‘We have normalised horror’ says agency official, after Israeli strike on school (www.theguardian.com)
Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency Unrwa....
The Guardian: ‘It’s emotionally very difficult’: mobilisation squads face hostility as Ukraine tries to boost army ranks (www.theguardian.com)
‘We will not go away’: Israeli demolitions leave Bedouin homeless (www.theguardian.com)
Bowel disease breakthrough as researchers make ‘holy grail’ discovery (www.theguardian.com)
‘Rigged’: Trump attacks judge and courts in first post-conviction rally (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president in Arizona warns appeal courts to ‘step up and straighten things out’ and insists he committed no crimes...
News and tech media mostly quiet after UN chief calls for ban on ads for oil and gas (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian contacted 11 major organizations that run fossil-fuel ads after Wednesday speech by António Guterres...
‘Poison portal’: US and UK could send nuclear waste to Australia under Aukus, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
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Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history (www.theguardian.com)
Florida divers find trove of suspected cocaine packages in Atlantic Ocean (www.theguardian.com)
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial (www.theguardian.com)
Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Leaders rally behind Zelenskiy to make clear to Putin that, as in 1944, freedom in Europe is worth fighting for...
Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content (www.theguardian.com)
European Central Bank cuts main interest rate by 0.25 points (www.theguardian.com)
Citing a sustained fall in inflation, the ECB said its deposit rate would be cut to 3.75% from a record high of 4%, putting it ahead of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, which have yet to cut interest rates.
Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says (www.theguardian.com)
Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...
Charleston bridge closed as out-of-control ship powers through harbor (www.theguardian.com)
Police cleared traffic and pedestrians from bridge as cargo ship went nearly full throttle through South Carolina harbor...
Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work (www.theguardian.com)
Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research....
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money...
Dangerous heatwave hits US from Texas to California with grim records expected (www.theguardian.com)
Millions of Americans are sweltering as experts warn early heat could herald next record-smashing summer...
Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study (www.theguardian.com)
From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....
Revealed: the carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza after months of Israeli bombing (www.theguardian.com)
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet....
Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...