Saudi Arabia ends 80-year petrodollar deal with US for multi-currency sales (www.indiatoday.in)
‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city (www.theguardian.com)
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...
Wildlife experts urge action on pesticides as UK insect populations plummet (www.theguardian.com)
Campaigners say next government must reduce use and toxicity of pesticides before it is too late...
Chinese #MeToo journalist jailed for five years (www.bbc.com)
A prominent female #MeToo activist in China has been handed a five-year jail sentence for “subversion against the state”....
Germany: Record cocaine haul worth billions of euros seized (www.dw.com)
“Dozens of tons of cocaine have been taken out of circulation,” German authorities said. The drugs were first uncovered in Hamburg last year....
French election descends into madcap reality TV (www.politico.eu)
The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote....
Visitors to Greece appear ill informed about heatwave risk, warn rescuers (www.theguardian.com)
Over the past week, three search and rescue operations have been started for tourists who have gone missing during treks on far-flung islands, including one for the popular TV presenter Michael Mosley, who was found dead on the island of Symi....
‘No one has any idea’ how many Israeli hostages are alive, says Hamas official (www.theguardian.com)
A senior Hamas official has said the group does not know how many of the Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza are still alive, as Israeli and Hamas sources set out positions that could undermine the possibility of an imminent ceasefire deal....
Vladimir Putin issues fresh demands to Ukraine to end war (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end Russia’s war in Ukraine....
We built a mean game to test AI's ability to apologise (www.bbc.com)
The project was a test to see how artificial intelligence might change one of the most delicate types of human interaction: the interpersonal apology. The companies who make AI-powered chatbots suggest we should find ways to insert them into our lives when we don’t know what to say or how to say it. That’s all well and good...
US-built pier in Gaza is facing its latest challenge — whether the UN will keep delivering the aid (apnews.com)
The U.S.-built pier to bring food to Gaza is facing one of its most serious challenges yet — its humanitarian partner is deciding if it can safely and ethically keep delivering supplies arriving by the U.S. sea route to starving Palestinians....
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)
No, Yevgeny Prigozhin Didn’t Suddenly Come Back From the Dead: Why Russian Twitter Thinks Prigozhin Just Came Back From the Dead (www.thedailybeast.com)
G7 agrees to loan Ukraine $50 billion from the interest on frozen Russian assets (www.npr.org)
America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring (www.economist.com)
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Did Donald Trump Jr just break the law by meeting with Viktor Orban? (www.independent.co.uk)
Gaetz says Trump trashed Ukraine aid during House GOP meeting (thehill.com)
“Complete Dehumanization”: Israel Killed Over 800 Palestinians in 11 Days (truthout.org)
From June 1 to June 11, Israeli forces killed over 800 Palestinians and wounded over 2,400 as they carried out bombardments and raids across Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported. This is an average of over 72 Palestinians killed each day at the hands of Israeli forces....
Ukraine war briefing: Sanctions to strike at Putin’s oil ‘shadow fleet’ (www.theguardian.com)
The fracturing of South African politics, explained (www.vox.com)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels hit Ukrainian-owned ship in Gulf of Aden, sparking blaze, US says (www.latimes.com)
UN Adds Israel to List of Child Killers and Maimers Due to “Unprecedented” Child-Killing Campaign in Palestine (truthout.org)
U.N. official says he saw Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinians fishing off Gaza coast (www.cbsnews.com)
Two men fishing in the waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip were killed Wednesday by Israeli troops firing at them with automatic weapons, James Elder, the global spokesperson for the United Nations' children's agency UNICEF, told CBS News....
US submarine pulls into Guantanamo Bay a day after Russian warships arrive in Cuba (apnews.com)
A U.S. Navy submarine has arrived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean....
Biden, Zelenskyy sign new 10-year security agreement (abcnews.go.com)
President Joe Biden touted on Thursday several new major U.S. commitments for Ukraine that were announced this week, including a https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-zelenskyy-sign-us-ukraine-security-agreement-g7/story?id=111061390, sanctions to disrupt Russia’s war machine, and a sign-off from the G7 on a...
