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Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people (www.theguardian.com)

Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)

An unknown number of people have been trapped under rubble after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit during a daylight Russian missile barrage that the authorities said had killed at least 29 people across the country....

Japanese man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for rape (apnews.com)

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China issues rare earth regulations to further protect domestic supply (www.reuters.com)

China can end Russia’s war in Ukraine with a phone call, Finland says (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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Israeli officers tortured this doctor to death, then hid news of his passing for months (www.middleeasteye.net)

At the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, Dr Iyad, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital’s maternity department, refused to leave Gaza City, opting to stay with his patients and fulfil his humanitarian mission. But after a month of intense Israeli bombardment and siege, including the targeting of hospitals, he decided to take...

Indian farm worker in Italy ‘left to die on road’ with severed arm (www.theguardian.com)

A trade unionist has called for a crackdown against “barbaric exploitation” after an Indian farm worker died when he was allegedly being left on a road by his employer following an accident that severed his arm....

Japan has an excess sushi problem. These food waste activists put it in numbers (www.bbc.com)

The country’s ubiquitous convenience stores throw out huge amounts of edible food. In Tokyo, Rachel Nuwer meets the campaigners trying to change that....

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)

Did Donald Trump Jr just break the law by meeting with Viktor Orban? (www.independent.co.uk)

US tourist vanishes from Greek Island solo hike - days after Dr Michael Mosley death (www.independent.co.uk)

Women and children of Gaza are killed less frequently as war’s toll rises, AP data analysis finds (apnews.com)

Global rich must pay more to tackle climate crisis, says architect of Paris deal (www.theguardian.com)

Rich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said....

While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels (www.abc.net.au)

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Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study....

‘Hong Kong 47’ trial: 14 pro-democracy activists found guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion (www.theguardian.com)

Fourteen people have been found guilty in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial, the prosecution of the so-called “Hong Kong 47” pro-democracy campaigners....

Ukraine and EU push to start membership talks in June (www.politico.eu)

Hungary faces renewed pressure to drop its opposition to Kyiv’s accession bid....

Israeli army appears to be using Gaza hospital, school as bases, Washington Post reports (www.haaretz.com)

Israeli soldiers appear to be using the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in the Gaza Strip as a br for military operations, and, since March, also a school in the village of Juhor ad Dik, which is located about one kilometer from the border with Israel and was destroyed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, indicated...

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