Niger coup: Is France to blame for instability in West Africa? (www.bbc.co.uk)
NASA ends lunar ice cubesat mission over stuck valve (www.theregister.com)
NASA has terminated the LunaH-Map mission after a stuck valve on the ice-hunting cubesat prevented it from reaching the Moon’s south pole....
Niger coup: Wagner taking advantage of instability - Antony Blinken (www.bbc.com)
Russia’s Wagner mercenary group is “taking advantage” of instability in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC.
Drought in Spain empties reservoirs, forces limits on water use (www.reuters.com)
India says cheetah deaths not alarming, to consult experts (www.reuters.com)
Man arrested after stabbing near British Museum in London (www.theguardian.com)
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Typhoons add to China’s food security headache, as export bans push up prices (www.scmp.com)
Torrential rain brought by two successive typhoons has added to concerns over China’s food security, which is already under pressure as export bans from the likes of India have pushed up global prices, pushing officials and researchers to warn of a “severe impact” on agricultural production. Typhoon Doksuri made landfall...
A New Filipino Leader for Southeast Asia’s Islamic State (thediplomat.com)
The amount of plastic that reaches the sea is ten times less than previously thought, but that is not good news (english.elpais.com)
The good news is that, according to a new study, some 500,000 tons of plastic — over ten times less than previous estimates — reach the sea every year, according to a new study. The bad news is that this plastic lasts longer than it was believed to, sometimes decades longer.
From Athens, the ECB will announce the digital euro – How it will work (hellas.postsen.com)
Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians (www.theguardian.com)
From Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, it amounts to an art collection that could grace any gallery in the world....
WHO issues global alert on a cold medicine made in India after a Bloomberg News test found it was tainted with toxic chemicals (www.bloomberg.com)
Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels (www.bbc.co.uk)
Taliban Prepare Suicide Bombers in Water Dispute With Iran (time.com)
How We Used Machine Learning to Investigate Where Ebola May Strike (www.propublica.org)
The bright spots on the map struck us like a lightning bolt....
US mulls backing Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti (www.reuters.com)
North Korean hackers breached top Russian missile maker (www.reuters.com)
Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.
Ukraine war: Five killed in Russian missile strike eastern Ukraine, officials say (www.bbc.com)
Chinese Copper Mine in Myanmar Expands With Land Grab (www.irrawaddy.com)
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Bear escapes from crate in plane’s cargo hold at Dubai airport (www.theguardian.com)
Nazi symbols and child pornography found in German police chats (www.euronews.com)
Woman arrested in plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine says (abcnews.go.com)
‘I shout from the rooftops I exist’: Brazilians identifying as Indigenous up by 90% in 12 years (www.theguardian.com)
The 37-year-old is part of a growing number of Brazilians reclaiming their Indigenous identity, as reflected in new census data published on Monday. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the number of people identifying as Indigenous has increased by nearly 90% in just 12 years, from 896,917 to...