Historic South African Election Dethrones Ruling Party ANC (unicornriot.ninja)
Syrian official who oversaw prison where alleged abuse took place arrested by US officials (apnews.com)
A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse routinely took place has been arrested, authorities said Wednesday....
How climate change is altering the Earth’s rotation (ethz.ch)
The Earth’s axis of rotation is shifting due to climate change and movements in the Earth’s interior. The corresponding polar motion is triggered by shifts in mass such as the melting of polar ice caps....
Hard work underway to reopen Kyiv children’s hospital hit by Russian missile (kyivindependent.com)
Just four days after a Russian missile hit Ukraine’s leading hospital for children, the floors of Okhmatdyt’s main building looked surprisingly spotless....
Woman faces trial after allegedly being prescribed NHS abortion pills by post (www.thepinknews.com)
China suspends nuclear talks with US over arms sales to Taiwan (www.theguardian.com)
Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active (www.theguardian.com)
AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare (theconversation.com)
Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association (www.theguardian.com)
The chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association has been fired by her employer, the Wall Street Journal, weeks after being appointed as the head of the embattled union....
Trump says Taiwan should pay for defence, sending TSMC stock down (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
FBI joins probe into deaths of 6 foreigners at Grand Hyatt Erawan in Bangkok | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
ByteDance must keep gatekeeper label, EU court says in boost for regulators (www.reuters.com)
TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday lost its court challenge against its designation as a gatekeeper under landmark European Union rules, in a boost for antitrust regulators seeking to curb the power of Big Tech....
Ukrainian intelligence 'hacks Russian websites, replaces homepages with pig head pictures' (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) claimed on July 16 that it had hacked nearly 100 Russian websites that support the Kremlin’s war effort, taking them offline and replacing their homepages with a picture of a bloody pig’s head....
Mpox did not fade away. Africa faces two alarming outbreaks — and lacks vaccines (www.npr.org)
Last week, the World Health Organization called attention to an mpox outbreak in South Africa. Officials there confirmed 20 cases between May 8 and July 2, with 18 hospitalizations and three deaths....
Chinese business tycoon convicted of defrauding followers in $1bn scheme (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18073470
Orban tells EU leaders Trump would act as "Russia-Ukraine peace broker" (www.straitstimes.com)
He claims Trump would act immediately upon winning the election, before taking office. Which sounds legally dubious, but not that that’s ever stopped Trump…
Case of man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor referred to CPS (www.theguardian.com)
The case of Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin, has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service over a potential prosecution for perjury and forgery....
Six people are found dead in a hotel in downtown Bangkok, with poisoning a possibility (apnews.com)
The bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and their deaths may have been caused by poisoning, police and officials said....
Why Won't the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine? (www.jeffsachs.org)
For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this time in proposals made by President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2024. Four previous times, the U.S. rejected the offer of negotiations in favor of a neocon strategy to weaken or dismember Russia through war and covert...
French government resigns, ushering in indefinite transition period (www.politico.eu)
The Attal administration will now serve as a caretaker government until a new prime minister is appointed....
Smith calls out progressives after Trump shooting (edmonton.citynews.ca)
New deal establishes a hotline Chinese and Philippine presidents can use to stop clashes at sea (apnews.com)
Deadly unrest over job quotas grips Bangladesh (www.bbc.com)
Malaysia is building malls like crazy – but shoppers aren’t coming | Business and Economy | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Currently thousands injured, 10+ death and all the university in Bangladesh is protesting - Dozens injured in Bangladesh clashes as students protest job quotas (www.aljazeera.com)
