Food safety scandal rocks China as report claims cooking oil carried in same trucks as fuel (www.cnn.com)
Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between....
Iran’s new president can only change the country so much (www.vox.com)
Russia bans Moscow Times newspaper (www.dw.com)
Russia has declared the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times an “undesirable organization.” Cooperating with the outlet can entail sentences of up to five years in prison...
He shot up a gay bar during a festival. Now he's going away for a long time. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Congress OKs bill overhauling oversight of troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (apnews.com)
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny....
The Healing Power of Hugs (www.psychologytoday.com)
hugs/touch psychologist discusses. I know I like hugs.
Why are the US and IMF imposing draconian austerity measures on Kenya? (www.theguardian.com)
Please tell me this a good idea (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Woman used severed thumb of murdered ‘sugar daddy’ to steal money, police say (www.independent.co.uk)
TIL it's possible to purchase coffee grown by Zapatista Worker Cooperatives in Oventic, Mexico. (schoolsforchiapas.org)
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