US ex-official pleads guilty in heist to steal and sell water with secret pipe (www.theguardian.com)
Dennis Falaschi charged in multi-million dollar scheme as records show he wasn’t only one to take water from California’s farm region...
Social media bosses are ‘the largest dictators’, says Nobel peace prize winner (www.theguardian.com)
Journalist Maria Ressa named Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk in speech at Hay literary festival in Powys...
US returns stolen Italian art worth $65m in vow to put loot back ‘where it belongs’ (www.theguardian.com)
Italy celebrates getting back 600 antiquities that were taken and sold years ago and recovered as a result of criminal investigations...
NSW government ‘very concerned’ about asbestos found in Sydney landscaping soil (www.theguardian.com)
Financially-stricken Melbourne Rebels axed from Super Rugby Pacific (www.theguardian.com)
Well, fuck. Any ozzies want to chime in? Not a vote of confidence ahead of 2027
‘Happiest I’ve ever seen her’: the sports teams giving trans kids a safe place to play (www.theguardian.com)
Inclusive clubs provide a supportive environment for LGBTQ+ children amid growing antagonism toward transgender inclusion in athletics
Waitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls show (www.theguardian.com)
Republican activist with ties to DeSantis and Rubio indicted over January 6 (www.theguardian.com)
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Israeli campaign against ICC may be ‘crimes against justice’, say legal experts (www.theguardian.com)
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Person dies after falling into jet engine at Schiphol airport (www.theguardian.com)
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Lawsuit against American Airlines claims Black passengers were asked to deboard flight (www.theguardian.com)
Lawsuit alleges airline representative approached three Black men individually and asked them to leave without explanation
White House says Israel’s latest actions in Rafah do not cross US red line (www.theguardian.com)
Junior doctors to go on strike in England from 27 June to 2 July (www.theguardian.com)
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts
UCLA academic workers go on strike in support of pro-Palestinian protests (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump sells private jet to Republican donor amid cash squeeze (www.theguardian.com)
Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit (www.theguardian.com)
Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit (www.theguardian.com)
White House says Israel’s latest actions in Rafah do not cross US red line (www.theguardian.com)
Washington says it is also monitoring Israel’s inquiry into attack on Sunday that killed at least 45 people in Gaza camp...
Delhi temperature hits 49.9C as India’s capital records hottest day (www.theguardian.com)
Authorities have warned of water shortages as temperatures reach nine degrees higher than expected...
Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs? (Opinion Piece by Moustafa Bayoumi) (www.theguardian.com)
This past Sunday night, an Israeli assault struck displaced Palestinians sheltering in tents outside of Rafah, in northern Gaza. The barrage killed at least 45 people in a hellish blaze, according to medics and witnesses, with many of the dead children charred or dismembered beyond recognition. “We pulled out children who were...
Royal Mail owner agrees to £3.57bn takeover by Czech billionaire (www.theguardian.com)
Cash offer from Daniel Křetínský’s EP Group still needs approval from shareholders and government...
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court must cease immediately.”...
In historic first, Canada lawmaker addresses legislature in Indigenous language (www.theguardian.com)
Sol Mamakwa, a New Democratic party member from the community of Kingfisher Lake First Nation, rose on Tuesday to give the province’s first-ever Indigenous language speech in Queen’s Park, telling colleagues the moment left him feeling “thankful and proud”....
Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows | Half of all new cars are now SUVs, making them a major cause of the intensifying climate crisis, say experts (www.theguardian.com)
