King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says (www.bbc.com)
Another chance for the Brits to get rid of this weird institution.
Chinese music student convicted in US of threatening pro-democracy activist (www.reuters.com)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/8243678...
Today 4 years ago, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. Soon later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.” (harakahdaily.net)
Dr. Wenliang’s message went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know today as Covid-19. He returned to work, but contracted Covid from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020....
Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment (www.timesofisrael.com)
Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated (www.nbcnews.com)
Germany approves global minimum corporate tax (www.reuters.com)
Multinational firms will have to pay a minimum of 15% tax on all of the profits they make worldwide, regardless of where the profits are generated.
Philips Kept Warnings About Dangerous CPAP Machines Secret While Profits Soared. (www.propublica.org)
Exhibit #482,683 on why capitalism and medicine are inevitably a horrible combination.
Israel Readying Emergency Regulations Allowing Arrest of Journalists for Factual Reporting (www.commondreams.org)
When Zionists redefine ‘antisemitism’ into a political cudgel (therealnews.com)
Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/587773...
The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained (www.vox.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2879916...
Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)
Russia is on fire: forests and houses are burning en masse in Siberia, urgent evacuation has begun (www-dialog-ua.translate.goog)
Original source (Russian): https://www.dialog.ua/russia/294463_1715001369
Escaping Xi’s China by paddleboard: ‘I rushed into the water and thought if they catch me, they catch me’ (www.theguardian.com)
The UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war (apnews.com)
The death toll in Gaza has climbed to at least 20,000 Palestinians. At least 1 in 200 people living in Gaza are now dead. 1 in 4 remaining Palestinians in Gaza are starving to death. I just can not comprehend this amount of violence and death in such a small area in such a short time. This is at a scale unheard of in any other...
Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer' (www.reuters.com)
Zelensky asks to visit Israel in show of solidarity (www.axios.com)
Germany bans ‘cult-like, deeply racist’ far-right group, carries out raids (www.aljazeera.com)
North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’ (www.rfa.org)
Christie on new Trump charges: ‘These guys were acting like the Corleones with no experience’ (thehill.com)
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ® compared new charges against former President Trump that accuse him of working with Mar-a-Lago employees to delete surveillance footage at the club to the tactics of the fictionalized Corleone organized crime family....
Climate activist faces 10 years in jail for a fake letter 'canceling' an oil industry conference | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Rosemary Penwarden, [a 64 year old] climate activist in New Zealand, faces more than 10 years in jall for a fake letter canceling an oil conference....
100+ KILLED: IDF FIRES On Starving Gazans Swarming Aid Truck (www.youtube.com)
China's Alarming Experiment With a 100% Fatal Covid-Like Pangolin CoronaVirus (www.medindia.net)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/8224710...
Afghan girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’ (www.theguardian.com)
The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets – were accused of “spreading and encouraging others to wear a bad hijab” and wearing makeup....