Sea foam at the Belgian and Dutch cost has concentrations of PFAS that make swallowing it potentially dangerous.

*[Putin forces'] strikes on Kyiv damage children's hospital and leave more than 50 injured.*

Yao Hui Charles Yeo, a persecuted human rights defender who fled Singapore to ask for asylum in the UK, says he would rather live or die on the streets, than live in the barge in isolated Portland where one of the people sent there has already committed suicide.

The barge's official name is Bibby Stockholm, but Hostile Environment might be a more fitting name. It is not exactly a prison, and the people made to live there can leave when they wish, but they have to go through an airport-style search plus a body search each time.

They also say that there is not enough food at meals for all of them.

US citizens: call on all 50 states to mail a mail-in ballot to each eligible voter.

Cop28 ended with a global agreement to stop using fossil fuels, but without specific enforcement requirements suitable to ensure progress towards that goal.

*Summit president [al-Jaber] hails "historic package to accelerate climate action", but critics decry "litany of loopholes" in final text.*

Some climate scientists have called its weakness a disaster.

This gives UAE oil emir al-Jaber an excuse to claim to have achieved great theoretical progress while in practice continuing to sell as much oil as he can pump.