Kazakh government critic in hospital after being shot in Kyiv (www.cnn.com)
'Incomprehensible censorship': French journalist forced to leave India as MHA refuses to renew his work permit (www.telegraphindia.com)
Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Nissan to close auto plant in China amid intensifying EV price war (english.kyodonews.net)
Chinese coast guard ram and puncture Philippine military boats in disputed shoal (apnews.com)
Why bias against pro-Palestinian protesters matters for everyone (www.motherjones.com)
Gruesome hypocrisy of US foreign policy being exposed in Gaza, Ukraine (www.salon.com)
Netanyahu: US promised to lift hold on ammunition, weapons (jpost.com)
The United States is expected to lift its hold on the shipment of ammunition and weapons designated for the IDF, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office said on Tuesday, just one day after the Israeli leader accused the Biden administration of preventing the delivery of those arms....
Bank of America tells Detroit’s Big 3 they can’t make money in China and should just leave the hypercompetitive car market ‘as soon as they possibly can’ (fortune.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17087653
China threatens death penalty for 'diehard' Taiwan separatists (www.reuters.com)
Europe and Australia both back down on CSAM scanning (9to5mac.com)
Spanish police arrest 10 after discovery of ‘highly sophisticated’ meth lab (www.theguardian.com)
Spanish police have arrested 10 people and seized 70kg of methamphetamine after discovering a “highly sophisticated” synthetic drug laboratory capable of producing up to 10kg of meth a day....
Netanyahu says post-war Gaza needs inter-Arab sponsorship, deradicalization process (www.ynetnews.com)
Surprising, but sounds positive....
Most People on Earth, Even in Petrostates, Want Quick Fossil Fuel Phaseout: Poll (www.commondreams.org)
Aer Lingus begins contacting up to 40,000 passengers to be affected by flight cancellations from next week (m.independent.ie)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16769411...
Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters (www.dw.com)
The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed....
Pakistani 'blasphemy vigilante' mob kills man (www.dw.com)
A crowd of vigilantes in Pakistan killed and burned the body of a man whom they accused of desecrating the Quran. Police registered a case against the mob of hundreds....
Lawmakers in Philippines push for probe into Pentagon's anti-vax propaganda operation (www.reuters.com)
Wikipedia calls top Jewish civil rights org ‘unreliable’ on Israel-Palestine crisis (www.independent.co.uk)
640 Palestinian children detained in West Bank since October 7 (www.newarab.com)
The Israeli army has arrested and beaten children as young as seven in the West Bank amid its indiscriminate war on Gaza....
Indian farm worker in Italy ‘left to die on road’ with severed arm (www.theguardian.com)
A trade unionist has called for a crackdown against “barbaric exploitation” after an Indian farm worker died when he was allegedly being left on a road by his employer following an accident that severed his arm....
Crackdown on hunger-striking Myanmar prisoners in Indian jail – (eng.mizzima.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/23589474...
IDF transfers powers in occupied West Bank to pro-settler civil servants (www.theguardian.com)
Weary Lebanese brace for war after new Hezbollah threats (www.reuters.com)
BEIRUT/SIDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Lebanese product designer Tara Tabet does not want to see her country pulled into a full-scale war with Israel, but like many of her compatriots is bracing for possible conflict after new threats by armed group Hezbollah against both Israel and Cyprus....
Israel Has “Systematically Violated” Laws Regarding Civilian Harm, UN Finds (truthout.org)
Israeli forces have demonstrated a pattern of systematically targeting densely populated civilian areas across hundreds of attacks in Gaza that likely violate international wartime laws, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found in a report released Wednesday....
