Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week (www.theguardian.com)
TaxPayers Alliance is key player in attempts to end trials of shorter working week in public sector
Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation (www.bbc.com)
False and misleading claims about the war in Ukraine are being widely shared.
Billionaires Are Suing the Honduran Government for Blocking Their Profit-Making Scheme (jacobin.com)
US billionaires are trying to establish a libertarian city-state in Honduras to evade democratic constraints. As progressive president Xiomara Castro resists their efforts, the Peter Thiel–backed firm Próspera is suing the country for constraining its profits.
Carrefour sticks price warnings on food to shame suppliers (www.reuters.com)
French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure top consumer goods suppliers Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever to reduce inflation ahead of much-anticipated contract talks.
India lands spacecraft near south pole of moon in world first (www.theguardian.com)
Vikram lander touches down at lunar south pole shortly after 6pm India time
UK to grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses, ignoring calls from environmentalists (apnews.com)
Britain says it will grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea in a bid for energy independence.
Israeli doctors walk off the job and more strikes are threatened after law weakening courts passes (apnews.com)
Thousands of Israeli doctors walked out of work, labor leaders threatened a general strike and senior justices rushed home from a trip abroad.
Italy begins removing gay mothers from children’s birth certificates (www.independent.co.uk)
Families in Milan, Rome and Padua have received letters notifying them of the changes
Russian invaders killed Iryna Hubareva in Mariupol, 12-year-old schoolgirl. (nafo.uk)
Russian invaders killed Iryna Hubareva in Mariupol, 12-year-old schoolgirl....
Malaysia scraps mandatory death penalty for crimes such as drug trafficking, terrorism (www.laprensalatina.com)
Malaysia’s repeal of the mandatory death penalty for crimes such as drug trafficking and terrorism came into effect on Tuesday, while activists called for a review of capital punishment sentences already awarded for these crimes. The measure, bringing a reform in the country’s penal code, was approved by the parliament…
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies (www.rollingstone.com)
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday... The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald...
Christian Boarding School Reaches $100 Million Settlement for Alleged Torturing Students (themessenger.com)
An investigation by police revealed school administrators tried to cover up multiple cases of abuse at Miracle Meadows. Students had been handcuffed or shackled to beds, and many endured rapes and vicious beatings.
Global Covid-19 cases up 80% as new sub-variant emerges (www.straitstimes.com)
WHO warned that the reported number of cases and deaths do not reflect the true numbers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
EU to drop ban of hazardous chemicals after industry pressure (www.theguardian.com)
The pledge to “ban the most harmful chemicals in consumer products, allowing their use only where essential” was a flagship component of the European green deal when it was launched in 2020....
USAF WC-135 nuclear radiation monitoring airplane has been deployed to the Mediterranean (www.itamilradar.com)
On July 1, at around 13:45 CEST, a USAF Boeing WC-135 (reg. 64-14836) landed at Souda Bay in Crete, Grece).
US Religious Conservatives Lobby to Restrict Abortion in Africa (www.voanews.com)
Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage....
‘It’s death there’: babies and children hit hardest as famine tightens hold on Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Estimated 27 children killed by famine, with fears many more will suffer lifelong effects, despite Israel’s promise of more aid
Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed (apnews.com)
Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland.
Amazon deforestation falls over 60% compared with last July, says Brazilian minister (www.theguardian.com)
Marina Silva welcomes progress but says climate crisis means upcoming regional summit needs to produce real action
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists (www.bbc.co.uk)
A series of records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice are "unprecedented", some scientists say.
Head of Belarus' Red Cross admits to deporting Ukrainian children (kyivindependent.com)
The head of the Belarusian Red Cross, Dzmitryi Shautsou, has admitted that the organization is involved in deporting children from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.
Ukraine designates British conglomerate Unilever an “International Sponsor of War” (b4ukraine.org)
The National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) adds the owner of Lipton, Rexona and Dove to the list of international sponsors of war
US warns of impending 'large-scale massacre' in capital of Sudan's North Darfur (www.france24.com)
The US ambassador to the United Nations on Monday warned of an impending "large-scale massacre" in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, a humanitarian hub in the Darfur region.
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Children account for more than one in three of the more than 32,000 people killed in Israel’s months-long assault on Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Tens of thousands more young people have suffered severe injuries, including amputations..... But doctors also reported treating a steady stream of children,...
Joe Biden on Benjamin Netanyahu's Gaza war: ‘Israel starting to lose support’ (www.hindustantimes.com)
US president Joe Biden said that Israel is starting to lose support due to indiscriminate bombing in Gaza amid Hamas war. The comments come after Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted again that US is with Israel as Tel Aviv aims to destroy Hamas and recover hostages held in Gaza....
