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Ireland: Wind generation exceeds demand for electricity for the first time ever (www.euronews.com)

Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone (www.theguardian.com)

Mohamad al-Bared used technology at Coventry home to make drone designed to deliver a warhead or chemical weapon for IS...

Bacteria found in bento box lunches in Japan that poisoned nearly 400 people (www.thesundaily.my)

Microplastics Are Present In Clouds, Confirm Japanese Scientists (www.ndtv.com)

Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group (www.middleeasteye.net)

‘Russian-only’ businesses in Thailand’s Phuket spark backlash (www.aljazeera.com)

A huge influx of Russians in Phuket is producing a backlash from locals, amid complaints of a booming Russian-only economy that covers everything from hair salons to taxi firms....

Peru demolishes “Wall of Shame” dividing rich and poor neighbourhoods (ptv-news.com.pk)

Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon. India's Chandrayan-3 expected to land on Wednesday. (www.bbc.com)

UN says it's forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis (www.independent.co.uk)

Burning ship off Dutch coast has more e-cars than thought (www.dw.com)

A freight ship that caught fire off the Dutch coast and has been burning since, as fire extinguishers try to figure out ways to tackle the incident, has been carrying nearly 500 electric cars, far more than previously reported, the company that chartered the ship said....

Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high (english.elpais.com)

Ukraine threatens Russian vessels, reminds Moscow of sinking of the Moskva (www.scmp.com)

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Ukraine aims to sap Russia’s defenses, as U.S. urges a decisive breakthrough (archive.li)

Ukraine is making limited advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces but has yet to employ the kind of larger-scale operations that American officials believe could enable a breakthrough, officials and analysts say, deepening questions among some of Ukraine’s chief backers about whether Kyiv can move fast enough...

Climate talks chief, who also heads oil company, says world must 'attack all emissions, everywhere' (abcnews.go.com)

Two authors are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their books. Could they win? (theconversation.com)

Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests (www.theguardian.com)

Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests....

Macron Blames Video Games For Riots, Calls On Parents To Help (www.channelstv.com)

In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of socialists and communists (www.wsws.org)

Germany to halve military aid to Ukraine from €8bn a year to €4bn (www.telegraph.co.uk)

(sorry I’m two days late with the news, but I thought it was interesting)

Biden says Israel-Gaza war should end now and Israel must not occupy Gaza (www.straitstimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17891878

Russia's war-driven economy is so hot that the World Bank upgraded it to a 'high-income country' (www.businessinsider.com)

Russia’s economy, boosted by military activity, is now classified as high-income by the World Bank....

Ukraine is releasing thousands of prisoners so they can join the fight against Russia (apnews.com)

DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia....

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