Australian MPs to travel to US to fight pursuit, extradition of Julian Assange (www.irishexaminer.com)
China orders government workers to stop using iPhones amid heightened tensions with US (www.scmp.com)
A handful of Chinese ministries have told employees to stop using Apple’s iPhones at work, citing national security risks amid heightened geopolitical tensions with the United States, according to several people familiar with the matter....
Hong Kong’s top court rules in favour of legal recognition for same-sex couples (www.theguardian.com)
Hong Kong must provide an alternative to marriage in order to legally recognise the rights of same-sex couples, the city’s highest court has declared, opening the way for civil unions....
Locals on Thailand’s Phuket Are Fed up of Russian Draft Dodgers (ptv-news.com.pk)
Migrants bundled out of Europe lose court challenge against EU's Frontex (www.bbc.com)
The EU’s top court has dismissed a case against European border agency Frontex, brought by a family of Syrian refugees who were sent out of Greece to Turkey in 2016....
China President Xi’s absence from G20 won’t affect summit consensus: India (www.aljazeera.com)
Chinese President Xi Jinping skipping the weekend G20 summit in New Delhi is not unusual, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says, adding that the decision has nothing to do with tense ties with New Delhi....
When Hate Fills Every Corner, From Classroom to Prayer Room, Where Do You Look for Hope? (thewire.in)
The recent incident from a school in Muzaffarnagar highlights, once again, how many of India’s institutions, and its people, are failing the country’s Muslims.
Myanmar Junta sentences Photo journalist to 20 years in prison (myanmar-now.org)
Election ‘likely’ in 2025, says Myanmar military’s proxy party (myanmar-now.org)
France invests $1.5 billion for the 2024 Olympics in its effort to Clean up The Seine River in Paris for Aquatic Events and to Provide Residents with Areas to safely Swim in. (www.cortexreport.com)
South Korean teachers stage walkout over harassment by parents and students (www.theguardian.com)
Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK (www.bbc.com)
Democracy threatened by democratically elected leaders (www.deccanherald.com)
Narendra Modi is a democratically elected leader, but his image is that of a leader who decimated opposition and dissent — in Parliament or on university campuses.
Russia arrests mathematician on terrorism charges minutes after his release from prison (abcnews.go.com)
At least 16 killed in Russian attack in eastern Ukraine, official says (www.reuters.com)
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Sand dredging devastating ocean floor, UN warns (www.bbc.co.uk)
France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools (www.bbc.com)
Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France’s state-run schools, the education minister has said....
Cuba uncovers network trafficking Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine (www.aljazeera.com)
Cuba says it has no part in war in Ukraine and would ‘act vigorously’ against those trafficking Cubans as fighters....
Part of China's economic miracle was a mirage. Reality check is next (www.reuters.com)
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first major reform plans a decade ago were also his boldest, envisaging a transition to a Western-style free market economy driven by services and consumption by 2020....
Ukraine says it has manufactured and fired a long-range missile (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ukrainian officials say their military is now using a long-range missile that was designed and manufactured domestically and can reach targets inside Russia
10-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Thrown Off Bridge in Germany for Not Speaking Russian (www.thedailybeast.com)
Peru demolishes “Wall of Shame” dividing rich and poor neighbourhoods (ptv-news.com.pk)
Putin says he won’t renew the grain deal until the West meets his demands. The West says it has (apnews.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that a landmark deal allowing Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea amid the war won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands on its own agricultural exports....
Teardown of Huawei's new phone shows China's chip breakthrough (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Huawei Technologies and China’s top chipmaker SMIC have built an advanced 7-nanometre processor to power its latest smartphone, according to a teardown report by analysis firm TechInsights....
