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....
‘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....
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....
‘Intentional cruelty’: asylum seekers are dying at US-Mexico border, say advocates (www.theguardian.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/migrants-us-mexico-border-denie…
China’s many systemic problems dominate its outlook for 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
Japan’s example 30 years ago shows islands of excellence can combine with deep structural imbalances...
Zelenskiy says Ukraine has become stronger as war moves closer to second year (www.theguardian.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed in his New Year’s address to unleash “wrath” against Russian forces in 2024, saying Ukraine had become stronger as the war moves toward its second year....
New breed of climate protesters vows to take fight to ‘cowards’ of US politics (www.theguardian.com)
Britain to send patrol ship to Guyana amid Venezuela border dispute (www.theguardian.com)
Shock to the cistern: the riotous, revealing world of graffiti in public bathrooms (www.theguardian.com)
‘Never thought I’d be in this situation’: US readers on their housing realities (www.theguardian.com)
Modern slavery ‘a feature’ of care sector in England since Brexit (www.theguardian.com)
End of free movement of workers from EU has significantly increased possibilities of exploitation, care watchdog tells MPs...
Fifa, Meta and Tesco ‘most linked’ to alleged corporate migrant worker abuse (www.theguardian.com)
At least 90 workers reported to have died in the past year, mainly through breaches of health and safety standards, says report
‘Don’t get sick. It’s too expensive’: medical debt is putting more Americans in financial crisis (www.theguardian.com)
‘Hugely frustrating’: international media seek to overcome Gaza ban (www.theguardian.com)
Sweden demands immediate release of EU diplomat from Iran jail (www.theguardian.com)
Pregnant woman sues Kentucky for right to have abortion (www.theguardian.com)
A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit on Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen US states since Roe v Wade was overturned last year....