Italian police net record 5-tonne cocaine haul off Sicilian coast (www.reuters.com)
ROME, July 21 (Reuters) - Italian authorities have seized a record 5.3 tonne cocaine haul being transferred between ships off the southern coast of Sicily, police said on Friday....
Fed fines Deutsche Bank $186 million and threatens further action (edition.cnn.com)
Wheat, Sugar, and Now Tomatoes: Extreme Weather Dents India’s Food Supplies (www.nytimes.com)
Last year it was wheat, then sugar. This year, it is tomatoes....
Rohingya baby dies in 'cop action', parents taken to Jammu burial site in handcuffs (www.telegraphindia.com)
A video uploaded by the Rohingya Human Rights Initiative (RHRI), an India-based organisation, purportedly shows the Rohingya mother in handcuffs as she mourns beside the baby’s body, surrounded by other grieving women
Outcry over Quran burning in Sweden: A timeline (www.aljazeera.com)
Iraq has expelled Sweden’s ambassador shortly after protesters had stormed its embassy in Baghdad and set parts of the building on fire....
Russian businessman loses appeal against UK over detained superyacht (www.reuters.com)
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - A wealthy Russian businessman on Friday lost a legal challenge against Britain over the detention of his $50 million superyacht....
Ecuador confirms oil spill of 1,200 barrels on northwest coast (www.aljazeera.com)
Authorities in the South American nation of Ecuador have confirmed that an oil spill released about 1,200 barrels into the Pacific, contaminating kilometres of oceanfront....
Romanian port can ship more Ukraine grain after collapse of Black Sea deal (www.reuters.com)
BUCHAREST, July 21 (Reuters) - Romania’s Constanta port, Ukraine’s main alternative route for grain since Russia’s withdrawal led to the collapse of the Black Sea shipment deal, has capacity to handle extra cargoes until mid-August, the head of the port’s business association said....
Russian hardline Putin critic and commander Strelkov detained (www.bbc.com)
Russian authorities have detained outspoken pro-war blogger Igor Girkin, a hardline nationalist critic of Russia’s flagging military campaign in Ukraine, also known as Strelkov....
David Hunter guilty of seriously ill wife's manslaughter in Cyprus (www.bbc.com)
A British man who killed his seriously ill wife at their home in Cyprus has been convicted of manslaughter....
Angola's new oil refinery brings hopes and fears (www.dw.com)
Wearing a hard hat, safety glasses and high-visibility vest, project manager Martin Jooste gives a tour of the rain-sodden construction site that he oversees in the tiny Angolan exclave of Cabinda....
Concern mounts in East Africa over halted Black Sea grain deal (www.aljazeera.com)
Kampala, Uganda – Russia’s decision on Monday to pull out of an agreement which allowed the export of Ukrainian agricultural goods via a safe channel through the Black Sea amid the continuing war is already reverberating far from the front lines of fighting in Ukraine....
Content Warning: Sexual violence against women and children reached all-time high in Brazil in 2022 – report (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil saw a disturbing increase in sexual violence against women and children in 2022, according to new figures which paint a worrying picture of a country that is failing to protect its young and female population, particularly in their own homes....
Rescuers find more bodies in landslide-hit village in western India, bringing the death toll to 21 (www.chicagotribune.com)
Rescuers found five more bodies Friday in India’s western Maharashtra state, raising the death toll from a landslide triggered by torrential rains to at least 21 with many others feared trapped under the debris, officials said....
Ukraine threatens Russian vessels, reminds Moscow of sinking of the Moskva (www.scmp.com)
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G20 financial summit can't agree on Russia/Ukraine war or how to help vulnerable countries with debts (en.mercopress.com)
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Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue is down 50% and cash flow is negative (www.cnn.com)
Greenland melted recently, says study that raises future sea level threat (www.rfi.fr)
Washington (AFP) – A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland vanished around 416,000 years ago during a period of moderate natural warming, driving global sea rise to levels that would spell catastrophe for coastal regions today, a study said Thursday. In a dark room, scientists took interior strips of the ice core and exposed them...
Philippines' Marcos won't aid ICC in 'war on drugs' probe (www.dw.com)
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr of the Philippines said on Friday that his government would not cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation into the deadly “war on drugs” carried out by his predecessor....
‘Once in a lifetime’ fossil reveals a dinosaur and mammal locked in mortal combat (lemmy.world)
“The mammal preserved here is among the biggest mammals of the time, and you’re talking about an animal the size of a house cat. They didn’t get any bigger than that. And there was very little overlap in size between mammals, which were, you know, orders of magnitude smaller, and dinosaurs, which were an order of magnitude...
Lithuanian border towns grapple with threat of Russia-Ukraine war (www.aljazeera.com)
In the Lithuanian border town of Barvoniskes, a small group of elderly residents gather at a local church for the Sunday service....
Vattenfall to stop development of its British Norfolk Boreas offshore wind project due to rising costs (www.reuters.com)
Will economic recovery lift China’s yuan out of jungle after Fed effect fades? (www.scmp.com)
China still has the tools to stabilise market expectations for the yuan’s exchange rate, while external conditions will also marginally improve as the United States is expected to conclude its run of interest rate increases, the foreign exchange regulator said on Friday....