Amazon facing ‘urgent’ drug crisis after gutting of protections, says narcotics chief (www.theguardian.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene implies she thinks she’s being spied on via her TV (www.theguardian.com)
Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza (www.theguardian.com)
No bed or bath: New Zealand boat shed sells for record $2m despite housing market crash (www.theguardian.com)
Draft EU plans to allow spying on journalists are dangerous, warn critics (www.theguardian.com)
Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics (www.theguardian.com)
Britain’s shorter children reveal a grim story about austerity, but its scars run far deeper | Michael Marmot (www.theguardian.com)
Since 2010, our five-year-olds have been showing signs of reduced growth, a likely symptom of policies that have led to impoverished lives
Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by nitrogen pollution crisis (www.theguardian.com)
There is much to say about these events, one sentence that caught my eye was: "Why are we so strict in Belgium and in the Netherlands? Because we are already exceeding the critical loads.”
Wagner chief claims to have seized military sites in Rostov as Moscow implements anti-terror measures (www.theguardian.com)
In videos posted on social media early on Saturday, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that he was at the headquarters of the Southern Military District (SMD) in Rostov and demanded that defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general Valery Gerasimov come to the city, 1,000 kilometres south of Moscow. The videos could not be...
Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM says (www.theguardian.com)
Interesting to hear such things discussed at that level. Turning it off is suggested to get rid of compromised background processes that might be spying on users. Obviously, this only help against malware that isn't permanently installed on a phone.
Victims lose €3.5m in scam accusing them of viewing child abuse images (www.theguardian.com)
Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states (www.theguardian.com)
Once again the conservative republicans seem to be better than anyone else at finding ways to "win" at politics.
US honeybees suffer second deadliest season on record (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter agrees to comply with tough EU disinformation laws (www.theguardian.com)
The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawi (www.theguardian.com)
Bolsonaro may face ban on running for office in 2026 (www.theguardian.com)
Anger in Japan as report reveals children were forcibly sterilised (www.theguardian.com)
Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
"Based on these findings, the authors warn that more than a fifth of ecosystems worldwide, including the Amazon rainforest, are at risk of a catastrophic breakdown within a human lifetime."
Workplace sins: US restaurant used fake priest in ‘shameless’ wage theft scheme (www.theguardian.com)
How John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil war (www.theguardian.com)
On food, identity and war: ‘I no longer know how to think about borsch’ (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese culinary craze of stir-fried stones rocks the internet (www.theguardian.com)
Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt | Geoffrey Lean (www.theguardian.com)
A proposed plastics treaty could join the rescue of the ozone layer as a landmark success, says specialist environment correspondent Geoffrey Lean
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating (www.theguardian.com)
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...