A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor (www.independent.co.uk)
Emigration: The hidden catalyst behind the rise of the radical right in Europe’s depopulating regions (theconversation.com)
We’ve just had a year in which every month was a record-setter (arstechnica.com)
Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Leaders rally behind Zelenskiy to make clear to Putin that, as in 1944, freedom in Europe is worth fighting for...
Myanmar soldiers cut off tattoos and gave detainees urine to drink, witnesses tell BBC (www.bbc.com)
At least 50 people were killed by Myanmar soldiers in a raid on a village in Rakhine State last week, say local residents and opposition forces....
France will send Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine, Macron says (www.politico.eu)
President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France would send Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine, in what would appear to be a significant increase in his country’s direct military support to Kyiv....
Israel Carrying Out “Unprecedented Bloodshed” in West Bank Amid Gaza Genocide (truthout.org)
Billionaire-Friendly Modi Humbled by Indians Who Make $4 a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
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Russian adult content provider forced to entrap gay men online by Dagestan police (novayagazeta.eu)
A Russian male adult content provider was detained in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the second time in two weeks on Wednesday after reportedly being forced to entrap gay men online by the republic’s police....
Iran Escalates Beach Surveillance Deploying 7,000 Police to Enforce Hijab (www.iranintl.com)
Iran is ramping up its hijab enforcement as summer approaches with the deployment of 7,000 police officers to the country’s northern beaches....
Tajikistan Set To Outlaw Islamic Hijab After Years Of Unofficial Ban (www.rferl.org)
After graduating from medical school, Salomat had to settle for working as a masseuse at a Dushanbe beauty salon because hospitals in Tajikistan don’t allow the Islamic hijab, which she wears....
Diminished Hamas switches to full insurgent mode in Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Hamas fighting force reduced by half - US officials...
Malaysia evicts 500 ‘sea nomads’ (www.bangkokpost.com)
Exclusive: Biden tells Muir US weapons will not be used to strike Moscow, Kremlin (abcnews.go.com)
European Central Bank cuts main interest rate by 0.25 points (www.theguardian.com)
Citing a sustained fall in inflation, the ECB said its deposit rate would be cut to 3.75% from a record high of 4%, putting it ahead of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, which have yet to cut interest rates.
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...
Spain to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel (www.politico.eu)
The EU has largely remained silent on the case before the International Court of Justice....
Gay man says Qatar authorities lured him via dating app, planted drugs and subjected him to unfair trial (www.cbsnews.com)
A British-Mexican man who says he was targeted for being gay and arrested on false drug charges in Qatar has been given a suspended six-month jail sentence, a fine amounting to about $2,700, and a deportation order by a court in the Arab nation, which is a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East, according to his family and Mexican...
US and allies warn China is intensifying its efforts to recruit Western military pilots (www.cnn.com)
The warning from the U.S. and its four closest intellignce partners follows several arrests of U.S. service members for allegedly trying to pass info to China....
Children Among Dozens Killed in 'Appalling' Israeli Attack on UNRWA School (www.commondreams.org)
“This is not war, it is destruction that words are unable to express,” said the father of two children killed in the Israeli strike.
Taliban publicly flogs 63 people accused of crimes, including women (www.nbcnews.com)
The U.N. office condemned corporal punishment and called for respect for international human rights obligations....
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....
Chinese nationals ran cybercrime syndicate from Zambia (www.bbc.com)
Twenty-two Chinese nationals have pleaded guilty to committing cyber-related crimes in Zambia....
Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study (www.theguardian.com)
From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....
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....
