Boeing whistleblower’s safety claims under investigation by FAA, reports say (www.theguardian.com)
The engineer, identified as Sam Salehpour, told the newspaper that sections of the fuselage of the Dreamliner were improperly fastened together and could eventually break apart mid-flight.
UK will not suspend arms exports to Israel, David Cameron says (www.theguardian.com)
Israel’s security at core of German foreign policy due to Holocaust, ICJ hears (www.theguardian.com)
Nicaragua told the ICJ that it was “pathetic” for Germany to provide Palestinians with humanitarian aid while supplying the arms that killed them, and that Germany seemed “not to be able to differentiate between self-defence and genocide”.
German art museum fires worker for hanging his own painting in gallery (www.theguardian.com)
The 51-year-old man had smuggled his work into the display at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne “in the hope of achieving his artistic breakthrough”, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing police sources.
Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill (www.theguardian.com)
Advocates fear situation could escalate in Javari valley, a region plagued by violence and poor healthcare...
Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system (www.theguardian.com)
Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies...
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms (www.theguardian.com)
In a first, the state has purchased shoot houses designed for indoor gun training to help school staff ‘respond to active shooter’...
Australia among hotspots for toxic ‘forever chemicals’, study of PFAS levels finds (www.theguardian.com)
Australian limits on acceptable levels of these toxic chemicals in drinking water ‘orders of magnitude’ higher than in US...
‘Hell on Earth’: famine nears in northern Gaza despite Israeli aid pledges (www.theguardian.com)
For months, aid groups have struggled to get food to an estimated 300,000 people in northern Gaza, where the world’s global authority on food security recently predicted a famine was either already happening or would begin before July....
New Zealand tightens visa rules after migration hits ‘unsustainable’ levels (www.theguardian.com)
Net migration to New Zealand hit a near record high in 2023 after a new temporary work visa was introduced after the pandemic...
Pregnancy may speed up biological ageing, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Each pregnancy is linked with an additional two to three months of biological ageing, researchers say...
Palestinians return to destroyed homes in Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of Palestinians, exhausted by six months of unrelenting war and multiple displacements, trudged back to the devastated city of Khan Younis on Monday, a day after Israel’s unexpected withdrawal of its forces from southern Gaza....
New Zealand tightens visa rules after migration hits ‘unsustainable’ levels (www.theguardian.com)
Vatican calls gender fluidity and surrogacy threats to human dignity (www.theguardian.com)
I am so tired of the whole “cool pope” thing with Francis. It’s 100% PR.
Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’...
Kentucky man admits to faking own death to avoid paying child support (www.theguardian.com)
Jesse Kipf pleaded guilty to computer fraud and identity theft after he created a fake death certificate for himself...
Three boys to face trial over child’s murder in case that shocks China (www.theguardian.com)
Suspects, all under 14 at time, are accused of bullying classmate over long period before killing him in Hebei last month...
Nearly half of US prisons draw water likely contaminated with toxic PFAS – report (www.theguardian.com)
Around 1m people, including 13,000 youths, especially vulnerable because they can do little to protect themselves, co-author says...
Trump’s RNC takeover triggers strife and staff exits as purge partly backfires (www.theguardian.com)
Presumptive Republican nominee installed allies to run party but loyalty tests have led to weakening of certain areas, including data...
Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases (www.theguardian.com)
Christian nationalists embrace Trump as their savior – will they be his? (www.theguardian.com)
UN nuclear watchdog head condemns drone strike on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (www.theguardian.com)
The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident”....
US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide (www.theguardian.com)
The last time Brood XIX and Brood XII emerged from underground at the same time, Thomas Jefferson was president...