Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage (www.kyivpost.com)
Iran's women a year after Mahsa Amini's death: 'I wear what I like now' (www.bbc.com)
A young woman walks down a street in Tehran, her hair uncovered, her jeans ripped, a bit of midriff exposed to the hot Iranian sun. An unmarried couple walk hand in hand. A woman holds her head high when asked by Iran’s once-feared morality police to put a hijab on, and tells them: “Screw you!”...
The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter is now providing key aviation intelligence to Ukraine, defense agency says (www.businessinsider.com)
Brother of prominent Saudi scholar sentenced to death over tweets (www.middleeasteye.net)
Tweets made from anonymous account with nine followers, focused on unemployment, inflation, mismanagement of resources, release of political prisoners.
US shouldn’t preach morality to Israel, Smotrich says, backing Ben-Gvir (www.jpost.com)
The United States is in no position to go after Israel on human rights issues given how its army acted in Iraq and Afghanistan, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) said.
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on (apnews.com)
Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change....
Saudi Arabia discusses defense cooperation with Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran (saudigazette.com.sa)
Russian general who knew ‘secrets’ of Putin’s palace dies suddenly in prison (www.stuff.co.nz)
Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction (abcnews.go.com)
Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection (www.reuters.com)
The Irish Light: Woman abused by paper which falsely said vaccine killed her son (www.bbc.co.uk)
Worldcoin suspended in Kenya as thousands queue for free money (www.bbc.com)
The Kenyan government has ordered cryptocurrency project Worldcoin to stop signing up new users, citing data privacy concerns.
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them....
New Zealand justice minister Kiri Allan resigns after resisting arrest following car crash (www.theguardian.com)
New Zealand’s justice minister resigned on Monday after police charged her with reckless driving and resisting arrest after a car crash....
Ukraine deserved better from Nato | Letters (www.theguardian.com)
The Vilnius summit could have achieved much more, if only the political willpower had allowed it
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)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17634274
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)
