New Zealand PM disagrees with Joe Biden over Xi Jinping ‘dictator’ remark (www.theguardian.com)
Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’ | Netherlands (www.theguardian.com)
Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt | Geoffrey Lean (www.theguardian.com)
How John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil war (www.theguardian.com)
Moderators flood feeds with pictures of TV comic as they fight owners’ plans to go public
Orca rams into yacht off Shetland in first such incident in northern waters (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating (www.theguardian.com)
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...
Streaming was supposed to stop piracy. Now it is easier than ever (www.theguardian.com)
Slightly older (2021) article I found while searching for this place. It pretty much says what we’ve all been saying.
Kerala is rolling out free broadband for its poorest citizens. What’s stopping your government? (www.theguardian.com)
AstraZeneca considers spinning off its China business (www.theguardian.com)
‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’ (www.theguardian.com)
There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data via John Naughton of The Guardian. (www.theguardian.com)
CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ (www.theguardian.com)
BBC drops Panorama inquiry into claims of sexual harassment by MPs (www.theguardian.com)
Ecuador: ‘dead’ woman who was found alive in her coffin dies in intensive care (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian’s approach to generative AI (www.theguardian.com)
Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’ (www.theguardian.com)
Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance (www.theguardian.com)
Trump finds no new lawyers in time for Mar-a-Lago documents arraignment (www.theguardian.com)
Nottingham in shock after three die in early morning attacks (www.theguardian.com)
*Two 19-year-old students and a man in his 50s were stabbed to death, and a further three people injured when a stolen van was driven into them, in an early morning rampage across Nottingham....
Republican official appears to have moved $1.3m from nonprofit to own law firm (www.theguardian.com)
San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is a fixture on Fox News who has garnered support from the likes of Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham; she also helms a nonprofit that appears to have directed more than $1m into her law firm, Dhillon Law Group....
Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report (www.theguardian.com)
Russian commander claimed the Wagner mercenaries had kidnapped and tortured his soldiers during battle for Bakhmut (www.theguardian.com)
In a video posted online, Lt Col Roman Venevitin, who called himself the “already former commander”, also accused Wagner soldiers of stealing arms, forcing mobilised soldiers to sign contracts with Wagner, and attempting to extort weapons from the Russian defence ministry in exchange for releasing kidnapped (Russian)...
UK: Former Brexit party MEP says there is no “given right” for low food prices, advises Britons to "not have cheese sandwiches if you can’t afford them" (www.theguardian.com)
Ann Widdecombe, who joined the Reform UK party this year, made the comments when she was asked what she would say to consumers who could not afford to pay for basics such as the ingredients of a cheese sandwich. The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Sarah Olney, said: “How out of touch can you get? Ann Widdecombe joins a...
"Free Jimmy Lai": Visitors to the House of Commons in the UK forced to hand over leaflets on press freedom in Hong Kong (www.theguardian.com)
Officials said that ‘members of the public’ are not allowed to bring on ‘political slogans or materials’ to the parliamentary estate. The material was eventually returned under pressure from David Davis, a former minister. The row comes at a sensitive time for UK-China relations, with ministers already facing pressure to...
When Russia targets ordinary homes: the attacks that mean no one is safe in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
When a missile strike far from any frontlines killed 23 people this week, including a baby boy, and injured nine more, it would have been inexplicable were it not for the fact that Russian forces have for years directed attacks on civilians as a weapon of war. To the military that bombed schools and hospitals in Syria, and tried...
