Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers ( www.theguardian.com )
Texas Republican vows to pass bill on Ten Commandments in public schools ( www.theguardian.com )
French centrists must decide: support the left – or hand the keys of power to the far right? ( www.theguardian.com )
US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days – reports | The Guardian ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Stealing with both hands’: veteran reporter Joe Conason details the right wing’s graft ( www.theguardian.com )
Ex-president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro could face money-laundering charges ( www.theguardian.com )
Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail ( www.theguardian.com )
‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription ( www.theguardian.com )
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First F-16 jets heading to Ukraine after months of training and negotiations ( www.theguardian.com )
Dutch and Danish leaders say Ukraine will be ‘flying operational F-16s this summer’ as Kyiv seeks battlefield wins...
Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine ( www.theguardian.com )
An unknown number of people have been trapped under rubble after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit during a daylight Russian missile barrage that the authorities said had killed at least 29 people across the country....
Toxic PFAS absorbed through skin at levels higher than previously thought ( www.theguardian.com )
China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Nato in stern rebuke ( www.theguardian.com )
Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test ( www.theguardian.com )
Ann Wilson, frontwoman of Heart, diagnosed with cancer ( www.theguardian.com )
Ann Wilson, the lead singer of rock band Heart, has announced that she has been diagnosed with cancer....
‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers ( www.theguardian.com )
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Germany’s first African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse ( www.theguardian.com )
Diaby, of the Social Democrats (SPD), entered parliament alongside Charles M Huber, who sat for the Christian Democrats for just one parliamentary term. They were the first black members of the Bundestag and their entry was hailed as groundbreaking and historic by equal rights campaigners....
California school board president who led conservative culture war loses recall vote ( www.theguardian.com )
Bolivia’s president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity ( www.theguardian.com )
Urban heat island effect making temperatures 8F hotter in 65 US cities – study ( www.theguardian.com )
Nearly 34 million people in those cities, or 15% of the US population, experiencing temperatures higher than in surrounding areas...
Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network ( www.theguardian.com )
Israel destroys 11 homes in West Bank village amid spiralling violence ( www.theguardian.com )
Israeli soldiers have destroyed 11 homes and other structures in an isolated community in the occupied West Bank, leaving 50 people homeless, amid a reported uptick in house demolitions and spiralling violence in the Palestinian territory....
South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans ( www.theguardian.com )
Norway blocks sale of last private land on Svalbard after Chinese interest ( www.theguardian.com )
The Norwegian government has called off a plan to sell the last privately owned piece of land on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in order to prevent its acquisition by China....
Race to unseat New York progressive ‘most expensive House primary ever’ ( www.theguardian.com )
The primary for New York’s 16th congressional district, which takes place on Tuesday, has drawn record-breaking spending, with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and a crypto-currency Super Pac behind the lion’s share of the funding....
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say ( www.theguardian.com )
