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Even Europe’s far-right firebrands seem to sense Brexit is a disaster (www.theguardian.com)

When I met the Dutch politician Geert Wilders years ago, he was set on ‘Nexit’. Now he too would rather stay in the EU...

New York’s Vessel to reopen with steel-mesh safety measures after suicides (www.theguardian.com)

Climbable sculpture in Hudson Yards in Manhattan closed in 2021 after four people died by suicide...

‘I was told I’d be killed if I didn’t leave’: Himalayan state is a testing ground for Modi’s nationalism (www.theguardian.com)

A region known as ‘God’s land’ offers a glimpse of the future if Indian prime minister’s BJP party retains its power...

Amazon, Google and why you can't just invent a blockbusting games developer (www.theguardian.com)

Murder of second world war veteran milkman in Florida solved after 50 years (www.theguardian.com)

China reaffirms ties with North Korea in high-level meeting (www.theguardian.com)

Top-ranking Chinese official Zhao Leji met Kim Jong-un during three-day visit to Pyongyang...

Forgiving medical debt after it is sent to collections has fewer benefits – study (www.theguardian.com)

Experts partnered with RIP Medical Debt, a medical non-profit that buys and forgives debt, found it had little effect on people’s credit scores and mental health...

‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief (www.theguardian.com)

Paris agreement negotiator Todd Stern attacks premiers who say that decarbonisation programmes are unrealistic and should be slowed down...

Joel Cauchi named as Bondi Westfield attacker who stabbed shoppers (www.theguardian.com)

Police believe 40-year-old Queensland man suffered from mental health problems and had only moved to Sydney a month ago...

Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay hotel and pub in London (www.theguardian.com)

China reaffirms ties with North Korea in high-level meeting (www.theguardian.com)

Blasts heard above Israel after Iran launches drone attack – live (www.theguardian.com)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said any threat from the United States and Israel will be met with Tehran’s reciprocal response, Iranian state TV reported....

Iran launches attack against Israel with drones 'hours away' from Israeli soil (www.theguardian.com)

Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House (www.theguardian.com)

Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting....

Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty (www.theguardian.com)

Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in history...

Ties with US and Japan will ‘change dynamic’ in South China Sea, Philippines president says after critics of China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the region (www.theguardian.com)

Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13139560...

A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him (www.theguardian.com)

Since the start of the war over two years ago, a discreet network of unofficial Russian volunteers like Demidenko has sprung up that have helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war to get out of Russia. Many of the Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia or ended up in the country after finding no...

Donald Trump thought Ukraine ‘must be part of Russia’ during his U.S. presidency, book says (www.theguardian.com)

As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China....

China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/11047589...

I believe in another Israel – one not defined by Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies (www.theguardian.com)

The Israel that I meet every day is made up of people who want to forge a path towards peace and security for all...

Iranian attack on Israel expected ‘sooner rather than later’, says Joe Biden (www.theguardian.com)

Joe Biden has said he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran: “Don’t.”...

China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)

US officials said that China provided more than 70% of the $900m (£723m) in machine tools – probably used to build ballistic missiles – imported in the last quarter of 2023 by Russia....

Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)

However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans. There is also a shortage of willing drivers after repeated incidents of aid trucks coming under fire, of which the WCK bombing has been...