Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime (www.hrw.org)
Between January and March 2024, Human Rights Watch spoke by phone with 16 people about the October 31 attack on the residential Engineers’ Building, and the death of their relatives and others. Human Rights Watch analyzed satellite imagery, 35 photographs, and 45 videos of the attack’s aftermath, as well as other relevant...
Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia (www.theguardian.com)
Governments across region grappling for response as temperatures soar to unseasonable highs...
Former supreme court judges say UK arming Israel breaches international law (www.theguardian.com)
Three former supreme court justices, including the court’s former president Lady Hale, are among more than 600 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel....
'Deadly attacks against Israel will be carried out soon', Iran warns (www.ynetnews.com)
Israel’s Brutality Is Increasing—and So Is Its Denialism (www.thenation.com)
A human rights monitor documented the sniping of at least 13 children in and around Shifa Hospital, all between the ages of 4 and 16.
Taiwan condemns 'shameless' China's thanks for global sympathy on quake (www.reuters.com)
Taiwan on Thursday condemned China as “shameless” after Beijing’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations thanked the world for its concern about a strong earthquake on the island....
On Camera: Attack On Iran Security Sites By Pakistan-Based Jaish Al Adl; IRGC Base Targeted (www.hindustantimes.com)
Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim (www.theguardian.com)
The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. has found bird flu in chickens at a Texas plant on Tuesday (www.nbcnews.com)
Tropical-forest destruction has slowed — but is still too high (www.nature.com)
Global Forest Loss Remains High, Despite Recent Progress | Wildfires and agricultural expansion offset big gains in protecting tropical forests last year. (www.nytimes.com)
Chinese presence in a Polish port triggers security fears (www.politico.eu)
The Polish government is under pressure to designate the terminal as critical infrastructure....
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza (www.972mag.com)
Formally, the Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets. The sources told +972 and Local Call that, during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender,...
Top Israeli official Ron Dermer began yelling during a meeting with U.S. officials on Gaza, Israel plans for a ground invasion of Rafah (www.nbcnews.com)
Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz calls for early elections (www.axios.com)
How to ‘Trump proof’ the transatlantic relationship? (www.politico.eu)
In this medieval city just east of Brussels, American and European officials have one question on their minds: What to do about Donald Trump?...
New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza (mondoweiss.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14006090...
UN Security Council fails to condemn strike on Iran in Syria (www.reuters.com)
The United States, Britain and France on Wednesday opposed a Russian-drafted U.N. Security Council statement that would have condemned an attack on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria, which Tehran has blamed on Washington’s ally Israel....
Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected. (www.science.org)
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....
Earthquake showed Taiwan was well prepared for a big one — more so than parts of U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
Following a devastating earthquake in 1999, Taiwan upgraded its seismic infrastructure. Experts said it offers lessons for the U.S. West Coast....
Ukraine packed a Cessna-style plane with explosives, added remote controls and kamikaze’d it into a Russian drone factory 600 miles away (www.forbes.com)
In a sharp escalation of its drone campaign targeting strategic industries deep inside Russia, Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style light planes with remote controls, packed them with explosives and flown at least one of them more than 600 miles to strike a Russian factory in Yelabuga, 550 miles east of Moscow....
Russia’s friends beg EU to leave frozen assets alone (www.politico.eu)
From China to Saudi Arabia, countries want the EU to reject pressure to confiscate over €200 billion of Russian assets....