‘Giving us oxygen’: Italy turns to Cuba to help revive ailing health system (www.theguardian.com)
Tree that lives underground among newly named plant species (www.theguardian.com)
Two types of tree and a palm that live underground are among the new plant species named in 2023 and highlighted by scientists at the Royal Botanical Garden Kew in the UK....
World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer (www.theguardian.com)
French woman ‘heartbroken’ after losing job in UK after Brexit speaks out (www.theguardian.com)
‘You don’t feel alive’: Ukraine veterans struggling with the trauma of war (www.theguardian.com)
Serhii Dovbysh was defending his home in Chernihiv when something inside him snapped. The Russians were a few kilometres away. Enemy planes bombed the city. Shells landed among its gold-domed cathedrals. And young soldiers under his command were dying in battle. Dovbysh, a major in Ukraine’s armed forces and a deputy...
World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-Shin Bet head says Israel should negotiate with jailed intifada leader (www.theguardian.com)
A former leader of the Shin Bet domestic security force has said Israel will not have security until Palestinians have their own state, and Israeli authorities should release Marwan Barghouti, jailed leader of the second intifada, to direct negotiations to create one....
Houses set alight as lava from volcano eruption reaches Icelandic town (www.theguardian.com)
Seismic activity intensified overnight near Grindavík, the fifth eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in two years...
Denmark’s King Frederik X takes throne after Margrethe abdicates | Denmark | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Taiwan election: global leaders draw Beijing’s ire for congratulating new president (www.theguardian.com)
Global leaders have congratulated Lai Ching-te for winning Taiwan’s presidential election, praising the high turnout and democratic process – and drawing ire from Beijing, which had hoped to see Taiwan’s ruling party ousted.
‘People laughed at it’: the unlikely story behind the music of Crash Bandicoot (www.theguardian.com)
Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as “a Danish data scientist who has raised new questions about Claudine Gay’s use – and potential misuse – of data in her PhD thesis” in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal website last Friday....
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public
A fossil fuel plant is leaving Louisiana families with ‘barely enough water for your toothbrush’ (www.theguardian.com)
Volcano erupts near Icelandic town, forcing evacuation of residents (www.theguardian.com)
Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76 (www.theguardian.com)
The Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure of the Soviet underground literary scene who later protested against President Vladimir Putin, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter said.
Russian Orthodox priest faces expulsion for refusing to pray for victory over Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Church court says Aleksiy Uminsky broke his oath by refusing to recite ‘Prayer for Holy Rus’, which church has made compulsory at services...
Mar Galcerán makes history as Spain’s first parliamentarian with Down’s syndrome (www.theguardian.com)
After being elected to Valencia’s regional assembly, Galcerán says she wants to be seen as a person, not for her disability...
Taiwan election, China urges US, UK and Japan not to interfere in ‘China’s internal affairs’ after they congratulate Lai Ching-te for election win as Beijing hoped to see Taiwan’s ruling party ousted (www.theguardian.com)
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Tens of thousands march on Washington to demand ceasefire in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Tree that lives underground among newly named plant species (www.theguardian.com)
Valley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in Amazon in Ecuador (www.theguardian.com)
Forty-four of 50 US states worsen inequality with ‘upside-down’ taxes (www.theguardian.com)
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack (www.theguardian.com)
Critics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal problem to feed children from low-income families during summer break...
