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Chinese warships off Alaska and Cambodia highlight the role of near and far waters in sea power dominance. (theconversation.com)

Rescuers search through mud and debris as deaths rise to 151 in landslides in southern India (apnews.com)

Hundreds of rescue workers searched through mud and debris Wednesday from multiple landslides that have killed at least 151 people in southern India, police said....

The Purple Track at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Has a Secret Ingredient (www.wired.com)

Record 193 LGBTQ athletes at Paris Summer Olympics (www.outsports.com)

4 hottest days ever observed raise fears of a planet nearing ‘tipping points’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

Since last July, Earth’s average temperature has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels....

Russia launches one of war's largest drone attacks on Ukraine, Kyiv's military says (www.reuters.com)

Carter Center unable to verify Venezuela election results, blasts officials for lack of transparency (apnews.com)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Carter Center said it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela’s presidential election, blaming authorities for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without providing any individual polling tallies....

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist group (apnews.com)

LONDON (AP) — Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for directing a banned terrorist group that a judge said had put many lives at risk....

Iran trying to undercut Trump campaign and Russia doing opposite, U.S. officials indicate (www.cbsnews.com)

Iran has started an influence campaign designed to undercut the candidacy of former President Donald Trump, U.S. officials indicated Monday, in an apparent reprisal of a 2020 effort that U.S. intelligence agencies found with high confidence had been authorized by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei....

Mexico president asks cartels not to fight each other after arrest of drug lords (www.theguardian.com)

Mexico’s president has taken the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following last week’s detention of the top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López....

A day of chaos in Israel as far-right protesters storm military bases (www.axios.com)

Olympics commentator dropped over sexist joke about Australian swimmers (www.salon.com)

Myanmar’s junta terrorised a Rohingya town. Then rebels burned it down. (www.reuters.com)

‘Conditions were perfect’: how the breathtaking image of Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina was taken (www.theguardian.com)

On a distant reef 16,000km from Paris, surfer Gabriel Medina has given Olympic viewers one of the most memorable images of the Games yet, with an airborne celebration so well poised it looked too good to be true....

You’ve had two years: EU eyerolls at Hungary’s request for help with Russian oil (www.politico.eu)

After failing to reduce their reliance on Moscow for energy, Hungary and Slovakia now want help from Brussels....

Spain begins the process to declare its first marine national park on the island of El Hierro (english.elpais.com)

The government approves a proposal to protect the Mar de las Calmas, an area of extraordinary biodiversity and beautiful underwater landscapes of volcanic origin

UN ends arms embargo for Central African Republic, in what government sees as sign of confidence (apnews.com)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday formally ended an arms embargo on the Central African Republic, a largely symbolic move but one that was welcomed by the country’s government as a sign of confidence as it seeks to end more than a decade of intercommunal conflict....

International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’ (insideclimatenews.org)

At least 16 reported dead as Maduro meets Venezuelan protests with force (wapo.st)

The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says (apnews.com)

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago, officials said Tuesday....

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