Prague shooting: Gunman dead after killing more than 15 at Charles University (www.bbc.com)
France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1165004...
An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel (apnews.com)
US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm (www.theguardian.com)
‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalists (www.indexoncensorship.org)
“It is undeniable that the intrinsics of Julian’s case are so shocking it is something one would expect from the worst dictatorships,” Stella Assange says....
Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts. (portside.org)
Violence against women: Sex without consent is rape, say MEPs (www.eureporter.co)
In China, where authoritarianism is justified by redefining the term, a woman has reportedly been beaten to death during interrogation after accusing police of murdering her husband (dominotheory.com)
The reason behind the husband’s death is equally uncertain, except to say that he died in prison in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) when serving a sentence for the “crime” of accessing overseas websites, one of six men from the same village to leave this world in similar circumstances....
Doctors didn’t think it was possible to loathe the world’s biggest health care profiteer any more. Then came the hack that set half their bookkeeping systems on fire. (prospect.org)
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Rare footage shows North Korean teens being sentenced in front of hundreds of their peers, getting 12 years of hard labour for watching South Korean videos (www.bbc.com)
In 2020, however, Pyongyang enacted a law to make watching or distributing South Korean entertainment punishable by death....
Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors" (pluralistic.net)
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat (www.economist.com)
Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say (wapo.st)
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Trump’s defense in the 2020 election case, explained by legal experts (www.vox.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense against federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election is beginning to take shape....
US proposes January start for Trump election trial (www.reuters.com)
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a federal judge to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden on Jan. 2, 2024....
Hong Kong judge defies government’s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song, saying it could undermine freedom of expression (www.theguardian.com)
The government had sought the injunction banning online publication or distribution of the song, arguing it insulted China’s national anthem and could give people the impression that Hong Kong was an independent country.
French Courts Are Giving Protesters INSANE Sentences (www.youtube.com)
French courts have been imposing disproportionately severe sentences for minor offenses, including 10 months in prison for stealing a can of Red Bull and one year for a homeless boy with schizophrenia caught looting a luxury store. The overwhelmed courts rush cases, provide minimal time for defendants, and prioritize punishment...
Moderation / Rules of "news" community?
I can’t seem to find anything in a sidebar or sticky thread that talks about the moderation / rules of the news community. I’m very interested in coming to this community to learn about news, but right now it seems whats being posted tends to be relatively low (lower?) quality....
Pogroms surge across West Bank (www.972mag.com)
Beijing criticizes proposed US sanctions — RT World News (www.rt.com)
”China has the right to conduct normal cooperation with countries around the world. We have always opposed unilateral sanctions and ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ that have no basis in international law and are not authorized by the UN Security Council,” Chinese FM spokeswoman Mao Ning said in response to Washington’s...
Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article (arstechnica.com)
China cracks down on negativity over economy in bid to boost confidence amid record high youth unemployment and struggling property sector (www.theguardian.com)
This month the Weibo account Weibo Finance, which has more than 1.5 million followers, issued an instruction against posting any comments “that bad-mouth the economy”. The post appears to have since been deleted. Bloomberg reported that several other finance influencers had been told by Weibo to “avoid crossing red...
NATO should be ready for ‘bad news’ from Ukraine, Stoltenberg warns (www.politico.eu)
What bad news? Why? Hasn’t UA been winning all along, for 1.5 years?
