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Boris Johnson standing down from UK parliament (www.abc.net.au)

Head of Russia's Wagner mercenaries says children of Russian elite "shook their arses" in the sun while sons of the poor are returned in coffins (web.archive.org)

Yevgeny Prigozhin said 20% of the 50,000 convicts Wagner had recruited, and a similar number of its regular troops, had been killed over several months in the fight for Bakhmut.

"We have to refine our democracy": Warren Buffett criticises handling of bank crisis in the US, warns of growing "tribalism in Washington" (www.businesslive.co.za)

Bank shareholders and executives should bear the risks of mismanagement, the Berkshire Hathaway chair and CEO says, with vice chair Charlie Munger criticising that executives are more concerned with getting rich than with customers.

Disney is developing planned communities for fans who never want to leave its clutches (www.theverge.com)

Romania seeking to postpone shutdown of lignite power plants (www.reuters.com) Romanian

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Reported gasline explosion rocks Bree Street in Johannesburg CBD (www.timeslive.co.za)

Classified documents have been exposed: US Intelligence conduct infiltration activities disguised as Mormons?

Classified documents have been exposed:US Intelligence conduct infiltration activities disguised as Mormons?...

News on Wagner’s status and Prigozhin, Russia, the Pentagon (www.nbcnews.com)

Hollywood Actors Strike: TV and Movie Actors Vote for Biggest Walkout in Four Decades (www.nytimes.com)

Biden Approves Mobilization of Reserves to Support Eucom (www.defense.gov)

President Biden issued an executive order mobilizing up to 3,000 reserve forces to support U.S. European Command in Operation Atlantic Resolve, which aims to defend NATO’s eastern flank amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The mobilization will designate the operation as a contingency to provide benefits and entitlements to...

Georgia Tech's Eubanks stuns Tsitsipas at Wimbledon to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal (apnews.com)

Is there a limit on the amount of posts I can save?

On Reddit, there is a limit of 1,000 posts that can be saved and viewed. After exceeding 1,000, the oldest saved posts will no longer be visible and make place for the new saved posts.

Owner of the submersible that imploded during Titanic dive suspends operations (apnews.com)

Police: 16 dead, including 3 children, in toxic gas leak in South Africa (apnews.com)

Australia to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for PTSD and depression in world first (www.nature.com)

Macron Wants Platforms To Delete Riot Content, Blames Social Media and Video Games For Riot Spread (reclaimthenet.org)

France shooting: Who was Nahel M, shot by French police in Nanterre? (www.bbc.com)

The killing of Nahel M, 17, has sparked riots in cities across France as well as the town of Nanterre to the west of Paris where he grew up.

European Starlings are awesome [video, 1min] (mastodon.social)

Stumbled upon this on Mastodon.

Unilever Doubles Russia Profits, Boosts Ad Sales Despite Divestment Pledge (web.archive.org)

Unilever became the first major European food company to stop imports and exports from Russia, as well as media and ad spending there, in March 2022. It continued, however, to supply “essential” food and hygiene products to Russians while pledging not to take any profits from those sales. Its Russian subsidiary Unilever Rus,...

"If the Baltic states were not part of Nato, they would have been invaded by now": Leaked documents show how Russia plans to disrupt the Baltics (vsquare.org)

Drawn up in 2021 by the Kremlin’s Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation, the Kremlin’s plans do not focus on cooperation. “This is the old KGB method: ‘We should weaken our enemies. And the best way to weaken them is from inside, not from outside.’ What they are good at is dividing societies, creating problems,...

"Kept in a cage that looked like it was for an animal": Tortured in secret Chinese jail, a Japanese man describes his ordeal (safeguarddefenders.com)

Hideji Suzuki, the former President of Japan China Youth Exchange had been locked up in a ‘Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location’ (RSDL) facility for the seven months. RSDL is a notorious system where the suspect is kept incommunicado without access to a lawyer for months at a time. It is a system that has been...

China widens ‘already breathtaking’ scope to arrest foreigners for espionage (www.theguardian.com)

Observers have warned that the expanded law, to take effect on 1 July, increases the risk faced by foreign individuals and entities working in China, particularly those in key technology, research and monitoring and other potentially sensitive sectors.

Israel-Hamas war live updates: Biden visits Israel and suggests Gaza hospital explosion 'done by the other team' (news.yahoo.com)

President Biden suggested on Wednesday that Hamas was responsible for the Gaza hospital explosion that killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians....

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