German shock at reported Russian assassination plot (www.bbc.com)
Myanmar’s Generals Berate And Scold Bankers as Financial Crisis Deepens (www.irrawaddy.com)
Pakistan’s high court gives more seats to imprisoned ex-PM’s party (apnews.com)
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top court on Friday found that the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan was improperly denied at least 20 seats reserved parliament, in a significant blow to the country’s fragile governing coalition....
Kenyan president sacks cabinet after weeks of deadly protests (www.theguardian.com)
US reportedly foiled Russian plot to kill boss of German arms firm supplying Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil’s spy agency accused of illegally targeting Bolsonaro’s foes (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli snipers accused of attacking fleeing civilians in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Several civilians in Gaza City say people were shot dead by snipers after the Israeli military issued a new evacuation order and told Palestinians to head south as it steps up its offensive across the enclave....
Norway to give Ukraine $93 mln to boost air defences, PM says (www.reuters.com)
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Taiwan sees single-day record of Chinese planes in airspace (www.dw.com)
Taiwan reported an increase in Chinese airforce activity, detecting 66 Chinese planes around the island in a single-day record for this year....
China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Nato in stern rebuke (www.theguardian.com)
Widow of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi given death sentence by Iraqi court (www.theguardian.com)
China opens investigation of EU-imposed trade barriers (www.dw.com)
Brussels has previously looked into Beijing’s support for domestically produced trains, solar panels and electric cars. The EU also wants to reduce its dependence on Chinese technology....
Maharashtra: How fetching water is holding back India's women (www.bbc.com)
Fetching drinking water is a gruelling daily routine for millions of women in India....
A weakened West Africa bloc asks Senegalese leader to try to convince breakaway states to return (apnews.com)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s divided regional bloc Sunday asked Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye to have a dialogue with the three military junta-led member states to try to reunite the region whose stability has been under threat following their decision to leave the group in January....
Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil’s ministry of foreign affairs has been forced to apologise to the embassies of Canada, Gabon and Burkina Faso after three diplomats’ teenage children – all of whom are Black – were searched at gunpoint by police officers....
Ukraine war: Russian air strike leaves 100,000 with no power (www.bbc.com)
The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso junta chiefs 'turn their backs' on West Africa bloc Ecowas (www.bbc.com)
Dutch volleyball player Steven van de Velde on Paris Olympics team 8 years after child rape (www.google.com)
Fierce fighting breaks out as militias launch new attacks against regime in Myanmar’s civil war (apnews.com)
BANGKOK (AP) — New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered cease-fire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war....
Russia: Putin critic Kara-Murza taken to hospital, says wife (www.dw.com)
A look at how settlements have grown in the West Bank over the years (apnews.com)
Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group. It is the latest step by Israel’s hard-line government meant to cement Israel’s control over the territory and prevent the establishment of an independent...