Save Right Whale Coalition Sickened Over Government Response to Deaths of Whales in NY, NJ (www.shorenewsnetwork.com)
Rising with the Hill Talking with Michael Shellenberger, journalist and founder of Public Documentary film, Thrown To The Wind m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZYkWtARR5k...
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"A ticking time bomb that can explode at any time", as EVs surge, so does nickel mining’s death toll (restofworld.org)
Chinese demand for nickel, an important ingredient in EV batteries, has triggered a mining boom in the remote regions of Indonesia. The country has signed over a dozen deals worth more than $15 billion with suppliers for EV giants like Tesla and Hyundai Motor, but deaths and injuries from industrial accidents have been racking...
Fears UK’s cashless society will leave more than just the vulnerable behind (www.theguardian.com)
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2 Nigerian men accused of running a global ‘sextortion’ ring linked to a teen’s suicide have been extradited to US, officials say (www.cnn.com)
According to prosecutors, Samuel Ogoshi used a hacked social media account to make contact with DeMay while pretending to be a young woman. After persuading DeMay to provide a sexually explicit photo of himself, Ogoshi allegedly threatened to publicly release the image unless DeMay paid the scammers....
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Russian rouble sinks, Kremlin blames loose monetary policy (www.reuters.com)
The rouble has lost around a quarter of its value against the dollar since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, as Western sanctions shrink Russia’s balance of trade and military spending soars....
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7 prominent Hong Kong activists cleared of organising 2019 protest (hongkongfp.com)
While cleared of organising an August 2019 protest, the high-profile pro-democracy figures, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai and lawyers Margaret Ng and Martin Lee, had their convictions and sentences for participating in that rally upheld.
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Hungarian official: "Without Cluj there is no Hungarian nation" (www.romaniajournal.ro)
Without Cluj there is no Hungarian nation, and the development of the city is due to the unity of the Hungarians, Budapest official says
Ditching the young entrepreneur myth: research shows over-50s are the more radical innovators (theconversation.com)
Based on data on 2,900 founders of new ventures in Germany in 2008–2017, we found that for every ten more years of age increases a founder’s likelihood to introduce a market novelty by up to 30 percent. Thus, those late-career entrepreneurs who are highly innovation-oriented and managerially experienced are more than three...
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China is threatening Uyghurs in Türkiye to spy on diaspora, human rights activists say (safeguarddefenders.com)
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly pressuring Uyghurs living in Türkiye to spy on the local Uyghur diaspora, according to Safeguard Defenders. Chinese police leverage intelligence gathered from these networks to coerce Uyghurs into spying for them, keeping quiet about China’s human rights abuses or producing...
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In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans’ First Amendment rights (kansasreflector.com)
Police raided the offices of a local newspaper, the Kansas Reflector, seizing computers & cell phones.
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Russian warship fires warning shots on cargo ship in Black Sea (www.reuters.com)
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Trump’s defense in the 2020 election case, explained by legal experts (www.vox.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense against federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election is beginning to take shape....
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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...
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Albury resident 'crying out' for justice 19 years after surviving horrific massacre in east Africa (www.abc.net.au)
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Argentina election: Youths’ anger fuels far-right populist (www.opendemocracy.net)
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China: UN experts demand information on nine imprisoned Tibetan human rights defenders (news.un.org)
The experts sounded the alarm on the lack of information provided by Chinese authorities - deeming it a deliberate attempt to “make the world forget” about the individuals who are spending year after year in isolation.
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“Tell the world what’s happening”: Uyghur refugees on escaping genocide in China [podcast, 49 minutes] (www.ctpublic.org)
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New Zealand intelligence report accuses China, Russia, Iran of ‘foreign interference’ (www.theguardian.com)
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'The goal is to disguise propaganda as independent content.' A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul (web.archive.org)
From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, investigators tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points....
Moon rocket blasts off, carrying Russia’s hope of first successful lunar landing since 1976 (www.theguardian.com)
The Luna-25 mission will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area, and sending back data for signs of water or its building blocks, which could raise the possibility of a future human colony on the moon.
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Canadians returning home from Maui tell stories of ‘war zone’ horror (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Uyghur dentist held hostage in China's Xinjiang region as his wife and daughter wait in vain in the U.S. (thechinaproject.com)
Ablimit Abliz, a dentist in Ürümqi, has not been accused of any crime, but the government won’t let him leave or speak freely to his wife, Adalet Sabit, who lives in Virginia. Their case is far from unique.
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Archaeologists discovered a 17th-century 'vampire child' with a padlocked ankle in a Polish 'necropolis' graveyard (www.businessinsider.com)
Archaeologists in Poland discovered the skeletal remains of a child buried face down around 17th century. The child’s ankle had a triangular padlock attached, a common practice during that time to prevent “vampires” from rising from the dead. Nearby was also found the remains of a pregnant woman. These burials were located...
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Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan (theintercept.com)
The Intercept has made extensive efforts to authenticate the document. Given the security climate in Pakistan, independent confirmation from sources in the Pakistani government was not possible. The Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment....
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