Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild (www.theguardian.com)
Nissan vows to go all-electric by 2030 despite Sunak delay on petrol ban (www.theguardian.com)
Carmaker says it will ‘press ahead’ with plans to achieve 100% EV in Europe and all new models will be entirely electric
AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli diplomat pressured US college to drop course on ‘apartheid’ debate (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza becoming ‘a graveyard for children’, says UN secretary general (www.theguardian.com)
Biden names Harris to lead first federal gun violence prevention office (www.theguardian.com)
Effort continues administration’s work to prevent mass shootings and homicides that primarily affect Black and Latino communities...
‘Trump show is over,’ says New York attorney general as third day of fraud trial ends (www.theguardian.com)
Letitia James calls former president’s appearance at civil trial a ‘political stunt’ and a ‘fundraising stop’...
US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network (www.theguardian.com)
US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network::Dish to pay $150,000 for failing to properly dispose of satellite and violating the FCC’s anti-space debris rule
George Santos will not seek re-election after House details ‘pervasive’ fraud (www.theguardian.com)
The New York Republican congressman, fabulist and criminal defendant George Santos said he would not seek re-election next year, after the US House ethics committee issued a report detailing “grave and pervasive campaign finance violations and fraudulent activity” and recommended action against him....
Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses (www.theguardian.com)
US campuses in uproar as Israel-Palestine conflict exposes divide (www.theguardian.com)
Tensions spill across universities like Columbia and Harvard as students on each side accuse the other of a kind of bloodlust...
Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade (www.theguardian.com)
Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation
The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20 (www.theguardian.com)
Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats
Weighty issue: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make aircraft too heavy to fly (www.theguardian.com)
Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the ‘unusual step’ of transferring sumo rikishi to another flight...
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan (www.theguardian.com)
The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match
Texas law aims to punish prosecutors who refuse to pursue abortion cases (www.theguardian.com)
After the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade last year, district attorneys from major counties in Texas vowed not to vigorously prosecute people under the state’s anti-abortion laws....
Canada has evidence linking Indian diplomats to killing of Sikh activist, media reports (www.theguardian.com)
The Canadian Broadcasting Company revealed communications gathered about murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com)
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UN finds further evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
A United Nations investigation has found further evidence that Russian forces committed “indiscriminate attacks” and war crimes in Ukraine, including rape and the deportation of children to Russia....
Americans at high risk advised to wear masks as new Covid variant detected (www.theguardian.com)
As authorities revealed that a new Covid-19 variant has been detected in the US, medical experts are emphasizing that high-risk persons resume masking to prevent potentially deadly infection. Warnings from these physicians come amid an ongoing increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations....
Idaho mother and son charged with kidnapping over out-of-state abortion (www.theguardian.com)
Marine Le Pen should stand trial over alleged misuse of EU funds, say prosecutors (www.theguardian.com)
The Paris prosecutor’s office has recommended that the far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 23 members of her National Rally party stand trial over the alleged misuse of EU funds....
Letter suggests Pope Pius XII knew of mass gassings of Jews and Poles in 1942 (www.theguardian.com)
Letter from church source in anti-Hitler resistance reporting 6,000 daily killings undercuts Vatican’s claims of lack of knowledge...