The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy (www.theguardian.com)
Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism...
US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says | Israel-Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
US returns to lunar surface for first time in over 50 years: ‘Welcome to the moon’ (www.theguardian.com)
Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft Odysseus lands after a 73-minute descent, touching down near moon’s south pole...
Australian working in Rafah hospital says all staff are struggling: ‘We have victims caring for victims’ (www.theguardian.com)
South Korea doctors’ strike: ‘severe’ public health alert issued for first time (www.theguardian.com)
US to impose sanctions on 500 Russia-linked targets to mark Ukraine war anniversary (www.theguardian.com)
Military industrial complex and companies aiding Moscow in third countries will be targeted, treasury says...
Russian pilot who defected found dead in Spain, says Ukraine security agency (www.theguardian.com)
A Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year in a secret operation has been found dead in Spain, according to the main military intelligence agency in Kyiv....
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report....
Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation (www.theguardian.com)
Polish farmers dump grain in protest as Ukraine dispute deepens (www.theguardian.com)
Poland’s bitter dispute with Ukraine over farm imports has escalated as Polish farmers dumped grain from a freight train as part of nationwide protests and Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Warsaw of “mockery”....
UK hedgehog sightings on the rise after years of decline, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution (www.theguardian.com)
The environmentally friendly LignaSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles...
High court rejects legal challenge over UK arms sales to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India (www.theguardian.com)
Israel says it will launch Rafah assault if hostages not freed by Ramadan (www.theguardian.com)
A member of Israel’s war cabinet has said the country will launch its threatened ground offensive against Rafah, the last place of relative safety in Gaza, if Hamas does not release its remaining Israeli hostages by the beginning of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in just under three weeks....
‘It’s legalised robbery’: anger grows at China’s struggling shadow banks | Chinese economy | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts (www.theguardian.com)
There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?...
Israel has gone ‘beyond self-defence’ in Gaza, says Labour’s Streeting (www.theguardian.com)
Ministers confirm plan to ban use of mobile phones in schools in England (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza’s largest functioning hospital ‘completely out of service’, say health officials (www.theguardian.com)
Dozens killed in outbreak of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea highlands (www.theguardian.com)
Russia claims full control of Avdiivka after Ukrainian retreat (www.theguardian.com)
Russia has said it has taken full control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, its biggest gain since capturing Bakhmut last May, after a retreat by Ukrainian troops....
Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline’s chatbot (www.theguardian.com)
Company claimed its chatbot ‘was responsible for its own actions’ when giving wrong information about bereavement fare...
Russia’s Avdiivka offensive is failing, says top Ukrainian officer (www.theguardian.com)
A top Ukrainian commander has claimed that Russia’s biggest offensive in months – involving tanks, thousands of soldiers and armoured vehicles in an attack on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka – is failing, as he admitted Kyiv’s own attempts to advance in the south were proving “difficult”....
Egypt scraps plan to restore cladding on one of three great pyramids of Giza (www.theguardian.com)
