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Pope uses homophobic slur in meeting with bishops — reports (www.dw.com)
Italian media has said that the pope used a highly derogatory slur against LGBTQ+ people at a bishops conference. The remark may sour attempts by the pope to make the church more welcoming....
Belgium gives Ukraine nearly €1B in military aid, including 30 supersonic fighter jets (www.politico.eu)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Alexander De Croo sign new security pact....
EU ministers fume as ‘outrageous’ Hungary yet again blocks military aid for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
A large number of EU resolutions on Ukraine are being blocked by Hungary, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis....
Georgia set to approve ‘foreign agents’ law amid growing Western backlash (www.politico.eu)
The U.S. has imposed sanctions over the controversial legislation, while Brussels warns it will sink the country’s efforts to join the EU....
Top Mexican cartel criminal El Nini, once among America’s most wanted, extradited to the US (www.cnn.com)
A top Mexican cartel member known as ‘El Nini,’ who was one of America’s most-wanted criminals for his alleged role in the fentanyl trade, has been extradited to the United States....
Tech company fined by DOJ over ‘whites only’ job posting (www.independent.co.uk)
In March 2023, a recruiter for Arthur Grand Technologies posted a job advertisement looking for ‘US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates]’...
Mexico City could run out of water in a month unless it rains (www.businessinsider.com)
Mexico City could run out of drinking water by June 26, an event locals call "Day Zero."...
Visitor to Taiwan hit with $9,000 fine over 'roast chicken and pork combo' lunch box (www.abc.net.au)
Taiwan’s customs officials have issued a fine of NT$200,000 ($9,369) to a traveller for attempting to bring a lunch box containing pork into the country....
Trying to buy a house is 'playing a game you can't win' (www.bbc.com)
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Poland presents plan to fortify border to Russia, Belarus (www.dw.com)
Defense officials in Poland have shared details on a plan to strengthen the country’s eastern border. They say Poland is at constant risk of hostile actions by Russia and its ally, Belarus....
China is flexing its missile arsenal in a new simulation for a mass Taiwan attack as the US watches Beijing's Rocket Force closely (www.businessinsider.com)
China released a simulation video on Friday of how it could strike Taiwan with waves of missiles....
India elections: PM Narendra Modi claims he has been chosen by God (www.theguardian.com)
Indian leader tells interviewer God ‘just keeps making me do things’ but that he ‘cannot dial him directly’...
World has ‘moral responsibility’ to help small island states survive climate crisis – UN agency chief (www.theguardian.com)
Vulnerable economies must be supported with finance and practical aid to find long term solutions, says Jorge Moreira da Silva of Unops...
Millions in US face extreme-heat threat as experts urge better protections (www.theguardian.com)
Recommendations include heat forecasts and outdoor-worker safeguards to prevent thousands of deaths and injuries...
Six newborn babies die after fire tears through Delhi hospital (www.theguardian.com)
Bystanders ran in to rescue 12 newborns from fire at children’s hospital as PM Narendra Modi says deaths are ‘heart-rending’...
$150m paid in police misconduct claims shows violent response to 2020 protests, experts say (www.theguardian.com)
In the four years since mass protests broke out over the killing of George Floyd, cities across the US have settled more than 130 lawsuits involving police misconduct with payouts totaling nearly $150m to protesters, journalists, legal observers and bystanders, according to an analysis of the lawsuits published this week....
‘They call us Nazis’: inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise (www.theguardian.com)
Counter rallies in Kaufbeuren show split between supporters of AfD and locals who acknowledge the Bavarian town’s Nazi past...
Brazil floods: Waterborne disease outbreak kills four people (www.bbc.com)
Authorities in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul have confirmed 54 cases of the waterborne leptospirosis disease after the region experienced unprecedented floods in the months of April and May....
Papua New Guinea landslide: UN fears 670 people are dead (www.bbc.com)
About 670 people are estimated to be buried under a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official says....
Tunisia: Thousands of migrants 'dumped' in the desert (www.dw.com)
Human rights observers say the Tunisian authorities are conducting illegal “collective expulsions” of migrants, with funds from the European Union. They say that the practice is becoming increasingly common....
‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn...
US officials say North Korea may be planning military action to create chaos ahead of US election, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
US officials fear North Korean military action ahead of the US election, NBC News reported....
Poland foreign minister accuses Russia of trying to influence EU elections (www.euronews.com)
Top Polish diplomat Radoslaw Sikorski said on Saturday that Russia wanted to destabilise Europe....
British climber and Nepali guide feared dead after reaching Everest summit (www.theguardian.com)
A British man and his Nepali guide are believed to be dead after reaching the summit of Mount Everest on Tuesday, a guiding company said....
Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy (www.theguardian.com)
Lambeth Palace documents show purchase of enslaved people in 18th century approved by Anglican archbishop...
Samuel Alito’s wife claimed upside-down flag was ‘international sign of distress’ (www.theguardian.com)
Senate Democrats seek meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts to discuss issue and seek Alito’s recusal on January 6 cases...
Family members infected with brain worms after eating undercooked bear meat (www.cbsnews.com)
A number of family members who shared a meal of bear meat that one of the family members had harvested earlier were subsequently infected with brain worms, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Utah man declined $100K offer to travel to Congo on 'security job' that was covert coup attempt (apnews.com)
The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there from the U.S. as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt....
U.S. screens record 2.95 million airline passengers in single day (www.nbcnews.com)
The TSA said Friday’s travel broke a record set in November of nearly 2.91 million air passengers screened....
A woman took her sick puppy to a Maryland shelter to be euthanized. The dog is up for adoption again. (www.nbcnews.com)
Kristie Pereira said she’s tried to get Beau back after learning he was never euthanized but said the rescue organization she got him from has refused to rehome the dog with her....
Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)
A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....
Russia smashes train tracks in a battered Ukrainian border region where children are being evacuated (apnews.com)
A nighttime Russian attack destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said Friday, and authorities organized the evacuation of children from the area that is being pummeled by the Kremlin’s forces in a powerful new offensive....
A tired, testy and fractured Supreme Court prepares for more drama (www.cnn.com)
As Supreme Court justices try to resolve more than a dozen major cases over the next month, including whether Donald Trump must stand trial for election subversion, they appear mired in antagonism and distrust....
Australian judge rules that social media platform X must answer to hate speech complaint (apnews.com)
An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia....
The 'Appeal to Heaven' flag evolves from Revolutionary War symbol to banner of the far right (apnews.com)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize sympathies with the Christian nationalist movement and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen....
Farmers in India are weary of politicians' lackluster response to their climate-driven water crisis (apnews.com)
On a stifling hot day this May, farm worker Shobha Londhe is reminded of the desperate conditions that led her husband to take his own life. It’s the hottest and driest summer in years, she said, and for farm workers that often means little to no income, rising debts and intolerable heat....
Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans (www.theguardian.com)
WWF says the government has breached the law ‘without adequately assessing the consequences’...
Gavin Newsom signs bill to help people in Arizona get abortions in California (www.theguardian.com)
Under new law, doctors licensed to perform the procedure in Arizona can provide abortion care for their patients in California...
At least 66 members of far-right group in rural Oregon standing for office (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: anti-government People’s Rights Network, founded by Ammon Bundy, appearing to follow ‘entryism’ strategy...
Singapore Airlines: More than twenty treated for spinal injuries after turbulence flight (www.bbc.com)
More than 20 people who were on a Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence are in intensive care with spinal injuries, the head of a Bangkok hospital has said....
USS Harder: WW2 submarine wreck found off Philippines (www.bbc.com)
The wreckage of a US Navy submarine that sank the most Japanese warships during World War Two has been found in the South China Sea, some 80 years after it was sunk by enemy forces....
Mexico: Heat wave kills several people, hotter days ahead (www.dw.com)
The so-called “heat dome” weather phenomenon has trapped hot air over the country, causing temperatures to soar to 45 degrees Celsius in some areas....
German police investigate 'racist' video on vacation island (www.dw.com)
A viral video shows people singing racist lyrics and performing Nazi salutes at a club on the northern German island of Sylt. The club has condemned the incident...
Europe’s new political consensus: We need to make more weapons (www.politico.eu)
The war in Ukraine has shifted thinking — both among politicians and the public — on the need to spend more on defense....
A $50B US-EU deal for Ukraine is in sight (www.politico.eu)
G7 nations are coalescing around a plan to use frozen Russian assets to secure an enormous loan....
The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report (www.businessinsider.com)
US officials are considering letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons, The New York Times reports....
Supreme Court approves South Carolina congressional map previously found to dilute Black voting power (www.cnn.com)
The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to bolster the GOP’s chances....