Kremlin welcomes Turkey's reported desire to join BRICS (www.reuters.com)
Ruling party loses absolute majority in elections to the Indian Parliament, but likely to form government with support of allies (www.thehindu.com)
Preliminary results for the 2024 Indian General election suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to lose its absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament. However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is projected to cross the halfway mark. The opposition INDIA alliance is projected to more than double...
World's First High-definition Geologic Atlas of the Moon Unveiled (english.cas.ac.cn)
We're closer to tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030 than we look – IEA (electrek.co)
Nearly 50 countries are on track to reach or surpass their current plans – and China is by far the biggest contributor. It’s not yet set an official target, but China’s goal of 1,200 GW of solar and wind capacity by 2030 – which it’s expected to surpass this year
New recycling method makes solar cells even more environmentally friendly (arstechnica.com)
Pretty cool stuff.
Nagasaki holds off inviting Israel to peace ceremony (japantoday.com)
Kano Emirate: Sanusi returns as Emir 1,545 days after dethronement (www.vanguardngr.com)
Toyota apologizes for cheating on vehicle testing and halts production of three models (apnews.com)
Holocaust survivors urge young EU voters to shun far right (www.dw.com)
A group of eight Holocaust survivors drew parallels between the current political climate and that of Germany in the 1930s. Some of them condemned the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD)....
Toyota: World's largest carmaker raided over safety scandal (www.bbc.com)
Japan’s transport ministry raided the headquarters of motor giant Toyota on Tuesday, as a scandal over faulty safety data escalated....
Report: Vast Majority of Children Under 5 in Gaza Going Full Days Without Food (truthout.org)
According to a food survey conducted by humanitarian aid groups in May, 85 percent of children under 5 were deprived of food at least one day over a three day period. Official death counts reported by Gaza’s government do not include deaths by starvation; at least 30 children have been recorded starving to death in Gaza so...
Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website (theintercept.com)
The students who run the Columbia Law Review sought out the Palestinian scholar Rabea Eghbariah, who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year....
Zimbabwe police officers terrorised by goblins at night (bulawayo24.com)
‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says (www.yahoo.com)
Pakistan former PM Imran Khan acquitted in state secrets case (www.bbc.com)
CFO of Falun Gong's Epoch Times Newspaper Charged With Participating In Scheme To Launder At Least $67 Million In Fraud Proceeds (www.justice.gov)
Indonesia's Mt Ibu volcano erupts, spewing clouds of ash (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Imran Khan Remains Imprisoned Over His Wife’s Menstrual Cycles. State Department Says That’s “Something For the Pakistani Courts to Decide.” (theintercept.com)
Imran Khan remains imprisoned over his wife’s menstrual cycles. The State Department says it’s “something for the Pakistani courts to decide.”...
Ukraine hints it used Western weapons to strike inside Russia for the first time (www.nbcnews.com)
A senior Ukrainian official hinted Monday that, despite Kremlin threats, Kyiv may have already begun using Western weapons to hit targets inside Russia....
Russian legal foundation Pravfond linked to Kremlin activities spent millions of euros to finance propaganda and legal campaigns in Europe and around the world, leaked documents reveal (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world....
Japan police search for suspects in spray-painting of graffiti at controversial war shrine (apnews.com)
More than 500 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank: UN rights chief (news.un.org)
“Since the start of 2024, almost 200 Palestinians have been killed by the ISF, compared with 113 and 50 killed in the same periods in 2023 and 2022 respectively,” the statement from the UN rights chief’s office said....
Earthquakes in north-central Japan collapse 5 homes that were damaged in deadly January quake (apnews.com)
