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Pluralistic: Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation (15 June 2023) ( pluralistic.net )

First baby beaver born in 400 years in Staffordshire ( www.bbc.com )

Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy ( www.bbc.com )

Man who pulled out of the Titan sub trip with his son said Stockton Rush flew to convince them on an experimental plane he built himself ( www.insider.com )

Gaming out Russia’s future ( www.politico.eu )

Why Saudi Arabia's "The Line" is not a revolution in urban living - CSH ( www.csh.ac.at )

United said it needs to hire 7,000 aircraft mechanics as a looming shortage threatens to disrupt the industry ( www.businessinsider.com )

Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy, sues Foxconn ( www.reuters.com )

NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport ( www.wfsb.com )

A Different Pizzagate: NYC Coal-Oven Rule Outrages Pie-Throwing Protester ( patch.com )

VICTORY! Maine Increases Transparency and Accountability for its Fusion Center ( www.eff.org )

Activists host ‘retirement party’ for New England’s last running coal plant, but its future is uncertain ( nenc.news )

Russia launches lab to study Xi Jinping ideology ( www.politico.eu )

Thus proving once and for all that China is a totally cool and normal country with healthy power structures.

Russia threatens it will blow up the Galați-Giurgiulesti bridge ( www.romaniajournal.ro ) Romanian

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USA: Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors ( web.archive.org )

Judge James M. Moody Jr. of Federal District Court in Little Rock said the law both discriminated against transgender people and violated the constitutional rights of doctors. He also said that the state of Arkansas had failed to substantially prove a number of its claims, including that the care was experimental or carelessly...

US ‘deeply troubled’ as Israel plans to approve thousands of homes in West Bank ( www.theguardian.com )

Amazon Delivery Drivers Walk Out in First-Ever Driver Strike | Vice ( www.vice.com )

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‘I was so scared’: the Ukrainian children taken to Russia for financial gain ( web.archive.org )

Stories told to children who lived under the Russian occupation in Ukraine’s southern Kherson province were designed to terrify them. When the fast-approaching Ukrainian forces came into Kherson, people added, they would hurt anyone who had been in contact with the Russians. The web of lies were often spun by the children’s...

Deputy chairman of UK's ruling party tells anti-monarchy protesters to ’emigrate’ ( www.independent.co.uk )

Regarding protesters who were holding up signs reading ‘Not My King’ near Buckingham Palace during Saturday’s coronation, Tory MP Lee Anderson wrote on Twitter: “If you do not wish to live in a country that has a monarchy the solution is not to turn up with your silly boards.” Meanwhile, human rights organisations...

"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...

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...

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