This week, hosts Amanda and Hanna are tackling some bummers (what's new?) with Hong Kong Tiannanmen Square activists sentenced for sedition and increased violence in increasing West Bank settlements, paired with a potential scientific breakthrough -- a made-to-order skin cancer vaccine!

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Hong Kong: 1. Hong Kong Tiananmen activists found guilty of national security charges  (Al Jazeera), 2. Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists convicted in national security trial (BBC Chinese)

The West Bank: 1. European leaders demand Israel halt controversial E1 settlement project in West Bank (Euronews), 2. A nation divided: What do Israelis want in October’s elections? (Simon Speakman Cordall, Al Jazeera), 3. Israel re-establishes closed West Bank settlement, defying growing international protests (Lucy Williamson, BBC), 4. US envoy Huckabee tells Israeli settlers not to take Palestinian Americans' land (Alexander Cornwell, Reuters), 5. Israel deliberately targeting children in ongoing genocide against Palestinians, UN commission finds (Zeena Saifi, CNN), 6. Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump (Andrew Roth, The Guardian)

Skin Cancer Vax: 1. Vaccine breakthrough stops cancer returning in trial (Joe McFadden, BBC)