Brazil’s Lula backtracks on Putin arrest safety at Rio G20 (www.aljazeera.com)
Uttar Pradesh Shocker: 8-Hour-Old Infant Buried Alive in Kanpur, Miraculously Rescued by Couple (www.latestly.com)
Powerful earthquake kills 'at least' 296 in Morocco, govt says (www.reuters.com)
In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots (www.reuters.com)
Alongside Sydney Harbour, engineers are working on a submarine that will be powered by artificial intelligence and will have no human crew. The project is being driven by a contest between the U.S., its allies and China to develop AI-controlled weapons that will operate autonomously, including warships and fighter jets. The...
Hong Kong paralyzed by flash flooding after heaviest rainfall since 1884 (www.cnn.com)
Record-breaking rainfall paralyzed much of Hong Kong on Friday, with flash flooding submerging metro stations and trapping drivers on roads, as authorities suspended schools and urged the public to seek safe shelter....
Mexico set for first female president in 2024 election (www.theguardian.com)
Canada opens inquiry into allegations of election meddling by China, Russia (www.aljazeera.com)
Azerbaijan threatens to close down BBC Azerbaijan over Serj Tankian and Artak Beglaryan interview (en.armradio.am)
TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari and her mother jailed for life for double murder after sex tape threat (news.sky.com)
TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari and her mother have both been jailed for life for double murder following a sex tape threat....
Europe’s biggest car show was long the stomping ground of German brands—but it’s now ‘become the China show’ (fortune.com)
Chinese carmakers are descending on Europe’s premier car show this week in such large numbers, the German media is reaching a state of near existential angst....
India, Manipur genocide : Is Manipur the Most Recent Hindutva Experiment? (www.newsclick.in)
Right-wing politics has been using this tactic since its inception -- create a sense of insecurity among the majority community that they are falling in numbers, losing out their resources to ‘encroachers’, and are in direct attack from the ‘violent’ minority.
Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ukraine says it has identified a Russian commander accused of Bucha atrocities (www.cnn.com)
Nobel Foundation cancels Russia, Belarus, Iran invites to annual prize awards (www.reuters.com)
The Nobel Foundation said on Saturday it would not after all invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend the Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Stockholm this year, reversing an earlier decision after widespread criticism....
Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
The decline appears to coincide with significant changes in global climate that turned glaciations into long-term events, a decrease in sea surface temperatures, and a possible long period of drought in Africa and Eurasia. The team behind the work said the time window also coincides with a relatively empty period on the fossil...
ABCNews: Iceland says commercial whaling can resume after temporary ban (abcnews.go.com)
Gabon election results were a ‘smokescreen’ for soldiers to oust unpopular president, analysts say (apnews.com)
The ouster of Gabon’s president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population’s grievances against the government as an excuse to seize power, analysts said....
HS: International film crew leave €1m bill unpaid in Finnish Lapland (yle.fi)
More than 1,000 schools destroyed in Ukraine since war began-UNICEF (www.reuters.com)
More than 1,300 schools have been totally destroyed in government-held areas of Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion and others have been badly damaged, the U.N. children’s fund UNICEF said on Tuesday....
Poland and Baltic states demand Belarus expel Wagner and end migrant crisis or face border closure (notesfrompoland.com)
US military aicraft crashes off northern Australia, 20 Marines on board (www.aljazeera.com)
Caste matters : Family alleges harassment by teachers after Dalit boy found dead in Rajasthan school (www.thehindu.com)
Family of the boy in Rajasthan says he was harassed by two of his teachers who used casteist slurs against him and that the school principal did not take action even after complaints
Niger junta orders troops on maximum alert in case of attack (www.france24.com)
The junta in Niger has ordered its armed forces to go on highest alert, citing an increased threat of attack, according to an internal document issued by its defence chief on Friday that a security source in the country confirmed was authentic.
Australian, US, Filipino forces practice retaking an island in a drill along the South China Sea (apnews.com)
Australian and Filipino forces, backed by U.S. Marines, practiced retaking an island seized by hostile forces in a large military drill Friday on the northwestern Philippine coast facing the disputed South China Sea....
São Paulo's micro-houses keeping homeless families off the streets (www.bbc.com)
The minhocão is one of São Paulo’s most famous landmarks. An elevated highway that snakes its way through the centre of the city, it weaves through the tightly packed apartment buildings to connect the east to the west....
