Climate activists glue themselves to a taxiway at Cologne-Bonn Airport, flights suspended (apnews.com)
Indian priests invoke heavenly powers for Kamala Harris | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
US VP Harris to meet Netanyahu this week at White House (www.reuters.com)
Taiwan sees flooding and landslides from Typhoon Gaemi, which caused 22 deaths in the Philippines (apnews.com)
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Italy's Meloni to visit China this week with trade, investment agenda (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18376464
Nashville museum returns 500-year-old Mexican artifact collection back where it 'belongs' (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump will meet with Netanyahu at Mar-A-Lago this week (www.politico.com)
World breaks hottest day record for second day in a row (www.reuters.com)
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From a population of 11 million to little more than 8.5 million: The real toll of Cuba’s migratory crisis (english.elpais.com)
According to numbers compiled by Cuban economist and demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos, the island’s population fell by 18% between 2022 and 2023...
Macron slaps back at left’s bid to govern France (www.politico.eu)
Curb your snooping, Commission tells EU governments (www.politico.eu)
The EU executive tells member countries national security isn’t a blank check to justify spyware use....
Peter Nygard to be sentenced in Toronto for sexual assaults (www.bbc.com)
Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard, once the head of a lucrative global apparel empire, will be sentenced in a Canadian court this week for sexual assault....
Violence against women at 'epidemic' levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn (abcnews.go.com)
Violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism, Britain’s police chiefs said Tuesday....
Explosion and fire at Jose Cuervo tequila factory kill five, Mexican officials say (www.cnn.com)
US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department ordered the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian assets on Tuesday, with the goal of eventually seizing those billions of dollars in assets and selling them to aid the devastated Ukrainian economy....
Nepal: Plane crashes in Kathmandu with 19 on board (www.dw.com)
The Saurya Airlines plane was operating a test flight from the capital, Kathmandu, to the tourist hub of Pokhara. Nepal’s military said that rescue work is ongoing....
Almost one in three people in care were abused in NZ (www.bbc.com)
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General Staff: Russia has lost 568,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 (kyivindependent.com)
10 migrants drown in rushing river crossing Darien Gap in Panama (abcnews.go.com)
French police arrest Russian man suspected of plotting Paris Olympics "destabilization" (www.cbsnews.com)
Poland’s Tusk hits a wall on legalizing abortion (www.politico.eu)
Failure of abortion vote raises big questions of whether Tusk can deliver the key social reforms he promised in last year’s election....
Restaurants sit half-empty in Turkey this summer as inflation reaches 91% in places sending tourists and locals flocking to neighboring Greece (fortune.com)
Restaurants in some Turkish holiday towns are sitting half-empty in peak tourist season, as many locals find it’s cheaper to holiday in neighboring Greece than stay and eat in one of their own country’s world-famous resorts....
Leaked UN report: Israeli war has killed 366 UN staff and family members as Netanyahu prepares to address Congress (www.dropsitenews.com)
Israel’s assault on Gaza had killed at least 172 dependents of United Nations staff by the end of June, according to a confidential UN report obtained by Drop Site, in addition to 195 staff members....
Israeli parliament votes to label UN relief agency a terror organisation (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine's foreign minister seeking 'common ground' with China in talks on ending war with Russia (apnews.com)
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