PSA: this community is now for "World News", and "US News" is now its own community
summary: we have !usnews for US news now. please use that going forward for most US news you've previously posted here...
National Geographic: The Coming End of an Incredible and Important Publication. (imgur.io)
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The first cultivated meat is approved for sale in the US (upsidefoods.com)
USA: Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors (web.archive.org)
Judge James M. Moody Jr. of Federal District Court in Little Rock said the law both discriminated against transgender people and violated the constitutional rights of doctors. He also said that the state of Arkansas had failed to substantially prove a number of its claims, including that the care was experimental or carelessly...
Andrew Tate is indicted on human trafficking and rape charges in Romania (www.npr.org)
Russia Sought to Kill Defector in Florida (archive.is)
WTF is Happening? An Overview – Watching the World Go Bye (climatecasino.net)
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA (techcrunch.com)
Man shot dead by officer at funeral while hugging aunt (www.wowktv.com)
“I went to hug him because he was upset, and next thing I know they just yelled ‘Jason!’ and they ‘pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,'” Odell said. “I about got shot. I felt the compressions of the bullets. It was horrible.”
Vietnam says homosexuality ‘not a disease’ in win for gay rights (www.aljazeera.com)
Russian Government Threatens to Charge Italian Journalists Stefania Battistini and Simone Traini For Their Coverage of Ukrainian Counter-Invasion (www.womeninjournalism.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/2037158...
Ukraine sets up military office inside Russia (www.bbc.com)
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Ksenia Karelina: Russian court sentences woman to 12 years in jail for treason for donating $51 to a charity supporting Ukraine. (www.bbc.com)
Ksenia Karelina, who has American and Russian citizenship, was arrested during a family visit last January in Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of Moscow....
Protests in China as delivery rider kneels before security guard (www.bbc.com)
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Indian women lead night protests after doctor's rape and murder (www.bbc.com)
Tens of thousands of women in West Bengal state marched through the streets on Wednesday night in protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last week....
China lists 10 Taiwan ‘diehard separatists’ for potential death sentence in absentia, calls for people to denounce their supporters (www.tibetanreview.net)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1817668...
Israel broadens its evacuation orders after deadly strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter (apnews.com)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. Israel said it targeted a militant command post, killing 19 fighters....
A Story about the Tourism Industry in Oaxaca, Mexico - and a story of censorship (www.youtube.com)
Bianca Graulau...
How Norway’s public broadcaster overhauled its climate coverage (www.niemanlab.org)
Wind and solar energy overtake fossil fuels to provide 30% of EU electricity (www.theguardian.com)
IOC awards 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City. Utah last hosted the Olympics in 2002. - The Boston Globe (www.bostonglobe.com)
PARIS (AP) — Salt Lake City will be an Olympics host again after the IOC formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to the United States bid on Wednesday, after a power move by Olympic officials who want to shut down a U.S. federal investigation of suspected doping by Chinese swimmers....
A Shahed drone from Russia struck the town of Plauru, Romania, approximately 45 minutes ago. (x.com)
General Staff: Russia has lost 568,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 (kyivindependent.com)
Philippine president orders shutdown of Chinese-run online gambling in his country over alleged crimes including financial scams, human trafficking, torture, kidnappings, and murders (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said in his state-of-the-nation address that the Philippines would press efforts to strengthen its defensive capability by forging security alliances with friendly countries to counter threats to its territorial interests in the South China Sea, adding that his country would only settle...
Forced labour in China: 'Growing evidence" that Beijing forcibly transfers workers from Xinjiang to other regions within the country seeking to avoid Western sanctions
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