Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show...
Israel hampers Gaza field hospitals by providing insufficient sites (www.middleeasteye.net)
In November, Italy announced that it would establish a field hospital in Gaza and dispatched a fact-finding mission to Rafah to evaluate the situation on the ground, a regional source said....
Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Kasparov On Terrorist Charges (www.chess.com)
For anyone unaware of who Kasparov is, he’s a very famous chess World Champion from Russia who held the title for 15 years.
Court hands Kivimäki 6-year prison sentence in historic hacking case | Yle News | Yle (yle.fi)
Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack....
Palestinian released from Israeli prison describes beatings, sexual abuse and torture (www.haaretz.com)
Among candidates for U.S. sanctions, Israel’s Prison Service should be next on the list. This is apparently the realm where all the sadistic instincts of the minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, find their outlet....
PHOTOS: May Day protests mark turbulent times (www.pbs.org)
2 men are charged with cutting down famous 150-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall in England (apnews.com)
Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday....
South Korea mulls participation in AUKUS: defense minister (www.dw.com)
South Korea has held talks about joining a landmark defense technology pact between Australia, the United States and Britain....
The Latest | Israeli airstrikes on Rafah kill at least 22 people (apnews.com)
Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old....
The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan (abcnews.go.com)
Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others (apnews.com)
De-dollarisation gains traction among Brics (www.khaleejtimes.com)
Workers and activists across Asia hold May Day rallies to call for greater labor rights (apnews.com)
Workers, activists and others in Asian capitals took to the streets on Wednesday to mark May Day with protests over rising prices and governments’ labor polices and calls for greater labor rights....
Russia’s Rosatom Fuels Putin’s War Machine (foreignpolicy.com)
Moscow clearly believes that Rosatom will continue to get a free pass and is now using the company as a Trojan horse to circumvent Western sanctions. According to Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachev, the company’s military contracting has grown significantly. In January 2023, the Washington Post published information...
Russia has forked Wikipedia, featuring "better truths" (www.404media.co)
From real Wikipedia:...
Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive month in February (english.hani.co.kr)
Fewer than 20,000 babies were born in Korea in February, a record low for the month...
German army captain admits spying for Russia (www.dw.com)
The officer, with ties to the far-right AfD party, said he provided information to a Russian intelligence service out of fear of a nuclear escalation in Moscow’s war in Ukraine....
Tensions grow as China ramps up global mining for green tech (www.bbc.com)
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State Secrets Law tightens grip on China social media giants (www.bbc.com)
New rules that tighten Chinese government restrictions on the country’s internet companies have come into effect today, raising concerns about how they will be applied....
Massive pro-Palestinian student protests hit universities in the US, Europe and Australia (morningstaronline.co.uk)
Special school pupils ‘tortured’ in calming rooms, BBC investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
Staff were filmed hitting and kicking pupils at a special school and leaving them in their urine, the BBC has found....
US says Israeli army units violated human rights (www.bbc.com)
Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester (www.bbc.com)
An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says....
Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash (www.theguardian.com)
What they learned is, to me, much less interesting than how they learned it.
