‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief (www.theguardian.com)
Paris agreement negotiator Todd Stern attacks premiers who say that decarbonisation programmes are unrealistic and should be slowed down...
Joel Cauchi named as Bondi Westfield attacker who stabbed shoppers (www.theguardian.com)
Police believe 40-year-old Queensland man suffered from mental health problems and had only moved to Sydney a month ago...
Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay hotel and pub in London (www.theguardian.com)
China reaffirms ties with North Korea in high-level meeting (www.theguardian.com)
Blasts heard above Israel after Iran launches drone attack – live (www.theguardian.com)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said any threat from the United States and Israel will be met with Tehran’s reciprocal response, Iranian state TV reported....
Iran launches attack against Israel with drones 'hours away' from Israeli soil (www.theguardian.com)
Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House (www.theguardian.com)
Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting....
Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty (www.theguardian.com)
Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in history...
Ties with US and Japan will ‘change dynamic’ in South China Sea, Philippines president says after critics of China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the region (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13139560...
A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him (www.theguardian.com)
Since the start of the war over two years ago, a discreet network of unofficial Russian volunteers like Demidenko has sprung up that have helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war to get out of Russia. Many of the Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia or ended up in the country after finding no...
Donald Trump thought Ukraine ‘must be part of Russia’ during his U.S. presidency, book says (www.theguardian.com)
As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China....
China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/11047589...
I believe in another Israel – one not defined by Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies (www.theguardian.com)
The Israel that I meet every day is made up of people who want to forge a path towards peace and security for all...
Iranian attack on Israel expected ‘sooner rather than later’, says Joe Biden (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has said he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran: “Don’t.”...
China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)
US officials said that China provided more than 70% of the $900m (£723m) in machine tools – probably used to build ballistic missiles – imported in the last quarter of 2023 by Russia....
Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)
However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans. There is also a shortage of willing drivers after repeated incidents of aid trucks coming under fire, of which the WCK bombing has been...
Colombians told to shower with a friend as drought hits capital water supplies (www.theguardian.com)
Bogotá brings in water rationing with El Niño weather phenomenon meaning city could run out in under two months...
Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots undercuts campaign pitch to vote early (www.theguardian.com)
Campaign toils to convince Republicans to vote early, crucial to winning the election, while ensuring they don’t annoy Trump...
Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started (www.theguardian.com)
A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialise, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip....
Florida can’t ban teacher from asking students to use her preferred pronouns, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
Katie Wood, a transgender algebra teacher, has long gone by ‘Ms Wood’ but the law required students to say ‘Teacher Wood’...
‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse (www.theguardian.com)
Delivering a baby was already risky, but an unprecedented surge in gang violence has forced clinics and hospitals to close...
Post office operator wrongly jailed while pregnant rejects executive’s apology | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
US seeking to deter Iran from strike on Israel, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
Tim Kaine: Biden knows Netanyahu ‘played’ him in early months of Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Senator Tim Kaine, a former vice-presidential nominee and leading foreign policy voice in the Democratic party, has said Joe Biden now understands that Benjamin Netanyahu “played” him during the early months of the war in Gaza but “that ain’t going to happen any more”....
OJ Simpson, ex-NFL star who was acquitted of murder, dies aged 76 (www.theguardian.com)
