‘People are in no mood to mourn’: mixed reactions in Tehran after death of President Ebrahim Raisi ( www.theguardian.com )
Iran’s supreme leader has announced a five-day mourning period, but there have been fireworks and cheering in the country since the death was confirmed...
Julian Assange wins right to appeal against extradition to US ( www.theguardian.com )
Julian Assange has been granted leave to mount a fresh appeal against his extradition to the US on charges of leaking military secrets and will be able to challenge assurances from American officials on how a trial there would be conducted....
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study ( www.theguardian.com )
The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end? ( www.theguardian.com )
The FDA is developing front-of-package labels that corporations may have to start printing as early as 2027...
The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy? ( www.theguardian.com )
Fish deaths in England’s rivers rise tenfold in four years ( www.theguardian.com )
More than 216,000 fish died in 2022-2023, when England recorded a 54% increase in sewage spills...
Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence ( www.theguardian.com )
The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy? ( www.theguardian.com )
I'll note that the big spending announcement happened shortly after thousands of mostly HQ and engineering staff at Amazon signed an open letter asking the firm to decarbonize, so it can be seen as a way to buy influence and limit labor action.
California is imposing a new tax on guns. Will it impact sales? ( www.theguardian.com )
Beginning July, state will become the first to charge an 11% excise tax, on top of federal and sales taxes, with an aim to reduce gun violence...
‘Only Hamas can defend us’: Israeli raids and Fatah failures boost support in West Bank ( www.theguardian.com )
Khalil, a shy 21-year-old whose name has been changed, was arrested in a pre-dawn raid last October for his allegiance to Hamas. But when Israeli forces smashed through the door of his family home, they didn’t tell him why they were detaining him. He was imprisoned for six months without charge, in conditions he described as...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs admits he beat ex-girlfriend Cassie: ‘I take full responsibility’ ( www.theguardian.com )
The rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs admitted in a video apology that he punched and kicked his ex-girlfriend in 2016 in the hallway of a hotel after CNN released footage of the attack, saying he was “truly sorry” and his actions were “inexcusable”....
The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy? ( www.theguardian.com )
But privately in the climate and biodiversity sector, the mood around the Bezos Earth Fund has turned to one of growing unease. Researchers, climate policy advisers and NGO staff voiced concerns about the level of influence the organisation holds over critical environmental institutions for halting climate change and...
AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers ( www.theguardian.com )
Guardrails to prevent artificial intelligence models behind chatbots from issuing illegal, toxic or explicit responses can be bypassed with simple techniques, UK government researchers have found....
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? ( www.theguardian.com )
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
Outrage over police violence at pro-Palestine rally in Brooklyn ( www.theguardian.com )
Council members condemn NYPD’s ‘pre-emptive, retaliatory and cumulatively aggressive’ conduct at protest on Saturday...
Taiwan’s new president takes office and calls on China to cease its hostile actions ( www.theguardian.com )
Lai Ching-te has been sworn in as Taiwan’s new president, urging China to “cease their political and military intimidation against Taiwan” and to keep the world free from the fear of more war....
More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Critical slowing down’ of recovery raises concern over forest’s resilience to ecosystem collapse...
European far-right leaders gather ahead of EU elections ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21515008...
Academic workers at UC Santa Cruz strike over crackdown on Gaza protests ( www.theguardian.com )
Union says response of University of California to pro-Palestine demonstrations violates rights of advocates and workers...
Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London ( www.theguardian.com )
Florida’s other big November vote: will the state legalize weed? ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify ( www.theguardian.com )
Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention ( www.theguardian.com )
During a bombastic speech in Dallas, GOP frontrunner asks: ‘Are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?’...
First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight ( www.theguardian.com )
Ex-air force captain Ed Dwight, passed over by Nasa in 1961, now oldest person to reach edge of space with Jeff Bezo’s space firm...