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French move to make abortion a ‘guaranteed freedom’ gains big win in lower house (www.theguardian.com)

Constitutional change could face fight in Senate after national assembly approves measure by 493 votes to 30...

‘Let’s find out’: shipwreck mysteriously appears on Newfoundland coast (www.theguardian.com)

There’s a pretty cool set of footage from CBC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GApsl5_4PsE

Disposable vapes to be banned in UK as part of drive to curb youth vaping (www.theguardian.com)

Plans to make vaping less appealing also to include restricting fruity flavours and introducing plain packaging...

Trump’s ‘achilles heel’? Haley’s refusal to drop out infuriates ex-president (www.theguardian.com)

US ‘disappointed’ Hungary taking so long to approve Sweden joining Nato (www.theguardian.com)

Washington’s ambassador says Budapest is ‘really alone’ and describes its foreign policy as a ‘fantasy’...

More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings (www.theguardian.com)

More than 100,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protest against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans at a meeting of extremists....

Zelenskiy slams Trump’s rhetoric on stopping the war as ‘very dangerous’ (www.theguardian.com)

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, fears that if Donald Trump returns to the White House next year he could make unilateral concessions to Russia that override Ukraine’s interests and branded the former US president’s claims he could stop the war in 24 hours as “very dangerous”....

Italian province orders all dogs to be DNA tested in poo crackdown (www.theguardian.com)

World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer (www.theguardian.com)

Russian Orthodox priest faces expulsion for refusing to pray for victory over Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)

Church court says Aleksiy Uminsky broke his oath by refusing to recite ‘Prayer for Holy Rus’, which church has made compulsory at services...

Cape Verde becomes fourth African country to eliminate malaria (www.theguardian.com)

Nikki Haley’s pretend slavery ‘gaffe’ told us what this election is about (www.theguardian.com)

Voters will decide the unresolved question of the civil war: do we move backwards, or forwards toward true democracy?...

Trump told European leaders that US ‘will never come to help you’ (www.theguardian.com)

Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said....

Flowers become incels due to climate change. (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10458716...

African elephant populations stabilise in southern heartlands (www.theguardian.com)

Iceland’s ‘bike whisperer’: the vigilante who finds stolen bicycles – and helps thieves change (www.theguardian.com)

Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental? (www.theguardian.com)

scientists led by archaeologist Prof Mark Collard of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver say the truth may be far more gruesome. “There is compelling evidence that these people may have had their fingers amputated deliberately in rituals intended to elicit help from supernatural entities,” said Collard.

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