Category 5 Hurricane Otis makes landfall near Acapulco, Mexico ( edition.cnn.com )
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U.S. declassifies historic Nixon intelligence reports on 1973 Chile coup ( www.axios.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.
Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills ( www.theguardian.com )
North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’ ( www.rfa.org )
Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered' ( www.livescience.com )
A vital ocean current system that helps regulate the Northern Hemisphere’s climate could collapse anytime from 2025 and unleash climate chaos, a controversial new study warns....
Borax is the new Tide Pods and poison control experts are facepalming ( arstechnica.com )
Commentary: We face a world potentially running out of antibiotics ( www.channelnewsasia.com )
Palestinians Sue Biden for Failing to Prevent Genocide in Gaza ( theintercept.com )
As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies ( www.nytimes.com )
Post uses a gift link so everyone can access it....
As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid' ( apnews.com )
Media company Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say ( www.theguardian.com )
The company recently signed a lucrative partnership deal with the MBC Group, a media company controlled by the Saudi government, to establish a joint venture in the Middle Eastern country.
COVID symptoms seem to never touch certain people — and researchers may have finally figured out why ( www.cbsnews.com )
Here is the study the article references:...
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of deliberately attacking civilians and journalists in Lebanon ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/6542850...
Gaza: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019, Save the Children International says ( web.archive.org )
Children make up more than 40% of the 7,703 people killed in Gaza, and more than a third of all fatalities across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel. With a further 1,000 children reported missing in Gaza assumed buried under the rubble, the death toll is likely much higher....
U.S. is sending a carrier strike group closer to Israel and will begin supplying munitions starting today ( www.nbcnews.com )
UN chief uses rare power to warn Security Council of impending ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza ( apnews.com )
Lesbian couple flees Italy as government strips them of parental rights ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ ( www.theguardian.com )
Nations overwhelmingly vote for humanitarian truce at the UN, as Gazans say they have been ‘left in the dark’ ( edition.cnn.com )
Co-creator of lithium-ion battery and the oldest Nobel winner dies at age 100 ( 12ft.io )
‘You’re remembered for the rules you break’: OceanGate CEO who was piloting the Titan admitted in 2021 that the sub’s construction had ‘broken some rules’ ( fortune.com )
“I’d like to be remembered as an innovator,” he said, speaking from the interior of one of OceanGate’s submersibles. “I think it was [famous American General Douglas] MacArthur that said, ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break.’”...
6 women are rescued from a refrigerated truck in France after making distress call to a BBC reporter ( apnews.com )
Ukrainian children as young as 4 months old are being forcibly taken to Russia. Officials don't know what is happening to them. ( www.businessinsider.com )
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/3977999...
"It serves no purpose, it is unjust:" 63 Australian politicians urge US to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walk free ( www.theguardian.com )
The Australian federal politicians have explicitly called on the US to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, who remains in Belmarsh prison in the UK, warning of “a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia” if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited.
