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AT&T and Verizon’s ancient lead cables have US lawmakers demanding action (arstechnica.com)

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Morocco and Western Sahara: A new conflict brewing? (www.dw.com)

Characterized by vast expanses of dunes and sparsely vegetated plains, Western Sahara is a predominantly desert and arid territory. The United Nations categorizes...

Cyprus Marks 49 Years Since The Coup D’état (greekcitytimes.com)

UK battles to reverse EU endorsement of ‘Islas Malvinas’ name (archive.is)

Prison Honduras to build island colony to imprison gang members (www.aljazeera.com)

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighbouring El Salvador’s unforgiving approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion....

Opinion | How a song threatens the Chinese Communist Party’s grip (wapo.st)

Protests in Thailand as rivals derail Pita’s PM bid (www.aljazeera.com)

The bitter battle to name Thailand’s next prime minister took a major turn as parliament voted to deny Pita Limjaroenrat, whose progressive Move Forward Party won a surprise victory in May’s election, a second chance to be confirmed for the post....

Hundreds of flights across Italy are canceled amid air transport strike at peak of tourism season (abcnews.go.com)

ROME – Hundreds of flights across Italy were canceled Saturday, forcing travelers at the peak of tourist season to make alternate plans, after air transport unions went ahead with a planned work stoppage two days following a train strike that paralyzed rail service....

Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols (www.bbc.co.uk)

Chemicals for Mexican fentanyl not from China, embassy in Mexico says (www.reuters.com)

MEXICO CITY, July 18 (Reuters) - Precursor chemicals used by Mexican cartels to make the deadly opioid fentanyl do not come from China, its embassy in Mexico said on Tuesday, rejecting U.S. officials’ accusations....

[The Conversation] - Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system (theconversation.com)

New Zealand shooting incident sees several hurt (www.dw.com)

ew Zealand police said Thursday a gunman had fired shots in a building in downtown Auckland....

Panama Ex-President Martinelli is sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering (apnews.com)

Prosecutors said companies that had won lucrative government contracts during Martinelli’s presidency funneled money to a front company that was then used to purchase the publisher. The transactions involved a complex series of foreign money transfers totally $43 million. The front company collecting the money was called...

Major police incident in Auckland on eve of Women’s World Cup (theathletic.com)

[Houston Chronicle] U of H researchers find ruins of lost Maya city in Mexico jungle (www.chron.com)

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Deal focus: What do the Renault-Geely and Tata deals tell us about a post-Brexit UK? (www.investmentmonitor.ai)

The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis: Lev Golinkin & Ben Makuch on How Far Right Is Exploiting Ukraine War (www.democracynow.org)

Multiple reports are reinvestigating the neo-Nazi fighters and militias involved in the war both in Russia and Ukraine. “You have neo-Nazis on both sides of this conflict,” says Ukrainian American journalist Lev Golinkin, a longtime reporter on the far right in Ukraine and Russia who is critical of the Western media’s...

Finally — UK inflation comes off the boil (www.politico.eu)

Finland closing Russia's Consulate General office in Turku (yle.fi)

An Australian Regiment Is Yet To Answer for Abuses Committed in Afghanistan (newlinesmag.com)

Witness says commando killed prisoner to make room in helicopter. Commanders ordered junior officers to execute prisoners to register first “kill”. Soldier who leaked evidence of extrajudicial killing charged, possible life sentence. "We pin medals on serial killers.”

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