US seizes $63m worth of cocaine after dramatic shootout on high seas ( www.theguardian.com )
Patrol boat off Venezuelan coast shoots and sinks vessel suspected of carrying drugs as three people go overboard...
‘We’re in 1938 now’: Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history ( www.theguardian.com )
Interesting article that talks about the similarities between now and 1938, and the sort of lessons we can learn from history.
Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence ( www.theguardian.com )
Hungarians rally for former ally leading the charge against Viktor Orbán’s rule ( www.theguardian.com )
UN adds Israel to list of states committing violations against children ( www.theguardian.com )
‘We have normalised horror’ says agency official, after Israeli strike on school ( www.theguardian.com )
Mass casualty incidents caused by the Israeli military offensive in southern Gaza are becoming normalised in the west and leading to a sense of fatalism inside Gaza itself, according to Sam Rose, the director of planning for the Palestinian relief agency Unrwa....
‘We will not go away’: Israeli demolitions leave Bedouin homeless ( www.theguardian.com )
Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history ( www.theguardian.com )
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial ( www.theguardian.com )
Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says ( www.theguardian.com )
Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...
Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work ( www.theguardian.com )
Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research....
Revealed: the carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza after months of Israeli bombing ( www.theguardian.com )
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
Putin says Trump conviction ‘burns’ idea of US as leading democracy ( www.theguardian.com )
Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies say ( www.theguardian.com )
Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain ( www.theguardian.com )
US president’s remarks to Time magazine about PM’s role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government...
From beef noodles to bots: Taiwan’s factcheckers on fighting Chinese disinformation and ‘unstoppable’ AI ( www.theguardian.com )
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed ( www.theguardian.com )
Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts
Jerusalem braces for Israeli nationalist flag march through Muslim areas ( www.theguardian.com )
Residents of Jerusalem are bracing for a rightwing flag march through Muslim areas of the Old City, an annual event often accompanied by violence....
Russian legal foundation Pravfond linked to Kremlin activities spent millions of euros to finance propaganda and legal campaigns in Europe and around the world, leaked documents reveal ( www.theguardian.com )
Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world....
‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713638...
No end to Gaza war until ’destruction’ of Hamas, says Netanyahu ( www.theguardian.com )
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation ( www.theguardian.com )
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Israeli journalist says he was threatened by senior intelligence officials if he reported on attempts by the country's spy chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor ( www.theguardian.com )
- An investigative reporter with Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper, Haaretz, has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he reported on attempts by the former head of the Mossad to intimidate the ex-prosecutor of the international criminal court....
‘It was like the wild west’: meet the First Nations guardians protecting Canada’s pristine shores ( www.theguardian.com )
It's Delaney Mack’s first time pulling crab traps and she is unsure what to do. Mack, the newest member of the Nuxalk Guardian Watchmen, has had months of training for the multifaceted job, which might on any given day include rescuing a kayaker, taking ocean samples or monitoring a logging operation. But winching crabs up...
Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware ( www.theguardian.com )
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
