DOJ sues SpaceX for not hiring asylum seekers and refugees (www.semafor.com)
China had almost 2 million excess deaths after the end of ‘zero-Covid,’ U.S. study finds (www.cnbc.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...
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists (www.bbc.com)
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Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses (www.theguardian.com)
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Kevin Spacey cleared of sexually assaulting four men (www.theguardian.com)
Jury at Southwark crown court finds Oscar-winning actor, 64, not guilty after four-week trial
‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record (www.theguardian.com)
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found (www.chemistryworld.com)
Live updates: Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhin believed to be aboard crashed plane in Russia (www.washingtonpost.com)
As this is a developing story, I’m skipping the archive link.
Israel military reportedly surrounding hospitals in Gaza and shooting at those trying to flee, UN says (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5569400...
EU data regulator bans personalised advetising on Facebook and Instagram (dig.watch)
Meta will introduce a pay or get tracked option.
Israel strikes Gaza tower as death tolls jump after Hamas attack (www.aljazeera.com)
At least 198 Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids; Hamas attack kills 70 Israelis, ‘big number’ also captured.
Russian court hands jailed Alexey Navalny new 19-year prison sentence (www.aljazeera.com)
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to 19 more years in jail on extremism charges which he has dismissed as an attempt to silence him....
US to announce $345 million military aid package for Taiwan (ground.news)
Could be a huge deal.
Over 230 people get puzzling neurological disorder in Peru; emergency declared (arstechnica.com)
Spain's report on Catholic Church sex abuse estimates victims could number in hundreds of thousands (apnews.com)
Disappeared critic abroad emerges in Chinese detention center (safeguarddefenders.com)
On 24 August, James Lin, a human rights activist in the Netherlands, posted a notification of arrest issued on 7 July by the affiliated sub-bureau directly under the Hengyang Public Security Bureau. It states that Yang has been arrested on charges of “inciting subversion of the state power” and is currently detained at the...
“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...
Almost half of Russians say salary does not cover basic spending - survey (www.reuters.com)
China's Xi urges more work to ‘control illegal religious activities’ in Xinjiang on surprise visit (www.theguardian.com)
Xi’s crackdown on the region and its Uyghur population has been labeled an attempted genocide by some governments, human rights groups and legal bodies....
Latvia swears in Edgars Rinkevics as EU's first openly gay president (www.bbc.com)
I wish for a world where this wasn’t news and wouldn’t matter anymore, but as the world is right now, this is still an issue in many countries, and therefore imo noteworthy and good news....
Over 10,500 Killed in One Month as Israel Continues its War on Palestine (unicornriot.ninja)
In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans’ First Amendment rights (kansasreflector.com)
Police raided the offices of a local newspaper, the Kansas Reflector, seizing computers & cell phones.
Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in Israeli air raid (www.aljazeera.com)
Feed People, Not Factory Farms | by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org)
Peter Singer points out that even with Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports, the world produces enough food for all.
