Ukraine continues to target Moscow with drone strikes, forcing the city to shut down its airports (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukraine war: Russia attacks grain stores at River Danube ports (www.bbc.com)
China sends dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan (www.dw.com)
China sent dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan, said the island’s defense ministry on Saturday....
Why the EU cannot admit Ukraine as a member (12ft.io)
The EU may well receive Ukraine as a candidate for accession and then leave it to rot in the antechamber, just as happened with Turkey. Right now, the EU is structurally not equipped to deal with Ukraine....
Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland (www.theguardian.com)
Boeing faces fresh questions about the safety of its aircraft after an engine fire on a transatlantic flight from Edinburgh caused an emergency landing soon after takeoff....
Paris Olympics will give out 300,000 condoms to athletes, continuing long-held tradition (www.advocate.com)
From basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups create low-cost robots to fight Russia (apnews.com)
Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement....
Move by some NATO members to let Kyiv strike Russia with their arms is a dangerous escalation, Kremlin says (www.reuters.com)
2024 France election live updates: Prime Minister Attal plans to resign as projections show leftists lead (apnews.com)
Bank of America tells Detroit’s Big 3 they can’t make money in China and should just leave the hypercompetitive car market ‘as soon as they possibly can’ (fortune.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17087653
French election descends into madcap reality TV (www.politico.eu)
The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote....
US will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system after Kyiv's desperate calls for air defenses (apnews.com)
The United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, answering Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region....
U.S. Bans Imports From 3 Chinese Companies Over Ties to Forced Labor (www.nytimes.com)
Ukrainian Special Forces and Syrian Rebels Decimate Russian Mercenaries in Syria (www.kyivpost.com)
Gaza: UN says gunmen were filmed in abandoned Rafah aid warehouse (www.bbc.com)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released drone footage that it said showed armed “terrorists roaming and shooting” next to marked UN vehicles at the facility in eastern Rafah on Saturday....
Netanyahu hoped Hamas would reject Israel's offer. When it didn't, he turned to sabotage (www.haaretz.com)
Israel’s criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel’s last and best chance at bringing the hostages home...
David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers (www.theguardian.com)
General Staff: Russia has lost 466,150 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 (kyivindependent.com)
Out of the half a million troops killed I wonder how many were actually Russians? Doesn’t look like things are working out for them.
Mass graves of Palestinians point to "serious violations" of international law, UN official says (www.salon.com)
Spain accidentally releases drug lord who planned to kill heir to Dutch throne (www.politico.eu)
Australian PM calls Elon Musk an 'arrogant billionaire' in row over attack footage (www.bbc.com)
Australia’s leader has called Elon Musk an “arrogant billionaire” in an escalating feud over X’s reluctance to remove footage of a church stabbing....
China is a threat to Europe’s gunpowder supply, defense boss warns (www.politico.eu)
Saab chief cautions that Beijing dominates supplies of a key component to make powder to fire shells, and metal for submarines and warships....
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe (www.theguardian.com)
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem...