Comet fragment lights up sky over Spain and Portugal 'like a movie' ( www.reuters.com )
Did anyone here see it?
Lawmakers in Philippines push for probe into Pentagon's anti-vax propaganda operation ( www.reuters.com )
In Mexico, 19 bodies found in truck as violence spreads in southern state ( www.reuters.com )
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Ukraine peace summit pushes neutral Swiss toward Western embrace ( www.reuters.com )
An upcoming Ukraine peace summit, ostensibly the most ambitious bid in years by neutral Switzerland to mediate a major conflict, is instead showing how Swiss economic and security interests increasingly align with Western Europe over Russia....
Australia denounces China over 'unsafe' aerial confrontation ( www.reuters.com )
Why pick on us? Cyprus perplexed by Hezbollah threats ( www.reuters.com )
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic ( www.reuters.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/13270546
Germany denounces spate of attacks on politicians recalling 'darkest era' of its history ( www.reuters.com )
Western Canada blazes cause evacuation orders, air quality concerns ( www.reuters.com )
The season's first major wildfires have spread to roughly 8,000 hectares across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities issued an evacuation order for a community in British Columbia and warned of poor air quality across provinces....
Canada police charge three with murder of Sikh leader Nijjar, probe India link ( www.reuters.com )
Gunmen fire on targets in Russia's Dagestan region, six police killed, officials say ( www.reuters.com )
Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing six policemen and injuring 12, the region's interior ministry was quoted as saying....
Wikileaks' Julian Assange given permission to appeal against U.S. extradition, UK court rules ( www.reuters.com )
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's battle to avoid extradition to the United States received a huge boost on Monday when London's High Court ruled that U.S. assurances over his case were unsatisfactory and he would get a full appeal hearing....
Sri Lanka to send delegation to Russia to help repatriate men duped into Ukraine fighting ( www.reuters.com )
Teva launches generic version of Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug Victoza | Reuters ( www.reuters.com )
India's May oil imports: Russia at record high, Saudi lowest in 10-mth ( www.reuters.com )
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks ( www.reuters.com )
U.S. warned Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) access to dollar system could be curbed over Russia ( www.reuters.com )
TLDR: RBI, the largest Western bank in Russia, has been warned by the U.S. Treasury about financial system access in a letter voicing concerns over its Russian business. Concerns remain even though RBI dropped plans to sell its Russia-business to sanctioned billionaire Deripaska. Austrian finance ministry says it assumes RBI...
Google sued by US artists over AI image generator ( www.reuters.com )
April 29 (Reuters) - Google has been hit with a new copyright lawsuit in California federal court by a group of visual artists who claimed the Alphabet unit used their work without permission to train Imagen, its artificial-intelligence powered image generator....
Beluga whale pair move from Ukraine's war-torn Kharkiv to Spain's Valencia ( www.reuters.com )
MADRID, June 20 (Reuters) - Marine biologists have moved a pair of beluga whales from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv - the target of daily shelling by Russian forces - to the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, in what they described as a long and risky international rescue operation....
Putin and Xi pledge a new era and condemn the United States | Reuters ( www.reuters.com )
Putin and Xi cast U.S. as Cold War hegemon...
Israeli military takes control of vital Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt ( www.reuters.com )
Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" ( www.reuters.com )
Canada's ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....
Israel keeps pounding central Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274 ( www.reuters.com )
Japan protests over Chinese ambassador's "extremely inappropriate" comment about Japanese people who would be "dragged into the fire" if they support Taiwan's independence ( www.reuters.com )
Japan has lodged a protest against the Chinese ambassador's "extremely inappropriate" comments about Taiwan, chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Wednesday....
Why German politicians are facing growing violence ( www.reuters.com )
The black-clad attackers beat up Matthias Ecke so badly as he put up posters in Dresden that he needed surgery. In Nordhorn, a man threw eggs at a lawmaker then punched him in the face. In Berlin, a pensioner hit a senator on the head with a bag....
