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Fed fines Deutsche Bank $186 million and threatens further action (edition.cnn.com)

Mother in Osaka arrested for starving daughter and claiming insurance money (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Catholic abbot told to cover cross at Western Wall - The abbot was told that the cross worn at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City was "really big and inappropriate for this place." (www.jpost.com)

[Houston Chronicle] U of H researchers find ruins of lost Maya city in Mexico jungle (www.chron.com)

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Finland closing Russia's Consulate General office in Turku (yle.fi)

DeSantis: Biden Needs to 'Butt Out' on Judicial Overhaul, Let Israel Govern Itself (archive.ph)

EU wants AI Act to be global benchmark, but Asian countries are not convinced (www.scmp.com)

The European Union is lobbying Asian countries to follow its lead on artificial intelligence in adopting new rules for tech firms that include disclosure of copyrighted and AI-generated content, according to senior officials from the EU and Asia....

China slams planned US visit of 'separatist' Taiwan presidential front-runner (koreatimes.co.kr)

China reacted with anger on Monday to a planned visit next month to the United States by “separatist” Taiwan presidential frontrunner Vice President William Lai, as the government in Taipei said it saw no reason to overreact to mere transit stops....

France to raise regulated household electricity prices by 10% from August (ghostarchive.org)

PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - The French government has decided to raise regulated household electricity prices by 10% starting from August, a government official said on Tuesday, confirming a report from newspaper Les Echos....

India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon’s south pole (apnews.com)

'SRIHARIKOTA, India (AP) — An Indian spacecraft blazed its way toward the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover on the lunar surface, the country’s space agency said....

South Korea flood: 13 bodies recovered from flooded tunnel (www.bbc.com)

Living in ‘an oven’: Heatwave grips displacement camps in Syria (www.aljazeera.com)

“We live as if we are inside an oven, struggling to breathe due to the heat inside the tent. If it weren’t for the water we sprinkle on the tent, we would have died from the intense heat,” Dandoush told Al Jazeera on Saturday.

Zelenskyy blasts ‘absurd’ draft text that hedges on Ukraine’s NATO membership timeline (www.politico.eu)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday denounced NATO negotiators for balking at offering Kyiv a concrete path to joining NATO in a draft communiqué being hammered out at an alliance summit.

Is Turkey abandoning Russia to turn back toward the West? (www.juancole.com)

Jordanian child receives life-changing surgery in Israel (www.jpost.com)

7 injured in ramming-stabbing attack in Tel Aviv; terrorist killed by armed civilian (www.timesofisrael.com)

Mexico's press under siege: The rising journalist death toll – DW – 07/11/2023 (www.dw.com)

Canada probes Nike over alleged use of forced Uyghur labor (www.telegraphindia.com)

Roadside Bomb Kills 8 Family Members In Somalia: Mayor (www.barrons.com)

The Greenland shark’s slow swim through deep time — and into possible extinction (www.dailymaverick.co.za)

Fagradalsfjall webcams: Live eruption from Iceland - Jorge Ginés (www.jorgegines.com)

“The volcanic eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in the peninsula of Reykjanes (Iceland) has just started (10/7/2023), and we are lucky enough to have access to several webcams located in the area. Geologists like me (and generally anyone interested in our planet) from all over the world have been looking towards Iceland...

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