Brussel strips Hungary of key EU defense meeting over Ukraine stance (www.semafor.com)
Myanmar junta chief appoints himself acting president (myanmar-now.org)
Code of silence: International media outlets press their Hong Kong staff to keep away from a local journalist association advocating for press freedom, or risk losing their jobs (chinamediaproject.org)
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Out for a bit guys
Currently sitting in an ER so expect me to go silent for a bit....
Israeli settlers court Republican religious right after Hamas attacks (www.reuters.com)
Ruth Lieberman, a Jewish settler in the Israeli occupied West Bank, is determined to thwart international pressure for a sovereign Palestinian state. And her friendships with prominent U.S. Republicans from the party’s religious right are helping, she says....
UK billionaire’s Israeli TV channel accused of axing show for Netanyahu (www.theguardian.com)
Len Blavatnik, the second-richest man in Britain, is facing a series of protests in the UK after his Israeli television channel was accused of cancelling programmes to please Benjamin Netanyahu....
Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt (www.theguardian.com)
In the months before the Israeli invasion, Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah was a lifeline, a place where thousands sought shelter or scrabbled to raise funds to cross into neighbouring Egypt....
Newborn baby made homeless by Home Office in frenzy to clear asylum backlog | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Inside the Risky U.S. Probe of Allegations That Drug Mafias Financed a Campaign of Mexico’s President López Obrador (www.propublica.org)
Vietnam's top leader Trong dies at 80 after long rule (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18165266
EU biometric checks for foreign travellers delayed again | Travel & leisure | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Extremist Israeli minister makes provocative visit to al-Aqsa mosque (www.theguardian.com)
Malaysia is building malls like crazy – but shoppers aren’t coming | Business and Economy | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
UN concern over disciplinary case against UK lawyer for ‘boys’ club’ remarks (www.theguardian.com)
In 2022, Proudman wrote on X she was troubled by Cohen referring in a judgment to the relationship between a woman and her part-time judge and barrister ex-husband as “tempestuous”, and his use of the word “reckless” to describe the alleged domestic violence....
UN body that regulates the deep sea tackles proposed mining code amid growing concerns (apnews.com)
Tense deliberations over how and if to allow deep sea mining unfolded Monday in Jamaica as at least one company threatened to apply for permission before rules and regulations are in place....
Germany arrests suspected Hezbollah member (www.dw.com)
A Week of Israel’s Horrific Massacres in Gaza (jacobin.com)
The US Air Force has been sending unmarked planes from Britain’s base on Cyprus to Israel since it began bombing Gaza (www.declassifieduk.org)
EU takes Elon Musk's X to court over blue checks and ads (www.npr.org)
Rivers becoming 'reservoirs of disease' warn Suffolk scientists (www.bbc.com)
Scientists say “a reservoir of disease” is being created after discovering bacteria that naturally occur in rivers are becoming resistant to antibiotics due to the impact of sewage....
China is building two-thirds of new wind and solar globally, report says (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17862476
Gaza death toll: how many Palestinians has Israel's campaign killed (www.reuters.com)
Chinese auto exports surge, partly offsetting a sales slump at home (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17827050
Orbán parrots Putin’s lines on Ukraine in leaked letter to EU chief (www.politico.eu)
Russian court jails theatre figures over IS wives play (www.bbc.com)
