Iran accused of threatening ‘terrified’ BBC staff in London (www.theguardian.com)
China and Russia harden positions on Gaza as war stirs geopolitical tensions (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: how a little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans (www.theguardian.com)
Major investigation shows local governments are increasingly exploiting a loophole in the Clean Air Act, leaving more than 21 million Americans with air that’s dirtier than they realize
Former Bank of China boss arrested on corruption charges (www.theguardian.com)
An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower (www.theguardian.com)
Weighty issue: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make aircraft too heavy to fly (www.theguardian.com)
Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the ‘unusual step’ of transferring sumo rikishi to another flight...
Judge to consider imposing gag order on Trump in 2020 election interference case (www.theguardian.com)
Protective order poses dilemma for Tanya Chutkan as Trump could use it to falsely attack the criminal case as political...
Israel confirms 155 people being held hostage by Hamas (www.theguardian.com)
Daniel Noboa wins Ecuador presidential election (www.theguardian.com)
X fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on child sexual abuse material (www.theguardian.com)
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has become the first online platform to be issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia’s Online Safety Act for its failure to meet basic online safety expectations....
Poland exit polls: PiS party wins most votes but opposition coalition possible (www.theguardian.com)
In short, by the exit polls:...
Russia’s Avdiivka offensive is failing, says top Ukrainian officer (www.theguardian.com)
A top Ukrainian commander has claimed that Russia’s biggest offensive in months – involving tanks, thousands of soldiers and armoured vehicles in an attack on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka – is failing, as he admitted Kyiv’s own attempts to advance in the south were proving “difficult”....
US deploys second aircraft carrier as Israeli ground invasion of Gaza nears (www.theguardian.com)
‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency (www.theguardian.com)
Deutsche Bahn’s once-admired service has descended into chaos. Whether decades of poor investment or the company’s unusual structure is to blame, it’s a huge headache for a coalition trying to meet climate goals...
‘It was a plague’: Killarney becomes first Irish town to ban single-use coffee cups (www.theguardian.com)
Killarney used to accept it as a price of being a tourist town: ubiquitous disposable coffee cups spilling from bins, littering roads and blighting the area’s national park....
Israel-Hamas war live: US sends second aircraft carrier ‘to deter hostile actions against Israel’; ground assault on Gaza looms (www.theguardian.com)
US has seen increase in domestic threats since Hamas attacks in Israel, FBI says (www.theguardian.com)
FBI director Christopher Wray has reiterated part of an FBI statement that the US domestic security agency does not have “specific and credible intelligence indicating a threat to the United States stemming from the Hamas attacks in Israel”....
‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency (www.theguardian.com)
Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution (www.theguardian.com)
Amanda Knox to face new trial in Italy over slander conviction (www.theguardian.com)
Knox had been found guilty of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher...
Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution (www.theguardian.com)
Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues....
Japan asks court to strip Unification church of religious status (www.theguardian.com)
Japan’s government has asked a court to strip the Unification church of its status, amid growing criticism of the group’s fundraising activities after the assassination last year of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe....
Titanic salvage plan scrapped after Titan implosion killed mission head (www.theguardian.com)
Paul-Henri Nargeolet was onboard the ill-fated submersible that was likely crushed by the ocean earlier this year, killing all five crew
An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower (www.theguardian.com)
Starve Acre review – intelligent performances in sinister Yorkshire folk horror (www.theguardian.com)
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