Netanyahu rejects Hamas ceasefire proposal and vows to fight until ‘total victory’ (www.theguardian.com)
Exxon plan for Guyana oil exploration risks raising tensions with Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)
New York vigilantes take down ‘migrant’ on live TV – but he was from the US (www.theguardian.com)
Iran backed hackers interrupt foreign media with AI deep fake propaganda. (www.theguardian.com)
Macron calls Hamas attacks ‘biggest antisemitic massacre of our century’ (www.theguardian.com)
US funding failure will have serious battlefield consequences, says Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
As the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine approaches, Ukrainian officials say the delay in US support has already had a clear impact on the battlefield, where Kyiv’s exhausted troops have a severe hardware deficit in comparison to the Russians
Del Monte Kenya representatives accused of seeking to cover up circumstances of men’s deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Representatives of Del Monte Kenya have been accused of offering bribes in an attempt to cover up the circumstances in which four men died after going to steal pineapples from its farm in December....
‘Our last stop is Rafah’: trapped Palestinians await Israeli onslaught (www.theguardian.com)
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into the small southern Gaza border city of Rafah are being forced to contemplate being displaced once more as an Israeli offensive looms....
Italy’s far-right government submits plan to decriminalise abuse of office (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil starts mass vaccination amid upsurge in dengue fever (www.theguardian.com)
Emergency measures taken as 364,855 cases of mosquito-borne infection reported this year, a fourfold increase on year before...
EU to take action against Hungary’s ‘sovereignty’ law (www.theguardian.com)
The European Commission has announced it is taking the first step in legal action against Hungary over a new law that it says violates the principle of democracy, upping tensions with Budapest as the continent enters a fraught election season....
India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe (www.theguardian.com)
Gina Carano suing Disney and Lucasfilm over Mandalorian firing with help from Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
Tucker Carlson confirms Russia trip and teases Putin interview (www.theguardian.com)
Far-right pundit and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed on Tuesday he was in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin, and said he will air his conversation with Russia’s president to counter what he described as pro-Ukraine “fawning pep sessions” by western media covering the war....
Wettest storm in southern California history leaves at least seven dead and causes hundreds of mudslides (www.theguardian.com)
At least 32 of remaining hostages in Gaza are dead, report says (www.theguardian.com)
More than a fifth of the remaining hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza are dead, according to available intelligence collated by the Israeli military....
German firm BASF urged to quit Xinjiang over ‘gross abuses’ of Uyghurs (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s fraud trial rattled by witness’s possible perjury deal (www.theguardian.com)
A potential perjury deal with a key witness could shake up the verdict in Donald Trump’s $370m New York fraud trial, a new court document reveals....
‘Symbol of polarisation’: EU scraps plans to halve use of pesticides (www.theguardian.com)
‘Symbol of polarisation’: EU scraps plans to halve use of pesticides...
Smart TVs must showcase Australian free-to-air channels alongside streaming services under proposed legislation (www.theguardian.com)
Viral videos of Tesla drivers using VR headsets prompt US government alarm (www.theguardian.com)
US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said human drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people wearing what appeared to be Apple’s recently released Vision Pro headset while driving Teslas....
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised
Rumoured split in Hamas leadership as hope grows for ceasefire deal (www.theguardian.com)
When the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, launched his devastating assault on Israel on 7 October, the militant group’s exiled leadership, like the rest of the world, was apparently caught unawares....
Israel tells families of 31 hostages their relatives are dead as Hamas mulls truce deal (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of Palestinian prisoners for the...
Orbán boycotts parliament session called to ratify Swedish Nato bid (www.theguardian.com)
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party has boycotted a session of parliament called by the opposition to ratify Sweden’s Nato membership, even as a group of western ambassadors arrived in the building to urge a vote....
