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Facebook post with a photo of Alec and contact information: MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen July 31st in the afternoon. Was headed from Odda, Norway on a solo backpacking trip to explore the glacier @folgefonnanasjonalpark. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk and finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search with volunteers and dogs and helicopters is underway in the area. PLEASE SHARE AND TAG AND REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. If anyone has seen him or has information please contact Drew Avanell Gaddis or Veronika Silchenko

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy

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‘Ukraine doesn’t forget its cultural landmarks’: the team risking their lives to rescue statues from the frontline Operation has retrieved 11 babas from southern Ukraine, where Turkic nomadic people flourished in medieval times

‘Ukraine doesn’t forget its cultural landmarks’: the team risking their lives to rescue statues from the frontline www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

A milestone of your first newswire job is learning how worn the ctrl, c, and v keys can get.

Not my large adult Isis sons

Here’s your chance to be ready with the hot takes next time something big happens in Syria

EU will make UK pay to join €150bn defence fund Boost to British businesses from contracts won through Safe project will require London to make financial contribution, diplomats say

Britain will have to pay the EU a percentage of the value of any weapons bought from UK companies via a Brussels-led defence fund, under plans being drawn up by the bloc to counter the growing threat from Russia. www.ft.com/content/1982...

Extreme weight loss, cosmetic surgery videos available to kids on TikTok despite guidelines, CBS News finds Content promoting extreme weight loss and cosmetic surgery is available to young TikTok users, breaching the social media platform's own policies.

NEW for @cbsnews.com:

We created a TikTok account for a hypothetical 15-year-old female user and found hundreds of extreme weight loss and cosmetic surgery videos were searchable and watchable on the platform in violation of the platform's own policies.

More here: www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-...

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos III outside the Holy Family Church in Gaza

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos III inside the Holy Family Church in Gaza

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos III visit an injured person in Gaza

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos III in Gaza today (photos courtesy the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)

Israeli raid hits Catholic Church in Gaza, Italian leader says, with several wounded including priest Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said "Israeli raids" hit the only Catholic Church in Gaza, and she condemned attacks on civilians as "unacceptable."

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem tells me two people have been killed in the strike on Gaza's only Roman Catholic Church, Holy Family, just after services today. Fr Gabriel, who Pope Francis called every day, was injured. Follow my colleague Haley's coverage here www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

UK and Germany join forces in push for lucrative sales of military jets and hardware Berlin vows more pragmatic approach after years of tension between two countries over arms exports

Britain and Germany will vow on Thursday to work more closely to sell jointly made weapons, including Typhoon jets, in a deal that Downing Street claims can unlock “billions of pounds of additional defence exports”. www.ft.com/content/3b12...

I’ve been listening to too much @iwriteok.bsky.social, aka Audio Adam Curtis, bc the London heat dome makes it impossible to sleep anymore

Domino Effect meme where the small domino is Springer Verlag deciding to expand into the UK, and the big domino being US civil war.

Is this anything?

10/10 no notes

France, Italy reportedly opt out of US-NATO arms deal for Ukraine France declined to join the plan because of President Emmanuel Macron's push for European nations to strengthen their own defense industries by purchasing domestically produced arms, Politico reported...

⚡️France, Italy reportedly opt out of US-NATO arms deal for Ukraine.

France declined to join the plan because of President Emmanuel Macron's push for European nations to strengthen their own defense industries by purchasing domestically produced arms, Politico reported, citing French officials.

Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Ukraine could hit Moscow, say people briefed on call US president encouraged Ukrainian leader to step up deep strikes on Russia

Maybe we don't need to leak everything www.ft.com/content/b66f...

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

Oh they're at Jasana cave. Impeccable vibes.

Screenshot from a Rudaw split-screen of the PKK disarmament ceremony in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The left side is a static shot of the area outside Ranya, Sulaymaniyah, where dozens of cars and buses are parked up on the side of a mountain road. The ride side is the Rudaw correspondent on-site explaining the historic day.

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Absolutely surreal to be sat in the bureau in London watching a Rudaw live feed of some PKK handing over weapons on the side of a mountain road in Suly. What a day.

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Denmark Begins Drafting Women as Russian Threat Looms

Denmark Begins Drafting Women as Russian Threat Looms www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/w...

Everything else aside, what a year FR24 is having.

Syrians Want a Green Future. Can Their New Government Deliver? | Atmos The fall of the Assad regime has offered the Syrian people a revolutionary moment to rebuild with the environment in mind.

Thrilled to share my reporting on what role environmental considerations are expected to play in Syria's transition. Many brilliant and generous people shared their insights to bring you this piece at @atmosmag.bsky.social 🌍

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Between this and all the parcel bombs is it really so hard to believe the fire at the PM's residence might have something to do with Russia?

Russia pays young Ukrainians to be unwitting suicide bombers in shadow war Oleh, 19, was offered $1,000 for a paint attack on a police station – but the bag he was given contained a crude bomb

"Russia’s sabotage campaign inside Ukraine started last spring, SBU spokesperson Artem Dekhtiarenko told the Guardian. To begin with, it involved arson attacks on military vehicles, conscription offices and post offices." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I remember as a young kid asking my mom if God watched people on the toilet and her saying of course not, that he had far more important things to do, and that’s kind of how I feel about the prime minister commenting on what people say at a music festival.