‘Ultimatums don’t work with Ukraine’ — Zelenskyy’s chief of staff responds to Putin’s peace proposal (www.politico.eu)
Kotak’s CEO says Indians should work 84 hours a week (hellobanker.in)
Scotland’s independence warriors could be the UK election’s biggest losers (www.politico.eu)
We built a mean game to test AI's ability to apologise (www.bbc.com)
The project was a test to see how artificial intelligence might change one of the most delicate types of human interaction: the interpersonal apology. The companies who make AI-powered chatbots suggest we should find ways to insert them into our lives when we don’t know what to say or how to say it. That’s all well and good...
93 Nations Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges for War Crimes in Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
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UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli military announces daily ‘tactical pause’ in southern Gaza to allow in aid (www.npr.org)
Vladimir Putin issues fresh demands to Ukraine to end war (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end Russia’s war in Ukraine....
For Campus Protesters in Brussels, Familiar Methods, but Different Outcomes (www.nytimes.com)
Finland: Man with 'far-right ties' arrested for child knife attacks (www.euronews.com)
In Snap Election, French Left Forms Alliance To Counter Far Right and Neoliberals (www.commondreams.org)
Philippines files UN claim to extended continental shelf in South China Sea (www.reuters.com)
Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’ (www.theguardian.com)
Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and devastate life as we know it. His new book, What If Fungi Win?, charts how we might overcome the rising threat....
Global concern rises over bird flu as experts warn of potential human pandemic (www.irishstar.com)
'Unconscionable': Prosecution of Arundhati Roy Sanctioned Under Indian Anti-Terror Law | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight (www.cbc.ca)
Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military’s ranks as the war enters...
Who is the IDF general who ordered tank fire on a kibbutz home with 13 hostages inside? (www.haaretz.com)
Until she was taken out of the house, Porat identified nine living hostages. She wasn’t a witness to the close-range shooting of any of the hostages, or to any of them being hit in the exchange of fire. “I didn’t see anyone execute anyone,” she says. “I didn’t see a body.” That is compatible with what Hadas Dagan...
US unveils $1.5B in new energy, humanitarian aid for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Brazil brings 112 athletes to BRICS Games in Kazan, Russia (www.gov.br)
US designates Scandinavian neo-Nazi group and three leaders as terrorists (www.theguardian.com)
A Hungarian Rapper’s Bandwagon Gets an Unlikely New Rider [Orban] (www.nytimes.com)
America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring (www.economist.com)
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Singapore rushes to clean-up oil slick after boat hits stationary fuel supply ship (apnews.com)
‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city (www.theguardian.com)
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...