Malaysia summons Meta to Prime Minister's Office over removal of Anwar's posts on slain Hamas leader, demands apology (www.channelnewsasia.com)
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Taking Pirated Copies Offline Can Benefit Book Sales, Research Finds. (torrentfreak.com)
Bangladesh PM Hasina ousted, army announces formation of interim gov’t (www.aljazeera.com)
The U.S. Military Is Freaked: Lasers are No Secret Weapon Against Hypersonic Missiles (nationalinterest.org)
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UK: Far-right rioters storm hotel housing migrants (www.dw.com)
Police in the northern English city of Rotherham struggled to hold back a group of far-right activists on Sunday, who broke into a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers....
Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time (fortune.com)
Leaders are perhaps experiencing more resistance than they had anticipated....
March on DNC protests Trump appearance at NABJ. (prismreports.org)
Half a Billion-Year-Old Spiny Slug Reveals the Origins of Molluscs (www.ox.ac.uk)
Blinken told the G7 that Iran and Hezbollah will attack Israel in the next 24 hours. (www.axios.com)
Vietnam’s coast guard visits Philippines for joint drills as both face maritime tensions with China (apnews.com)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietnamese coast guard ship arrived in Manila on Monday for a four-day goodwill visit and joint exercises as the two countries attempt to put aside their own territorial disputes in the face of rising tensions with China over control of key features in the South China Sea....
UK Labour MP Says Right-Wing Politicians, Media Fueled Xenophobic Mob Attacks. (www.commondreams.org)
Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina resigns as widening unrest sees protesters storm her official residence (apnews.com)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s prime minister resigned and fled the country Monday, after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs descended into violence and grew into a broader challenge to her 15-year rule. Thousands of demonstrators stormed her official residence and other buildings associated...
Britain’s Labour Government Says It Inherited a $28 Billion Budget Hole (www.nytimes.com)
Ms. Reeves accused the Conservative Party of making spending commitments on plans such as road repairs and building new hospitals “knowing the money wasn’t there.” Some of those plans would scrapped or reviewed. “Today she will fool absolutely no one with a shameful attempt to lay the ground for tax rises she didn’t...
Global stock markets sink on US economy fears (www.bbc.com)
Stock markets across Europe and Asia slumped on Monday, spooked by fears that the US economy is heading for a slowdown....
Venezuela could hand energy rights to BRICS Maduro (www.malaysiasun.com)
US general wants 'Marshall Plan' to counter China in LatAm (responsiblestatecraft.org)
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war (www.972mag.com)
…the internal military systems quickly became overloaded due to the enormous number of soldiers and military personnel who were added to the platform as users, causing technical problems that threatened to slow down Israel’s military functions....
Bangladesh’s army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman takes charge after PM Hasina’s ouster (www.straitstimes.com)
J.D. Vance’s trans law school friend accuses him of using trans kids “as a political ploy” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Data centers got a huge tax break to create WA jobs. Is it paying off? (www.seattletimes.com)
In 2010, as the country still reeled from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, tech companies, real estate developers and rural lobbyists went to the state Capitol in Olympia to press for a tax break for data centers....
Download Inkscape 1.4beta2 | Try it out and report bugs (inkscape.org)
The second beta of Inkscape 1.4 has been released last week. If you use the application, consider checking out the beta and report any bugs you encounter on GitLab (Guide on reporting Inkscape bugs)....
Thailand’s progressive Move Forward party might be dissolved, but its former chief remains hopeful (apnews.com)
BANGKOK (AP) — The charismatic Thai politician who led his young, progressive party to a stunning general election victory a year ago is urging supporters not to lose hope, even if the party is disbanded by a legal order....