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Big Pharma's Johnson & Johnson under investigation in South Africa over 'excessive' drug prices (apnews.com)

Al-Qaeda Affiliate GSIM Releases Statement Condemning Russian Wagner Group Massacres Of Civilians In Mali (www.memri.org)

TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)

TikTok has been fined €345m (£296m) for breaking EU data law in its handling of children’s accounts, including failing to shield underage users’ content from public view....

They Shot at Her. They Forced Her From Her Home. She Won’t Stop Fighting for Girls. (www.nytimes.com)

Khalida Popal helped save Afghan female soccer players from the Taliban. Now she is demanding that world soccer officials let them play for their country again. Khalida Popal, the former captain of the Afghanistan women’s national soccer team, woke up on the floor of her apartment near Copenhagen, drenched in sweat and...

Brazil riots: First man tried for storming government buildings gets 17 years (www.bbc.com)

Vietnam: 56 people dead after fire at nine-floor apartment building (www.theguardian.com)

About 70 people have been rescued, according to Hanoi authorities, with nearly 40 injured...

Hundreds buried in mass graves as Libya reels from devastating flooding (www.aljazeera.com)

Emergency workers uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna, and it is feared the toll could spiral, with 10,000 people still reported missing after floodwaters from Storm Daniel smashed through dams and washed away entire neighbourhoods....

Libya floods: Entire neighbourhoods dragged into the sea (www.bbc.com)

Libyan city buries 700 people killed in devastating floods as 10,000 are reported missing (apnews.com)

Libya’s eastern city of Derna has buried 700 people killed in devastating flooding and 10,000 were reported missing as rescue teams struggled to retrieve many more bodies from the horrific deluge, officials said Tuesday....

Egypt angry as Ethiopia fills Nile dam reservoir amid water row (www.bbc.co.uk)

Russian minister says G20 summit a success after criticism over war blocked (www.theguardian.com)

Venezuelan soldiers have dislodged more than 11,500 illegal gold miners from the country's biggest natural reserve since July, where they cleared forest and contaminated water (www.france24.com)

UK Parliamentary researcher ‘who spied for China’ arrested (www.theguardian.com)

Two men have been arrested under the Official Secrets Act amid allegations that a parliamentary researcher spied for China....

The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20 (www.theguardian.com)

Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats

Romania: Consternation at state's response to Russian drone – DW – 09/08/2023 (www.dw.com)

Russia has been bombarding Ukraine's Danube River ports close to the Romanian border since late July. Why did Romania first deny and later confirm that a Russian drone had landed on its territory earlier this week?...

Migrants bundled out of Europe lose court challenge against EU's Frontex (www.bbc.com)

The EU’s top court has dismissed a case against European border agency Frontex, brought by a family of Syrian refugees who were sent out of Greece to Turkey in 2016....

Storms:What Happened on the Viking Sky??#shorts (youtube.com)

Storms:What Happened on the Viking Sky?? Storms are the last thing anyone expects on a cruise vacation. What’s even worse is being stranded in the middle of a violent storm with no control over a massive cruise ship. This nightmare scenario became a reality for the passengers aboard the Viking Sky cruise ship. ✅ If you found...

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