Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court (apnews.com)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, but the Supreme Court will have the final say....
China: Next real estate giant on the ropes (www.dw.com)
Chinese policymakers are facing calls to do more to prop up the ailing real estate market after the largest property developer, Country Garden, warned of multibillion-dollar losses and missed bond payments....
Army airlifts hundreds to safety from Canadian fires (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Alec Baldwin: Report casts doubt over Rust actor's account of shooting (www.bbc.com)
A new report into the fatal shooting on the set of the movie Rust appears to cast doubt over star and producer Alec Baldwin’s accounts of events....
KIA (lemmy.world)
I was on campus when ‘Animal House’ debuted. It changed everything. (archive.today)
Independence Day 2023: A Celebration of Freedom, Patriotism, and Hope! - News18 (www.news18.com)
India is celebrating its 77th Independence Day on August 15, 2023. On this day in 1947, India became a free nation after more than two centuries of British colonial rule.
Italy floods: Torrent of floodwater bursts through alpine town (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Myanmar landslide: At least 30 missing at jade mine (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Live updates: The latest news on Trump and the Fulton County, Georgia, election case (www.cnn.com)
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Wipeout Game Rewrite: How to Play it on Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Putin's Hunger Games: The Ukraine War Is Forcing Millions to Face Starvation and 'Look Death in the Eyes' (www.rollingstone.com)
"More than 80 percent of food imports in Somalia and East Africa were already coming from Ukraine and Russia even before the war,” Shashwat Saraf, the regional emergency director for East Africa at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Nairobi, Kenya. “Over the past year, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are coming out of...
UK industry deeply frustrated by Network Rail staff domestic air travel (www.railtech.com)
Titan Quest 2 is on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Rob Lowe Says He Left ‘The West Wing’ Because He Felt “Very Undervalued”: “The Best Thing I Ever Did” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The actor departed Aaron Sorkin's hit series in 2002.
Poland to vote in privatisation referendum, likely alongside October election (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine orders evacuation of northeastern city of Kupyansk as Russia claims advances (www.cnn.com)
“Over the past 24 hours, Russians massively shelled settlements of Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Izium and Kupyansk districts with guided aerial bombs and other weapons,” said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration.
New book reveals Tiananmen square massacre, others fabricated by US (english.almayadeen.net)
US mainstream news outlets like CBS News with actual reporters on the ground at the time: cbsnews.com/…/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massa…...
Religious Objections Over Pronouns Test High Court’s New Stance (news.bloomberglaw.com)
A revived legal dispute over a Christian music teacher’s refusal to use students’ preferred names and pronouns will offer an early test of the US Supreme Court’s new standard for religious accommodations in the workplace.
Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It (www.techdirt.com)
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In previous downturns the world turned to China as an engine of growth – this time that driver may not be there (www.theguardian.com)
Explosion rocks plant near Moscow: evacuation ongoing (www.pravda.com.ua)
An explosion has rocked an optical-mechanical plant producing observation devices and sights in Moscow Oblast.
Sweden struggles to handle the fallout from repeated Quran-burning protests (www.euronews.com)
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