India LGBTQ wedding sparks controversy in Punjab (www.bbc.com)
While India waits for the Supreme Court’s verdict on legalising same-sex marriage, an LGBTQ couple’s recent wedding in the northern state of Punjab has made headlines - and also created controversy....
Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)
UN Special Rapporteur Says ‘India Risks Becoming One of the Main Generators of Atrocities' (thewire.in)
At a USCIRF Hearing on Religious Freedom in India in Washington DC, there was talk of Manipur, Assam and discriminatory laws and processes for religious and other minorities and “a steady and alarming erosion of fundamental rights".
Canada's Bill C-56: What You Need to Know the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
Archaeologists in Zambia discover oldest wooden structure in the world, dating to 476,000 years ago (www.msn.com)
Archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence yet of a wooden structure crafted by the hands of a human ancestor. Two tree trunks, notched like Lincoln Logs, were preserved at the bottom of the Kalambo River in Zambia. If the logs’ estimated 476,000-year-old age is correct, it means that woodworking might predate the...
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Torture, rape, killings in Manipur: An Indian state's brutal conflict (www.bbc.com)
Warning: This article contains details of violence that readers may find upsetting
Vancouver City Council Unanimously Agreed on Zoning Changes (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
China’s Xi says ‘upgrading’ Venezuela relations after meeting Maduro (www.aljazeera.com)
‘It Is Evening, Isn’t It?’ An 80-Year-Old President’s Whirlwind Trip. (www.nytimes.com)
Four 1900-year-old Roman swords unearthed in Dead Sea cave (thenewdaily.com.au)
Japan condemns pseudo-elections in temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine (ptv-news.com.pk)
Conservationist group African Parks to free 2,000 rhinos from South Africa farm (www.bbc.com)
African Parks plans a decade-long rewilding project to help preserve a near-threatened subspecies.
Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi (apnews.com)
Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
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Teacher suicide exposes parent bullying in S Korea (www.bbc.com)
The tragedy has unleashed a wave of anger from primary school teachers across the country.
As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home (apnews.com)
Earlier this year, 13-year-old Mohammed Zalabani boarded a bus at an Israeli army checkpoint in the Shuafat refugee camp and lunged at an Israeli police officer with a kitchen knife.
Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway (www.reuters.com)
Cybercrime to cost Germany 206 billion euros in 2023 -survey (www.reuters.com)
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As the Olympics loom, Paris's transport grid worries wheelchair users (www.reuters.com)
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Recovery of British Museum artefacts under way, says George Osborne (www.theguardian.com)
Institution’s chair of trustees admits its reputation has been damaged by suspected thefts
German government approves law to make legal gender change easier for trans, intersex, non-binary (www.euronews.com)
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Denmark proposes bill that could see ban on Quran burnings (www.aljazeera.com)
Apple security updates could be banned by British government (9to5mac.com)
Everyone in the tech industry facepalms almost every time legislators try to pontificate on technology, but the British government appears to be trying to set a new record. After putting iMessage and FaceTime at risk, the government is now suggesting that it might ban some Apple security updates.