Houses set alight as lava from volcano eruption reaches Icelandic town (www.theguardian.com)
Seismic activity intensified overnight near Grindavík, the fifth eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in two years...
Denmark’s King Frederik X takes throne after Margrethe abdicates | Denmark | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Taiwan election: global leaders draw Beijing’s ire for congratulating new president (www.theguardian.com)
Global leaders have congratulated Lai Ching-te for winning Taiwan’s presidential election, praising the high turnout and democratic process – and drawing ire from Beijing, which had hoped to see Taiwan’s ruling party ousted.
‘People laughed at it’: the unlikely story behind the music of Crash Bandicoot (www.theguardian.com)
Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as “a Danish data scientist who has raised new questions about Claudine Gay’s use – and potential misuse – of data in her PhD thesis” in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal website last Friday....
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public
A fossil fuel plant is leaving Louisiana families with ‘barely enough water for your toothbrush’ (www.theguardian.com)
Volcano erupts near Icelandic town, forcing evacuation of residents (www.theguardian.com)
Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76 (www.theguardian.com)
The Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure of the Soviet underground literary scene who later protested against President Vladimir Putin, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter said.
Russian Orthodox priest faces expulsion for refusing to pray for victory over Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Church court says Aleksiy Uminsky broke his oath by refusing to recite ‘Prayer for Holy Rus’, which church has made compulsory at services...
Mar Galcerán makes history as Spain’s first parliamentarian with Down’s syndrome (www.theguardian.com)
After being elected to Valencia’s regional assembly, Galcerán says she wants to be seen as a person, not for her disability...
Taiwan election, China urges US, UK and Japan not to interfere in ‘China’s internal affairs’ after they congratulate Lai Ching-te for election win as Beijing hoped to see Taiwan’s ruling party ousted (www.theguardian.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/11038232...
Tens of thousands march on Washington to demand ceasefire in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Tree that lives underground among newly named plant species (www.theguardian.com)
Valley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in Amazon in Ecuador (www.theguardian.com)
Forty-four of 50 US states worsen inequality with ‘upside-down’ taxes (www.theguardian.com)
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack (www.theguardian.com)
Critics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal problem to feed children from low-income families during summer break...
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/760395...
Cholera cases soar globally amid shortage of vaccines (www.theguardian.com)
Cholera cases soared last year, according to preliminary data from the World Health Organization, which recorded 4,000 cholera deaths and 667,000 cases globally....
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
An unlikely charge of intent to commit treason landed Meir Baruchin, a grey-haired, softly spoken history and civics teacher, in the solitary confinement wing of Jerusalem’s notorious “Russian Compound” prison in early November....
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
An unlikely charge of intent to commit treason landed Meir Baruchin, a grey-haired, softly spoken history and civics teacher, in the solitary confinement wing of Jerusalem’s notorious “Russian Compound” prison in early November....
‘He disappeared for a year’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures (theguardian.com)
Since 2014, millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been locked up in China and subjected to torture and forced labour. Some of those freed talk about trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Kazakhstan
Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights (www.theguardian.com)
Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.
