Palau Hit by Cyberattacks, Raising Cybersecurity Concerns - Island Times (islandtimes.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/12839662...
Charity ride from Singapore to Bangkok raises funds for Myanmar refugee clinic (eng.mizzima.com)
Kano Emirate: Sanusi returns as Emir 1,545 days after dethronement (www.vanguardngr.com)
Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists say calamities on same scale as disaster that has killed 169 will become more common if emissions not cut...
Security tight in Hong Kong and China on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary (www.reuters.com)
A Former President’s Daughter Used X to Bombard South Africa With Conspiracy Theories (www.wired.com)
German tanks and troops in Lithuania have one goal: Scare off Russia (www.politico.eu)
Lithuania is busy digging up a remote forest to host German troops....
Excerpts from Texas Letters, an ongoing anthology featuring writers in solitary confinement (texasobserver.social)
An inquiry has recommended Australia legislate a Human Rights Act (mastodon.au)
Dozens of Civilians Killed as Myanmar Junta Jet Bombs Wedding in Sagaing (www.irrawaddy.com)
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...
‘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....
UNRWA says forced displacement has pushed over 1 million away from Rafah (www.reuters.com)
Forced displacement has pushed over a million people away from the Gazan city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday. The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip had been sheltering around 1 million Palestinians who fled Israeli assaults on other parts of the enclave, aid groups...
South Korea to suspend military pact with North over trash balloons [Reuters | June 2, 2024 | Reuters] (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16123877...
What to know about Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s likely next president (www.vox.com)
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels (www.yahoo.com)
China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary (theconversation.com)
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How Biden’s China tariffs could hurt California (www.politico.com)
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There's a climate threat lurking in rivers around the world. New research shows where (www.cbc.ca)
Rivers and streams offer far more than pretty scenery or an opportunity for a summertime cool-off. They make up an important component of a global system that determines how much carbon is stored in soil or sent into the atmosphere....
South Africa heads for coalition as ANC support plunges (www.reuters.com)
South African parties geared up for coalition talks on Friday as the governing African National Congress (ANC) looked set to fall well short of a majority for the first time in 30 years of democracy....
Russian missile attacks on Kharkiv kill 5, injure 25 (kyivindependent.com)
Russian missile attacks on the Novobavarsky neighborhood of Kharkiv killed at least five people and injured 25 others, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on May 31....
Despite False Claims, an Equitable Pandemic Treaty Would Make Us All Safer (www.commondreams.org)
Never quite understood if rule 4 prohibited opinion articles or not. It says they “may” be removed.
Myanmar"s ethnic armies consolidate strongholds as junta weakens (www.bangkokpost.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/22255500...
A revolutionary support group is helping hundreds of Indian parents embrace their LGBTQ+ kids (www.lgbtqnation.com)
