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Democracy ‘in trouble, stagnant at best, and declining in many places’ ( www.aljazeera.com )

Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI - The Verge ( www.theverge.com )

Taiwanese citizens take the nation's defense into their own hands: Interview with scholar Wen Liu ( globalvoices.org )

For people in Taiwan living under regular military threats from China, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the West’s responses to it have prompted queries about the Taiwanese military forces’ own readiness and resilience. In the early days following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Taipei quickly...

China is flooding Taiwan with fake news and disinformation ahead of a major election. Here’s how it’s fighting back ( feddit.de )

Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/6763982

Brave lays off 9% of its workforce | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says ( www.theguardian.com )

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 ( www.theguardian.com )

Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media ( thediplomat.com )

Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say ( wapo.st )

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‘Ghost flights’: Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole ( www.theguardian.com )

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Titanic sub CEO was on a 'predatory' mission to convince influential people to support his unsafe vessel, says expert ( www.insider.com )

Prices soar in Argentina after Milei’s currency devaluation ( english.elpais.com )

40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far ( www.insider.com )

U.S. President Biden says "Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under single government" and "extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop" ( feddit.de )

Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5830159...

Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight’s Engines Told Cops He’d Taken Shrooms, Feds Say ( www.thedailybeast.com )

‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalists ( www.indexoncensorship.org )

“It is undeniable that the intrinsics of Julian’s case are so shocking it is something one would expect from the worst dictatorships,” Stella Assange says....

Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean ( www.theguardian.com )

Spanish FA president Rubiales resigns over Hermoso kiss ( www.bbc.co.uk )

Saudi LGBTQ refugees live in fear of being kidnapped ( www.indexoncensorship.org )

[The British magazine ‘Index On Censorship’ publishes an article which has reportedly been blocked by Vice to not offend Saudi Arabia.]

China stops releasing youth jobs data as economic figures disappoint ( m.koreatimes.co.kr )

China on Tuesday said it would stop releasing data on its rising youth unemployment as a raft of disappointing figures stoked concerns over the state of the world’s second largest economy....

Dozens of cancer patients could die as Gaza’s main cancer treatment hospital forced to stop most activities over fuel shortage, UN says ( news.un.org )

The UN human rights office OHCHR noted that given the high number of civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza “and the scale of the destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, there are “serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.”

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