Banksy confirms piranhas are his seventh animal artwork in London (www.theguardian.com)
A central London glass police box has been made to look like a tank of piranhas, in the seventh in series of works by the graffiti artist Banksy....
‘Traders in our blood’: Gazan pleads to be saved from Hamas ‘before the Jews’ (m.jpost.com)
There is also this shitterlink video related to this (sourced the news from worldnews), but I don’t speak Arabic and can’t say if this is a deepfake or not x.com/AlArabiya/status/1821912782033309739
Gerasimov ignored warnings of Ukrainian troop buildup near border, Bloomberg reports (kyivindependent.com)
Venezuela's Maduro blocks X access in country for 10 days (www.reuters.com)
CARACAS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday took tensions with social media platform X and its owner Elon Musk to new heights, banning the platform in the South American country for 10 days amid furore over a disputed presidential election....
Australia: Great Barrier Reef waters warmest in 400 years (www.dw.com)
Record water temperatures have led to more and more mass bleaching events along the Great Barrier Reef. Experts warn the reef is running out of time....
How Chinese loans trapped Pakistan's economy (www.dw.com)
As Pakistan works on enacting economic reforms under a new multibillion-dollar IMF bailout, Islamabad must first figure out what to do with its mountain of debt owed to China....
The Paris Olympics may look fair and inclusive on TV. The truth is much darker | Rokhaya Diallo (www.theguardian.com)
this unifying narrative introduced an Olympic and Paralympic Games that in reality are not all that inclusive. (…) To make these Games happen, Paris had to undertake a programme of intense social cleansing....
Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections (www.reuters.com)
Turkey says it killed 13 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq (www.reuters.com)
Olympics commentator dropped over sexist joke about Australian swimmers (www.salon.com)
Mexican kingpin’s arrest likely to set off violent jockeying for power (apnews.com)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers....
Russia jails scientist Alexey Soldatov who pioneered country's internet (www.telegraph.co.uk)
An unwelcome attendee has joined the Paris Olympic Games: Covid-19 (www.cnn.com)
British woman and husband found dead after failed Atlantic crossing (www.theguardian.com)
Argentina Economy Posts Best Month Under Milei Despite Austerity (www.bloomberg.com)
Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs (www.theguardian.com)
Canada Names First Woman To Lead Military (www.barrons.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/25268260...
Police search for the truck driver who was filmed whipping migrants near Italian-French border (apnews.com)
Italian border police are looking for a truck driver who is shown on a widely circulated video whipping female migrants after he found them in the back of his truck near the French border, officials said Wednesday....
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says Kyiv troops have full control of the Russian town of Sudzha (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Kyiv troops have full control of the Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region in their incursion into Russian territory....
Hundreds of cases of femicide recorded in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are ‘tip of the iceberg’ (www.theguardian.com)
The 300-plus reported cases of Afghan women being killed by men since the Taliban seized power are just “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the true scale of gender-based violence in Afghanistan, according to new data analysis....
The U.S. Fueled Saudi Jets Bombing Yemen. Now the Saudis Won’t Pay Their Gas Bill. (theintercept.com)
THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY is reportedly worth more than $1.4 trillion, but for several years, the Pentagon has been chasing the kingdom for $15 million it owes for American assistance during the Saudi war in Yemen. For months, the Defense Department has ducked The Intercept’s questions about Saudi Arabia welching on its debt....
Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago (apnews.com)
Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.”...
US declares controversial Israeli battalion eligible for assistance (www.aljazeera.com)
The United States has announced that Netzah Yehuda, a controversial Israeli battalion notorious among Palestinians for repressive activities in the occupied West Bank, is eligible for US military assistance....
Russia struggles to repel deep Kursk incursion by Ukraine (www.bbc.com)
Ukrainian troops remained in Russia’s western Kursk region on Friday night, as its surprise cross-border offensive into Russia came to the end of a fourth day....
About 400 Million People Worldwide Have Had Long Covid, Researchers Say (www.nytimes.com)
The condition has put significant strain on patients and society — at a global economic cost of about $1 trillion a year, a new report estimates....
