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4 June 2023
Future of Work Summit, Geneva, 6-8 June — www.graduateinstitute.ch — 5 June 2023 (LINK)
The uncertain prospects of the UN's future summit — genevasolutions.news — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Almost 80 schoolgirls poisoned, hospitalized in two separate attacks in northern Afghanistan — ground.news: 39 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Saudi Arabia to cut oil output by 1 million barrels per day to boost slumping prices — ground.news: 112 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Pakistan's Imran Khan openly accuses military of trying to destroy his party — ground.news: 17 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Award-winning Hong Kong journalist wins appeal in rare court ruling upholding media freedom — ground.news: 18 media reports — 5 June 2023 (LINK)
Mine collapse kills at least 12 in southern Venezuela — ground.news: 9 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
India train disaster: signal fault blamed as wreckage cleared from track: death toll passes 300 — www.the guardian.com — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Fighting Escalates in Khartoum After Cease-Fire Expires — ground.news: 19 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
— The UN reported more than 1.2 million people displaced inside Sudan and over 425,000 have fled to neighbouring states.
Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice: Vigilantes have killed at least 164 people since the movement began in April, U.N. says. — ground.news: 9 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
In China, repression is becoming more and more aggressive — www.lemonde.fr ● — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half, says 'thrilling' study — ground.news: 12 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
How chocolate could counter climate change — ground.news: 20 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
War in Ukraine: Inflatech, owned by a Russian businessman who lives in the Czech Republic, produces inflatable fake tanks and rocket launchers for Kyiv — www.lemonde.fr ● — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
North Korea Slams UN Meeting on Satellite Launch — ground.news: 43 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
World's spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore — www.cnbc.com — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
— Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been discreetly held at a separate venue alongside the security summit for several years, sources said. The meetings have not been previously reported.
Guinea-Bissau votes to elect legislature more than a year after president dissolved parliament — ground.news: 13 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Inside the Meltdown at CNN — www.theatlantic.com — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
3 June 2023
Biden signs debt limit bill, avoiding U.S. default — www.reuters.com — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Solar panels — an eco-disaster waiting to happen when they turn to waste? — source — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Uganda says 54 soldiers killed by al Shabaab in Somalia — ground.news: 13 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Turkey's Erdogan unveils new cabinet after inauguration, naming a powerful spy chief as foreign minister and market friendly Mehmet Simsek as finance minister — ground.news: 9 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
International team discovers mysterious luminous gas structures at heart of Milky Way — ground.news: 41 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Three Israeli soldiers, gunman killed in shootout near Egypt border crossing — ground.news: 177 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Gadhafi's Son on Hunger Strike in Lebanon, Protesting 'No Trial' Detention — ground.news: 19 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine officials have found nearly a quarter of the country's air-raid shelters locked or unusable, days after a woman allegedly died waiting outside a shuttered shelter during a Russian missile attack — ground.news: 34 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Dow notches its best day since January as investors cheer debt ceiling deal and jobs report — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador soccer executives dodge prison with payment to stampede victims' families — ground.news: 25 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Spanish Catholic bishops find evidence of 728 sexual abusers, 927 victims since 1945 — ground.news: 42 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
US State Department sanctions former Haitian Prime Minister Lamothe for corruption — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
North Carolina's Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake, renamed Fort Liberty — abcnews.go.com — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Elon Musk and Twitter face growing brand safety concerns after execs depart — www.cnbc.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
U.S. sanctions tech companies for helping Iran shut off Internet — ground.news: 17 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Ecuador's embattled President Lasso will not seek re-election in August — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Turkey to send commando unit to help quell unrest in Kosovo in response to NATO call — ground.news: 22 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Experts warn bird flu virus changing rapidly in largest ever outbreak — ground.news: 8 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
2 June 2023
India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in country's deadliest rail accident in decades — ground.news: 384 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
UN agency for Palestinian refugees raises just $107 million of $300 million needed — ground.news: 17 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
A 47-year-old ship could cause "one of the worst oil spills in human history." Here's the UN plan to stop it. — www.cbsnews.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Zelensky says Ukraine ready to launch counteroffensive — ground.news: 83 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Black sea urchins have disappeared from the Gulf of Aqaba. Their loss could kill off entire Red Sea coral reef — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— A similar pathogen killed off 98% of the black sea urchin population in the Caribbean in the 1980s, and seemingly returned to the Caribbean in 2022. That may be where the Red Sea pathogen came from.
Blood test to detect 50 different types of cancer shows promise in NHS trial — ground.news: 19 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Gunmen kill Ecuador prosecutor after murder trial hearing on same day attorney general receives death threats — ground.news: 9 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Climate change is already making parts of US uninsurable: California, Florida, Louisiana — www.vox.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Nearly 4,000 people lost their jobs last month because of AI — the first time that's been cited as a reason — www.businessinsider.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Dow notches its best day since January as investors cheer debt ceiling deal and jobs report — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador soccer executives dodge prison with payment to stampede victims' families — ground.news: 25 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
US State Department sanctions former Haitian Prime Minister Lamothe for corruption — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
World food prices fall to two-year low in May — UN food agency — ground.news: 16 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Slump in prices of vegetable oils, cereals and dairy outweighed increases for sugar and meat.
Tanzania declares end of deadly Marburg virus outbreak, says WHO — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Nine cases — eight confirmed and one probable — and six deaths were recorded in the outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in the northwestern region of Kagera, the WHO said in a statement.
YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow U.S. election denialism — ground.news: 41 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— The decision, which comes ahead of the 2024 midterm races, undoes a policy implemented in December 2020 after President Joe Biden won the election, citing the need to balance its twin goals of "protecting our community and providing a home for open discussion and debate."
Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti's president
— ground.news: 39 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in providing weapons to the Colombian mercenaries who assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïsein 2021. Jaar, who has dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship and is a former US informant, was the only person to plead guilty among the 11 arrested and charged in the United States for the murder of Moïse.
Spanish Catholic bishops find evidence of 728 sexual abusers, 927 victims since 1945 — ground.news: 42 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Clashes in Senegal leave at least 9 dead; government bans use of social media platforms — ground.news: 39 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Rally demands release of Pakistani human rights lawyer taken by armed men in Karachi — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
U.S. sanctions tech companies for helping Iran shut off Internet — ground.news: 17 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Vietnam detains climate activist on tax evasion accusation — ground.news: 10 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Ecuador's embattled President Lasso will not seek re-election in August — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Australia's most decorated living war hero quits corporate job after Afghanistan war crime revelations — ground.news: 18 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
North Carolina's Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake, renamed Fort Liberty — abcnews.go.com — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Elon Musk and Twitter face growing brand safety concerns after execs depart — www.cnbc.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Mark Zuckerberg turns the screw on remote work by requiring Meta employees to be in the office 3 days weekly to help them 'do their best work' — fortune.com ● — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
UN says organised crime shifting drugs routes in Southeast Asia to Laos and Cambodia, where secret industrial-scale ketamine labs and processing warehouses have been discovered — ground.news: 21 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Pressure mounts around Qatar's expected presidency of International Labour Conference — www.thegenevaobserver.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Swiss drone takes the perilous plunge so divers don't have to — newatlas.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
1 June 2023
UN in Bangladesh decries devastating new round of rations cuts for Rohingya refugees — news.un.org — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption — ground.news: 13 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
MIT researchers develop self-learning language models that outperform larger counterparts — venturebeat.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Credit Suisse has paid back government-backed liquidity — Swiss finance minister — finance.yahoo.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years — ground.news: 22 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Scientists: Swiss energy system could be independent and carbon-neutral by 2050 using the currently untapped local renewable energy resources — actu.epfl.ch — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— This system would even be cheaper than the country's 2020 energy system modeled with the same assumptions, with up to 30-32% cost reductions.
Former Liberian rebel leader Alieu Kosiah lost his appeal on Thursday before Switzerland's highest criminal court against a guilty verdict over war crimes and crimes against humanity. — genevasolutions.news — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Argentine meteorologist becomes first female head of UN weather agency — ground.news: 23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Lebanon military court accuses Hezbollah 5 over killing of UN peacekeeper — ground.news: 17 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
High-profile Australian soldier loses 'war crimes' defamation case over Afghanistan killings — ground.news: 70 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello sentenced to almost 9 years for corruption — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil's lower house approves curtailing environment, indigenous ministries — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Three dead in further nighttime Kyiv attack — city officials — ground.news: 104 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Russia is spending surprisingly little on its war on Ukraine: 3% of GDP — markets.businessinsider.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
The 20 Most Air-Polluted Cities on Earth: 13 in India, Lahore (Pakistan) worst — elements.visualcapitalist.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Pakistan's inflation rises to record 37.97 per cent over year — ground.news: 18 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
President Of Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan's Party Arrested In Lahore — ground.news: 8 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian researchers make world-first endometriosis breakthrough — ground.news: 6 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Taiwan, U.S. sign first deal under new trade framework — ground.news: 33 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
US issues sanctions against Iranian officials in response to assassination plots — ground.news: 3
23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine says Russia blocking grain export deal again — source — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— It said 50 vessels are waiting for inspection in Turkish territorial waters and that they were ready to deliver 2.4 million tonnes of Ukrainian food abroad. Some vessels had been waiting for inspections for more than 3 months.
Russia's own economic figures show a steep drop in industrial output amid a record labor shortage — Business Insider.com/span> — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since April 1. Most were removed for not completing paperwork. — eu.usatoday.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian Mining giant BHP says it underpaid workers for 13 years and will spend up to $280m on compensation — ground.news: 6 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
The country with the best cybersecurity skills: Vatican City, followed by Finland — techradar.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
FoxNews: Don't be fooled, 'Green Energy' is neither green nor energy — foxnews.com ● → — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
FoxNews: Nearly 10K photos from Hunter Biden's laptop hit the web: 'Truth and transparency' — foxnews.com ● → — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Hunter Biden lawyer deposes laptop shop owner in latest move by Hunter Biden and new members of his legal team to fight more aggressively against conservatives and those who spread his personal data across the Internet — www.axios.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned — soedition.cnn.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian woman who murdered her abusive husband by feeding him temazepam-laced lemon biscuits and stuffing him in a freezer has been sentenced to 16 years' jail with a non-parole period of 10 years — ground.news: 9 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
New Zealand police file 5 murder charges against man accused of starting deadly hostel fire in Wellington on 16 May — ground.news: 14 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Mexico: Police discover 45 bags containing human remains, maybe missing youths — ground.news: 30 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Sudan: 19 killed in shelling of market in poor area south of Khartoum — ground.news: 5 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Senate passes bill to block Biden's student loan forgiveness program — edition.cnn.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Study discovers sucralose, chemical in common sweetener, damages DNA, can cause cancer — www.wect.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Street protests as Senegal opposition leader Sonko convicted of corrupting youth and sentenced to 2 years in prison but acquitted of rape — ground.news:
35 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
See previous
Future of Work Summit, Geneva, 6-8 June — www.graduateinstitute.ch — 5 June 2023 (LINK)
The uncertain prospects of the UN's future summit — genevasolutions.news — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Almost 80 schoolgirls poisoned, hospitalized in two separate attacks in northern Afghanistan — ground.news: 39 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Saudi Arabia to cut oil output by 1 million barrels per day to boost slumping prices — ground.news: 112 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Pakistan's Imran Khan openly accuses military of trying to destroy his party — ground.news: 17 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Award-winning Hong Kong journalist wins appeal in rare court ruling upholding media freedom — ground.news: 18 media reports — 5 June 2023 (LINK)
Mine collapse kills at least 12 in southern Venezuela — ground.news: 9 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
India train disaster: signal fault blamed as wreckage cleared from track: death toll passes 300 — www.the guardian.com — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Fighting Escalates in Khartoum After Cease-Fire Expires — ground.news: 19 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
— The UN reported more than 1.2 million people displaced inside Sudan and over 425,000 have fled to neighbouring states.
Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice: Vigilantes have killed at least 164 people since the movement began in April, U.N. says. — ground.news: 9 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
In China, repression is becoming more and more aggressive — www.lemonde.fr ● — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half, says 'thrilling' study — ground.news: 12 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
How chocolate could counter climate change — ground.news: 20 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
War in Ukraine: Inflatech, owned by a Russian businessman who lives in the Czech Republic, produces inflatable fake tanks and rocket launchers for Kyiv — www.lemonde.fr ● — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
North Korea Slams UN Meeting on Satellite Launch — ground.news: 43 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
World's spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore — www.cnbc.com — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
— Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been discreetly held at a separate venue alongside the security summit for several years, sources said. The meetings have not been previously reported.
Guinea-Bissau votes to elect legislature more than a year after president dissolved parliament — ground.news: 13 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Inside the Meltdown at CNN — www.theatlantic.com — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
Biden signs debt limit bill, avoiding U.S. default — www.reuters.com — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Solar panels — an eco-disaster waiting to happen when they turn to waste? — source — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Uganda says 54 soldiers killed by al Shabaab in Somalia — ground.news: 13 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Turkey's Erdogan unveils new cabinet after inauguration, naming a powerful spy chief as foreign minister and market friendly Mehmet Simsek as finance minister — ground.news: 9 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
International team discovers mysterious luminous gas structures at heart of Milky Way — ground.news: 41 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Three Israeli soldiers, gunman killed in shootout near Egypt border crossing — ground.news: 177 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Gadhafi's Son on Hunger Strike in Lebanon, Protesting 'No Trial' Detention — ground.news: 19 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine officials have found nearly a quarter of the country's air-raid shelters locked or unusable, days after a woman allegedly died waiting outside a shuttered shelter during a Russian missile attack — ground.news: 34 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Dow notches its best day since January as investors cheer debt ceiling deal and jobs report — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador soccer executives dodge prison with payment to stampede victims' families — ground.news: 25 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Spanish Catholic bishops find evidence of 728 sexual abusers, 927 victims since 1945 — ground.news: 42 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
US State Department sanctions former Haitian Prime Minister Lamothe for corruption — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
North Carolina's Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake, renamed Fort Liberty — abcnews.go.com — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Elon Musk and Twitter face growing brand safety concerns after execs depart — www.cnbc.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
U.S. sanctions tech companies for helping Iran shut off Internet — ground.news: 17 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Ecuador's embattled President Lasso will not seek re-election in August — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Turkey to send commando unit to help quell unrest in Kosovo in response to NATO call — ground.news: 22 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Experts warn bird flu virus changing rapidly in largest ever outbreak — ground.news: 8 media reports — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
2 June 2023
India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in country's deadliest rail accident in decades — ground.news: 384 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
UN agency for Palestinian refugees raises just $107 million of $300 million needed — ground.news: 17 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
A 47-year-old ship could cause "one of the worst oil spills in human history." Here's the UN plan to stop it. — www.cbsnews.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Zelensky says Ukraine ready to launch counteroffensive — ground.news: 83 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Black sea urchins have disappeared from the Gulf of Aqaba. Their loss could kill off entire Red Sea coral reef — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— A similar pathogen killed off 98% of the black sea urchin population in the Caribbean in the 1980s, and seemingly returned to the Caribbean in 2022. That may be where the Red Sea pathogen came from.
Blood test to detect 50 different types of cancer shows promise in NHS trial — ground.news: 19 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Gunmen kill Ecuador prosecutor after murder trial hearing on same day attorney general receives death threats — ground.news: 9 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Climate change is already making parts of US uninsurable: California, Florida, Louisiana — www.vox.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Nearly 4,000 people lost their jobs last month because of AI — the first time that's been cited as a reason — www.businessinsider.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Dow notches its best day since January as investors cheer debt ceiling deal and jobs report — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador soccer executives dodge prison with payment to stampede victims' families — ground.news: 25 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
US State Department sanctions former Haitian Prime Minister Lamothe for corruption — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
World food prices fall to two-year low in May — UN food agency — ground.news: 16 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Slump in prices of vegetable oils, cereals and dairy outweighed increases for sugar and meat.
Tanzania declares end of deadly Marburg virus outbreak, says WHO — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Nine cases — eight confirmed and one probable — and six deaths were recorded in the outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in the northwestern region of Kagera, the WHO said in a statement.
YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow U.S. election denialism — ground.news: 41 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— The decision, which comes ahead of the 2024 midterm races, undoes a policy implemented in December 2020 after President Joe Biden won the election, citing the need to balance its twin goals of "protecting our community and providing a home for open discussion and debate."
Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti's president
— ground.news: 39 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in providing weapons to the Colombian mercenaries who assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïsein 2021. Jaar, who has dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship and is a former US informant, was the only person to plead guilty among the 11 arrested and charged in the United States for the murder of Moïse.
Spanish Catholic bishops find evidence of 728 sexual abusers, 927 victims since 1945 — ground.news: 42 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Clashes in Senegal leave at least 9 dead; government bans use of social media platforms — ground.news: 39 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Rally demands release of Pakistani human rights lawyer taken by armed men in Karachi — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
U.S. sanctions tech companies for helping Iran shut off Internet — ground.news: 17 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Vietnam detains climate activist on tax evasion accusation — ground.news: 10 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Ecuador's embattled President Lasso will not seek re-election in August — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Australia's most decorated living war hero quits corporate job after Afghanistan war crime revelations — ground.news: 18 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
North Carolina's Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake, renamed Fort Liberty — abcnews.go.com — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Elon Musk and Twitter face growing brand safety concerns after execs depart — www.cnbc.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Mark Zuckerberg turns the screw on remote work by requiring Meta employees to be in the office 3 days weekly to help them 'do their best work' — fortune.com ● — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
UN says organised crime shifting drugs routes in Southeast Asia to Laos and Cambodia, where secret industrial-scale ketamine labs and processing warehouses have been discovered — ground.news: 21 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Pressure mounts around Qatar's expected presidency of International Labour Conference — www.thegenevaobserver.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Swiss drone takes the perilous plunge so divers don't have to — newatlas.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
1 June 2023
UN in Bangladesh decries devastating new round of rations cuts for Rohingya refugees — news.un.org — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption — ground.news: 13 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
MIT researchers develop self-learning language models that outperform larger counterparts — venturebeat.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Credit Suisse has paid back government-backed liquidity — Swiss finance minister — finance.yahoo.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years — ground.news: 22 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Scientists: Swiss energy system could be independent and carbon-neutral by 2050 using the currently untapped local renewable energy resources — actu.epfl.ch — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— This system would even be cheaper than the country's 2020 energy system modeled with the same assumptions, with up to 30-32% cost reductions.
Former Liberian rebel leader Alieu Kosiah lost his appeal on Thursday before Switzerland's highest criminal court against a guilty verdict over war crimes and crimes against humanity. — genevasolutions.news — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Argentine meteorologist becomes first female head of UN weather agency — ground.news: 23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Lebanon military court accuses Hezbollah 5 over killing of UN peacekeeper — ground.news: 17 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
High-profile Australian soldier loses 'war crimes' defamation case over Afghanistan killings — ground.news: 70 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello sentenced to almost 9 years for corruption — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil's lower house approves curtailing environment, indigenous ministries — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Three dead in further nighttime Kyiv attack — city officials — ground.news: 104 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Russia is spending surprisingly little on its war on Ukraine: 3% of GDP — markets.businessinsider.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
The 20 Most Air-Polluted Cities on Earth: 13 in India, Lahore (Pakistan) worst — elements.visualcapitalist.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Pakistan's inflation rises to record 37.97 per cent over year — ground.news: 18 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
President Of Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan's Party Arrested In Lahore — ground.news: 8 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian researchers make world-first endometriosis breakthrough — ground.news: 6 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Taiwan, U.S. sign first deal under new trade framework — ground.news: 33 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
US issues sanctions against Iranian officials in response to assassination plots — ground.news: 3
23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine says Russia blocking grain export deal again — source — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— It said 50 vessels are waiting for inspection in Turkish territorial waters and that they were ready to deliver 2.4 million tonnes of Ukrainian food abroad. Some vessels had been waiting for inspections for more than 3 months.
Russia's own economic figures show a steep drop in industrial output amid a record labor shortage — Business Insider.com/span> — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since April 1. Most were removed for not completing paperwork. — eu.usatoday.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian Mining giant BHP says it underpaid workers for 13 years and will spend up to $280m on compensation — ground.news: 6 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
The country with the best cybersecurity skills: Vatican City, followed by Finland — techradar.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
FoxNews: Don't be fooled, 'Green Energy' is neither green nor energy — foxnews.com ● → — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
FoxNews: Nearly 10K photos from Hunter Biden's laptop hit the web: 'Truth and transparency' — foxnews.com ● → — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Hunter Biden lawyer deposes laptop shop owner in latest move by Hunter Biden and new members of his legal team to fight more aggressively against conservatives and those who spread his personal data across the Internet — www.axios.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned — soedition.cnn.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian woman who murdered her abusive husband by feeding him temazepam-laced lemon biscuits and stuffing him in a freezer has been sentenced to 16 years' jail with a non-parole period of 10 years — ground.news: 9 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
New Zealand police file 5 murder charges against man accused of starting deadly hostel fire in Wellington on 16 May — ground.news: 14 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Mexico: Police discover 45 bags containing human remains, maybe missing youths — ground.news: 30 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Sudan: 19 killed in shelling of market in poor area south of Khartoum — ground.news: 5 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Senate passes bill to block Biden's student loan forgiveness program — edition.cnn.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Study discovers sucralose, chemical in common sweetener, damages DNA, can cause cancer — www.wect.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Street protests as Senegal opposition leader Sonko convicted of corrupting youth and sentenced to 2 years in prison but acquitted of rape — ground.news:
35 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
See previous
India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in country's deadliest rail accident in decades — ground.news: 384 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
UN agency for Palestinian refugees raises just $107 million of $300 million needed — ground.news: 17 media reports — 4 June 2023 (LINK)
A 47-year-old ship could cause "one of the worst oil spills in human history." Here's the UN plan to stop it. — www.cbsnews.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Zelensky says Ukraine ready to launch counteroffensive — ground.news: 83 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Black sea urchins have disappeared from the Gulf of Aqaba. Their loss could kill off entire Red Sea coral reef — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— A similar pathogen killed off 98% of the black sea urchin population in the Caribbean in the 1980s, and seemingly returned to the Caribbean in 2022. That may be where the Red Sea pathogen came from.
Blood test to detect 50 different types of cancer shows promise in NHS trial — ground.news: 19 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Gunmen kill Ecuador prosecutor after murder trial hearing on same day attorney general receives death threats — ground.news: 9 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Climate change is already making parts of US uninsurable: California, Florida, Louisiana — www.vox.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Nearly 4,000 people lost their jobs last month because of AI — the first time that's been cited as a reason — www.businessinsider.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Dow notches its best day since January as investors cheer debt ceiling deal and jobs report — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador soccer executives dodge prison with payment to stampede victims' families — ground.news: 25 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
US State Department sanctions former Haitian Prime Minister Lamothe for corruption — edition.cnn.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
World food prices fall to two-year low in May — UN food agency — ground.news: 16 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Slump in prices of vegetable oils, cereals and dairy outweighed increases for sugar and meat.
Tanzania declares end of deadly Marburg virus outbreak, says WHO — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Nine cases — eight confirmed and one probable — and six deaths were recorded in the outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in the northwestern region of Kagera, the WHO said in a statement.
YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow U.S. election denialism — ground.news: 41 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— The decision, which comes ahead of the 2024 midterm races, undoes a policy implemented in December 2020 after President Joe Biden won the election, citing the need to balance its twin goals of "protecting our community and providing a home for open discussion and debate."
Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti's president — ground.news: 39 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
— Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in providing weapons to the Colombian mercenaries who assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïsein 2021. Jaar, who has dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship and is a former US informant, was the only person to plead guilty among the 11 arrested and charged in the United States for the murder of Moïse.
Spanish Catholic bishops find evidence of 728 sexual abusers, 927 victims since 1945 — ground.news: 42 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Clashes in Senegal leave at least 9 dead; government bans use of social media platforms — ground.news: 39 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Rally demands release of Pakistani human rights lawyer taken by armed men in Karachi — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
U.S. sanctions tech companies for helping Iran shut off Internet — ground.news: 17 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Vietnam detains climate activist on tax evasion accusation — ground.news: 10 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Ecuador's embattled President Lasso will not seek re-election in August — ground.news: 22 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Australia's most decorated living war hero quits corporate job after Afghanistan war crime revelations — ground.news: 18 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
North Carolina's Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake, renamed Fort Liberty — abcnews.go.com — 3 June 2023 (LINK)
Elon Musk and Twitter face growing brand safety concerns after execs depart — www.cnbc.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Mark Zuckerberg turns the screw on remote work by requiring Meta employees to be in the office 3 days weekly to help them 'do their best work' — fortune.com ● — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
UN says organised crime shifting drugs routes in Southeast Asia to Laos and Cambodia, where secret industrial-scale ketamine labs and processing warehouses have been discovered — ground.news: 21 media reports — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Pressure mounts around Qatar's expected presidency of International Labour Conference — www.thegenevaobserver.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
Swiss drone takes the perilous plunge so divers don't have to — newatlas.com — 2 June 2023 (LINK)
1 June 2023
UN in Bangladesh decries devastating new round of rations cuts for Rohingya refugees — news.un.org — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption — ground.news: 13 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
MIT researchers develop self-learning language models that outperform larger counterparts — venturebeat.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Credit Suisse has paid back government-backed liquidity — Swiss finance minister — finance.yahoo.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years — ground.news: 22 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Scientists: Swiss energy system could be independent and carbon-neutral by 2050 using the currently untapped local renewable energy resources — actu.epfl.ch — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— This system would even be cheaper than the country's 2020 energy system modeled with the same assumptions, with up to 30-32% cost reductions.
Former Liberian rebel leader Alieu Kosiah lost his appeal on Thursday before Switzerland's highest criminal court against a guilty verdict over war crimes and crimes against humanity. — genevasolutions.news — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Argentine meteorologist becomes first female head of UN weather agency — ground.news: 23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Lebanon military court accuses Hezbollah 5 over killing of UN peacekeeper — ground.news: 17 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
High-profile Australian soldier loses 'war crimes' defamation case over Afghanistan killings — ground.news: 70 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello sentenced to almost 9 years for corruption — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil's lower house approves curtailing environment, indigenous ministries — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Three dead in further nighttime Kyiv attack — city officials — ground.news: 104 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Russia is spending surprisingly little on its war on Ukraine: 3% of GDP — markets.businessinsider.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
The 20 Most Air-Polluted Cities on Earth: 13 in India, Lahore (Pakistan) worst — elements.visualcapitalist.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Pakistan's inflation rises to record 37.97 per cent over year — ground.news: 18 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
President Of Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan's Party Arrested In Lahore — ground.news: 8 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian researchers make world-first endometriosis breakthrough — ground.news: 6 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Taiwan, U.S. sign first deal under new trade framework — ground.news: 33 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
US issues sanctions against Iranian officials in response to assassination plots — ground.news: 3
23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine says Russia blocking grain export deal again — source — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— It said 50 vessels are waiting for inspection in Turkish territorial waters and that they were ready to deliver 2.4 million tonnes of Ukrainian food abroad. Some vessels had been waiting for inspections for more than 3 months.
Russia's own economic figures show a steep drop in industrial output amid a record labor shortage — Business Insider.com/span> — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since April 1. Most were removed for not completing paperwork. — eu.usatoday.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian Mining giant BHP says it underpaid workers for 13 years and will spend up to $280m on compensation — ground.news: 6 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
The country with the best cybersecurity skills: Vatican City, followed by Finland — techradar.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
FoxNews: Don't be fooled, 'Green Energy' is neither green nor energy — foxnews.com ● → — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
FoxNews: Nearly 10K photos from Hunter Biden's laptop hit the web: 'Truth and transparency' — foxnews.com ● → — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Hunter Biden lawyer deposes laptop shop owner in latest move by Hunter Biden and new members of his legal team to fight more aggressively against conservatives and those who spread his personal data across the Internet — www.axios.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned — soedition.cnn.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian woman who murdered her abusive husband by feeding him temazepam-laced lemon biscuits and stuffing him in a freezer has been sentenced to 16 years' jail with a non-parole period of 10 years — ground.news: 9 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
New Zealand police file 5 murder charges against man accused of starting deadly hostel fire in Wellington on 16 May — ground.news: 14 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Mexico: Police discover 45 bags containing human remains, maybe missing youths — ground.news: 30 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Sudan: 19 killed in shelling of market in poor area south of Khartoum — ground.news: 5 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Senate passes bill to block Biden's student loan forgiveness program — edition.cnn.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Study discovers sucralose, chemical in common sweetener, damages DNA, can cause cancer — www.wect.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Street protests as Senegal opposition leader Sonko convicted of corrupting youth and sentenced to 2 years in prison but acquitted of rape — ground.news:
35 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
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UN in Bangladesh decries devastating new round of rations cuts for Rohingya refugees — news.un.org — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption — ground.news: 13 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
MIT researchers develop self-learning language models that outperform larger counterparts — venturebeat.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Credit Suisse has paid back government-backed liquidity — Swiss finance minister — finance.yahoo.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years — ground.news: 22 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Scientists: Swiss energy system could be independent and carbon-neutral by 2050 using the currently untapped local renewable energy resources — actu.epfl.ch — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— This system would even be cheaper than the country's 2020 energy system modeled with the same assumptions, with up to 30-32% cost reductions.
Former Liberian rebel leader Alieu Kosiah lost his appeal on Thursday before Switzerland's highest criminal court against a guilty verdict over war crimes and crimes against humanity. — genevasolutions.news — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Argentine meteorologist becomes first female head of UN weather agency — ground.news: 23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Lebanon military court accuses Hezbollah 5 over killing of UN peacekeeper — ground.news: 17 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
High-profile Australian soldier loses 'war crimes' defamation case over Afghanistan killings — ground.news: 70 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello sentenced to almost 9 years for corruption — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Brazil's lower house approves curtailing environment, indigenous ministries — ground.news: 19 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Three dead in further nighttime Kyiv attack — city officials — ground.news: 104 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Russia is spending surprisingly little on its war on Ukraine: 3% of GDP — markets.businessinsider.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
The 20 Most Air-Polluted Cities on Earth: 13 in India, Lahore (Pakistan) worst — elements.visualcapitalist.com — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Pakistan's inflation rises to record 37.97 per cent over year — ground.news: 18 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
President Of Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan's Party Arrested In Lahore — ground.news: 8 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Australian researchers make world-first endometriosis breakthrough — ground.news: 6 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Taiwan, U.S. sign first deal under new trade framework — ground.news: 33 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
US issues sanctions against Iranian officials in response to assassination plots — ground.news: 3 23 media reports — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
Ukraine says Russia blocking grain export deal again — source — 1 June 2023 (LINK)
— It said 50 vessels are waiting for inspection in Turkish territorial waters and that they were ready to deliver 2.4 million tonnes of Ukrainian food abroad. Some vessels had been waiting for inspections for more than 3 months.
