achieves best ever result in France, populists also make gains in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands...
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
‘We will not go away’: Israeli demolitions leave Bedouin homeless (www.theguardian.com)
Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content (www.theguardian.com)
Global rich must pay more to tackle climate crisis, says architect of Paris deal (www.theguardian.com)
Rich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said....
Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists say calamities on same scale as disaster that has killed 169 will become more common if emissions not cut...
Russian legal foundation Pravfond linked to Kremlin activities spent millions of euros to finance propaganda and legal campaigns in Europe and around the world, leaked documents reveal (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world....
‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes. In the city’s largest ever national security trial – involving the...
