Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws (www.theguardian.com)
State, which just had its hottest year since 1895, will ban offshore wind power, boost natural gas and reduce gas pipeline rules...
Gunman Who Shot Slovak PM Linked to Pro-Russian Extremist Group (www.kyivpost.com)
Billionaire hasn't heard of Streisand effect (www.betootaadvocate.com)
! betootaadvocate.com/…/gina-furiously-demands-nati…...
US military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on (apnews.com)
The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war....
Israel kills more than 500 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7 (www.aljazeera.com)
That toll is more than three times the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank in 2022....
Germany: Money-laundering probe into far-right AfD lawmaker (www.dw.com)
Bavarian prosecutors are investigating suspected money-laundering activities by a far-right politician. The German parliament says it has lifted the political immunity of the AfD member Petr Bystron....
Fate of Chinese vlogger unknown after scheduled release (www.bbc.com)
Zhang Zhan’s condition is unclear several days after her scheduled release from jail....
How the Kremlin launders disinformation around the globe, attempting to sow division and undermine democracy (www.info-res.org)
Archived link...
The families risking everything to keep Ukraine’s trains running – photo essay (www.theguardian.com)
Dutch photographer and multimedia journalist Jelle Krings revisits the families that have kept a war-torn country moving, despite the Russian onslaught and in the face of great personal sacrifice...
‘Crossed a line’: students threatened with police action over pro-Palestine sit-in at University of Melbourne (www.theguardian.com)
University of Melbourne cancels classes as activists at Deakin defy directives on encampments...
Israeli tank fire kills five IDF soldiers in north Gaza (www.bbc.co.uk)
The reported friendly-fire incident in Jabalia is one of the deadliest since the war began....
‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’: schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares (www.theguardian.com)
A group of determined teenagers has taken the government to court for not doing more to protect their community from the noxious byproduct of oil extraction in the northern Amazon...
State-backed digital violence used to silence women in Thailand (www.amnesty.org)
Women and LGBTI activists are being subjected to an online onslaught of abuse....
World leaders fail to act as Israeli invasion of Rafah worsens humanitarian catastrophe (www.amnesty.org)
It is time to put maximum pressure on Israel and the international community to end the repeated forcible displacement of the people of Gaza....
5 Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire in northern Gaza (www.nbcnews.com)
The Israeli military said Thursday that five soldiers were killed and seven injured in a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza, amid renewed battles in the area against regrouped Hamas militants....
‘Nothing short of horrific’: Amnesty criticises arrest of man in Qatar ‘trapped’ by police on Grindr (www.theguardian.com)
Manuel Guerrero Aviña thought he was meeting a date, but was confronted by police who charged him for drug possession...
Hundreds arrested, roads barricaded in New Caledonia as riots continue (www.reuters.com)
SYDNEY, May 16 (Reuters) - Armed forces were protecting New Caledonia’s two airports and port after a third night of violent riots that have killed four people, the Pacific Island’s top French official said on Thursday morning, adding at least four alleged instigators were under house arrest....
Putin in China seeking support for Ukraine war effort (www.dw.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing Wednesday for two days of meetings with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Putin’s second trip to China in six months will focus on military and financial assistance....
UK climate activists convicted in first trial of new anti-protest laws (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli settlers attack Gaza bound aid convoy at West Bank crossing (www.youtube.com)
Nice work Israel, how could it be a real genocide without a Hunger Plan? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
Social media users are blocking celebs to support Palestine (www.theverge.com)
The juxtaposition of the Met Gala and Gaza have users making references to The Hunger Games....
Milo Yiannopoulos Parts Ways With Kanye West Over Yeezy Porn Plan (www.rollingstone.com)
US military pier starts moving towards Gaza (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by President Joe Biden to speed the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians....
France imposes state of emergency in New Caledonia as unrest continues (www.npr.org)
Always weird to me how France is so insistent on clinging to its colonial empire, two decades into the 21st century, despite the headaches that causes.
US intelligence spotted Chinese, Iranian deepfakes in 2020 aimed at influencing US voters (www.cnn.com)
