Kenya to scrap visas for all African nationals (www.theguardian.com)
President William Ruto says change aims to boost trade and allow goods, services, people and ideas to move freely across continent
‘The strikes are everywhere’: Palestinians flee south in Gaza but cannot escape bombs [The Guardian] (www.theguardian.com)
Displaced Palestinians give a bleak first-hand account of how the Israel-Hamas war has torn apart the lives of their families.
EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products (www.theguardian.com)
Record-breaking mountaineer denies climbing over dying porter on K2 (www.theguardian.com)
Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten man during record ascent
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Where are they supposed to go to be safe?
Britain is ‘omni-surveillance’ society, watchdog warns (www.theguardian.com)
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
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TIL in 2013, an Italian mafia "Ndrangheta" made more money than McDonald's and Deutsche Bank combined (€53bn / £44bn) (www.theguardian.com)
US woman charged with hosting parties with alcohol for teens and encouraging sexual assault (www.theguardian.com)
A woman accused of hosting parties for her teenage son and his friends in northern California where she encouraged them to drink and sexually assault intoxicated girls was charged on Monday with more than five dozen felony and misdemeanor counts....
Thousands attend pro-Palestine protests across Australia (www.theguardian.com)
Protesters marched through the Sydney CBD on Saturday after police green-lit the event, with similar rallies held in Perth, Hobart and Brisbane
EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Ultra-processed foods harm brain health, but access and affordability are issues. (www.theguardian.com)
Felice Jacka, a leading researcher of nutritional psychiatry, has found links between ultra-processed foods and the health of our brains. She explains that our gut microbiome affects various aspects of health, including metabolism, blood glucose, body weight, gene expression, serotonin levels, stress response, mitochondrial...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial (www.theguardian.com)
Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board...
Police called to yoga class mistaken for mass killing. (www.theguardian.com)
‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platform (www.theguardian.com)
China’s carbon emissions set for structural decline from next year | Energy industry | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Hong Kong’s multimillion dollar cliffside mansions on brink of collapse after record rains (www.theguardian.com)
Heat from extinct volcano could be piped into Dutch homes (www.theguardian.com)
Swiss glaciers lose 10% of their volume in two years (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists have said climate breakdown caused by the burning of fossil fuels is the cause of unusually hot summers and winters with very low snow volume, which have caused the accelerating melts. The volume lost during the hot summers of 2022 and 2023 is the same as that lost between 1960 and 1990.
US behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Why are women turning to TikTok for advice about the pill? Because doctors won’t listen to us (www.theguardian.com)
Why are women turning to TikTok for advice about the pill? Because doctors won’t listen to us::To counter social-media conspiracy theories, we need more honest information about contraception and its side-effects, says writer Kate Muir
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)
Bear escapes from crate in plane’s cargo hold at Dubai airport (www.theguardian.com)
Iraq’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into how a bear escaped from its crate in the cargo hold of an Iraqi aircraft as it was due to depart from Dubai airport, leaving passengers disgruntled over the delay and causing a stir on social media....
Russia-Ukraine war: at least 51 people killed in Russian strike on village food shop (www.theguardian.com)
Senior officer behind Met drug strategy sacked over refusal to take drug test (www.theguardian.com)
Disciplinary panel had found Julian Bennett guilty of gross misconduct for refusing test when accused of smoking cannabis
