Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights (www.theguardian.com)
‘We didn’t sign that treaty’: in Canada, the Anishinaabe fight for land they never gave up (www.theguardian.com)
Police station set on fire in Sunderland as unrest rolls on (www.theguardian.com)
A police station was set on fire in Sunderland on Friday as officers tried to contain several hundred protesters on another night of disorder....
Riot police on standby across England and Wales for further far-right protests (www.theguardian.com)
Russian prisoner swap deal was to have included Alexei Navalny (www.theguardian.com)
Kremlin admits Vadim Krasikov is a Russian state assassin (www.theguardian.com)
Spokesperson hints killer exchanged in prisoner swap was linked to Putin’s personal guard...
World Bank warns 108 countries risk being stuck in ‘middle-income trap’ (www.theguardian.com)
London Stock Exchange denies lowering standards to win Shein IPO (www.theguardian.com)
Face of British army recruitment drive wins payout for racist and sexist abuse (www.theguardian.com)
A former soldier who appeared on recruitment posters for the British army has received a settlement and an apology after taking it to an employment tribunal over the racist and sexist abuse she was subjected to during her career....
The Paris Olympics may look fair and inclusive on TV. The truth is much darker | Rokhaya Diallo (www.theguardian.com)
this unifying narrative introduced an Olympic and Paralympic Games that in reality are not all that inclusive. (…) To make these Games happen, Paris had to undertake a programme of intense social cleansing....
Israel should apologise and consider compensation over killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza, report says [Daniel Hurst | 2 Aug 2024 | The Guardian] (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-Australian military chief finds IDF made ‘errors’ before strikes on World Central Kitchen and says families want Israeli apology from ‘appropriate level’...
‘We didn’t sign that treaty’: in Canada, the Anishinaabe fight for land they never gave up (www.theguardian.com)
While Indigenous nations fight the crown for compensation owed from an agreement signed in 1850, one nation fights a different battle...
World Bank warns 108 countries risk being stuck in ‘middle-income trap’ (www.theguardian.com)
Angela Carini abandons Olympic fight after 46 seconds against Imane Khelif (www.theguardian.com)
Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave (www.theguardian.com)
Ground temperatures across great swathes of the ice sheets of Antarctica have soared an average of 10C above normal over the past month, in what has been described as a near record heatwave....
Russia frees Evan Gershkovich and others in biggest prisoner swap since cold war (www.theguardian.com)
Several foreigners and Russian political prisoners released as Germany frees hitman Vadim Krasikov as part of deal...
A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived (www.theguardian.com)
Almost quarter of big fashion brands have no decarbonisation plan, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
DKNY, Tom Ford and Reebok among companies to score 0% in Fashion Revolution report ranking top 250 firms...
US man who planned 2020 Venezuela coup attempt arrested for arms smuggling (www.theguardian.com)
US Forest Service failing to protect old growth trees from logging, critics say (www.theguardian.com)
They are the ancient giants of America – towering trunks of sequoias or beech or ash that started to sprout in some cases before the age of the Roman empire, with the few survivors of a frenzy of settler logging now appreciated as crucial allies in an era of climate and biodiversity crises....
Doctors told Pelosi of concern for Trump’s mental health, ex-speaker says in book (www.theguardian.com)
In early 2019, at a memorial service for a prominent psychiatrist, a succession of “doctors and other mental health professionals” told Nancy Pelosi they were “deeply concerned that there was something seriously wrong” with Donald Trump, “and that his mental and psychological health was in decline”....
Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights (www.theguardian.com)
Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights....
More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s Truth Social network records second-worst audience decline (www.theguardian.com)
USA’s Katie Ledecky makes Olympic history with gold in 1500m freestyle (www.theguardian.com)
