US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official (www.theguardian.com)
New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil, poll shows (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump found guilty of hush-money plot to influence 2016 election (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump has been found guilty of using a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election....
Donald Trump found guilty of hush-money plot to influence 2016 election (www.theguardian.com)
Verdict in first criminal trial against a US president comes after jury deliberated for less than 12 hours
Third person tested positive for bird flu in the US, CDC says (www.theguardian.com)
Farm worker who had contact with sick cows tests positive for H5N1, making it the second case detected in Michigan...
No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached...
US state department report absolving Israel on Gaza aid is false, says ex-official (www.theguardian.com)
No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds | Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli journalist says he was threatened by senior intelligence officials if he reported on attempts by the country's spy chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor (www.theguardian.com)
- An investigative reporter with Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper, Haaretz, has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he reported on attempts by the former head of the Mossad to intimidate the ex-prosecutor of the international criminal court....
Call climate change what it is: violence | Rebecca Solnit (www.theguardian.com)
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry (www.theguardian.com)
According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”...
‘It was like the wild west’: meet the First Nations guardians protecting Canada’s pristine shores (www.theguardian.com)
It’s Delaney Mack’s first time pulling crab traps and she is unsure what to do. Mack, the newest member of the Nuxalk Guardian Watchmen, has had months of training for the multifaceted job, which might on any given day include rescuing a kayaker, taking ocean samples or monitoring a logging operation. But winching crabs up...
Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa (www.theguardian.com)
A long-standing US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda, including a governing party member who endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ laws by saying gays “should be castrated”, and a virulently homophobic founder of a “militaristic” Christian boys camp....
Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study....
California comedown: how illicit cannabis farms have left a wilderness where ‘you’re lucky to see a lizard’ (www.theguardian.com)
In the shadow of Mount Shasta in northern California, a sea of makeshift greenhouses and plywood huts sprawls between the conifer trees of the high desert. From the air, many of the polytunnels look in bad shape, their plastic covers torn by the wind to reveal what’s inside: hundreds of cannabis plants packet tightly together,...
Critics of Putin and his allies targeted with spyware inside the EU (www.theguardian.com)
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....
Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says (www.theguardian.com)
USA | Texas Republicans open to death penalty for abortion providers (www.theguardian.com)
GOP convention votes on wide-ranging platform including striking law protecting abortion providers from being charged with murder...
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Rightwing NZ government accused of ‘war on nature’ as it takes axe to climate policies (www.theguardian.com)
Government of Christopher Luxon has made sweeping cuts to climate projects in its first budget, with no new significant environmental investments
Only seven EU countries require parties to reveal identity of all private donors (www.theguardian.com)
Spain and France are among the most opaque when it comes to declaring who party funders are, analysis shows...
