Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’ (news.mongabay.com)
Hawaii wildfires: Six deaths confirmed as blazes engulf Maui (www.bbc.com)
In 2020, Maui had a population of 168,307, the third-highest of the Hawaiian Islands
Man arrested after stabbing near British Museum in London (www.theguardian.com)
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Germany: Factory output plunges amid economic gloom (www.dw.com)
Germany’s industrial output fell for a second consecutive month in June, figures published on Monday show, with a drop of 1.5% far wider than the previous month’s slip of 0.1%....
Saudi Arabia extends cut of 1 million barrels of oil a day, potentially boosting prices at the pump (apnews.com)
Saudi Arabia will extend its voluntary oil production cut of 1 million barrels per day into September, the state-owned Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Thursday. This is the third month in a row that the kingdom has implemented the cut....
Estimated Number of Ukrainian Casualties in Counteroffensive (www.telesurenglish.net)
Ukraine has also suffered the destruction of a large number of its weapons....
Ukraine Attempted to Attack Russia's Black Sea Base (www.telesurenglish.net)
On Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that two Ukrainian drones attempted to attack the naval base in Novorossiysk, a major Black Sea port, but were destroyed by Russian ships....
Baltic states seek to decouple grid from Russia (www.dw.com)
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are seeking to disconnect from an energy grid network shared with Russia and Belarus by early 2025. Vilnius is pushing from an earlier exit from the grid, which Tallin opposes.
U.S. 'unequivocally' condemns terror attack that wounded 6 Israelis (www.i24news.tv)
Is Russia ‘sub-imperialist’? (links.org.au)
There has recently been a lot of debate on the topic of imperialism, particularly as applied to the current war in Ukraine. Members of several left and progressive tendencies suggest a number of ways in which present-day Russia might be categorised. Some describe Russia as an imperialist power; others refer to it as a...
Ukraine to start talks with US on security guarantees – senior official (www.scmp.com)
The Western Alliance’s Vilnius summit offered support to Ukraine in countering Russia’s 17-month-old invasion and individual countries pledged new weapons, but no date for Ukrainian membership was set as long as the war continues....
Melting ice reveals remains of climber lost on glacier 37 years ago (www.cnn.com)
The remains of a German mountain climber who went missing 37 years ago while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s iconic Matterhorn have been recovered, as melting glaciers lead to the re-emergence of bodies and objects thought to be long lost.
Niger coup: EU suspends security cooperation and budgetary aid (www.bbc.com)
The EU has suspended all security cooperation with Niger after the country’s army took power in a coup....
‘Situation dangerous’: Polish PM warns as Wagner fighters move closer to border (www.scmp.com)
A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner Group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday....
Germany: Ukrainian refugees living in mining 'ghost towns' (www.dw.com)
If you open Google Maps to look at the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, you’ll notice three large pale patches. They represent three colossal open-pit mines — Inden, Hambach and Garzweiler — where the energy company RWE is extracting brown coal (lignite) from the earth....
Sinéad O’Connor, gifted and provocative Irish singer-songwriter, dies at 56 (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s and was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music, has died at 56....
Most unaccompanied children failed to win asylum in Greece, NGO says (www.msn.com)
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‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply (www.theguardian.com)
India, Manipur genocide : ‘Horrific Videos, Reports Just Tip of Iceberg, Much More Has Happened We Don't Know About’ (www.youtube.com)
Babu Verghese, an author, journalist and consultant for several Christian television channels, who was recently in Manipur, both in the valley and in the hills, and spoke widely to people of both the Meitei and Kuki communities, says that the horrifying videos and reports that surfaced in the last week of killings, burning and...
Italy’s PM Meloni seeks cooperation to curb flows of migrants to Europe (www.scmp.com)
Italy hosted Mediterranean leaders in Rome on Sunday at a conference aimed at extending an EU-backed deal with Tunisia to curb the arrival of migrants on European shores....
Zelensky points to lack of munitions, training for delayed Ukraine counteroffensive (thehill.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview that aired Sunday attributed the delayed start of his nation’s counteroffensive against Russia to insufficient munitions and training earlier this year....
Inside Odesa cathedral after Russian missile strike (www.bbc.com)
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Photos: Panama’s Darien Gap good for tourists, hell for migrants (www.aljazeera.com)
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Russian special forces kill gunman who broke into private house near Moscow (www.scmp.com)
Russian security forces on Saturday killed a heavily armed gunman who broke into a private house in the suburbs of Moscow and fired at them, reportedly threatening to march on the Kremlin....