US government's repression against the political opposition: US senator forced to the floor, handcuffed by federal agents Mayor arrested by masked officials in military fatigues Mayoral candidate pushed against a wall, handcuffed at immigration courthouse nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/…

Trump's birthday parade theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Olabisi Onabanjo university's 'no-bra, no-exam' rule sparks Nigeria outrage — Female students are touched to see if they wear bras before taking part in an exam, part of the institution's dress code aimed at maintaining "a distraction-free environment" bbc.com/news/articles/…

L’estratègia d’ERC sembla clara, avui ens l’ha explicada en Rufián: els és igual Sánchez, la qüestió és salvar Illa, emblanquinar-lo de catalanista, que no hi hagi eleccions a Catalunya i sobretot que no surti res de la DGAIA ni dels altres casos del seu saqueig.

Denisovan hand and footprints in the Tibetan Plateau dating back up to 226,000 years

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Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

The proteome of the late Middle Pleistocene Harbin individual—95 endogenous proteins retrieved from a cranium from Harbin, China, dating to at least 146,000 years ago and previously assigned to a new species, Homo longi, suggest it is Denisovan instead science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The Arab world thinks differently about this Iran war. The ease with which Israel penetrated Iran’s security services has been a source of both confusion and glee in the Middle East. It has erased any lingering doubt about Israel's regional hegemony economist.com/middle-east-an…

US resumes scheduling appointments for international student visas, but all applicants must open their social media accounts to search for "any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of US" bbc.com/news/articles/…

India's Modi is illegally deporting thousands of Muslims at gunpoint to Bangladesh, including Indian citizens who are then sent back to India. They have been rounded up by police across India, with many of them deprived of due legal process theguardian.com/global-develop…

भारत के मोदी सरकार ने हज़ारों मुसलमानों को अवैध रूप से बंदूक की नोक पर बांग्लादेश भेजा है, जिसमें भारतीय नागरिक भी शामिल हैं जिन्हें बाद में भारत वापस भेज दिया जाता है। उन्हें पूरे भारत में पुलिस ने हिरासत में लिया है, और उनमें से कई को उचित कानूनी प्रक्रिया से वंचित रखा गया है.

A senator handcuffed, people snatched in public, military deployed – US slide towards autocracy has come quicker than feared theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Iran aided Russia with badly needed drones in its Ukraine invasion, helped it build out a critical factory to make drones, signed a strategic partnership treaty with Putin, including in defense. But when Iran is attacked, Russia is nowhere to be found nytimes.com/2025/06/17/wor…

Trump leaves the G7 summit early By Morten Morland in The Times and The Sunday Times

Dictator Franco stole two Romanesque sculptures from Santiago Cathedral. Spain's Supreme Court has just ruled his family has to return these two stolen pieces, attributed to Master Mateo and believed to be part of the sculptural ensemble on the exterior portico (1168-1188 CE)

Musk's SpaceX Starship spacecraft exploded on its test stand, not even flying, sending a large fireball into the sky

Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture on National Mall, Washington D.C. It shows a gold-painted hand with a thumbs-up quashing the crown of the Statute of Liberty. 4 plaques reproduce praises to Trump from Putin, Orban, Bolsonaro, Kim Jong-un washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Ya mean to tell me that masked goons don't come with warrants? By Clay Jones

Science is vulnerable when it discovers things that threaten authority. In US, many universities have lost their grants; they don’t know how they’re going to fund their lab technicians and their postdoctoral students. It’s a colossal waste of resources english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…