Greece migrant tragedy: Survivor accounts say coastguard towing attempt precipitated disaster (www.eureporter.co)
Wagner Group boss shutters media empire (www.politico.eu)
Israel's air force attacks Syria and Syrian air defense missile explodes over northern Israel (apnews.com)
France: Macron blames video games for riots (sh.itjust.works)
French PM says all options are on the table, including declaring a state of emergency, to re-establish order (in French) (www.francetvinfo.fr)
French PM Elisabeth Borne says all options are on the table, including declaring a state of emergency, to re-establish order following third night of unrest, fires and looting which have led to hundreds of arrests. Article in French.
South Koreans become younger overnight after country scraps 'Korean age' | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Obama calls out obsession with Titanic sub while people turn blind eye to migrant boat tragedy (lemmy.ml)
Paris summit: First step towards new global finance system? (www.dw.com)
I’ve been reading similar head lines about this Paris summit for some days now. After reading this article it still doesn’t sound too special. Like it’s more problem oriented and has a bottom-up approach; so does anyone get what exaclty is " new " about it?
Meta Tells Canada: No News for You! (does this law affect Lemmy instances in Canada??) (gizmodo.com)
The news about Meta is not the real reason I’m sharing this; rather the parenthetical question in the subject is. Does anybody know if this law affect Lemmy instances at all?
Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show (www.bbc.com)
Russia ambassador warns U.S. resolution pushes for nuclear war over Ukraine (www.newsweek.com)
If you have a hard time understanding where the shortage of empathy for the sub crew comes from. here is a pretty good explainer. (mas.to)
Ukraine Blocks Journalists From Front Lines With Escalating Censorship (theintercept.com)
The U.K. moves to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine rebuild. (www.nytimes.com)
Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering (arstechnica.com)
UK Home Secretsry Suella Braverman encourages police chiefs to use stop and search powers more often to "seize dangerous weapons and prevent more knife crime attacks" (news.sky.com)
Red carpet welcome for Modi as US-India ties set to deepen (www.straitstimes.com)
America’s latest inflation wave is all about corporations ‘using excuses’ and ‘cover’ to increase profits, says top UBS economist (fortune.com)
“We’re seeing this expansion of margin under the cover of, ‘Oh, it’s a general inflation problem, we can’t help it,’ Paul Donovan of UBS said Thursday.
ByteDance alone ordered US$1 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs in 2023 (www.digitimes.com)
Conservatives Are Running Out of Things to Eat (newrepublic.com)
Guatemalan journalist faces decades in prison (www.ft.com)
One of Guatemala’s best known journalists is facing up to 40 years in prison on Wednesday in a case that has raised alarm about a squeeze on democracy in Central America’s largest economy....
US blacklists flight schools across world for training Chinese pilots (www.firstpost.com)
Ukraine says it retakes 3 villages in 'first results' of counterattack (lemmy.world)
KYIV, June 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Sunday its troops had recaptured three villages from Russian forces in its southeast, the first liberated settlements it has reported since launching a counter-offensive this week....
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell (abcnews.go.com)
Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.