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Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The TelegraphInformationHong Kong

Hong Kong bookshop owners arrested in free-speech crackdown

Two owners of one of Hong Kong’s last independent bookshops were arrested on Wednesday in the latest attack on freedom of speech in the city. Leticia Wong, a former pro-democracy district councillor, and her business partner were accused of “displaying seditious items” including content “inciting hatred against the Hong Kong SAR government, judiciary, and law enforcement agencies”, according to police.

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The GuardianMusicUSA

Only Donald Trump could make America’s special 250th birthday all about him

The milestone called for the epic vision of a JFK or the soaring oratory of a Barack Obama. Instead it got a Trump rallyIf that’s the way America celebrates its birthday, you would not want to be present at its funeral. The shining city on a hill is losing some of its lustre these days. The land that promised life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is struggling to deliver.A milestone anniversary like calls for the epic vision of a John F Kennedy, the immaculate timing of a Ronald Reagan or the soaring oratory of a Barack Obama. What it got instead on Wednesday was an 80-year-old convicted criminal who appeared in Home Alone 2 and seems hellbent on dividing the nation.

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The GuardianHumanityVenezuela

US, Cuba and Iran join global rescue effort after Venezuela earthquakes

Latin American and European counties also among those offering solidarity and help for country already facing a humanitarian crisisCountries around the world, including Iran, the US and Cuba, have committed to help with rescue efforts in Venezuela after deadly twin earthquakes hit the country.On the evening of 24 June, Venezuela was rocked by measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale that killed at least 164 people, injured close to 1,000 more, and caused significant damage to the capital Caracas, as well as areas across the north of the country.

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The TelegraphHumanityUnited Kingdom

Parents ‘risk jail’ if they try to talk child out of trans treatment

Parents, teachers and doctors risk up to five years in jail if they try to talk their children out of irreversible trans treatments under a “dangerous” new law, campaigners have warned. On Thursday, Olivia Bailey, the equalities minister, published a draft bill to ban conversion therapy, which aims to suppress or change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

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The GuardianHumanity

Crisis looms for Pope Leo as splinter sect seeks to ordain far-right bishops

Conflict threatens to worsen mounting tensions between the Vatican and rightwing Catholics in the US and globallyA far-right Catholic sect’s plan to ordain its own bishops on the first day of July has placed it on a collision course with the Vatican – posing a possible crisis for Pope Leo a little over a year into his papacy, and straining the Roman Catholic church’s already fraught relationship with rightwing and traditionalist Catholics in the US and elsewhere.Founded in Switzerland in 1970 to oppose liberalizing reforms in the Catholic church, the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has gained significant followings in the US, France, Argentina and other countries. The order, which has a base of operations in Kansas, claims that more than half a million people worldwide its masses, though these numbers are difficult to verify. It counts 1,500 priests, seminarians and other vocational members among its members.

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The GuardianScandalUSA

The Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children | Moira Donegan

A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhoodThe quietly declared frozen embryos to be children last week. In a related to a nearly 20-year-old program meant to raise awareness about , the Department of Health and Human Services referred to frozen embryos “child” and “children”, calling for screening standards for frozen embryo purchasers to be raised to those applied to parents seeking to adopt actual children. The document refers to frozen embryos as “children who already exist and are in need of a family”.The language is strange and conspicuous in context, even if that context itself may seem marginal: what the Trump administration has done here is change its phrasing in the guidelines for a longstanding and somewhat obscure grant program.

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The GuardianDiplomacy

JD Vance is the face of the beleaguered Iran deal – is he its fall guy?

The vice-president, leading a foundering peace deal to end the kind war he’s opposed in the past, is left holding the bag has taken the greatest gamble of his vice-presidency by making himself the face of the ceasefire deal – a shaky agreement that already seems to be unraveling at the seams.But after months spent in limbo due to the war, it may be the best chance for him to find his feet again.

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The GuardianEconomyAustralia

Labor’s tax deal with the Greens will close a superannuation ‘loophole’. What is changing and who is affected?

Self-managed super funds will be barred from borrowing to invest in residential property, in a move welcomed by some economistsGet our , or The government has legislated its changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing, after winning support from the Greens. involved Labor agreeing to close a relatively obscure “loophole” in superannuation legislation that let funds borrow to invest in housing.

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The GuardianHumanity

What is in the Caribbean’s new slavery reparations manifesto?

Caricom Reparations Commission’s Hilary Beckles explains how it will help address the ‘residual legacy of slavery’• One of the key outcomes of the recent reparations conference in Ghana was the outlining the “moral, ethical and legal case for reparations” for the enslavement of African people.The Caribbean Community Reparations Commission (CRC), which created the document, says it is a strengthening of an existing Caribbean Community (Caricom) for reparations from the UK and other former colonial powers, and a response to feedback from the public, organisations and political leaders.

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The GuardianScandalUnited Kingdom

Bodies in Nottingham NHS trust mortuary in state of ‘advanced deterioration’, inspectors say

Human Tissue Authority says bodies not transferred to freezer in time due to insufficient storage needsBodies in the mortuary at the NHS trust at the centre of the health services biggest ever maternity care scandal were found in a state of “advanced deterioration” due to not being transferred to a freezer in time, inspectors have said.Human Tissue Authority (HTA) inspectors who visited Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust in March discovered eight bodies in a state of advanced decomposition due to not being transferred to a freezer within a sufficient timeframe.

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