Aid shipment destined for Gaza leaves Cyprus (www.voanews.com)
University of Barcelona's senate votes in favor of pro-Palestine protesters requests (www.catalannews.com)
Students have been camping in the building protesting university's ties with Israel...
'We must not forget': How a bombing by US turned China into a superpower (www.business-standard.com)
More than 200 people with diabetes injured after software issue drained insulin pump batteries | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
More than 200 people with diabetes have been injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
India Arrests 4 Accused of Recruiting Citizens for Russian Army (www.themoscowtimes.com)
A Cambodian court sentences a union leader to 18 months in prison for comments on Facebook (abcnews.go.com)
Students across Europe hold Gaza war protests in run-up to UN vote on Palestinian statehood (www.theguardian.com)
Thirty-two people were arrested as Dutch police broke up a Gaza war protest at the University of Amsterdam, in a second day of unrest over the conflict. Police said the offences included public violence, vandalism and assault....
A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests (www.wired.com)
Israel launches Rafah offensive it says is start of mission to ‘eliminate’ Hamas (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has launched a major military offensive against Hamas forces in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, seizing control of a key border crossing and cutting off most aid into the territory a day before indirect talks on a ceasefire deal are due to restart....
To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots (www.washingtonpost.com)
Western military trainers could go to Ukraine, Lithuania minister says (www.theguardian.com)
Gabrielius Landsbergis also backs David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron on standing up to Putin...
US accuses China of backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Beijing is “picking a side” and can’t claim to be neutral any more, the US ambassador to NATO tells POLITICO....
Pakistan: 7 workers shot dead in their sleep in Balochistan (www.dw.com)
Police said gunmen stormed into a house near southwestern Pakistan’s Gwadar city and shot workers in an apparent ethnic attack. The victims were originally from Pakistan’s Punjab province....
Malawians who abandoned Israeli farms deported (www.bbc.com)
Twelve Malawians have been deported from Israel after leaving the farms where they were working, to get higher salaries elsewhere....
Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals (www.bbc.com)
Hundreds of Gaza’s water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify has found. Damage to a major supplies depot has also severely disrupted repairs. The lack of clean water and flows of untreated sewage pose a serious threat to...
Israel abandoning captives to hunt Hamas leaders, say military officers (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel has abandoned its goals of freeing the captives in Gaza, instead seeking to establish a long-term presence with its Rafah ground offensive and pursue top Palestinian leaders, Israeli military officers have told Middle East Eye....
Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens (www.pbs.org)
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
Serbia to Xi Jinping: No one reveres you like we do (www.politico.eu)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said “the sky is the limit” on future cooperation....
Meta employees say internal posts on support for Palestinians have been 'censored,' in an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg (www.businessinsider.com)
An open letter by Meta employees claims the company censors Palestinian-related content internally and externally.
Indian prison demands 50,000 rupees to release Myanmar refugees imprisoned for illegal entry at end of sentences (eng.mizzima.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/20747975...
The Palestinian activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against a neverending backdrop of war (www.lgbtqnation.com)
wire tension clamp (lemmy.world)
The OPGW Premored/Helical Tension Clamp is primarily used to install cables with RTS less than 160 kN to tension towers/poles, corner towers/poles and terminal towers/poles. A complete set of OPGW prefabricated/spiral tensioners includes aluminum alloy or aluminum clad steel dead ends, structural reinforcement rods, support...
Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists reclassify Humboldt glacier, also known as La Corona, after it melted faster than expected...
US report on Israel’s wartime conduct in Gaza delayed, aides say (www.politico.com)
The Biden administration’s report on whether Israel has violated U.S. and international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza has been delayed and will no longer be released Wednesday as planned, three Senate aides and a House aide told POLITICO....
US paused weapons shipment to Israel amid concern over Rafah, senior US official says (www.theguardian.com)
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that as Israeli leaders seemed to approach a decision on a Rafah incursion, “we began to carefully review proposed transfers of particular weapons to Israel that might be used in Rafah” beginning in April....
