After six months of war, I fear we may lose Palestine completely | Raja Shehadeh (www.theguardian.com)
Netanyahu defies Biden, insisting there’s ‘no space’ for Palestinian state (www.theguardian.com)
Defiant Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on opposition to Palestinian statehood, deepening the divide with Israel’s closest international allies, as cracks in his wartime “unity” government became increasingly evident....
70% of UK doesn't want Rishi Sunak to be PM any longer, poll shows (www.hindustantimes.com)
Russia wants female prisoners to give birth as population fears grow (www.newsweek.com)
Netanyahu: Defeating Hamas will make prophecy of Isaiah a reality (www.christianpost.com)
No right wing wave in Finland as Left Alliance take record result in EU elections (yle.fi)
Finland’s results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party....
Netanyahu angrily rejects move to seek his arrest, lambasts the ICC saying it has compared Israel to "mass murderers" (www.bbc.com)
UK Nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies at Chester Hospital (www.bbc.com)
The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report (www.businessinsider.com)
US officials are considering letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons, The New York Times reports....
Zelenskiy Releases Personal Income in Transparency Push (www.bloomberg.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared his personal income for the first time since the outbreak of war with Russia, as part of his effort to increase transparency in his government....
Israel destroys oldest, largest mosque in Gaza (english.news.cn)
US warns of Chinese disinformation. China says that's disinformation (www.cnn.com)
A US State Department report that accuses the Chinese government of expanding disinformation efforts is “in itself disinformation,” Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed Saturday....
‘Prison or bullet’: new Argentina government promises harsh response to protest (www.theguardian.com)
Quebec to raise university fees and mandate French for out-of-province students (www.bbc.com)
Tamimi: 'We will drink your blood; what Hitler did to you was a joke' (www.jpost.com)
Her Instagram post, translated in the link:...
Hamas tells Gaza City residents to stay put after Israel orders evacuation (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas has called on Palestinians to stay in their homes after Israel issued sweeping evacuation orders for almost half of Gaza’s more than 2.3 million people ahead of an expected ground offensive....
Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds (www.telegraph.co.uk)
‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms (www.theguardian.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
Hamas threatens execution of Israeli captives if Gaza attacks continue (www.aljazeera.com)
Hamas’s Qassam Brigades has threatened to execute Israeli captives if Israel continues to bombard and kill civilians in Gaza....
EVs have 79% more reliability problems than gas cars, says Consumer Reports (arstechnica.com)
US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker (www.cnn.com)
Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday....
False Claims that Heatwave is Bogus Spread Online (www.bbc.com)
False claims suggesting that the BBC has been misreporting temperatures in southern Europe have been spreading on social media....
World Bank’s climate plan: Pricier red meat and dairy, cheaper chicken and veggies (www.politico.eu)
“We have to stop destroying the planet as we feed ourselves,” a World Bank official said, as red meat and dairy drive CO2 emissions....
Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to plug a shortfall in troop numbers fighting Russia (apnews.com)
Ukraine on Wednesday lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion....
Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
Ms. Soussana, 40, is the first Israeli to speak publicly about being sexually assaulted during captivity after the Hamas-led raid on southern Israel. In her interviews with The Times, conducted mostly in English, she provided extensive details of sexual and other violence she suffered during a 55-day ordeal....
