Gambia upholds ban on female genital mutilation (www.dw.com)
Gambian lawmakers have blocked an attempt to re-legalize female genital cutting after months of debate. The practice remains common in the West African country, despite the upheld ban....
Ukrainian Men Desperate to Escape War Are Drowning as They Flee (www.wsj.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18027926...
Italian police free 33 Indian farm labourers from 'slavery' (www.bbc.com)
Dozens of Indian farm labourers have been freed from slave-like working conditions in northern Italy, police have said....
Ukrainian Men Desperate to Escape War Are Drowning as They Flee (www.wsj.com)
Mukuru dump: Kenya 'serial killer' arrested in Nairobi (www.bbc.com)
Kenyan police have arrested a man who they have described as a “serial killer” suspected to have been behind the gruesome murder of nine women whose mutilated bodies were found in a disused quarry used as a rubbish dump....
Argentina's inflation edges up in June, breaking a months-long streak in a blow to President Milei (apnews.com)
Germany’s doner kebab becomes symbol of angst over rising costs (www.politico.eu)
“I can still remember when doner kebabs were sold for €3.50,” reminisced one teenager amid calls for a price brake to stop rising kebab costs....
Trump Announce JD Vance Senator from Ohio as his VP (www.yahoo.com)
Brazilian Instagram influencer jailed for trafficking and slavery (www.bbc.com)
When two young Brazilian women were reported missing in September 2022, their families and the FBI launched a desperate search across the US to find them. All they knew was that they were living with wellness influencer Kat Torres....
New NATO Climate report points to Russian backed social media misinformation campaigns related to climate (www.axios.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17586464...
Mexico election: Mayor killed after first woman elected leader (www.bbc.com)
Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation’s first woman president....
The West finally allowed Ukraine to strike back at Russia — and it seems to be working (www.cnn.com)
Bankir and his men have been trying to fight off Russian attacks along the Ukrainian front lines for more than two years. But it’s only now that they are finally able to strike where it hurts: Inside Russia’s own territory....
A Week of Israel’s Horrific Massacres in Gaza (jacobin.com)
Rivers becoming 'reservoirs of disease' warn Suffolk scientists (www.bbc.com)
Scientists say “a reservoir of disease” is being created after discovering bacteria that naturally occur in rivers are becoming resistant to antibiotics due to the impact of sewage....
Burkina Faso's military junta: 'Homosexuality will be punished by the law' (www.advocate.com)
Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers (www.theguardian.com)
The constant trauma (of the war) took its toll on Yasmeen Khuwaiter, who found out about her pregnancy two weeks before the war, and gave birth to triplets in April, two months before her due date....
Ukraine has right to strike military targets within Russian territory, Stoltenberg says (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine has the right under international law to attack military targets located in Russian territory, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during an interview on the United News telethon July 14....
MNDAA Announces Four-Day Halt in Fighting in Myanmar’s N. Shan (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/25080280...
US, Canada and Finland form ‘Ice Pact’ to project influence into Arctic region (www.theguardian.com)
Food safety scandal rocks China as report claims cooking oil carried in same trucks as fuel (www.cnn.com)
Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between....
The leader of Nepal's largest communist party has been named the country's new prime minister (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17994517
‘We now face guns’: Small-scale miners fear Wagner’s advances in CAR (www.aljazeera.com)
After President Faustin-Archange Touadera asked for help to deal with rebel groups in CAR in 2017, Russia’s Wagner Group arrived....
War has prevented 15m children being immunised against diseases, UN warns (www.theguardian.com)
Conflicts have hampered efforts to vaccinate children across the world, health leaders have warned, as new figures showed about 14.5 million children had not received a single immunisation dose....