EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones (www.theverge.com)
Sunak protection cop arrested over alleged bets on UK election date (www.politico.eu)
Rishi Sunak’s California escape hatch: His $7.2 million beach home (www.politico.com)
The 2 Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactors In Africa Baffle Researchers! (n24hr.com)
How North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions (www.theguardian.com)
Extreme heat takes withering toll in teeming Philippine jails (www.washingtonpost.com)
ICC must be allowed to carry out work ‘without intimidation’, say 93 member states (www.theguardian.com)
The international criminal court must be allowed to carry out its work “without intimidation”, a group of 93 states has said in a significant public intervention intended to reinforce support for the judicial body....
Who is the IDF general who ordered tank fire on a kibbutz home with 13 hostages inside? (www.haaretz.com)
Until she was taken out of the house, Porat identified nine living hostages. She wasn’t a witness to the close-range shooting of any of the hostages, or to any of them being hit in the exchange of fire. “I didn’t see anyone execute anyone,” she says. “I didn’t see a body.” That is compatible with what Hadas Dagan...
Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Israel’s Gallant rejects French initiative to defuse Lebanon tensions (www.aljazeera.com)
‘No one has any idea’ how many Israeli hostages are alive, says Hamas official (www.theguardian.com)
A senior Hamas official has said the group does not know how many of the Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza are still alive, as Israeli and Hamas sources set out positions that could undermine the possibility of an imminent ceasefire deal....
Apparent pro-Palestinian activists splash red paint on homes of Jewish officials at Brooklyn Museum (apnews.com)
UN Human Rights Office Says IDF's Deadly Nuseirat Raid May Amount to War Crime (www.commondreams.org)
Warning shots from South as NK soldiers cross border (www.bbc.com)
South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops crossed the border by mistake, Seoul’s military said on Tuesday....
UN security council endorses US-backed hostages-for-ceasefire Gaza deal (www.theguardian.com)
Only Russia abstains in vote on plan calling for hostage and prisoner swap in six-week ceasefire leading to wider deal...
Condemning Israeli Nuseirat massacre, Euro-Med Monitor calls for an investigation into use of US pier for military purposes (euromedmonitor.org)
Palestinian Territory - The massacre carried out by the Israeli army today, Saturday, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip is strongly condemned by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. Grave concern is also expressed over reports that Israel may have used for military purposes the US pier intended for transporting...
World leaders neglected this crisis. Now genocide looms. (www.vox.com)
Russia Is Targeting Germany With Fake Information as Europe Votes (www.wired.com)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels detain at least 9 UN staffers and others in sudden crackdown, officials say (apnews.com)
A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor (www.independent.co.uk)
European Central Bank cuts main interest rate by 0.25 points (www.theguardian.com)
Citing a sustained fall in inflation, the ECB said its deposit rate would be cut to 3.75% from a record high of 4%, putting it ahead of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, which have yet to cut interest rates.
UN Chief Calls for Global Ban on Fossil Fuel Advertising (www.commondreams.org)
Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies say (www.theguardian.com)
Foreign streamers must pay into fund to boost Canadian content, CRTC says (www.cbc.ca)
Money will be put toward funding for local, Indigenous broadcasting, per briefing
Suspect detained in Romania after throwing petrol bomb outside Israeli embassy (www.reuters.com)
A foreign citizen was detained in Romania’s capital Bucharest on Monday after throwing a Molotov cocktail outside the Israeli embassy, causing no damage or casualties, police said....
