The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose (www.economist.com)
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Argentina Overcomes Key Hurdle Impeding End of Currency Controls (www.bloomberg.com)
Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association (www.theguardian.com)
The chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association has been fired by her employer, the Wall Street Journal, weeks after being appointed as the head of the embattled union....
French government resigns, ushering in indefinite transition period (www.politico.eu)
The Attal administration will now serve as a caretaker government until a new prime minister is appointed....
Gaza: Palestinian with Down syndrome ‘left to die’ by Israeli soldiers after combat dog attack [12 July 2024 | Middle East Eye] (www.middleeasteye.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17606053...
European Commission to partly boycott Hungary's presidency (www.dw.com)
Brussels has reacted to Viktor Orban’s “peace mission” to Moscow by snubbing Hungary’s six months as European Council president. It will only send civil servants, not Commissioners, to meetings chaired by Hungary....
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....
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....
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....
Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/22143159
Baby injured as machete wielding man attacks his neighbors in Switzerland (www.nbcnews.com)
France Is Busing Homeless Immigrants Out of Paris Before the Olympics (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24868460...
Australian soldier charged with spying for Russia (www.bbc.com)
An Australian soldier and her husband have been arrested and each charged with spying for Russia....
The Mexican Army intensifies its offensive against El Guano, the brother of Chapo Guzmán (english.elpais.com)
The military has captured Luis ‘N,’ the head of security for Aureliano Guzmán Loaera, after fighting in the Golden Triangle region. It is the second operation in the past few months that has been aimed at the drug dealer’s older sibling...
Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images (www.theguardian.com)
Teenagers each given a year’s probation after creating and spreading faked images of female classmates in south-west Spain...
Silicone mask-wearing criminals in China spark security concerns; e-commerce platforms censor product searches - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Israeli attack on UN school used as shelter in Gaza kills at least 16 (www.aljazeera.com)
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip, the Gaza Government Media Office said, as Israel continues to pound the besieged coastal territory....
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17680912
Paris Olympics organizers unveil backup plans for triathlon and marathon swimming in Seine (apnews.com)
The organizing committee for the Paris Olympics has unveiled backup plans for open-water events if the Seine River is deemed unsuitable for swimming....
The dizzying array of legal threats to Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro (apnews.com)
Labour set for UK election landslide, exit poll predicts (www.cnn.com)
LW World News coverage of a similar article by The Guardian
Exclusive: Firms weigh removing Taiwan staff from China after death penalty threat (www.reuters.com)
Some foreign companies are considering moving Taiwanese employees out of China after Beijing said it could impose the death penalty on “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists, said four people familiar with the matter....
Protests continue in Kenya as some are now calling for the president to step down (abcnews.go.com)
Nine killed in Seoul after car hits pedestrians (www.channelnewsasia.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17525307