[opinion] Jon Stewart: IT HAS TO END (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/17716009...
‘Bodies everywhere’: the horrors of Israel’s strike on a Rafah camp (www.theguardian.com)
35 Years After Tiananmen, China’s Conduct Again Triggers Alarm (www.wsj.com)
In 1989, blowback was swift; alienation today is ‘systematic, progressive, long-term.’...
Dutch tourist accused of defacing ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum (www.reuters.com)
A Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Italian police said on Monday....
Live updates: Mexico waits for historic election results as vote counting lags (apnews.com)
“Vote counts continue to lag in Mexico’s historic election. Despite private exit polls favoring frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, The Associated Press bases its report on official results and will continue to update coverage as votes roll in.”
Russia Declares War on ‘Mediocre Actor’ George Clooney (www.thedailybeast.com)
Crimean students’ grades lowered for not writing 'thank you letters' to Russian soldiers invading Ukraine (khpg.org)
With Ukraine's resources- Putin would be unstoppable - The Telegraph (archive.ph)
The impact of an engorged Russia would unfurl over decades, touching every corner of the earth, and wreaking havoc on the global economy
Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing's price demands, Financial Times reports (www.reuters.com)
Russia’s attempts to conclude a major gas pipeline deal with China have run aground over what Moscow sees as Beijing’s unreasonable demands on price and supply levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing three people familiar with the matter....
Trial results for new lung cancer drug are ‘off the charts’, say doctors (www.theguardian.com)
Doctors are hailing “off the chart” trial results that show a new drug stopped lung cancer advancing for longer than any other treatment in medical history....
‘People ask me to use another door’: MEPs on bias, whiteness and rise of far right (www.theguardian.com)
From being repeatedly asked for ID to feeling threatened by harmful rhetoric, politicians say lack of diversity is undermining work of EU...
Dozens of Civilians Killed as Myanmar Junta Jet Bombs Wedding in Sagaing (www.irrawaddy.com)
U.K. temporarily criminalizes puberty blockers for trans kids (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Three teenagers rescued on WA's Mid West coast after pilots spot help message in sand (www.abc.net.au)
The Atlas Network, France and the EU (multinationales.org)
The influence of the Atlas Network – a web of libertarian and ultraconservative think tanks funded by billionaires such as the Kochs – has been well documented in the US, the UK, and more recently Argentina following the election of Javier Milei. Its growing presence in the EU has been less examined. But the next EU...
Mexico votes in election certain to bring country’s first female president (www.theguardian.com)
Spanish town bans penis suits and sex dolls from stag and hen dos (www.theguardian.com)
Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment (apnews.com)
A mass parachute jump over Normandy kicks off commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day (apnews.com)
Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops who fought from D-Day beaches 80 years ago to Adolf Hitler’s fall, helping free Europe of his tyranny....
What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi? (www.npr.org)
MUMBAI, India — Two days before police finally came to arrest him, the Rev. Stan Swamy recorded a video of himself speaking directly into the camera....
North Korea floats more rubbish-filled balloons to South Korea (www.bbc.com)
North Korea is sending more balloons carrying rubbish across the heavily fortified southern border, South Korea’s military has said....
German police shoot knifeman after attack on rightwing protest (www.theguardian.com)
How U.S.-Hating ‘New Putin’ Emerged From the Shadows (www.thedailybeast.com)
‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes. In the city’s largest ever national security trial – involving the...
Sri Lanka monsoon floods kill seven people (www.bbc.com)
Flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Sri Lanka have killed at least seven people, the country’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) has said....
