Over 90 protesters injured by Capitol police, organizers say, as activists condemn Democrats’ lack of support for ceasefire - live (www.theguardian.com)
Wicked Little Letters review – foul-mouthed farce wastes Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley (www.theguardian.com)
Somehow this one star review from The Guardian makes me want to see it more.
Google to launch privacy tools which remove unwanted personal images (www.theguardian.com)
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Henry Kissinger meets China’s defence minister in surprise visit to Beijing (www.theguardian.com)
TIL that when Robert de Niro was in the process of receiving Italian citizenship, he faced opposition from the Italian American group Sons of Italy, who claimed that De Niro had damaged the public ... (www.theguardian.com)
An influential Italian-American organisation has appealed to Silvio Berlusconi, asking the prime minister to cancel Italy’s plan to award De Niro honorary citizenship.
Andriy Shevchenko: ‘I want to share with the world what Ukrainian people are feeling’ (www.theguardian.com)
The most famous former footballer from Ukraine, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2004 and the Europen Champions League with Milan before he also coached his country at Euro 2020, tells about his visits at hospitals in his homeland, and his push to raise funds for victims like the 6-year old Maryna, the first child in Ukraine to...
40 Years of the Nintendo Famicom (www.theguardian.com)
France riots: hundreds arrested on fourth night of unrest as ‘significant reinforcements’ sent to Marseille (www.theguardian.com)
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani admits to ‘dirty trick’ to suppress Hispanic vote in 1993 elections (www.theguardian.com)
On Tuesday this week, Giuliani revealed voter suppression tactics to the far-right Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon and Arizona’s defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake during a discussion on his America’s Mayor Live program.
Experts say ‘cocaine sharks’ may be feasting on drugs dumped off Florida (www.theguardian.com)
Israel forces shoot dead Palestinian teen after alleged car-ramming attempt (www.theguardian.com)
Florida rocked by home insurance crisis: ‘I may have to sell up and move’ (www.theguardian.com)
Soaring hurricane-cover premiums are bad news for the state’s homeowners – and Ron DeSantis is accused of dragging his feet
Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer (www.theguardian.com)
Unity is good 👍 (www.theguardian.com)
A working group will lay out fuller plans over the next 60 days, including a timeline for building the infrastructure....
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app – report (www.theguardian.com)
UK to breach Iran nuclear deal with refusal to lift sanctions (www.theguardian.com)
When Russia targets ordinary homes: the attacks that mean no one is safe in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
When a missile strike far from any frontlines killed 23 people this week, including a baby boy, and injured nine more, it would have been inexplicable were it not for the fact that Russian forces have for years directed attacks on civilians as a weapon of war. To the military that bombed schools and hospitals in Syria, and tried...
Russia launches deadly wave of missile attacks on Ukraine cities, mother and her three-year-old daughter killed (www.theguardian.com)
Though most of Russia’s attacks were intercepted, at least 17 people were killed in the city of Uman, including two children when a missile hit a residential building. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted: “Missile strikes killing innocent Ukrainians in their sleep, including a … child, is Russia’s...
China widens ‘already breathtaking’ scope to arrest foreigners for espionage (www.theguardian.com)
Observers have warned that the expanded law, to take effect on 1 July, increases the risk faced by foreign individuals and entities working in China, particularly those in key technology, research and monitoring and other potentially sensitive sectors.
South African Zulu king’s entourage denies ‘poisoning’ rumours (www.theguardian.com)
US charges Chinese individuals and firms over fentanyl chemical trafficking (www.theguardian.com)
"Free Jimmy Lai": Visitors to the House of Commons in the UK forced to hand over leaflets on press freedom in Hong Kong (www.theguardian.com)
Officials said that ‘members of the public’ are not allowed to bring on ‘political slogans or materials’ to the parliamentary estate. The material was eventually returned under pressure from David Davis, a former minister. The row comes at a sensitive time for UK-China relations, with ministers already facing pressure to...
British MP Stella Creasy says police ‘green lighting’ trolls to target politicians’ children (www.theguardian.com)
A man contacted the authorities arguing that the MP’s “extreme views” would damage her children and they should be removed from her care. Creasy has been a prominent campaigner on misogyny and violence against women. The man’s complaint was quickly dismissed, but the police decided that this man, who had no personal...
How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever
See no evil: why have baddies vanished from our cinema screens? (www.theguardian.com)
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