Too late now to save Arctic summer ice, climate scientists find (www.theguardian.com)
UK: Former Brexit party MEP says there is no “given right” for low food prices, advises Britons to "not have cheese sandwiches if you can’t afford them" (www.theguardian.com)
Ann Widdecombe, who joined the Reform UK party this year, made the comments when she was asked what she would say to consumers who could not afford to pay for basics such as the ingredients of a cheese sandwich. The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Sarah Olney, said: “How out of touch can you get? Ann Widdecombe joins a...
‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal of publishing giant Elsevier over ‘unethical’ fees (www.theguardian.com)
r/StallmanWasRight...
"Free Jimmy Lai": Visitors to the House of Commons in the UK forced to hand over leaflets on press freedom in Hong Kong (www.theguardian.com)
Officials said that ‘members of the public’ are not allowed to bring on ‘political slogans or materials’ to the parliamentary estate. The material was eventually returned under pressure from David Davis, a former minister. The row comes at a sensitive time for UK-China relations, with ministers already facing pressure to...
When Russia targets ordinary homes: the attacks that mean no one is safe in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
When a missile strike far from any frontlines killed 23 people this week, including a baby boy, and injured nine more, it would have been inexplicable were it not for the fact that Russian forces have for years directed attacks on civilians as a weapon of war. To the military that bombed schools and hospitals in Syria, and tried...
British MP Stella Creasy says police ‘green lighting’ trolls to target politicians’ children (www.theguardian.com)
A man contacted the authorities arguing that the MP’s “extreme views” would damage her children and they should be removed from her care. Creasy has been a prominent campaigner on misogyny and violence against women. The man’s complaint was quickly dismissed, but the police decided that this man, who had no personal...
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani admits to ‘dirty trick’ to suppress Hispanic vote in 1993 elections (www.theguardian.com)
On Tuesday this week, Giuliani revealed voter suppression tactics to the far-right Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon and Arizona’s defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake during a discussion on his America’s Mayor Live program.
Andriy Shevchenko: ‘I want to share with the world what Ukrainian people are feeling’ (www.theguardian.com)
The most famous former footballer from Ukraine, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2004 and the Europen Champions League with Milan before he also coached his country at Euro 2020, tells about his visits at hospitals in his homeland, and his push to raise funds for victims like the 6-year old Maryna, the first child in Ukraine to...
Russia launches deadly wave of missile attacks on Ukraine cities, mother and her three-year-old daughter killed (www.theguardian.com)
Though most of Russia’s attacks were intercepted, at least 17 people were killed in the city of Uman, including two children when a missile hit a residential building. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted: “Missile strikes killing innocent Ukrainians in their sleep, including a … child, is Russia’s...
UK company set up in name of top Putin official in Ukraine despite being under sanctions (www.theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Saldo, a notorious puppet of the Kremlin in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, is listed as the owner of a UK company registered in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine since November last year, five months after his name was added to the sanctions list.
China widens ‘already breathtaking’ scope to arrest foreigners for espionage (www.theguardian.com)
Observers have warned that the expanded law, to take effect on 1 July, increases the risk faced by foreign individuals and entities working in China, particularly those in key technology, research and monitoring and other potentially sensitive sectors.
UK: defence secretary Ben Wallace accused of concealing Russian ‘act of war’ against Royal Air Force plane (www.theguardian.com)
The chair of the defence select committee questioned an account given by Wallace to parliament of a dangerous incident which occurred last September and was revealed in a leak of top secret Pentagon documents. According to the papers, a Russian pilot had locked on to the British aircraft in international airspace and, believing...
India heatwave: temperatures hit 40C (www.theguardian.com)
A document from 2008 warned that so many different western agencies were conducting operations inside gaming services that a “deconfliction” group was needed to prevent them spying on each other. (www.theguardian.com)
[Opinion] "We shouldn’t eat animals, whether they are intelligent or not" (www.theguardian.com)
“The clear and obvious solution is for those of us who have a choice in what we eat each day to simply adopt a nutritious, plant-based diet and abstain from meat altogether – the kind with legs and the kind with fins,” says a researcher.
Lest we remember: how Britain buried its history of slavery (www.theguardian.com)
‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens (www.theguardian.com)
"Hundreds of foreign hunters come to Sweden for lynx hunting because they think it is exciting" (www.theguardian.com)
After the biggest ever wolf cull in Sweden in recent months, the planned cull of lynx is out of all proportion to any danger to livestock or people, Swedish wildlife conservationists say. They are asking the EU to take action against Sweden for breaching environmental law.
China’s defiant fur farmers (www.theguardian.com)
"Some may call it greed, but we also keep pets and eat livestock, that’s because there is a demand, so how is it any different to fur trade?”, one fur garment seller says.
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone (www.theguardian.com)
Work carried on as usual in Amazon facility even though a colleague's dead body laid on the floor (www.theguardian.com)
Dutch city becomes world’s first to ban meat adverts in public (www.theguardian.com)
Remember the child mannequin being run over by a Tesla? Now Musk obsessives are putting their actual, living children in front of moving Tesla cars just to prove a point (www.theguardian.com)
A continuation of this: lemmy.ml/post/427773/
Google refuses to reinstate man’s account after he took medical images of son’s groin (www.theguardian.com)
This is why using Google is a bad idea. Random bans that make no sense.