Nato summit: Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to membership ( www.bbc.com )
Nato members have pledged their support for an "irreversible path" to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid....
Drunken driver who snapped photo going 141 mph before deadly collision imprisoned for 17 years ( abcnews.go.com )
Darryl Anderson was drunk behind the wheel of his Audi SUV, had his accelerator pressed to the floor and was barreling toward a car ahead of him when he snapped a photo of his speedometer. The picture showed a car in the foreground, a collision warning light on his dashboard and a speed of 141 mph (227 kph)....
Food safety scandal rocks China as report claims cooking oil carried in same trucks as fuel ( www.cnn.com )
Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between....
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say ( www.theguardian.com )
The US says it is going to put its new long-range strike missiles, including hypersonic weapons, in Germany ( www.businessinsider.com )
The US announced deployments of new long-range fires weapons to Germany will start in 2026....
Russia bans Moscow Times newspaper ( www.dw.com )
Russia has declared the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times an "undesirable organization." Cooperating with the outlet can entail sentences of up to five years in prison...
The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI ( www.bbc.com )
Sperm whales communicate with each other using rhythmic sequences of clicks, called codas. It was previously thought that sperm whales had just 21 coda types. However, after studying almost 9,000 recordings, the Ceti researchers identified 156 distinct codas. They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they...
Russian plot to kill European weapons chief foiled by US and Germany ( www.politico.eu )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24848057
Journalist in Gaza Describes Last 24 Hours as the Deadliest in Months ( truthout.org )
Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared | Prisons and probation | The Guardian ( www.theguardian.com )
Biden backs Starmer’s bid to renegotiate Brexit and bring UK closer to EU ( www.independent.co.uk )
Why are the US and IMF imposing draconian austerity measures on Kenya? ( www.theguardian.com )
A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on Gaza school ( www.theguardian.com )
The scene shows a moment of respite and relative calm in Gaza: a crowd of people watching a football match in a school playground. A player fails to control a long pass from a teammate. The opposing goalkeeper gathers the ball and looks to launch it back up the pitch....
Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images ( www.theguardian.com )
Teenagers each given a year’s probation after creating and spreading faked images of female classmates in south-west Spain...
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say | The Guardian ( www.theguardian.com )
China constructs secret Tajikistan military base amid fears of Taliban ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
U.S. military fails to reconnect Gaza pier, says mission will end soon ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a spokesman, said in a statement that U.S. troops tried to reconnect the floating pier to the shoreline Wednesday but were unable to do so because of “technical and weather-related issues.” The pier and its support vessels were taken back to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where they had sheltered amid...
US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine ( www.cnn.com )
More than 40 sentenced to life in UAE for 'terror' offences ( www.bbc.com )
Taiwan sees single-day record of Chinese planes in airspace ( www.dw.com )
Taiwan reported an increase in Chinese airforce activity, detecting 66 Chinese planes around the island in a single-day record for this year....
China is building two-thirds of new wind and solar globally, report says ( www.reuters.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17862476
China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Nato in stern rebuke ( www.theguardian.com )
Widow of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi given death sentence by Iraqi court ( www.theguardian.com )
Ukraine seizes cargo ship, detains captain for exporting 'looted' grain ( www.reuters.com )
Ukraine seized a foreign cargo ship on the Danube River and detained the captain on suspicion of helping Moscow export Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied Crimea, officials said on Thursday....
Norway to give Ukraine $93 mln to boost air defences, PM says ( www.reuters.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/14709660