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Hamas launches rocket attack on Tel Aviv for first time in months (www.theguardian.com)
IDF says Palestinian militant groups fired salvo from Rafah area as Israel’s offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city continues...
“Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods (arstechnica.com)
Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances....
US, European nations consider vaccinating workers exposed to bird flu (www.reuters.com)
The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said, moves influenza experts say could curb the threat of a pandemic....
Lack of bird flu testing may be hiding true spread of virus on US farms (www.theguardian.com)
H5N1 has been found in commercially available milk – but gaps in testing of cattle and humans are hampering effort to stop virus...
‘Exterminate the beasts’: How Israeli settlers took revenge for a murder in the West Bank (www.bbc.com)
Israeli settlers went on a violent rampage last month, inciting and co-ordinating attacks on WhatsApp....
More than 300m children victims of online sexual abuse every year (www.theguardian.com)
First global study of its kind exposes ‘staggering scale’ of crime, with one in nine men in the US admitting to the offence...
India elections: PM Narendra Modi claims he has been chosen by God (www.theguardian.com)
Indian leader tells interviewer God ‘just keeps making me do things’ but that he ‘cannot dial him directly’...
5 Airlines That Got Put On The EU No-Fly List Without Operating Any European Routes (simpleflying.com)
These carriers are forbidden from flying to the EU… even though they likely never would.
Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway (www.euronews.com)
Climate activists from Last Generation disrupted Munich airport by gluing themselves to a runway, leading to flight cancellations and delays over a busy weekend....
EU watchdog rules airport biometrics must be passenger-controlled to comply with GDPR | Biometric Update (www.biometricupdate.com)
Facial recognition use for airport passenger processing only complies with GDPR if passengers have control over their biometrics, the EDPB has ruled....
India | Delhi hospital where newborn babies died had no licence (www.bbc.com)
A fire broke out in the hospital on Saturday, killing seven newborn babies....
Papua New Guinea disaster agency tells UN 2,000 people are buried after landslide (www.theguardian.com)
Unstable terrain, remote locations and damaged roads have been hampering relief efforts in the aftermath of the landslide, the UN said...
UK | Family of man who died after being deported blame Home Office delays (www.theguardian.com)
Appeal allowed Sudharsan Ithayachandran to return to UK to be with his family, but he died in Sri Lanka while awaiting visa...
Belarus: Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers (www.hrw.org)
Belarusian authorities have unrolled systematic and widespread repression targeting lawyers who represent clients in politically motivated cases or who shed light on rights abuses, Human Rights Watch, the Belarusian Association of Human Rights Lawyers, and the Right to Defence Project said in a report released today....
Volkswagen: Address Uyghur Forced Labor (www.hrw.org)
Volkswagen should inform shareholders at its May 29, 2024 annual general meeting how the company plans to eliminate Uyghur forced labor in its operations and supply chains....
Family infected with parasitic worms in US after eating bear meat, CDC says (www.theguardian.com)
Six people who ate a meal in South Dakota in 2022 with black bear meat diagnosed with trichinellosis, a parasitic zoonotic disease...
French town reels from scandal involving mayor and fortune teller (www.bbc.com)
The mayor and fortune teller are both being kept in prison under judicial investigation....
Australia | Public housing regularly being offered to people on NSW waitlist who have died (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Data reveals that 77 people died before being offered public housing between April 2019 and March this year...
Delhi: Newborn babies die after fire at hospital (www.bbc.com)
At least six infants have been killed, officials said, while the hospital’s owner has fled....
Too Many Night Flights: What Is The Dutch Government Doing To Reduce Aircraft Noise? (simpleflying.com)
The nation’s regulatory bodies have several proposals in the works.
New Caledonia state of emergency to be lifted, says Paris (www.reuters.com)
Seven more mobile force units will soon arrive as reinforcements in New Caledonia, the Elysée said in a statement on Monday, also indicating a state of emergency would end as planned in the French Pacific territory on Tuesday morning local time....
Lithuania President Nausėda wins landslide re-election in vote shaped by Russia fears (www.theguardian.com)
Incumbent, who beat challenge from prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė, says Lithuania’s independence a ‘fragile vessel that we must cherish’...
Idaho drag performer awarded $1.1m in defamation case against far-right blogger (www.theguardian.com)
A blogger falsely claimed Eric Posey exposed himself to a crowd, including children