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Date: 2024-06-28  

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.

From CNN:

This idyllic Swedish town is selling off land for the price of a cup of coffee By Julia Buckley You’ve heard of houses on sale in southern Europe for the price of a cup of coffee. Now one country in northern Europe is running a similar scheme: selling plots for just a few cents. Götene, 200 miles southwest of Stockholm, is selling 29 plots of land with prices starting at just 1 krona, or 9 US cents, per square meter (11 square feet).

From The Guardian:

Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says Higher incidence of damage to hips, jaws and thumbs reveals their writing efforts may have taken a toll Nicola Davis From bad backs to eye strain, office work can take its toll on the body. But it seems such perils are nothing new: researchers have found Egyptian scribes experienced damage to their hips, jaws and thumbs as a result of their efforts.

From Reuters (via AOL):

Russian scientists conduct autopsy on 44,000-year-old permafrost wolf carcass In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind. Found by chance by locals in Yakutia's Abyyskiy district in 2021, the wolf's body is only now being properly examined by scientists.

From CBS:

This pink blob with beady eyes is a humanoid robot with "living skin" By Caitlin O'Kane A pink blob with beady eyes is gaining widespread attention online – because this newly-developed robot has what researchers call "living skin." Professor Shoji Takeuchi of the University of Tokyo developed the alien-like machine using engineered skin attached to a humanoid robot. Takeuchi previously created walking mini robots using 3D-printed lab-grown meat, engineered skin and biological muscle tissue. He decided to continue to develop the skin feature, which was grown in the Biohybrid Systems Laboratory at the university.

From Politico:

Let’s be a bit more honest about what a ‘European identity’ looks like Emphasizing Europe’s “Judeo-Christian” heritage and looking only to antiquity betrays the European project, excluding the various peoples and entities that shaped the Continent. OPINION BY SAIM SAEED Saim Saeed is a Brussels-based journalist and former POLITICO editor. European officials are keen to assert that the sum of their institutions is more than their parts. The EU, in their view, isn’t just a set of standardized rules, a customs union and an internal market. The bloc has “values” like democracy, freedom, dignity.

From Deutsche Welle:

As EU decides top jobs, von der Leyen faces tough choice Anchal Vohra 8 hours ago Ursula von der Leyen will likely need the support of the Greens or Europe's far-right group to secure the EU's top job for another five years. Who will she choose? endorsed her nomination for a second mandate as president of the European Commission. Ursula von der Leyen beamed as she expressed her gratitude to the European leaders who had Usually self-possessed and serious, the German conservative was visibly delighted when leaders officially gave her a shot at a second term heading to one of the world's largest single markets.

From France24:

EU holds its breath as Hungary’s Orban vows to ‘Make Europe Great Again’ Hungary’s pro-Kremlin leader Viktor Orban takes over the rotating presidency of the European Council on July 1, just weeks after fellow nationalist and populist parties surged across the bloc in European polls. Hungarian diplomats have promised a “normal” presidency over the coming six months, while experts note that the role carries limited powers. But Orban’s choice of slogan for the job suggests the EU’s serial provocateur is unlikely to shun the spotlight. Grégoire SAUVAGE The EU’s six-month rotating presidencies, when member states take turns steering the bloc, tend to come and go without most people noticing. For diplomats in Brussels, however, the upcoming handover will be anything but business as usual.

From the New York Times:

Leaders in Their Prime Debate Substance in Detail (No, Not in the U.S.) The debates between contenders to be U.K. prime minister showed that Britain’s political culture, and the leaders who have emerged from it, are far removed from those across the ocean. By Mark Landler Forty-eight hours before President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump clashed onstage in Atlanta on Thursday, the leaders of Britain’s two major parties, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, went head-to-head in Nottingham, England. To say their debates were different doesn’t begin to capture the Atlantic Ocean-sized chasm that separated them.

From The Guardian:

Have election betting revelations gone from genuine scandal to political circus? Rob Davies Betting on election date merits serious investigation but it is not an offence for MPs to bet on themselves winning Until the past few weeks, online casinos and bookmakers have made handy villains for an under-pressure government. Ministers could legitimately claim to be cleaning up Labour’s mess with reforms that partially roll back the permissive regulatory regime ushered in under Tony Blair.

From the BBC:

Farage challenged over canvasser's racist slurs By Kate Whannel Farage asked how he will handle racism within Reform UK Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has repeated his assertion that footage showing racist comments apparently made by one of his party's activists was a "set-up". He faced angry questions from a BBC Question Time audience over a Channel 4 broadcast which showed Andrew Parker, a canvasser for Reform UK, using a racist term about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

From CBS:

Paris' Seine River tests for E. coli 10 times above acceptable limit a month out from 2024 Summer Olympics By Li Cohen The world is officially a month from the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics — and new tests just revealed that one of the Games' focal points for events, the Seine River in Paris, isn't ready. For the third consecutive week, samples from the Seine River show that the waterway, which is planned for some Olympic swimming events, has unsafe levels of bacteria linked to fecal matter. The latest tests from the Eau de Paris monitoring group, taken between June 17 and June 23, show E. coli bacteria, which is often linked to fecal matter and can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections, pneumonia and sepsis, was 10 times above the acceptable levels, according to AFP, based on results released by the Paris mayor's office. At no point have levels fallen below the upper limits, AFP said.

From NPR:

What to know about France's high-stakes election, where the far right is gaining ground PARIS — France is about to hold parliamentary elections that are shaping up to be among its most divisive in recent history. With the first round on Sunday, the rising popularity of the far right ahead of the surprise election is sending shockwaves across Europe and beyond.

From the Associated Press:

Pope’s top adviser, women who say they were abused by ex-Jesuit artist ask for mosaics to be removed BY NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — The scandal over a famous ex-Jesuit artist who is accused of psychologically, spiritually and sexually abusing adult women came to a head Friday after some of his alleged victims and the pope’s own anti-abuse adviser asked for his artworks not to be promoted or displayed. The separate initiatives underscored how the case of the Rev. Marko Rupnik, whose mosaics grace some of the Catholic Church’s most-visited shrines and sanctuaries, continues to cause a headache for the Vatican and Pope Francis, who as a Jesuit himself has been drawn into the scandal.

From the New York Times:

At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward a full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger. By Declan Walsh At least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a devastating civil war has left over half the country’s 48 million people in a situation of chronic hunger, the global authority on famine said on Thursday. At least 14 areas across the country are near famine, including some in the capital, Khartoum, according to the latest figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a group of experts from U.N. bodies and major relief agencies that measures hunger and formally declares famine.

From Reuters:

Kenya protests expose jet-setting Ruto's neglect of discontent at home By David Lewis In the two years since he was elected, Kenya's President William Ruto has wowed global climate activists under the Eiffel Tower, brushed shoulders with global tech titans in Silicon Valley and was toasted as a global peacekeeper at the White House. As he notched up dozens of foreign trips, however, citizens back home endured gruelling economic hardship. days of protests. Already hammered by a cost-of-living crisis and watching those in government enjoy the largesse derived from their positions, Kenyans forced Ruto to ditch plans to introduce eye-watering tax hikes after

From the Associated Press:

Mongolia’s governing party wins only a slim majority in parliamentary election, early results show KEN MORITSUGU AND ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL BYAND ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Mongolia’s governing party won parliamentary elections Friday but by only a slim margin as the opposition made major gains, according to tallies by the party and news media based on near-complete results. Preliminary results released early Saturday indicated the governing Mongolia People’s Party won 68 seats in the 126-seat body, “meaning we have won the election,” Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai said.

Another from the AP:

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