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Israel offers to evacuate babies from crippled Gaza hospital (www.reuters.com)

Finland has no private schools – and its pupils perform better than British children (inews.co.uk)

Finland ranked seventh in the world in OECD’s student assessment chart in 2018, well above the UK and the United States, where there is a mix of private and state education

Ukraine aid is dropped from government funding bill. That raises questions about future US support (apnews.com)

Canadian police won't investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman (abcnews.go.com)

The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct”...

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Zelenskiy to visit Washington in bid to break Senate deadlock on Ukraine aid (www.theguardian.com)

Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says (www.nature.com)

Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online. (www.nbcnews.com)

A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat (www.theguardian.com)

German police raid homes of 17 people accused of posting antisemitic hate speech on social media (apnews.com)

Source: President Mahmoud Abbas cancels planned meeting with President Biden after hospital strike (apnews.com)

Third of Japan's 18-year-old women may never have children: study (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Russia's LGBTQ+ community is turning to Telegram as the government cracks down on them (www.lgbtqnation.com)

House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App (www.nytimes.com)

The House on Wednesday passed a bill with broad bipartisan support that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to either sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in the United States....

16-year-old killers of transgender teenager in England sentenced for 'sadistic' murder (apnews.com)

Justice Amanda Yip lifted the reporting restrictions on naming the killers of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. They were identified at Manchester Crown Court as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe....

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies (www.rollingstone.com)

Israeli settler shoots and kills Palestinian harvester as violence surges in the West Bank (apnews.com)

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation (www.politico.eu)

Moment Israeli airstrike hits Gaza tower block after Hamas attack – video (www.theguardian.com)

Israeli airstrikes destroyed a tower block in Gaza City after Hamas militants launched a rocket and air attack on Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning....

Sweden’s leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates (apnews.com)

Sweden’s prime minister on Thursday said that he’s summoned the head of the military to discuss how the armed forces can help police deal with an unprecedented crime wave that has shocked the country with almost daily shootings and bombings....

‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI (www.theguardian.com)

All new cars must have the devices from 7 July, adding fuel economy as well as safety. Will mpg become the new mph?...

Ukraine wiped out 100 Russian troops at once in a strike showcasing the range and power of its new US ATACMS (www.businessinsider.com)

Ukrainian forces took out more than 100 Russian soldiers with an ATACMS missile, per OSINT analysts....

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