North Korea celebrated its founding with a military parade featuring dump trucks modified to work as rocket launchers (www.businessinsider.com)
India, US and Saudi Arabia in talks on rail and ports deal linking Gulf and south Asia (www.theguardian.com)
Talks include Europe and UAE as Joe Biden flies to Delhi with aim of rivalling China’s Belt and Road...
US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China (www.cnn.com)
Morocco earthquake death toll rises above 2,000 (www.bbc.com)
The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people (abcnews.go.com)
Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 1,000 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech (apnews.com)
Why the 2024 Olympic Games may drive out Paris’ beloved booksellers (www.lonelyplanet.com)
Polish Senate says use of government spyware is illegal in the country (techcrunch.com)
Bogus Supplier of Jet-Engine Parts May Have Faked Employees Too (www.bloomberg.com)
Police discover 80 Russian torture chambers in Ukraine (www.ukrinform.net)
Outcry over official Spanish definition of Jew as ‘greedy or usurious’ person (www.timesofisrael.com)
Anti-Putin Russians Kill FSB Border Guard During Cross-Border Raid (www.kyivpost.com)
Environmentalists condemn Australia’s ‘woeful record’ after 48 plants and animals added to threatened species list (www.theguardian.com)
Cuba arrests 17 for trafficking young men to fight for Russia in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Powerful earthquake kills 'at least' 296 in Morocco, govt says (www.reuters.com)
Powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Morocco, with five believed dead (www.aljazeera.com)
The first human organ created inside an animal opens the door to manufacturing ‘spare parts’ for people (english.elpais.com)
Edit: Surprised at all the vegans in this thread. I didn’t think there were so many of you. I’m glad you care so much about animal rights, that you’re willing to forego eating them and using products made from them. If you’re not vegan and have moral objections for this, maybe you should look at yourself first and all...
1.2m Palestinians face devastating humanitarian crisis because of US aid block (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Dalit woman raped, filmed, forced to eat beef by two Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh, after being lured by friend (www.indiatoday.in)
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
In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots (www.reuters.com)
Alongside Sydney Harbour, engineers are working on a submarine that will be powered by artificial intelligence and will have no human crew. The project is being driven by a contest between the U.S., its allies and China to develop AI-controlled weapons that will operate autonomously, including warships and fighter jets. The...
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?...
Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation (www.bbc.com)
Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a “major act of war”....
Hong Kong paralyzed by flash flooding after heaviest rainfall since 1884 (www.cnn.com)
Record-breaking rainfall paralyzed much of Hong Kong on Friday, with flash flooding submerging metro stations and trapping drivers on roads, as authorities suspended schools and urged the public to seek safe shelter....
‘Like a phantom’: Chile grapples with ghosts of the disappeared (www.aljazeera.com)
Santiago, Chile – Jeannette Avila takes out a white handkerchief atop Cerro Chena, a hill overlooking Chile’s capital, Santiago. Waving it up and down, she begins to dance to the music of Chile’s national dance....
