Turbulence on Doha-Dublin flight leaves 12 injured bbc.in/3WYe4hM

As Gaza’s infrastructure has collapsed, so has its trash collection. Mountains of trash are piling up in the enclave’s open spaces, making the public health crisis even worse. Great satellite imagery analysis from ⁦Jana Tauschinski⁩ via ⁦Financial Times⁩ on.ft.com/3R2PM29

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Tel Aviv tonight: over calling for a hostage deal and for the government to resign. Polls show most Israelis are in favor of stopping the war. The government won't let that happen.

Truly honoured to be The Orwell Prizes finalist again, & in such great company! 🙏 Thanks to judges Peter Frankopan christinalamb Rohan Silva Lola Seaton Sunder Katwala 4 recognising the significance of #TheIncarcerations alongside these fab books. Arabella Pike LSE Oxford Anthropology

The most Waitrose thing I’ve ever seen

“I became a victim of what behavioural economists call the confirmation bias.”

Since so many predictions are doing the rounds, a gentle reminder from 2019.

How I got the 2019 election all wrong — by the inimitable शिक्षित बेरोज़गार
newslaundry.com/2019/06/04/how…

Rishi Sunak’s campaign off to a good start at the Titanic’s shipyard! Priceless

Wrote a piece about walking through Yerevan for Financial Times, featuring the epic modernist Chess House, the architectural gems of Alexander Tamanian and a handful of great places to eat and drink:
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Huge, if true

Zelenskiy visits the printing house of my Ukrainian publisher Видавництво Vivat in Kharkiv. Russia destroyed it yesterday. Seven dead, many injured, books burned

These videos of the queue up Everest and the aftermath of the cornice collapse that killed a couple of people...
There's something about this that sums up so much of what's wrong with the world.
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Minutes after ICJ order ,Israeli warplanes launched a series of air strikes on the Shaboura camp in center of the city of Rafah, the sound of explosions were terrifying locals said, clouds of black smoke hung over the buildings rescue teams unable to reach the camp

Breaking news: The UN’s top court has ordered Israel to 'immediately halt' its military offensive in Gaza's southern town of Rafah. More than 1mn Palestinians have fled to escape fighting elsewhere in the enclave ft.com/content/ce9c86…

BREAKING: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an order on Friday calling on Israel to stop its military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah

Bailed India opposition leader’s return shakes up election campaign on.ft.com/3VcffbZ

This week’s #CookbookCorner features Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food by Fadi Kattan. Read more about it and get his recipe for Mafghoussa here:
nigella.com/cookbook-corne…