Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut ( www.politico.eu )
The Spanish government has a plan to prevent kids from watching porn online: Meet the porn passport....
Hurricane Beryl takes aim at Jamaica as death toll creeps up, destruction widespread ( www.reuters.com )
Hurricane Beryl is over Jamaica right now....
Nigel Farage, Right-Wing Disrupter, Elected to Parliament for the First Time ( www.nytimes.com )
Should cuddling koalas be legal? Here’s why there’s a push to ban it in Queensland ( www.theguardian.com )
Short fuses in Egypt as blackouts stretch into sweltering summer ( www.rawstory.com )
Tasmania Is Hiring for a 'Wombat Walker' and Other Odd Jobs ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
Sorry, my teenage daughter has already claimed the wombat walker job, but you guys can have any of the others.
Hamas faces growing public dissent as Gaza war erodes support ( www.bbc.com )
Voter turnout in France’s parliamentary election at near-40-year high ( www.theguardian.com )
Years Later, Philippines Reckons With Duterte’s Brutal Drug War ( www.nytimes.com )
NYTimes gift article, no paywall
Nine killed in Seoul after car hits pedestrians ( www.channelnewsasia.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17525307
A Norwegian citizen has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to spy for China ( apnews.com )
[UK] Exit poll: Labour to win landslide in general election. ( news.sky.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/36268916...
Conservatives say Labour rivals heading for record-breaking UK election win ( www.reuters.com )
As always, conservatives don’t live up to their “we’re going to make the economy strong!1” claims. Sadly, the UK Labour is more neoliberalism in action, and so will be promptly voted out next cycle.
North Korea condemns joint military exercise by South Korea, US and Japan ( www.theguardian.com )
Ukraine war briefing: Ukrainian army confirms retreat from part of key town of Chasiv Yar ( www.theguardian.com )
A look at how settlements have grown in the West Bank over the years ( apnews.com )
Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group. It is the latest step by Israel’s hard-line government meant to cement Israel’s control over the territory and prevent the establishment of an independent...
China hands over lavish new presidential palace to Vanuatu, ahead of PM's visit to Beijing ( www.abc.net.au )
China's bribery campaign across Oceania continues.
Labour set for UK election landslide, exit poll predicts ( www.cnn.com )
LW World News coverage of a similar article by The Guardian
In Mexico, 19 bodies found in truck as violence spreads in southern state ( www.reuters.com )
https://archive.ph/FSFQ8
NATO leaders will vow to pour weapons into Ukraine for another year, but membership is off the table ( apnews.com )
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO leaders plan to pledge next week to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year, hoping to reassure the war-ravaged country of their ongoing support and show Russian President Vladimir Putin that they will not walk away....
China’s online ultranationalists feel the heat over Japanese school bus attack ( www.scmp.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17485661...
How Macron delivered the coup de grâce to his own political movement ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17680912
Europe is Quietly Debating a Nuclear Future Without the US ( www.politico.com )
Ever since the advent of nuclear arms, Europe has been protected by an American nuclear umbrella. It was the United States that promised NATO allies that any nuclear aggression by the Soviet Union, and later, by Russia, would be answered with a barrage of U.S. missiles. ...
Protests continue in Kenya as some are now calling for the president to step down ( abcnews.go.com )
