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)
140+ Economists & Experts Call on Paris Summit Leaders to Redirect Trillions in Public Money (www.commondreams.org)
Climate Change is Intensifying Humanitarian Crisis in War-Affected Yemen (peoplesdispatch.org)
Polycrisis, Unraveling, Simplification, or Collapse: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You? (www.resilience.org)
The Cascade Institute notes that “a global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple global systems become causally entangled in ways that significantly degrade humanity’s prospects. These interacting crises produce harms greater than the sum of those the crises would produce in isolation, were their host systems not so...
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way (www.bbc.co.uk)
False Witnesses and Sinister Plots: Exposing the CIA Connection in the 'Chinese Police Station' Narrative (www.mintpressnews.com)
Red carpet welcome for Modi as US-India ties set to deepen (www.straitstimes.com)
US is losing Asia’s multilateral trade game (asiatimes.com)
Global temperatures briefly spike above key climate threshold, scientists warn of more extremes (www.pbs.org)
Kremlin decides that goal to "demilitarise" Ukraine has largely been achieved (www.pravda.com.ua)
Genome Editing Used To Create Disease Resistant Rice (www.ucdavis.edu)
Mexican State of Nuevo León Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage (peoplesdispatch.org)
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.
President Raisi’s Latin America Tour Aims to Build Solidarity with Non-Islamic Nations (orinocotribune.com)
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ (www.theguardian.com)
Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right now | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Soaring temperatures. Unusually hot oceans. Record high levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and record low Antarctic ice. We’re only halfway through 2023 and so many climate records are being broken.
[The Times] She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Anti-Corruption Journalist in Guatemala Sentenced to Six Years in Prison (peoplesdispatch.org)
110 Million Now Forcibly Displaced as War, Climate Crisis Wreak Global Havoc (www.commondreams.org)
What is Urgent & Necessary in Haiti (blackagendareport.com)
Venezuela Condemns US Report Weaponizing Human Trafficking (orinocotribune.com)
UPDATE: Poland prevents Ukrainian bound South African delegation from disembarking for hours (mg.co.za)
UN steps up criticism of IMF and World Bank, the other pillars of the post-World War II global order (apnews.com)
Putin said Russia has delivered tactical nuclear warheads to Belarus and said Russia could use similar weapons in Ukraine, but there was no need to do so more than a year into the invasion. (www.ft.com)
