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‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000 (www.theguardian.com)

Kim Jong-un offers Putin ‘full support’ in Russia’s ‘sacred fight’ with west (www.theguardian.com)

Wicked Little Letters review – foul-mouthed farce wastes Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley (www.theguardian.com)

Somehow this one star review from The Guardian makes me want to see it more.

India, US and Saudi Arabia in talks on rail and ports deal linking Gulf and south Asia (www.theguardian.com)

Talks include Europe and UAE as Joe Biden flies to Delhi with aim of rivalling China’s Belt and Road...

Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)

Historically, the disaster restoration industry was made up of smaller, independent businesses handling local projects. But after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, private equity firms saw an opportunity to consolidate the market by buying up smaller companies, and some estimates value the US restoration industry as high as $200bn.

Pencils with teeth: meet the tiny cookiecutter shark that attacked a catamaran off Cairns (www.theguardian.com)

The small sharks that damaged a catamaran off the coast of Cairns have been described as “pencils with teeth” and they have a history of trying to eat inanimate objects, including submarines....

Breeding breakthrough paves way for controversial tuna farming on land (www.theguardian.com)

Spanish research centre achieves first tank-bred Atlantic bluefin as NGOs warn of poor welfare, more antibiotic use and water pollution...

It’s like a time capsule’: 19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan (www.theguardian.com)

Modi-linked Adani family secretly invested in own shares, documents suggest (www.theguardian.com)

Offshore records suggest associates of wealthy Indian family spent years acquiring stock during rise of founder to be worth $120bn

Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU (www.theguardian.com)

Eleven planes and helicopter from bloc sent to tackle fire that has burned more than 300 sq miles of land...

UK ‘seeking to block ICJ ruling’ on Israeli occupation of Palestine (www.theguardian.com)

‘Coral are going to die’: Maui wildfires take toxic toll on marine ecology (www.theguardian.com)

Contaminants from the fires could damage marine life, and hardy non-native grasses might grow and kindle the next fire

US delegate says Solomon Islands PM was too ‘busy’ to meet him (www.theguardian.com)

‘If Stevie Wonder wants to play it, pay attention!’: how a bizarre new instrument found unusual success (www.theguardian.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/HGJKo...

‘Into brain and the heart’: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan’s teenagers (www.theguardian.com)

China has made clear that it wants to take control of Taiwan, by force if necessary; and the two share a common language. That makes Chinese apps, music and drama particularly attractive and accessible to the Taiwanese and Taiwanese users a particularly important audience for Beijing. “The similarities in language make the...

‘Huge’ coral bleaching unfolding across the Americas prompts fears of global tragedy (www.theguardian.com)

At least 36 killed as wildfire sweeps through Maui (www.theguardian.com)

More than 40 feared dead after boat sinks in Mediterranean near Lampedusa (www.theguardian.com)

Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians (www.theguardian.com)

From Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, it amounts to an art collection that could grace any gallery in the world....

‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love (www.theguardian.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/HSmIX...

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