New Delhi plans to make rain to tackle 'hazardous' smog (www.reuters.com)
Russia's dwindling 'Mountain Jews' in spotlight after Dagestan airport riot (www.reuters.com)
Drone blasts hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns, Israel points to Houthi (www.reuters.com)
Governments, firms should spend more on AI safety, top researchers say (www.reuters.com)
“Companies will complain that it’s too hard to satisfy regulations - that ‘regulation stifles innovation’ - that’s ridiculous,” said British computer scientist Stuart Russell....
Iraq orders pursuit of perpetrators of attacks on military bases (www.reuters.com)
Biden considering $100 bln funding request that includes Israel, Ukraine aid -sources (www.reuters.com)
Bodies of residents and militants lie in the grounds of ravaged Israeli kibbutz (www.reuters.com)
Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas militants lay in the grounds of the Kfar Aza kibbutz among burned out houses, strewn furniture and torched cars, as Israeli soldiers went from house to house to take away the dead.
Himalayan lake flooding in India kills 18, nearly 100 missing (www.reuters.com)
Iran, US on verge of prisoner swap under Qatar-mediated deal (www.reuters.com)
When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see as many as five detained U.S. dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the U.S. fly home, according to eight Iranian and other sources...
Russia may annex Georgian breakaway regions -Medvedev (www.reuters.com)
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China's sliding yuan could be next 'black swan event' for markets, hedge fund EDL says (www.reuters.com)
EDL Capital, which manages about $1 billion, said factors weighing on the yuan include geopolitical tensions driving Western countries to re-home supply chains that will starve China of foreign investment. China’s labour market has also grown less competitive versus other Asian countries such as Vietnam and India, while a...
The Internet Archive might reach a deal with the publishers to remove THEIR books from the lending library (www.reuters.com)
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CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits (www.reuters.com)
Denmark to look for 'legal tool' to prevent Koran burnings (www.reuters.com)
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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka invites Japan to resume investment (www.reuters.com)
COLOMBO, July 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Saturday invited Japan to resume investment in projects including power, roads and ports as the Japanese foreign minister wrapped up the first high-level visit to the crisis-hit country in nearly four years....
British Prime Minister Sunak avoids wipeout in key elections (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine to nationalise Russian-owned Sense Bank (www.reuters.com)
Moldova separatist leader vows to solve opposition politician's suspected murder (www.reuters.com)
Iraqi PM Sudani, Syria's Assad hold talks on security, water in Damascus (www.reuters.com)
BAGHDAD, July 16 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Sunday in the first such visit by an Iraqi premier since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011....
Thailand's Pita defeated in parliament in bid for PM (www.reuters.com)
EU looks to take lead in metaverse world, avoid Big Tech dominance (www.reuters.com)
Japan nuclear regulator approves Tepco's release of Fukushima water (www.reuters.com)
Senior Mexican official attacked by gunmen in border state (www.reuters.com)
Mexico averaging over 80 politicians killed per year.
Canadian white nationalist found guilty of murdering four Muslims in truck attack (www.reuters.com)
Israel orders residents from southern Gaza towns, raising fear of war's spread (www.reuters.com)
In the north of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave, Israel said its forces were still present at Gaza’s biggest hospital, Al Shifa, but gave no further details of their operations since the previous day when they entered the facility culminating a days-long siege....
