‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Slovakia: pro-western diplomat contests Russia-friendly politician for presidency (www.theguardian.com)
Polls show Ivan Korčok and Peter Pellegrini, an ally of prime minister Robert Fico, neck-and-neck before Saturday’s runoff...
Boom in mating calls of Britain’s loudest bird signals successful breeding year (www.theguardian.com)
Conservationists recorded 24% more male bitterns doing their mating ‘booming’ noise in 2023 than five years ago...
Judge allows migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis to sue plane firm (www.theguardian.com)
About 50 people sent to island in 2022 in DeSantis’s ‘relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’...
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate...
China braced for rise in air pollution deaths: Country needs to speed up environmental response to protect its ageing population, multinational study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12949038...
‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...
Ukrainian man jailed for life over role in Russian strike on pizzeria (www.theguardian.com)
Man provided information on restaurant in Kramatorsk that was hit last June, killing 13 people including novelist Victoria Amelina...
When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian (www.theguardian.com) Spanish
Pakistani judges say intelligence agency threatened them over Imran Khan (www.theguardian.com)
Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Top UN expert warns of deteriorating situation in Haiti: ‘It’s apocalyptic’ (www.theguardian.com)
The UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti has warned the Caribbean country is rapidly moving towards becoming “like Somalia in the worst of its times” after a criminal uprising which has displaced tens of thousands of people and largely cut its capital city off from the world....
South Carolina mulls mystery $1.8bn in account: ‘We don’t know why it’s there’ (www.theguardian.com)
To put it mildly, the South Carolina state government faces an unusual problem: what to do about $1.8bn found in a state bank account when no one knows how it got there, how it should be spent or even whether it really exists....
Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim (www.theguardian.com)
Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia (www.theguardian.com)
Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia (www.theguardian.com)
Governments across region grappling for response as temperatures soar to unseasonable highs...
California sheriff’s deputies kill 17-year-old boy with mental health issues (www.theguardian.com)
Boy, as yet unidentified, is third child killed by San Bernardino law enforcement in less than two years and second in under a month...
Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute (www.theguardian.com)
Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland...
US banks ‘sabotaging’ own net zero plans by livestock financing, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Lending to meat, dairy and feed corporations led to ‘significant proportion’ of banks’ emissions, Friends of the Earth found...
‘I saw my sister forced to say she was a spy on Iranian TV. It was the worst day of my life’ (www.theguardian.com)
French teacher Cécile Kohler was on holiday in Iran when she became one of dozens of European nationals used as pawns by the regime. Her sister Noémie explains the ongoing fight for her release...
Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out, report says (www.theguardian.com)
The same year, 2022, company replaced plastic sleeves in EU with paper and cardboard, and cut plastic packaging globally by 11.6%...
Greenlandic women sue Danish state for contraceptive ‘violation’ (www.theguardian.com)
‘No choice’: Ukraine eyes Kerch bridge in Crimea for drone attack (www.theguardian.com)
Third attack on Kerch bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea ‘inevitable’, say Ukraine’s military intelligence...
