Myanmar poet turned rebel leader seeks new territory; worries about 'ephemeral revolutionaries' (www.reuters.com)
Dozens injured after protesters storm Eritrean festival in Stockholm (www.theguardian.com)
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Switched at Birth, Two Canadians Discover Their Roots at 67 (www.nytimes.com)
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Why did the US credit rating just get dinged? (www.vox.com)
On August 1, the Fitch Ratings agency downgraded the United States’ long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+ for only the second time in the nation’s history, in what’s generally seen as a signal of concern about the US’s creditworthiness....
Brazil police raids leave at least 43 people dead (www.bbc.co.uk)
5 things to know about the latest charges against Donald Trump (www.npr.org)
Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges he participated in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results — an effort that reached a bloody crescendo as his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021....
Trump Charges Should be a Warning to the USA and the UK (www.youtube.com)
I am not affiliated in any way shape or form to the channel linked. However, I also find the similarities of Trump and Johnson very stark in the way they behaved around inciting populism....
Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....
Meta begins process to end news access to Facebook, Instagram users in Canada (globalnews.ca)
Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette (www.bbc.com)
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest (www.livescience.com)
Sunak's family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before PM opened new North Sea licences (www.thelondoneconomic.com)
A firm founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law signed a billion-dollar deal with BP two months before the prime minister opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea....
‘Shameful loss’: wolves declared extinct in Andalucía (www.theguardian.com)
For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region....
A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Sea (www.nytimes.com)
The extreme heat has devastated corals.This is a truly heartbreaking read:...
Police discontent disrupts courts in Marseille (www.reuters.com)
PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - The French government sought on Wednesday to allay rising discontent within the police force over the incarceration of an officer that prompted a ‘go slow’ by colleagues and disrupted the courts in the country’s second biggest city....
War coming to Russia - Zelensky after Moscow drone attack - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned war is coming back to Russia after a drone attack on the capital Moscow....
Christie on new Trump charges: ‘These guys were acting like the Corleones with no experience’ (thehill.com)
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ® compared new charges against former President Trump that accuse him of working with Mar-a-Lago employees to delete surveillance footage at the club to the tactics of the fictionalized Corleone organized crime family....
“He rang the doorbell and started threatening me with murder in Chinese”: How Chinese authorities go after dissidents abroad (theins.ru)
Following the release of a report by the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders in September 2022, probes were launched by several countries into the activities of the “overseas police stations” established by China worldwide. These investigations uncovered that the Chinese government had been utilizing these stations...
President who threatened to eat his opponent to attend upcoming Russia-Africa summit, while most invited leaders decline (theins.ru)
"The West turned its gaze away from Iran, but the cruelties continued" - rights activist reminds the world on a regime still torturing its citizens (www.euronews.com)
“Prisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn’t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison,” writes civil rights activist Nasrin Parvaz.
At least 40 people killed in blast at political event in Pakistan – reports (www.theguardian.com)
Lush paid managers £5m in bonuses after taking £5m in state support (www.theguardian.com)
"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...
‘We Can Never Forgive This’: In Odesa, Attacks Stoke Hatred of Russia (www.nytimes.com)
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After rebranding, X took @x from its original Twitter owner and offered him merch (apple.news)
Gene X Hwang knew his days on Twitter as @x were numbered....
