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The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like 'the last person on earth' (www.jta.org)

Hank the Tank, a 400-Pound Bear Behind Lake Tahoe Break-Ins, Is Captured (www.nytimes.com)

A female bear — and one of three known as Hank — was captured with her three cubs by California wildlife authorities. She was responsible for at least 21 home break-ins, officials said.

Inside Barbados' Historic Push for Slavery Reparations (time.com)

Climate activist faces 10 years in jail for a fake letter 'canceling' an oil industry conference | CNN (www.cnn.com)

Rosemary Penwarden, [a 64 year old] climate activist in New Zealand, faces more than 10 years in jall for a fake letter canceling an oil conference....

5,500 women in Gaza set to give birth ‘in race against death’, UN official says (news.un.org)

Laila Baker, Regional Director for the Arab States at the sexual and reproductive health agency, said she fears for the fate of new mothers and their children amid the “loss of complete humanity” in Gaza....

Argentina’s gig workers are rallying against regulation — and supporting the libertarian candidate (restofworld.org)

Spanish football federation leaders demand resignation of its president Luis Rubiales (www.theguardian.com)

"After the latest events and the unacceptable behaviours that have seriously damaged the image of Spanish football, we request that Mr Luis Rubiales immediately present his resignation as president of the Spanish football federation,” the Spanish football federation’s regional presidents say in a joint statement.

West African military leaders agree action over Niger coup | Africanews (www.africanews.com)

Argentina election: Youths’ anger fuels far-right populist (www.opendemocracy.net)

China's judiciary, conviction rate in 2022 reaches 99.975% while criminal justice data culled from official reports and database (safeguarddefenders.com)

Some 1,430,000 criminal verdicts at court of first instance were issued in 2022. Of those, 354 were not guilty judgments, the NGO Safeguard Defenders says.

Putin rules out rejoining Black Sea grain deal, despite famine fears (www.politico.eu)

New Delhi smog grows more intense as farm fires rage (www.reuters.com)

India and Pakistan choked by heavy smog, leaving thousands sick (www.abc.net.au)

Microfinance was meant to help the world’s poor, but in Cambodia, it’s plunging people deeper into debt (theworld.org)

Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying | WIRED (www.wired.com)

Haiti’s most powerful gang boss calls for uprising to overthrow prime minister (www.theguardian.com)

Spanish police arrest man for touching reporter's bottom while live on air (www.reuters.com)

Japan may take China to WTO over Fukushima-driven seafood import ban (www.reuters.com)

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A deadly tick-borne epidemic is raging. Dogs are key to ending it. (wapo.st)

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Wagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin was on plane that crashed north of Moscow, Russian civil aviation authority says (news.sky.com)

Blood Simple. Several Russian journalists and activists were poisoned in Europe (theins.ru)

Elena Kostyuchenko, Natalia Arno, and Irina Babloyan, have long worked to expose the Kremlin’s lies. While traveling through Europe in the last year, each was poisoned by unknown toxins. Their cases remain unsolved. Why?

Moon rocket blasts off, carrying Russia’s hope of first successful lunar landing since 1976 (www.theguardian.com)

The Luna-25 mission will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area, and sending back data for signs of water or its building blocks, which could raise the possibility of a future human colony on the moon.

An American soldier is detained by North Korea after crossing its heavily armed border (apnews.com)

Ghanaian children wrongly taken in raids backed by US charity IJM (www.bbc.co.uk)

It gets weirder. One branch of the Christian charity takes children and has their parents put into jail, while another branch of the same Christian charity uses the parents’ unfair jailing as fundraisers for the charity, saying they will use the money to get the parents out of jail. (The parents they put into jail in the first...