Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals ( www.theguardian.com )
Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe...
England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming ( www.theguardian.com )
French government says Kristi Noem lied about cancelling meeting with Macron ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Strategic and moral mistakes’: US politicians step up condemnation of Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 ( www.theguardian.com )
Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech ( www.theguardian.com )
Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’...
Thousands protest in Israel amid anger at Netanyahu over hostages held in Gaza ( www.theguardian.com )
Thousands protest in Israel amid anger at Netanyahu over hostages held in Gaza ( www.theguardian.com )
US and China need ‘climate armistice’ to meet net zero, says former head of CSIRO ( www.theguardian.com )
How Zionism became a synonym for violence and oppression ( www.theguardian.com )
For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zionist” and “Zionism” have become a watchword – pejorative and emblematic of the violent state policies driving...
How Zionism became a synonym for violence and oppression ( www.theguardian.com )
For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zionist” and “Zionism” have become a watchword – pejorative and emblematic of the violent state policies driving...
Far-right EU election gains could boost nationalist parties on home turf ( www.theguardian.com )
Polls indicate a surge for the right across the continent in next month’s ballots but the centrists are still likely to hold sway in parliament...
Target Pride merchandise only available at select stores after rightwing backlash ( www.theguardian.com )
Company, which operates roughly 2,000 stores, declined to disclose number of stores where merchandise will not be available...
Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border ( www.theguardian.com )
Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems...
‘You say you are a musician, they beat you more’: the Ukrainian sax player who survived Putin’s torture prisons ( www.theguardian.com )
Yuriy Merkotan played in a military band and, after being caught up in the Mariupol siege, spent nearly two years in various jails
Internet use is associated with greater wellbeing, global study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
Researcher cautions against ‘one-size-fits-all solutions’ amid growing debate over impact, particularly on young people...
Mystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims ( www.theguardian.com )
Ann Pizzorusso says she has tracked down the background landscape of the world’s most famous painting
Terrified families flee Rafah as Israel set to open all-out assault ( www.theguardian.com )
Tens of thousands of Palestinians were fleeing Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, on Saturday, after Israeli warnings to evacuate before an imminent military assault that will open a bloody new phase of the seven-month-long conflict....
Texas man seeks to have ex-partner investigated for out-of-state abortion ( www.theguardian.com )
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like ( www.theguardian.com )
Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outage
Google Cloud accidentally deletes cutomer’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ ( www.theguardian.com )
US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail ( www.theguardian.com )
Melody Feliciano Johnson, initially charged in Arizona with attempted murder, receives probation after striking plea deal...
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years ( www.theguardian.com )
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authorities...
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ ( www.theguardian.com )
More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.