Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country (www.theguardian.com)
Argentina: trans women among victims of ex-officers guilty of dictatorship-era crimes (www.theguardian.com)
State department official’s resignation highlights rifts over US Gaza policy (www.theguardian.com)
A human rights official has resigned from the US state department over Gaza saying the Biden administration is flouting US law by continuing to arm Israel, and is hushing up evidence that the US had seen on Israeli human rights abuses....
The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Twelve people reported drowned off a Gaza beach trying to reach aid drop (www.theguardian.com)
Twelve people drowned trying to get to aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities have said, amid growing fears of famine nearly six months into Israel’s military campaign....
‘Pushed to the limit’: the tiny Greek island in people smugglers’ sights (www.theguardian.com)
Fears of a new migration route grow as more than 800 people land on Gavdos, population fewer than 70, in a few months...
Revealed: San Jose CA is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detect…
Baltimore Key Bridge collapse: six missing now presumed dead, police say (www.theguardian.com)
Maryland state police say the six people who were missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland, are now presumed dead....
‘Madness’: Netanyahu’s handling of US relations under scrutiny after UN vote | Benjamin Netanyahu (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists link 2019 Iranian landslide to building of dam (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers studying satellite data show slope near village of Hoseynabad-e Kalpush moved after reservoir began to be filled...
Cargo ship that hit Baltimore bridge was involved in Antwerp collision in 2016 (www.theguardian.com)
The Dali was reportedly detained in Belgium after scraping side of quay and significantly damaging part of hull in good weather...
Meta is the world’s ‘single largest marketplace for paedophiles’, says New Mexico attorney general (www.theguardian.com)
Clashing convictions mark protests as US supreme court weighs abortion pill (www.theguardian.com)
Hearing on mifepristone most consequential abortion-related case since overturning of Roe v Wade nearly two years ago...
US supreme court to hear first major abortion case since Roe decision (www.theguardian.com)
Future of mifepristone at issue as rightwing groups seek to roll back measures taken by the FDA to expand drug’s availability...
Louisiana coroner accused of child abuse cuts sexual assault exam program (www.theguardian.com)
Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship (www.theguardian.com)
A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water....
Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)
Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...
Australia chose AUKUS and now it faces the prospect of having no submarine capability for at least a decade (www.theguardian.com)
Putin says radical Islamists carried out Moscow attack but maintains claim Ukraine was involved (www.theguardian.com)
Russian president says he is interested in ‘who ordered’ terror attack as US and France say Islamic State branch was responsible...
Utah forced to move hotels at NCAA Tournament after ‘racial hate crimes’ (www.theguardian.com)
Green said the team, cheerleaders and members of the school band were walking to dinner when a truck approached the group, revved its engines before someone in the vehicle shouted the n-word....
Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/9649718...
EU nature restoration laws face collapse as member states withdraw support (www.theguardian.com)
Brussels vote cancelled after it became clear law would not pass final stage with majority vote...
Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)
Biden administration’s Gaza strategy panned as ‘mess’ amid clashing goals (www.theguardian.com)
The Biden administration’s policy on Gaza has been widely criticised as being in disarray as the defense secretary described the situation as a “humanitarian catastrophe” the day after the state department declared Israel to be in compliance with international humanitarian law....
Charity steps in to rehome 300 cats from ‘overwhelmed’ man in Canada (www.theguardian.com)
An animal welfare charity in western Canada is scrambling to secure the resources needed to care for about 300 cats – all of them seemingly in good condition – after a call came in from a man who described himself as being “overwhelmed” by the sheer number of cats and kittens in his home....
