Net migration to UK hit record 745,000 in 2022, revised figures show (www.theguardian.com)
Anger across Italy as killing of student highlights country’s femicide rate (www.theguardian.com)
‘I’m fighting for my country’: anger over immigration spills into rage on Dublin streets (www.theguardian.com)
Outgoing Netherlands PM’s party rules out Geert Wilders coalition (www.theguardian.com)
Talks begin with liberal leader warning people not to be fooled by Wilders’ ‘Mother Teresa’ act
‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase (www.theguardian.com)
Online anti-vaxxers, conflating Covid and MMR theories, are convincing parents against immunising their children
Revealed: how top PR firm uses ‘trust barometer’ to promote world’s autocrats (www.theguardian.com)
Edelman’s trust barometer is “quoted everywhere as if this is some credible, objective research from a thinktank, whereas there is a fairly obvious commercial background, and it’s fairly obviously a sales tool,”
‘I have no idea how I’ll survive’: Myanmar villagers who fled airstrikes face food shortage (www.theguardian.com)
‘Alive with rats’: north Queensland town of Karumba overrun by plague of swimming rodents (www.theguardian.com)
Victoria warned against ‘very inefficient’ hydrogen buses after trial announced (www.theguardian.com)
Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets (www.theguardian.com)
AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87 (www.theguardian.com)
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, who wrote under the name AS Byatt, authored complex and critically acclaimed novels, including the Booker prize-winning Possession and her examination of artistic creation, The Children’s Book. Over her career, she won a swathe of literary awards, from the Booker to a Chevalier of France’s Order of...
Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens (www.theguardian.com)
Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets (www.theguardian.com)
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Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets (www.theguardian.com)
A jury has found the former head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence unit guilty of leaking state secrets, the first time a Canadian has been convicted under the country’s Security of Information Act....
Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens (www.theguardian.com)
Germany proves that private renting can work better than it does in Britain (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla (www.theguardian.com)
‘There are no crops to celebrate’: climate crisis wipes out a way of life in Taiwan’s mountains (www.theguardian.com)
Over 100 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza as attack continues despite ceasefire deal (www.theguardian.com)
Far-right party set to win most seats in Dutch elections, exit polls show (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens (www.theguardian.com)
Financial assets known as bona vacantia, owned by people who died without a will or known next of kin, are collected by the duchy. Over the last 10 years, it has collected more than £60m in the funds. It has long claimed that, after deducting costs, bona vacantia revenues are donated to charities....
West risks being complicit in Israeli war crimes, warn Arab and Muslim foreign ministers (www.theguardian.com)
Dutch General Elections: populist, socially conservative PVV set to be biggest by a large margin. (www.theguardian.com)
The PVV is predicted to win 35 out of 151 seats, followed by GL-PvdA (left progressive) at 25, previous ruling party VVD (right) at 24 and newcomer NSC (centre conservative) at 20.