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Israeli strike at Gaza hospital kills four as US and Israel hold ‘heated’ ceasefire talks (www.theguardian.com)

Riot police on standby across England and Wales for further far-right protests (www.theguardian.com)

UK protests: More than 80 arrests made at far-right demonstrations (www.bbc.com)

More than 70 dead in Bangladesh as protesters call for the prime minister's resignation (www.france24.com)

Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign clashed with government supporters Sunday, with dozens killed in one of the deadliest days since demonstrations began....

47% of U.K. Millionaires Say They’re More Likely to Leave the Country After the Recent Election: Report (freedomproject.pages.dev)

A23a: Colossal iceberg stuck spinning in ocean trap (www.bbc.com)

Something remarkable has happened to A23a, the world’s biggest iceberg....

US urges citizens to leave Lebanon on 'any available ticket' (www.bbc.com)

Leader of the Venezuelan opposition says she is in hiding and fears for her life (amp.miamiherald.com)

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she is in hiding and that she fears for her freedom and for her life, in an op-ed published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal....

Fifth of medicines in Africa may be sub-par or fake, research finds (www.theguardian.com)

A fifth of medicines in Africa could be substandard or fake, according to a major research project, raising the alarm over a problem that could be contributing to the deaths of countless patients....

Ukraine intensifies its long-range strikes, sinking a Russian submarine and striking an airfield (apnews.com)

Ukraine claims Russian Rostov-on-Don submarine sunk in Crimea (www.bbc.com)

Ukraine’s military says it attacked and destroyed a Russian submarine while it was anchored at a port in the occupied Crimean peninsula....

A record 191 openly LGBTQ+ athletes are competing in the 2024 Olympics (apnews.com)

A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, a massive leap during a competition that organizers have pushed to center around inclusion and diversity....

Berlin: Thousands march in COVID-19 pandemic skeptic protest (www.dw.com)

Several thousand people on Saturday joined a street demonstration and rally in Berlin organized by Germany’s “Lateral Thinking” protest movement....

Cognac, tortoises and a pink-striped helicopter: inside the mystery of Alice Guo, the missing Philippines mayor (www.theguardian.com)

Alice Guo was a mayor like no other, say her supporters. At Christmas, she would hand out gifts of ham and spaghetti to local people. When school term started, she would give notebooks and bags to children. She wasn’t from a prominent political family, as is often the case in the Philippines, yet she rose to become the first...

Anti-government protests turn deadly in Bangladesh (www.bbc.com)

At least 23 people have been killed in Bangladesh as clashes erupted between police and anti-government protesters who are demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina step down....

Russia's critics abroad say the Kremlin is intensifying attacks (www.bbc.com)

Two plain-clothed police officers were waiting for Dmitry Gudkov as he arrived at London’s Luton Airport last summer. The Russian opposition politician, who lives in exile in an EU country, was flying to the UK to attend a friend’s birthday....

Northern Ireland: Violence by racist agitators in Belfast is ‘utterly unacceptable’. (www.amnesty.org.uk)

Mexican army acknowledges some of its soldiers have been killed by cartel bomb-dropping drones (abcnews.go.com)

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican army acknowledged for the first time Friday that some of its soldiers have been killed by bomb-dropping drones operated by drug cartels....

Severe drought has returned to the Amazon. And it's happening earlier than expected (apnews.com)

Holder of one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, the Amazon is beginning the dry season with many of its rivers already at critically low levels, prompting governments to anticipate contingency measures to address issues ranging from disrupted navigation to increasing forest fires....

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