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Singapore's baby bust: Record low births in 2023 deepen demographic crisis (www.population.news)

Argentina's inflation edges up in June, breaking a months-long streak in a blow to President Milei (apnews.com)

A Wedding Puts India’s Gilded Age on Lavish Display (www.nytimes.com)

Hungary's Orban meets Trump on 'peace mission' (www.dw.com)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with former US President Donald Trump in Florida to discuss “ways to make peace.” The meeting took place shortly after a NATO summit in Washington....

Kenyans accused of witchcraft then murdered for land in Kilifi (www.bbc.com)

Chinese Ship Suspected of Raiding World War II Wrecks Detained (news.usni.org)

TIL that a Chinese barge spent much of 2022-2023 illegally pillaging scrap metal from WW2 war graves in Malaysian waters....

Ukraine war briefing: Russia launches attacks on Kharkiv and Kyiv as Zelenskiy appeals for help (www.theguardian.com)

Ancient Mayan vase purchased by US woman for $4 returned to Mexico (www.theguardian.com)

Drug-resistant tuberculosis leaves EU scrambling for medicines (www.politico.eu)

Vital drugs are either not authorized or are deemed too expensive, as cases rise....

Chinese EV makers proposed a 25% tariff on large European ICE cars, state media reports (carnewschina.com)

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Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’ (www.theguardian.com)

Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and devastate life as we know it. His new book, What If Fungi Win?, charts how we might overcome the rising threat....

How the far-right gained traction with Europe's youth (www.reuters.com)

From Germany and France to Poland and Spain, the far-right made inroads into the youth vote in key states in this EU election - as a generation that has grown up amid constant crises seeks new answers and follows politicians fluent in TikTok and YouTube....

Saudi Arabia's petro-dollar exit: A global finance paradigm shift (www.tbsnews.net)

Hamas seeks 'complete halt' to war in Gaza proposal response (www.bbc.com)

'Becoming a totalitarian state': UK judge on why he quit Hong Kong court (www.bbc.com)

A high-profile British judge who resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court last week has warned the city is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state” and judges are being compromised by an “impossible political environment created by China”....

Why Europe is lurching to the right (www.vox.com)

Israel keeps pounding central Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274 (www.reuters.com)

German officials regret not lifting ban on Ukraine striking targets in Russia sooner (www.pravda.com.ua)

German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has said he regrets that the government led by Olaf Scholz did not allow Ukraine to deploy Western-supplied weapons to strike military targets in Russia sooner....

Two far-right Israeli ministers threaten to topple the government if it accepts Biden peace plan (www.cnn.com)

Tens of thousands rally in Tel Aviv to demand hostage deal, denounce government (www.timesofisrael.com)

“Last night, we received a reminder of what a real leader looks like, who cares for Israel’s future and not his own. Thank you President Biden,” said Shaul Meridor, the former head of the Finance Ministry’s budget department, referring to the US president’s speech on Friday in which he outlined Israel’s proposal for...

Quarter of political donations in EU go to extremist and populist parties, data reveals (www.theguardian.com)

Figures from 200 parties in 25 countries suggest hardline groups have had rise in donations in recent years, increasing war chests before European parliament elections...

AfD fears losing voters over latest Russia and China spy scandals (www.euronews.com)

Recent investigations linking top AfD members to Beijing and Moscow have rattled the far-right party voting base in the run-up to the European elections in June, causing doubts about their dedication to the patriotic cause — one of their main talking points....

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