Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
An unknown number of people have been trapped under rubble after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit during a daylight Russian missile barrage that the authorities said had killed at least 29 people across the country....
Vandals in Austria behead sculpture of Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus (www.theguardian.com)
Artist behind controversial piece in Linz cathedral says vandalism shows there are still ‘people who question women’s right to their own bodies’...
Indian farm worker in Italy ‘left to die on road’ with severed arm (www.theguardian.com)
A trade unionist has called for a crackdown against “barbaric exploitation” after an Indian farm worker died when he was allegedly being left on a road by his employer following an accident that severed his arm....
Curbing the Karens: Florida reins in over-mighty homeowners’ groups (www.theguardian.com)
The state’s homeowners’ associations (HOAs) are notorious for petty bureaucracy – including threats of eviction for the wrong kind of dog or decorative garage door hinges...
Florida divers find trove of suspected cocaine packages in Atlantic Ocean (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....
Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study....
‘Hong Kong 47’ trial: 14 pro-democracy activists found guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion (www.theguardian.com)
Fourteen people have been found guilty in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial, the prosecution of the so-called “Hong Kong 47” pro-democracy campaigners....
US support for abortion rights up four points to 60% since fall of Roe v Wade (www.theguardian.com)
New polling data from Pew shows shift in Americans’ opinion since loss of constitutional right to abortion in June 2022...
‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks (www.theguardian.com)
Video of the incident on Monday at Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, showed settlers blocking the trucks and throwing boxes of much-needed supplies on the ground. Photographs from the scene showed piles of damaged aid packages and drifts of rice and flour across the road....
‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters? (www.theguardian.com)
Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives...
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes (www.theguardian.com)
Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’ (www.theguardian.com)
Sweden will complete its ‘long farewell to neutrality’ with Nato accession (www.theguardian.com)
For Swedes it means a dramatic change of national identity, while the alliance gets greater control of the Baltic Sea...
New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’ (www.theguardian.com)
Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’...
Japan loses crown as world’s third-largest economy after it slips into recession (www.theguardian.com)
Japan has been eclipsed by Germany as the world’s third-biggest economy and has slipped into recession, according to data released Thursday, as the country battles a weak yen and an ageing, shrinking population....
Nayib Bukele re-elected as El Salvador president in landslide win (www.theguardian.com)
Voters reward Bukele for gang crackdown that has transformed security in central American country...
Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff (www.theguardian.com)
Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff::Delta Air Lines jet was due to depart from Atlanta airport and none of six crew or 184 passengers were hurt
Bank of America sends warning letters to employees not going into offices (www.theguardian.com)
Letters warned employees that failure to follow return-to-office expectations could lead to ‘further disciplinary action’...
EU bans ‘misleading’ environmental claims that rely on offsetting (www.theguardian.com)
Terms such as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” that rely on offsetting will be banned from the EU by 2026 as part of a crackdown on misleading environmental claims....
2023 saw record killings by US police. Who is most affected? (www.theguardian.com)
In 2023, Black people were killed at a rate 2.6 times higher than white people, Mapping Police Violence found. Last year, 290 people killed by police were Black, making up 23.5% of victims, while Black Americans make up roughly 14% of the total population. Native Americans were killed at a rate 2.2 times greater than white...
Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge (www.theguardian.com)
The climate crisis has been previously identified as a threat to coffee and beer, and its impact could now be stretching to another of life’s joys: dessert....
[2022] ‘Publishing is not a crime’: media groups urge US to drop Julian Assange charges. First outlets to publish WikiLeaks material, including the Guardian, come together to oppose prosecution (www.theguardian.com)
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