Ukraine war briefing: Ukrainian army confirms retreat from part of key town of Chasiv Yar (www.theguardian.com)
Superman, Frodo and Star Wars: the stunning life of Kiran Shah – the world’s smallest stuntman (www.theguardian.com)
As Canada braces for a raging summer, Indigenous communities remain displaced (www.theguardian.com)
When Robert Laboucan pictured his son taking his first steps he imagined it would be at home, maybe even in front of a camera in their living room. Instead, the one-year-old first walked in the hallway of the Flamingo Inn in High Level, the tiny Alberta town where the family have been living for more than a year after escaping...
Rightwingers’ push to recall Wisconsin Republican speaker fails again (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine endures widespread blackouts as Russia attacks critical infrastructure (www.theguardian.com)
Ukrainians are having to cope with widespread emergency blackouts as Russia continued to pound critical infrastructure over the weekend....
‘It is all lining up’: Plan for Ukraine to finally start using F-16 jets this summer (www.theguardian.com)
After delays in delivery and training pilots and ground staff, Netherlands says Ukraine should get first planes in summer...
Israeli foreign minister says decision on all-out war against Hezbollah is near (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use (www.theguardian.com)
Revelation of emails to Imperial College scientists comes amid growing concerns about security risk posed by academic tie-ups with China...
White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine war briefing: Sanctions to strike at Putin’s oil ‘shadow fleet’ (www.theguardian.com)
Russia accused of ‘deliberate’ starvation tactics in Mariupol in submission to ICC (www.theguardian.com)
Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize (www.theguardian.com)
Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Malawi soldiers search mountain forests after plane carrying vice-president goes missing (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine war briefing: Ukrainian intelligence ‘strikes Su-57 warplane deep inside Russia’ (www.theguardian.com)
The cat in the flat: Singapore lifts ban on pets in public housing (www.theguardian.com)
Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence (www.theguardian.com)
Man arrested after attacking Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen (www.theguardian.com)
‘We will not go away’: Israeli demolitions leave Bedouin homeless (www.theguardian.com)
Biden’s migrant order is recipe for chaos at US border: ‘It will only cause suffering’ (www.theguardian.com)
To suspend the number of people who can apply for asylum, Biden is relying on the same mechanism Donald Trump turned to during his presidency: section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act....
Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists say calamities on same scale as disaster that has killed 169 will become more common if emissions not cut...
The warring conmen at the heart of a €5bn carbon scam (www.theguardian.com)
Daphne and other scammers’ pillaging of Europe’s carbon market constitutes what the media have called “the fraud of the century” – billions of euros were stolen in a matter of months. The shadowy scheme attracted established crime rings and amateur hucksters alike, many of whom knew one another. Its web reached the...
‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes. In the city’s largest ever national security trial – involving the...
‘My whole life is in that house’: survivors fleeing domestic violence can lose much more than their home (www.theguardian.com)
In Australia, victim-survivors can only take out property recovery orders before an apprehended domestic violence order (ADVO) is finalised....
Spain to give Ukraine €1bn in military aid in decade-long defence deal (www.theguardian.com)
Spain will provide Ukraine with €1bn in military aid this year after the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, met in Madrid to sign an “enormously important”, decade-long defence and security deal....
