A court in China sentences a famed Uyghur scholar to life in prison, foundation says (apnews.com)
New Indonesian industrial park on Borneo, feted as 'green,' will be powered by coal, report says (apnews.com)
China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race (www.washingtonpost.com)
Most of Europe was in lockdown in April 2020 when a plane arrived in the Serbian capital bearing a well-timed gift from the People’s Republic of China. Inside was a Chinese invention called the Fire-Eye, a sophisticated portable lab that could detect coronavirus infections from tiny genetic fragments the pathogen leaves...
Scientists warn entire branches of the 'Tree of Life' are going extinct (news.yahoo.com)
Archaeologists find 500-year-old board game carved in ruins of Polish castle (arstechnica.com)
Nearly 7,000 migrants arrive on Italy's southern island of Lampedusa within 24hours (www.africanews.com)
Arson attacks at schools in Belgium are believed to be connected to a controversial sex ed program (apnews.com)
Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts (www.bbc.com)
Covid cases reported on luxury cruise ship run aground in Greenland (www.nbcnews.com)
The operator of a luxury cruise ship that ran aground in Greenland with 206 people on board said Thursday at least three passengers have contracted Covid-19. The announcement followed a third failed attempt to free the cruise liner, after a fisheries research vessel attempted to pull the ship free at high tide on Wednesday....
Kitagawa's sexual abuse: the other side of the Japanese teen-idol market (www.asianews.it)
The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people (abcnews.go.com)
Bogus Supplier of Jet-Engine Parts May Have Faked Employees Too (www.bloomberg.com)
Gabon coup leader Nguema sworn in as transitional head of state (www.aljazeera.com)
Gabon’s new military leader was sworn in as the head of state on Monday, less than a week after ousting the president whose family had ruled the Central African nation for more than five decades....
Swedish cities hit by four residential explosions in an hour (www.theguardian.com)
Ukrainian military destroy unique Russian radar station worth $200 million in Kherson Oblast (www.pravda.com.ua)
Chinese-backed port project in Peru to be the 'gateway from South America to Asia,' official says (apnews.com)
Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions....
UK antitrust enforcer to Microsoft: You can’t bully us (www.politico.eu)
Wagner chief Prigozhin appears in first video since Russian mutiny (www.nbcnews.com)
In a brief video shared by Russian social media channels, a person who appears to be the exiled mercenary chief says he is recruiting “real strong men.”
How Ukraine is exploiting Biden’s cluster bomb gamble (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Ukraine’s sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood. The government is worried. (www.economist.com)
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‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania (www.theguardian.com)
'Don't Ask Why': South Korea grapples with back-to-back 'Mudjima' stabbings (www.bbc.com)
A knife darting out in a packed subway car. An assailant, chasing shoppers, stabbing wildly in the street....
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine (www.pcgamer.com)
China's property crisis deepens as another huge developer risks default | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland (www.theguardian.com)
About 2,000 people participated in the events last weekend, which included a swim off Sunderland’s blue flag Roker beach. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it would be testing samples from those who were ill to establish the cause of the illness and any common pathogens....
