US appeals court revives $10bn lawsuit by Mexico against American gunmakers (www.theguardian.com)
Case seeks to hold manufacturers responsible for coordinating weapons trafficking to drug cartels across the US-Mexico border...
Philippines president sparks outcry for using presidential helicopter to see Coldplay concert (www.theguardian.com)
US calls on Israel to protect staff and patients as military reportedly storms Gaza hospital (www.theguardian.com)
The White House has called on Israel to protect innocent people as Palestinian officials said the Israeli military had stormed one hospital in Gaza and placed another under siege....
UN staff on £1.5bn Iraq aid project ‘demanding bribes’ (www.theguardian.com)
Louisiana court upholds air permits for petrochemical complex in Cancer Alley (www.theguardian.com)
Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney (www.theguardian.com)
The promise of AI is that it will generate the image in your imagination if you can describe it. Yet this promise is limited by whether or not someone else has already created part of the image you imagined.
EU foreign policy chief says Israel failed to engage with Brussels peace summit (www.theguardian.com)
One of the EU’s most senior diplomats has criticised the Israeli foreign minister for not properly engaging with a summit in Brussels designed to pave the way for a peace plan in the Middle East....
Families of hostages storm Knesset meeting after Netanyahu rejects Hamas offer (www.theguardian.com)
Family members of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip have stormed a parliamentary meeting in Jerusalem to demand that Israel’s government does more to return their loved ones, as fighting in Khan Younis reached unprecedented levels....
UK sends UN experts photographs of North Korean shipments to Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Two of the three ships were also identified in a recent report by the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. It showed a growth in transshipments from North Korea to Russia that “reveal that Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale”. A third was identified by NK News, an independent news website...
US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals (www.theguardian.com)
Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation (www.theguardian.com)
Georgia-Pacific, owned by Koch Industries, employ controversial legal tactic to circumvent paying millions to sickened workers...
Top hedge funds make record $67bn in profits for 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
Profits boom at top 20 funds including TCI, Citadel, Viking and Pershing Square thanks to rebound in stock markets...
Home Office hires hangar for staff to practise Rwanda deportations (www.theguardian.com)
Two US Navy Seals declared dead after raid to seize Iranian weapons bound for Houthis (www.theguardian.com)
Seals from USS Lewis Puller went overboard during mission off cost of Somalia to seize Iranian weapons, according to US military...
British inventor seeks to take $18bn bite out of Apple in bitter patent war (www.theguardian.com)
The west’s complete contempt for the lives of Palestinians will not be forgotten | Owen Jones (www.theguardian.com)
The devaluing of Palestinian life is not a supposition, it is a statistical fact. According to a new study of coverage in major US newspapers, for every Israeli death Israelis are mentioned eight times – or at a rate 16 times more per death than that of Palestinians. An analysis of BBC coverage by data specialists Dana Najjar...
National Archives censor files showing late queen concealed relative’s wealth (www.theguardian.com)
Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk shopping area kills dozens, local officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk shopping area kills dozens, local officials say (www.theguardian.com)
‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza activist tells of beating and abuse in Israeli detention (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza activist tells of beating and abuse in Israeli detention (www.theguardian.com)
Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic, scientists warn (www.theguardian.com)
Threat of outbreak from microbes trapped in permafrost for millennia raised by increased Siberian shipping activity...
The online hate campaign turning Indonesians against Rohingya refugees (www.theguardian.com)
‘Like a bad dream’: Briton’s death in Spain heightens fears about painkiller Nolotil (www.theguardian.com)
The controversial painkiller is being cited in a growing number of deaths in Spain despite warnings about dangerous side-effects...
