Dramatic rise in women and girls being cut, new FGM data reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Progress to prevent female genital mutilation needs to be ‘27 times faster’, says UN...
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions (www.theguardian.com)
Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method...
Europe unprepared for rapidly growing climate risks, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Dangers of wildfires, extreme weather and other factors outgrowing preparedness, European Environment Agency says...
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages (www.theguardian.com)
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future...
Fifty people treated after ‘technical problem’ caused ‘strong movement’ on Latam flight from Sydney (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats...
US airlifts embassy staff out of Haiti as gangs besiege political area (www.theguardian.com)
Haiti’s gangs began an offensive to topple the government on 29 February, storming and ransacking police stations, prisons and hospitals and laying siege to strategic locations, including the port and airport....
Ukraine war film 20 Days in Mariupol wins Oscar for best documentary (www.theguardian.com)
Eyewitness documentary shot by war reporter Mstyslav Chernov during the Russian siege of the Ukrainian city takes Academy Award – the country’s first...
Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order (www.theguardian.com)
Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism...
‘We stand here as Jewish men who refute the Holocaust being hijacked’: The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars (www.theguardian.com)
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
‘We stand here as Jewish men who refute the Holocaust being hijacked’: Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars (www.theguardian.com)
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
The downwinders: New Mexicans sickened by atomic bomb testing fight for compensation (www.theguardian.com)
New film First We Bombed New Mexico sheds light on effects of Oppenheimer’s nuclear project and locals’ battle for justice...
Is the feared gang boss ‘Barbecue’ now the most powerful man in Haiti? (www.theguardian.com)
Jimmy Chérizier says he is leading Haiti’s poor against corrupt government forces but experts point to a dark and violent past...
The Zone of Interest becomes first British movie to win best international film Oscar (www.theguardian.com)
The Zone of Interest has won the best international film Oscar at the Academy Awards, which are currently taking place in Los Angeles....
Missouri man fatally shoots his mother at home after mistaking her for intruder (www.theguardian.com)
A 25-year-old Missouri man says he mistook his mother for an intruder before shooting her to death at their home’s back door....
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
Aaron Bushnell, who died last month, ‘sacrificed everything’ for Palestinians, says mayor of Jericho...
Pure imagination: Tasmanian premier vows to build world’s largest chocolate fountain if re-elected (www.theguardian.com)
The feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman – explained | Technology (www.theguardian.com)
France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists and vets are urging the president to afford the world’s most traded species better protections...
Biden backtracks on climate plans and ‘walks tightrope’ to court both young voters and moderates (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden, touted as the US’s first climate president, is presiding over the quiet weakening of his two most significant plans to slash planet-heating emissions, suggesting that tackling the climate crisis will take a back seat in a febrile election year....
Elon Musk v OpenAI: tech giants are inciting existential fears to evade scrutiny (www.theguardian.com)
In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons that allow “a man [to] carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half...
Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s (www.theguardian.com)
