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Germany conducts raids against climate activists, alleging criminality

Washington Post The Last Generation, known for throwing food at art and gluing themselves to roads to protest lack of action of climate change, may be treated as a criminal enterprise. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/24/germany-last-generation-raids-environmental/

Dutch inventor growing mushroom coffins as sustainable new alternative in burial practices

Fox News For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too. A Dutch intrepid inventor is now “growing” coffins by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, together with hemp fiber in a special mold that, in a week, turns into what could basically be compared to the…

Putin’s ‘butcher’ warns of simmering revolution as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on

Fox News Chief of Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary force and self-proclaimed “butcher” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has once again come out swinging at Moscow’s defense ministry, this time warning there will be a revolution like the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution if Russian elites do not get serious about the war in Ukraine. According…

Clare Nowland Dies, Australian Police Say, Hours After Announcing Charges for Officer

New York Times Hours before Clare Nowland died, the police announced charges against the officer who used the stun gun on her in the care facility where she lived. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/world/australia/clare-nowland-police-stun-gun.html

Boris Johnson referred to police for allegedly breaking covid rules — again

Washington Post Former British prime minister Boris Johnson faces yet more allegations that he broke his government’s own coronavirus rules during the pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/24/boris-johnson-covid-rules-police/

Russian Military Response Questioned After Rare Assault Inside Borders

New York Times An attack by anti-Kremlin fighters has come days after Moscow’s only significant battlefield victory in Ukraine in months. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/24/world/russia-ukraine-news

A Year in Uvalde

New York Times How grief has warped the lives of the Uvalde shooting victims’ families and friends. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/briefing/uvalde.html

China prepares for new wave of covid cases from XBB variants

Washington Post As immunity from the last big wave of infections wanes with the new XBB coronavirus variants, China braces for a new surge of covid cases. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/24/china-new-covid-outbreak-xbb-strain/

Pegasus spyware reaches into Mexican president’s inner circle

Washington Post The surveillance technology was found on the cellphones of officials investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students and victims of the 20th-century “Dirty War” against a left-wing insurgency. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/24/pegasus-spyware-ayotzinapa-mexico/

Miami zoo apologizes after treatment of kiwi bird ‘offended a nation’

Washington Post A petition to “help save” Paora garnered more than 10,000 signatures after a video showed visitors petting the flightless, nocturnal bird. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/24/miami-zoo-kiwi-encounter-paora/