'Our Company Does Not Steal People's Ideas': KyoAni President Denies Arsonist's Plagiarism Claims (animehunch.com)
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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...
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
Israel seeking to reclaim ‘national treasures’ from Trump's estate (www.rt.com)
The Israeli government is working to recover several ancient relics loaned to the White House in 2019 and later stored at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, Haaretz reported, claiming that multiple attempts to retrieve the artifacts have failed.
Monday was Earth's Hottest Day on Record, Initial Measurements Show (lemm.ee)
“Monday was the world’s hottest day on record, exceeding an average of 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time, according to initial measurements taken on Tuesday by U.S. meteorologists.”
France arrests nearly 1,000 rioters in fourth night of violence (www.politico.eu)
The daughters and sons of Putin's Russian allies live as millionaires in the West, report says (web.archive.org)
The daughter of Nikolai Gusev, director of the Vympel Design Bureau, which designs and produces the missiles used by the Russian army, has been living in Florida since 2021. The 20-year-old student Natalia Guseva rents an appartment in Miami for $3,500 a month, while a year of study at the University of Miami costs the family...
Protesters clash with police after Socialist Party deal confirmed (www.euronews.com)
2023 Guide to Uncontacted Tribes: Advocating for Indigenous land Rights (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
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Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability (www.hrw.org)
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief (www.nytimes.com)
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Indian Minister of Home Affairs blames Manipur violence on Myanmar refugees (www.mizzima.com)
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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Larry Nassar, the ex-USA Gymnastics doctor who sexually abused girls for decades, was stabbed 10 times in prison | CNN (cnn.it)
FTC Announces Proposed Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials (www.ftc.gov)
UK: Former Brexit party MEP says there is no “given right” for low food prices, advises Britons to "not have cheese sandwiches if you can’t afford them" (www.theguardian.com)
Ann Widdecombe, who joined the Reform UK party this year, made the comments when she was asked what she would say to consumers who could not afford to pay for basics such as the ingredients of a cheese sandwich. The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Sarah Olney, said: “How out of touch can you get? Ann Widdecombe joins a...
Former cop who stormed Capitol guilty on all six counts in second Jan. 6 jury trial (www.cnbc.com)
Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns (www.theguardian.com)
Atomic Arms Fears Grow After US Test, Russia Spurns Treaty (www.newsweek.com)
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AUR wants referendums on family and cash payments (www.romaniajournal.ro) Romanian
n.r.: AUR is the most popular far right party in Romania at the moment...
Switched at Birth, Two Canadians Discover Their Roots at 67 (www.nytimes.com)
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"I am crying at my salon": Taliban orders Kabul beauty parlors to shut down (www.npr.org)
This, among thousands of other things about life under the Taliban, breaks my heart.
China is increasingly barring citizens and foreigners from leaving the country, often for no official reason, report says (safeguarddefenders.com)
The Communist Party has been widening the legal landscape for imposing exit bans and is increasing their use against human rights defenders and their families, for holding people hostage to force targets overseas to come back to China -a practice called ‘persuade to return’, a form of transnational repression-, controlling...
"Harmful ideological influences": pro-Beijing politicians urge Hong Kong to scrap the Gay Games 2023 (globalvoices.org)
The Gay Games, an international LGBTQ+ sport and cultural event, are set to begin in November 2023 in Hong Kong and Mexico. However, pro-Beijing Hawish networks wanted the authorities to step in and scrap the event. Junius Ho, one of Hong Kong’s most vocal anti-LGBTQ+ politicians, launched an online petition on April 20...
