Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24 (www.reuters.com)
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Saudia Arabia, border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers, rights activists say (www.hrw.org)
In some instances, Saudi border guards asked migrants what limb to shoot, and then shot them at close range. Saudi border guards also fired explosive weapons at migrants who were attempting to flee back to Yemen.
A Summer Rite in Spain: Coping With the British Tourist Invasion (www.nytimes.com)
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Saudi Border Guards Accused of Killing Hundreds of African Migrants (www.nytimes.com)
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China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals (www.telegraph.co.uk)
One Chinese company sent 1,000 drones to Russia in the two months before the war, according to figures compiled by Molfar Global, an open source research organisation. The drones were sent to a Russian firm called Samson, which similarly describes itself as a wholesaler of games and toys and appears to be a shell company,...
Lottery sales in China soar, as youth seek to scratch an economic itch amid faltering fiscal forecasts (hongkongfp.com)
Lottery sales in China soared to almost 274 billion yuan in the first half of the year, an increase of more than 50 percent year-on-year, with analysts pointing to a growing economic malaise as a possible explanation.
"Wave of murder, rape and domestic violence": Russian women living in fear as Wagner’s convicted murderers return home as free men (www.theguardian.com)
China’s police warn fearful investors not to protest, stepping up efforts to clampdown on criticism (www.afr.com)
China’s police warn fearful investors not to protest...
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...
Russia shuts down human rights group Sakharov Center (www.aljazeera.com)
‘One big adventure’: the Russian minister who fled the draft to drive trucks in the US (www.theguardian.com)
After years navigating the byzantine corridors of provincial Russian power, Denis Sharonov now works as a truck driver, steering his way through the vast highways of the US.
German prosecutor investigates possible poisoning of Russian journalist (www.theguardian.com)
In an article published with Russian-language outlet Meduza and US publication n+1 on Tuesday night, journalist Elena Kostyuchenko said she was tipped off by a source in Ukrainian military reconnaissance last March about Russian plans to assassinate her. Kostyuchenko, who was at the time reporting for the now-shuttered...
Evergrande: China property giant files for US bankruptcy protection (www.bbc.com)
Most cell sites back up in Maui (www.rcrwireless.com)
Most of the Texas border buoys, installed to deter migrants, are in Mexican territory, study shows (www.nbcnews.com)
Russia’s federal investigators are actively recruiting children from eastern Ukraine to their cadet schools (meduza.io)
British Museum worker sacked over missing items (www.bbc.co.uk)
Blood Simple. Several Russian journalists and activists were poisoned in Europe (theins.ru)
Elena Kostyuchenko, Natalia Arno, and Irina Babloyan, have long worked to expose the Kremlin’s lies. While traveling through Europe in the last year, each was poisoned by unknown toxins. Their cases remain unsolved. Why?
US tourists stay in Eiffel Tower overnight while drunk - prosecutors (www.bbc.com)
Two American tourists have been found sleeping inside the Eiffel Tower after getting stuck while drunk, according to prosecutors....
Media company Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say (www.theguardian.com)
The company recently signed a lucrative partnership deal with the MBC Group, a media company controlled by the Saudi government, to establish a joint venture in the Middle Eastern country.
Fire in south of France rages though campsite and 500 hectares of land (www.theguardian.com)
“A fire in the south of France burned through 500 hectares (1,240 acres) of land and destroyed a campsite, with 2,000 people evacuated before the blaze was brought under control on Tuesday....
Russia’s central bank to hold extraordinary meeting after rouble falls to 16-month low (www.theguardian.com)
Bank will discuss interest rate after high spending on war in Ukraine and drop in export revenues put further pressure on Russia’s economy.
China stops releasing youth jobs data as economic figures disappoint (m.koreatimes.co.kr)
China on Tuesday said it would stop releasing data on its rising youth unemployment as a raft of disappointing figures stoked concerns over the state of the world’s second largest economy....
Indictment returned in Georgia as grand jury wraps up Trump election probe (apnews.com)
A grand jury in Georgia that has been investigating former President Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 election results in that state has returned an indictment, though it was not immediately clear against whom.
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....
