World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days (www.bbc.com)
The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found....
US expels two Russian diplomats to retaliate for the expulsion of two American diplomats from Moscow (apnews.com)
The Biden administration on Friday ordered two Russian diplomats expelled from the United States in retaliation for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats from Moscow last month....
Teen faces murder charge for Thailand shopping mall shooting spree (www.aljazeera.com)
Police say 14-year-old shooting suspect appears to suffer from psychological issues and had not taken daily medication....
Colombians held over Ecuador presidential candidate’s murder slain in jail | Drugs News | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
US neo-Nazi says He Fought in Ukraine, Records Place Him in Florida - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Food Inflation Is Still High Around the World (www.bloomberg.com)
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Indian police arrest a news site's editor and administrator after raiding homes of journalists (apnews.com)
Retired US Army sergeant arrested for alleged attempts to spy for China (www.bbc.com)
A former US Army sergeant has been arrested for illegally retaining classified information and attempting to provide it to China’s spy service....
Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says (apnews.com)
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NYT assists Modi govt's assault on India's free press : Statement on Worldwide Media Holdings’ investment in NewsClick (www.thehindu.com)
In this statement, Jason Pfetcher, manager of Worldwide Media Holdings, clarifies on the provenance of the funds that the for-profit investment vehicle based in the U.S. invested in NewsClick
How Indian authorities ‘weaponised’ a New York Times report to target the press (www.france24.com)
NewsClick, a defiantly critical news site, has been in the Indian government’s sights over the past few years. But there was little to show after extensive financial probes – until the New York Times published a report which enabled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration to use the press to attack the press....
William Lai: Democratic elections show Taiwan is ‘already independent’ from China (www.independent.co.uk)
Taiwan is already independent and sovereign as it elects its own president, the self-governed island’s presidential frontrunner said....
Climate change has already displaced more than 43 million children: U.N. report (www.salon.com)
new report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed that more than 43 million children were displaced due to weather events — all of which were linked to climate change — in the years from 2016 to 2021. This amounts to roughly 20,000 child displacements every single day....
Donald Trump accused of sharing nuclear submarine details with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt (www.abc.net.au)
EU says it can't fill US funding gap for Ukraine (www.bangkokpost.com)
Machinery from New York-based company used to build Russian weapons used in war on Ukraine | PBS NewsHour (www.pbs.org)
India ‘weaponising global anti-terror fund’ to target NGOs, says Amnesty (www.independent.co.uk)
More than 20,600 NGOs had their licences cancelled in India in last ten years, Amnesty says
The ungovernable Republicans: ‘Their goal is chaos’ (archive.ph)
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Dengue will 'take off' in southern Europe, US, Africa this decade, WHO scientist says (www.reuters.com)
An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel (apnews.com)
Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues....
The Worrying Democratic Erosions in South Korea (www.newyorker.com)
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel peace prize (www.theguardian.com)
Narges Mohammadi, the most prominent jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for fighting the oppression of women in the country....
Rishi Sunak wades into debate over trans people, declaring no one can change sex (inews.co.uk)
All the news on his speech seems to be about HS2 but I think that this is important too.