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Philippine court acquits Nobel laureate Maria Ressa of final charges (wapo.st)

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Younger people more likely to doubt merits of democracy – global poll (www.theguardian.com)

Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them....

Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean (www.theguardian.com)

What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief (www.nytimes.com)

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Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts. (portside.org)

2,000 people are feared dead in flooding in eastern Libya after weekend storm, prime minister says (apnews.com)

All Wilko shops to shut with 12,500 jobs likely to go (www.bbc.co.uk)

Brazil’s Lula backtracks on Putin arrest safety at Rio G20 (www.aljazeera.com)

Lee remains major hurricane as risk of impacts in New England grows (wapo.st)

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Spanish FA president Rubiales resigns over Hermoso kiss (www.bbc.co.uk)

Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews (www.nbcnews.com)

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis apologize over letters of support for Danny Masterson (abcnews.go.com)

The three women were members of the Church of Scientology, as is Masterson. All three women said they were initially hesitant to speak to law enforcement because they said church teachings discouraged reporting to police. The women eventually left the church....

Ukrainian Accounts of Torture Point to Systematic Russian Policy, Expert Says (www.nytimes.com)

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Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found (www.chemistryworld.com)

The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people (abcnews.go.com)

Arundhati Roy: ‘Biden, Macron know what’s going on in India but won’t talk’ (www.aljazeera.com)

We have a situation where we are talking about one nation, one language, one election. But actually we are in a situation where you have one dictator, one corporation....

Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement [Bloomberg] (archive.ph)

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1.2m Palestinians face devastating humanitarian crisis because of US aid block (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

Powerful Hurricane Lee plows westward with land threats 6 to 10 days away (wapo.st)

The storm, briefly a Category 5, could affect Bermuda, eastern New England and the Canadian Maritimes in 6 to 10 days, but the track remains uncertain...