Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA (techcrunch.com)
Total, Raiffeisen, Pepsi & Co: Profits of Western businesses that decided to stay in Russia have skyrocketed (novayagazeta.eu)
Many foreign companies released statements about leaving Russia soon after the invasion of Ukraine. Almost a year and a half later, it can be stated that only a small part of foreign companies left Russia. According to calculations made by the Kyiv School of Economics, only 7% of Western companies halted all operations in...
Poland erects wall on Belarusian border to stop uncontrolled migration (www.euronews.com)
Pornhub attacks states for passing “unsafe” age-verification laws (arstechnica.com)
[In pictures] Hong Kong police deploy en masse, activists apprehended as Tiananmen massacre commemorations muted (hongkongfp.com)
Hong Kong’s US and EU consulates light candles to mark Tiananmen crackdown anniversary. hongkongfp.com/…/in-pictures-hong-kongs-us-and-eu…
How the US anti-vaccine disinformation on COVID-19 is appropriated in China (globalvoices.org)
A heavily edited video commenting on US pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer’s research on the COVID vaccine produced by Project Veritas, a controversial far-right media outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, has gone viral in mainland China with additional claims that the COVID-19 virus was mutated and spread by Pfizer....
National Science Media Museum in Bradford has 52 years of the Daily Herald Newspaper Archive online (artsandculture.google.com)
In the words of the American writer Susan Sontag, “To collect photographs is to collect the world.” And to see the world as it was, from dramatic historical events to the quirks of everyday life, there’s no better place to begin than a photo archive. Newspapers – whose photojournalists capture everything from grand state...
Vietnam says homosexuality ‘not a disease’ in win for gay rights (www.aljazeera.com)
Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama factory (www.reuters.com)
UN Secretary-General Urges 'Polio Pause' in Israeli War on Gaza as First Case Reported (www.commondreams.org)
“We know how an effective polio vaccination campaign must be administered,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said. “Given the wholesale devastation in Gaza, at least 95% vaccination coverage will be needed during each round of the two-round campaign to prevent polio’s spread and reduce its emergence.”...
How Beijing is using the sun to fight the sand (www.semafor.com)
Officials in Ordos are over the next several years going to install 100 gigawatts of solar panels — more than three times as much capacity as the United States is currently building nationwide — along a stretch of land 250 miles (400 kilometers) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide....
Russian Government Threatens to Charge Italian Journalists Stefania Battistini and Simone Traini For Their Coverage of Ukrainian Counter-Invasion (www.womeninjournalism.org)
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The Arakan Army is making gains against the Myanmar military. What does it mean for the Rohingya? (theworld.org)
"We lost territory while they sent Moscow encouraging news”: Russian official blasts superiors in leaked call amid Ukraine's incursion in Russia (theins.ru)
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Iran: Government Uses Cover of Regional Tensions to Crush Its Domestic Opponents (iranhumanrights.org)
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Myanmar military committing war crimes at ‘alarming’ rate, UN warns (www.aljazeera.com)
Crimes against humanity and war crimes by Myanmar’s military have escalated at an “alarming” rate, United Nations investigators have warned....
Russia-Ukraine war: surge in civilian deaths in Ukraine as July marking the highest number of civilian casualties reported since October 2022, UN says (ukraine.un.org)
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After the incursion, Ukraine's government opens a 24/7 hotline for the residents of Russia’s Kursk Oblast who need humanitarian aid or want to evacuate to Ukraine (www.pravda.com.ua)
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Ukraine sets up military office inside Russia (www.bbc.com)
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Ksenia Karelina: Russian court sentences woman to 12 years in jail for treason for donating $51 to a charity supporting Ukraine. (www.bbc.com)
Ksenia Karelina, who has American and Russian citizenship, was arrested during a family visit last January in Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of Moscow....
Protests in China as delivery rider kneels before security guard (www.bbc.com)
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"China-Pakistan Economic Corridor:" mass protests against a China-backed airport project in Pakistan highlight the growing discontent among the local population, say analysts (www.dw.com)
A brand new China-backed international airport is getting ready to be inaugurated in Gwadar, a port city in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province....
Indian women lead night protests after doctor's rape and murder (www.bbc.com)
Tens of thousands of women in West Bengal state marched through the streets on Wednesday night in protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last week....
China’s railway diplomacy on high speed in Vietnam (vietnam-aujourdhui.info)
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South Korean authorities find toxic substances in Shein and Temu products (techxplore.com)
Women’s accessories sold by some of the world’s most popular online shopping firms contained toxic substances sometimes hundreds of times above acceptable levels, authorities in Seoul said Wednesday....
