Major climate tipping points could be triggered within a decade (www.newscientist.com)
A new McCarthyism is being enforced around the Israel-Hamas conflict (inews.co.uk)
Archive link: archive.is/0q4t3
All 41 workers rescued from collapsed Indian tunnel after 17 days (www.aljazeera.com)
South Korean true crime fanatic murdered stranger ‘out of curiosity’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Military lawyer David McBride pleads guilty to unlawfully sharing secret allegations of Australian war crimes (www.abc.net.au)
Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns (www.theguardian.com)
Which islands will become uninhabitable due to climate change first? (www.livescience.com)
BP and Spotify bought carbon credits at risk of link to forced Uyghur labour in China (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5618686...
The online hate and conspiracies driving a new wave of antisemitism | Ben Judah (www.independent.co.uk)
There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah
Over 1,500 Israelis Call for ICC action to Stop the Genocide in Gaza - Feddit (feddit.de)
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Dozens of cancer patients could die as Gaza’s main cancer treatment hospital forced to stop most activities over fuel shortage, UN says (news.un.org)
The UN human rights office OHCHR noted that given the high number of civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza “and the scale of the destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, there are “serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.”
Why Is Pakistan Expelling 1.7 Million Afghans? (foreignpolicy.com)
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated (www.memri.org)
Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”
Marathoners in Beijing go maskless, unfazed by smog (www.reuters.com)
Gaza, babies in incubators at risk as hospitals run out of fuel, UN says (news.un.org)
Two in three hospitals in the enclave are “partially functional” as the aid is a “drop in the ocean”, says Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, UN health agency (WHO) representative in the occupied Palestinian territory....
Ground News - White House says Iran 'actively facilitating' some attacks on US military bases (ground.news)
Surprised this has not been reported more
About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London (www.reuters.com)
Study Warns of Age-Related Risks in Workplace Cybersecurity (www.technewsworld.com)
Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours (www.axios.com)
‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers (www.theguardian.com)
In a series of interviews conducted over several years, 14 women from east Africa and the Philippines recounted their experiences with recruitment agencies hiring for the United Arab Emirates, including alleging they were denied food, held captive and treated violently.
Buzzy social app Fizz sues rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza crisis: Babies being born ‘into hell’ amid desperate aid shortages, UN says (news.un.org)
Chronic aid access problems have meant that Caesarean sections have been performed without anaesthetic while other women have been unable to deliver their stillborn babies because medical staff are overwhelmed, the UN agency said....
North Korean government in 2023 continued to use the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to maintain “shoot on sight” orders on its northern border, rights group says (www.hrw.org)
The excessive and disproportionate restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic have compounded the effects of decades of the North Korean government’s violations of the rights to food, health, and to an adequate standard of living; and to freedom of expression and movement, according to Human Rights Watch....
