Wagner chief claims to have seized military sites in Rostov as Moscow implements anti-terror measures (www.theguardian.com)
In videos posted on social media early on Saturday, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that he was at the headquarters of the Southern Military District (SMD) in Rostov and demanded that defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general Valery Gerasimov come to the city, 1,000 kilometres south of Moscow. The videos could not be...
US charges Chinese individuals and firms over fentanyl chemical trafficking (www.theguardian.com)
Spanish investigation launched into fatal boat rescue delay (www.theguardian.com)
Kenya human rights commission to investigate alleged killings on pineapple farm (www.theguardian.com)
Forced property sales on the rise in outer Sydney as interest rate rises start to bite (www.theguardian.com)
Britons who want to rejoin EU at highest levels since 2016, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawi (www.theguardian.com)
Draft EU plans to allow spying on journalists are dangerous, warn critics (www.theguardian.com)
How John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil war (www.theguardian.com)
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