Gruesome hypocrisy of US foreign policy being exposed in Gaza, Ukraine (www.salon.com)
Why pick on us? Cyprus perplexed by Hezbollah threats (www.reuters.com)
Crackdown on hunger-striking Myanmar prisoners in Indian jail – (eng.mizzima.com)
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Namibia high court overturns law banning consensual gay sex (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17125300
Politician who pushed Philippines natural gas boom is behind firm that planned to profit (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17124918
The US plans to halt some orders for Patriot missiles and give them to Ukraine instead: report (www.businessinsider.com)
The US plans to stop open orders for Patriot interceptor missiles, the Financial Times reported....
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....
Russia wages a scorched-earth war in Ukraine with retrofitted bombs and new airstrips (www.npr.org)
Nepal Suspends Sales of Injection Manufactured by Indian Company, Cites Serious Health Risks (thewire.in)
Biotax 1gm, manufactured by the Indian firm Zydus Healthcare Ltd
Gaza today: Scorching heat, visible signs of wasting and heavy fighting (news.un.org)
In an alert, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reiterated deep concerns that people uprooted by ongoing hostilities in southern Gaza remain traumatized and are crammed into a narrow area along the beach “in the burning summer heat”....
Israel re-arrests Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik (www.newarab.com)
Israeli forces have re-arrested the elderly Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik less than a week after his release in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron....
Myanmar Junta Arrests Women for Wearing or Holding Flowers (www.irrawaddy.com)
‘Brazen aggression’: China used tear gas, sirens, weapons vs Filipino troops (www.rappler.com)
Videos show the China Coast Guard (CCG) brandishing knives, ramming ships, and using tear gas against Filipino soldiers. China says the CCG was 'professional and restrained.'
UN officials accuse Israel of attempting 'extermination' of Palestinians in Gaza (www.usatoday.com)
Israeli foreign minister says decision on all-out war against Hezbollah is near (www.theguardian.com)
Joining NATO binds countries to defend each other – but this commitment is not set in stone (theconversation.com)
‘A Big Step Back’: In Ukraine, Concerns Mount Over Narrowing Press Freedoms (www.nytimes.com)
This HMP inmate says a rat gave birth in his pants — but it was no surprise (www.cbc.ca)
Her Majesty’s Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May he woke up and felt something moving in the crotch of his pants. When he reached in, he discovered a rat had given birth there....
UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left (www.bbc.com)
Work of secretive ‘Migration 5’ group revealed (www.rnz.co.nz)
tldr; The 5 Eyes share information on who has crossed their borders.
This Ecuadorian forest thrived amid deforestation after being granted legal rights (www.bbc.com)
A cloud forest in northern Ecuador is protected from deforestation and mining after being recognised as an entity possessing legal personhood....
Seoul says soldiers from North briefly crossed border (www.dw.com)
Soldiers from South Korea’s military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the demarcation line....