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Gavin Newsom’s take on Israel’s future just got a wilder twist as his latest apology comes with a chilling warning about Netanyahu’s next move

California Governor Gavin Newsom has expressed regret over his previous description of Israel as an “apartheid state,” clarifying his comments were tied to a specific warning about the future direction of the region rather than its current situation. According to Fox News, Newsom made the initial controversial suggestion during a…

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Gavin Newsom says he regrets using term ‘apartheid’ to describe Israel

California governor backtracks and says he meant to apply term to Israel’s future if it continues on present trajectory

The Guardian - US

Jewish American columnist Thomas Friedman says he was uninvited from 2024 Adelaide writers’ week over ‘timing’

Claim comes after former festival board member Tony Berg accused Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah of ‘hypocrisy’ in their accusations of repressing freedom of speech

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Adelaide festival apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah and invites her to participate in 2027 writers’ week

Apology comes as former Adelaide festival board member accuses Louise Adler of hypocrisy after she resigned citing free speech concerns

The Guardian - AU

‘No one had seen anything like it’: how video game Pong changed the world

It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators – and those they influenced – hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic

The Guardian - UK

Whatever happens from here, Putin has already changed the world

Instigated by Putin, the war has come down to two competing pressures – the wretched human toll of Russia’s brutality versus the sanctions against it.

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