Students set Bangladesh’s state broadcaster on fire as violent protests rage (www.semafor.com)
Mounting home demolitions and settler attacks plunge a Palestinian village into crisis (apnews.com)
First came the Israeli military bulldozers, which tore down a quarter of the homes in the West Bank Bedouin village of Umm al-Khair. Then came the settler attacks....
Highly infectious poliovirus found in Gaza sewage samples (www.theguardian.com)
Air attack leaves 1 dead, at least 10 injured in Tel Aviv (apnews.com)
injuring at least 10 people and leaving one dead...
Tanker carrying Russian oil to China attacked by Houthi sea drone (www.newsweek.com)
NATO Report Outlines Growing Climate Risks to Global Security (insideclimatenews.org)
Macron ally wins surprise re-election as national assembly speaker (www.theguardian.com)
S’pore orders social media sites to block 95 accounts, in first such use of foreign interference law (www.straitstimes.com)
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Gay couple in South Korea receives state benefits, marking huge step towards LGBTQ+ equality (www.advocate.com)
UK Climate Campaigners Get 'Utterly Disproportionate' Sentences (www.commondreams.org)
Uncertainty is the winner and incumbents the losers so far in a year of high-stakes global elections (apnews.com)
"America First" foreign policy: JD Vance wants to abandon Ukraine but bomb Mexico and Iran (www.salon.com)
Radical anti-feminism the most prevalent form of violent extremism in Australia, report finds (phys.org)
Extremist Israeli minister makes provocative visit to al-Aqsa mosque (www.theguardian.com)
Zelenskiy accuses Viktor Orbán of betraying Europe at leaders’ meeting in UK (www.theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has taken aim at the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, accusing him of betraying fellow European leaders after Orbán’s recent “peace mission” to Moscow....
Violence against women in Brazil reaches highest levels on record (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalize rape victims who have an abortion....
Macron wins shock vote to keep coalition hopes alive (www.politico.eu)
Emmanuel Macron’s party formed a last–minute agreement with right-leaning lawmakers to win a key vote in parliament on Thursday that opens the door to the French president playing a greater-than-expected role in forming the country’s next government....
Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland (www.theguardian.com)
Boeing faces fresh questions about the safety of its aircraft after an engine fire on a transatlantic flight from Edinburgh caused an emergency landing soon after takeoff....
Stoltenberg assures EU that NATO would survive second Trump presidency (www.theguardian.com)
Europe must not fall into the trap of creating a “self-fulfilling prophecy” that Nato would die under a second Trump presidency and that the transatlantic bond would be over, the secretary general of the military alliance has said....
Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right minister who visited a contested Jerusalem holy site? (apnews.com)
Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday, a move that could threaten the delicate Gaza cease-fire talks....
Canada Names First Woman To Lead Military (www.barrons.com)
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The Ukrainian army pulls out from another eastern village as Russia smashes defensive positions (apnews.com)
Ukraine’s army has pulled out from the village of Urozhaine in the eastern Donetsk region, an official said Thursday, surrendering another front-line position as Russian forces blast Ukrainian defenses in a relentless onslaught....
The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending (www.economist.com)
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Ursula von der Leyen wins second term as European Commission president (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18128972