UN warns Gaza is now ‘uninhabitable’ as war continues (www.theguardian.com)
African elephant populations stabilise in southern heartlands (www.theguardian.com)
Israel tries to appease US with proposals for Gaza as Blinken heads to Middle East (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli officials are scrambling to head off mounting frustration in Washington in the run-up a potentially difficult meeting between the top US diplomat and Benjamin Netanyahu by offering a series of policy proposals on Gaza that critics say lack detail or commitment....
Third batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed (www.theguardian.com)
A new batch of documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse were released on Friday afternoon....
YouTube’s video games are almost impossible to find – but once you unearth them, you’ll wish you never looked (www.theguardian.com)
After a labyrinth of menus as intuitive as dadaist poetry, players are rewarded with knockoffs of decades-old games too maliciously bad to have been designed by AI...
Nepal bans citizens from working in Russia or Ukraine after deaths in military (www.theguardian.com)
More than 200 Nepali soldiers are believed to have enlisted in the Russian army since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Nepal’s foreign ministry had said, and more than 100 of them have gone missing. A smaller number are believed to be fighting in the Ukrainian army....
As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state (www.theguardian.com)
Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ (www.theguardian.com)
Mexican cartel provided wifi to locals – with threat of death if they didn’t use it (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists hail new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant bacteria (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists hail new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant bacteria::Zosurabalpin has defeated strains of pneumonia and sepsis in mice, raising hopes for human trials
FTSE 100 chiefs paid more in three days than average UK yearly wage, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Carrefour pulls PepsiCo products in four EU countries over price hikes (www.theguardian.com)
For context, Carrefour is one of Europe’s largest retailers. And French; they take no shit
Belarusian president signs law granting him lifelong immunity from prosecution | Alexander Lukashenko | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Russia ‘attacked Ukraine with North Korea-supplied ballistic missiles’ (www.theguardian.com)
Russia ‘attacked Ukraine with North Korea-supplied ballistic missiles’ (www.theguardian.com)
Russia has started using ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea to attack Ukraine, the White House has said....
‘Scientific nonsense’: experts dismiss Florida official’s Covid vaccine remarks (www.theguardian.com)
State’s politically appointed surgeon general claims vaccines can contaminate human DNA but experts say comment has no merit...
Second wave of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein unsealed (www.theguardian.com)
Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask orange blob company mascot for help (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon is asking workers experiencing hardship to write a letter to its company mascot, Peccy, this holiday season so “some of their holiday wishes can come true”....
Trump businesses received millions in foreign payments while he was in office (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump “repeatedly and willfully” violated the US constitution by “allowing his businesses to accept millions of dollars from some of the most corrupt nations on Earth”, prominently including China, the top Democrat on the House oversight committee charged on Thursday, unveiling a 156-page report on the matter....
Gambling boom detrimental to New Jersey economy, report says (www.theguardian.com)
NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Release of Epstein documents crashes court website but details are less scandalous (www.theguardian.com)
The majority of those whose names appear in the documents are not accused of wrongdoing and have been mentioned previously...
UN experts alarmed by Alabama plan to kill prisoner using untried gas method (www.theguardian.com)
Everyone is on their phone (www.theguardian.com)
But is it phone addiction we’re experiencing?
New Jersey imam fatally shot outside mosque as shooter remains at large (www.theguardian.com)
