Students across Europe hold Gaza war protests in run-up to UN vote on Palestinian statehood (www.theguardian.com)
Thirty-two people were arrested as Dutch police broke up a Gaza war protest at the University of Amsterdam, in a second day of unrest over the conflict. Police said the offences included public violence, vandalism and assault....
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77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified (www.commondreams.org)
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.
Brazil flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced (www.theguardian.com)
The death toll from what authorities call the worst climate disaster ever to strike southern Brazil has risen to 90, after ferocious rain flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and forcing the closure of the main airport in the country’s fifth biggest city....
Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds (www.dw.com)
Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank....
Attacks on German politicians stir memories of Nazi past (www.politico.eu)
Recent assaults spark national debate over Germany’s increasingly raw political climate, with some seeing echoes of its dark history....
Brexit eel wars: Brussels accuses Britain of being too green (www.politico.eu)
Snakey fish fight is center stage as U.K.’s new environmental measures rub the EU the wrong way....
Pakistan: 7 workers shot dead in their sleep in Balochistan (www.dw.com)
Police said gunmen stormed into a house near southwestern Pakistan’s Gwadar city and shot workers in an apparent ethnic attack. The victims were originally from Pakistan’s Punjab province....
Argentina: Unions call nationwide strike over Milei's policy (www.dw.com)
Labor unions called for people to strike against President Javier Milei’s austerity agenda after the lower house of Argentina’s Congress approved a downsized version of Milei’s economic overhaul package in April....
Western military trainers could go to Ukraine, Lithuania minister says (www.theguardian.com)
Gabrielius Landsbergis also backs David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron on standing up to Putin...
Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study (www.theguardian.com)
Biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental driver of infectious disease outbreaks, making them more dangerous and widespread, a study has found....
More than 200 people with diabetes injured after software issue drained insulin pump batteries | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
More than 200 people with diabetes have been injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
Malawians who abandoned Israeli farms deported (www.bbc.com)
Twelve Malawians have been deported from Israel after leaving the farms where they were working, to get higher salaries elsewhere....
Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals (www.bbc.com)
Hundreds of Gaza’s water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify has found. Damage to a major supplies depot has also severely disrupted repairs. The lack of clean water and flows of untreated sewage pose a serious threat to...
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'We must not forget': How a bombing by US turned China into a superpower (www.business-standard.com)
Neom: Forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city (www.bbc.com)
Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project....
Man Booked For Using VPN In J&K's Rajouri, 3rd Such Case In 2 Days (www.ndtv.com)
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A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests (www.wired.com)
To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots (www.washingtonpost.com)
Serbia to Xi Jinping: No one reveres you like we do (www.politico.eu)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said “the sky is the limit” on future cooperation....
Turning Point or Breaking Point? Biden’s Pause on Weapons Tests Ties to Israel (www.nytimes.com)
The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, President Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs....
Israel abandoning captives to hunt Hamas leaders, say military officers (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel has abandoned its goals of freeing the captives in Gaza, instead seeking to establish a long-term presence with its Rafah ground offensive and pursue top Palestinian leaders, Israeli military officers have told Middle East Eye....