Many US solar factories are lagging. Except those China owns (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18089617
China suspends nuclear talks with US over arms sales to Taiwan (www.theguardian.com)
Trump says Taiwan should pay for defence, sending TSMC stock down (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Rainbow unicorn bank card deemed "gay propaganda" by Russian lawmakers (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Woman faces trial after allegedly being prescribed NHS abortion pills by post (www.thepinknews.com)
Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association (www.theguardian.com)
The chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association has been fired by her employer, the Wall Street Journal, weeks after being appointed as the head of the embattled union....
Why Won't the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine? (www.jeffsachs.org)
For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this time in proposals made by President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2024. Four previous times, the U.S. rejected the offer of negotiations in favor of a neocon strategy to weaken or dismember Russia through war and covert...
Hard work underway to reopen Kyiv children’s hospital hit by Russian missile (kyivindependent.com)
Just four days after a Russian missile hit Ukraine’s leading hospital for children, the floors of Okhmatdyt’s main building looked surprisingly spotless....
Senior North Korean diplomat defects to South (www.bbc.com)
A high-profile North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba has defected to the South, Seoul’s spy agency has confirmed to the BBC....
JD Vance pick adds to European fears over Trump presidency (www.bbc.com)
European politicians and diplomats had already prepared for changes to their relationship with the US in the event of a second Donald Trump presidency....
AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare (theconversation.com)
Investment dispute ends in hotel cyanide tea party (www.bangkokpost.com)
Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid (apnews.com)
The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.
Gaza man with Down's syndrome attacked by IDF dog and left to die (www.bbc.co.uk)
FBI joins probe into deaths of 6 foreigners at Grand Hyatt Erawan in Bangkok | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
Six people are found dead in a hotel in downtown Bangkok, with poisoning a possibility (apnews.com)
The bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and their deaths may have been caused by poisoning, police and officials said....
Mpox did not fade away. Africa faces two alarming outbreaks — and lacks vaccines (www.npr.org)
Last week, the World Health Organization called attention to an mpox outbreak in South Africa. Officials there confirmed 20 cases between May 8 and July 2, with 18 hospitalizations and three deaths....
ByteDance must keep gatekeeper label, EU court says in boost for regulators (www.reuters.com)
TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday lost its court challenge against its designation as a gatekeeper under landmark European Union rules, in a boost for antitrust regulators seeking to curb the power of Big Tech....
Ukrainian intelligence 'hacks Russian websites, replaces homepages with pig head pictures' (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) claimed on July 16 that it had hacked nearly 100 Russian websites that support the Kremlin’s war effort, taking them offline and replacing their homepages with a picture of a bloody pig’s head....
Tenacious D’s Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt (www.theguardian.com)
The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump....
Smith calls out progressives after Trump shooting (edmonton.citynews.ca)
Chinese business tycoon convicted of defrauding followers in $1bn scheme (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18073470
Charles Michel tells Viktor Orbán he has ‘no role’ representing the EU on the world stage (www.politico.eu)
European Council president responds to Hungarian PM’s note about his “peace missions.”...
Orban tells EU leaders Trump would act as "Russia-Ukraine peace broker" (www.straitstimes.com)
He claims Trump would act immediately upon winning the election, before taking office. Which sounds legally dubious, but not that that’s ever stopped Trump…