Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high (english.elpais.com)
Road maze stumps drivers in French village (www.euronews.com)
Niger soldiers announce coup on national TV (www.bbc.com)
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them....
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s $6bn spend on ‘sportswashing’ (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia has spent at least $6.3bn (£4.9bn) in sports deals since early 2021, more than quadruple the previous amount spent over a six-year period, in what critics have labelled an effort to distract from its human rights record....
Preserving the Past, Empowering the Future: Unveiling the Wayback Machine’s Vital Role in Investigative Work (blog.archive.org)
UN global heat officer: ‘It’s criminal to build squares that do not have shade or cooling elements’ (english.elpais.com)
51 Beached Whales Died in Australia. Authorities Are Trying to Save 46 More (time.com)
India, Manipur genocide : Assam Rifles finds itself in trying circumstances while maintaining peace in Manipur (www.telegraphindia.com)
At the end, we are facing flak from every side, says a senior officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity
India, Manipur genocide : ‘A pen can do more harm than a gun’ (www.newslaundry.com)
In Manipur’s major newspapers, attacks by ‘Kuki militants’ are top news, deepening the hills vs valley divide....
41 Myanmar junta members killed in Bago clash (www.mizzima.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/2065947...
India, Manipur genocide : ‘Cops said it would be war if we go to find them’: In Imphal, families wait for 2 teens, ‘dead or alive’ (www.newslaundry.com)
Two 17-year-old students went missing near an area dominated by another community. They are feared dead but can’t trace their bodies, say cops.
Federal judge blocks Biden administration’s restrictive asylum rule (www.theguardian.com)
Yemen: The children of a forgotten war (www.bbc.co.uk)
EU agriculture officials work on ways to move Ukrainian grain to the world (www.barchart.com)
Brussels bombers found guilty after long murder trial (www.bbc.co.uk)
Executions, torture and looting: Wagner accused of abuses in Africa (www.euronews.com)
Both pilots die after Greek firefighting plane crashes (www.euronews.com)
Far-right group burns Quran in Copenhagen (www.politico.eu)
India, Manipur genocide : ‘Cops said it would be war if we go to find them’: In Imphal, families wait for 2 teens, ‘dead or alive’ (www.newslaundry.com)
Two 17-year-old students went missing near an area dominated by another community. They are feared dead but can’t trace their bodies, say cops.
India, Manipur genocide : ‘His body is still in the morgue’: Two months later, Kuki woman on her brother’s murder (www.newslaundry.com)
Tax assistant Letminthang Haokip was killed on May 4 by a mob in Imphal, capital of Manipur state, India
Russian fighter jet damages US Reaper drone with flare over Syria: Officials (abcnews.go.com)
Video: streamable.com/4f5lwc
Russia is preparing 'a false flag operation' in the Black Sea - U.S. State Department (newsukraine.rbc.ua)
India, Manipur genocide : ‘Horrific Videos, Reports Just Tip of Iceberg, Much More Has Happened We Don't Know About’ (www.youtube.com)
Babu Verghese, an author, journalist and consultant for several Christian television channels, who was recently in Manipur, both in the valley and in the hills, and spoke widely to people of both the Meitei and Kuki communities, says that the horrifying videos and reports that surfaced in the last week of killings, burning and...