Chandrayaan-3 Landing LIVE: India creates history with successful landing (www.livemint.com)
Inside El Salvador ‘mega prison’ holding 12,000 accused gang members (www.scmp.com)
The 40,000-person facility – thought to be the largest in the Americas – opened earlier this year...
‘I don’t feel safe anymore’: Pakistan Christians in fear after mob violence (www.aljazeera.com)
Jaranwala, Pakistan – Rina Javed Bhatti sat on a narrow street among a group of 20-25 worshippers, many of them sobbing profusely, while Pastor Javed Bhatti addressed his sermon in a Christian colony in northern Pakistan....
BRICS summit: Leaders eye expansion, common currency (www.dw.com)
Xi calls for accelerating BRICS expansion...
BRICS, the economic group of America’s rivals and friends alike, explained (www.vox.com)
When leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa meet this week, many observers may ask: Could this group of countries challenge the US and West?...
Manliness, Prestige and Cash: How Military Service Is Sold on Russian TV (www.nytimes.com)
A supermarket security guard, a taxi driver, a guy at the gym. The Russian government has a message for all of them: Aren’t you a man?...
US slaps China visa curbs for 'forced assimilation' in Tibet (www.dw.com)
The United States is to impose visa curbs on Chinese officials suspected of “forced assimilation” of Tibetan children at state-run schools, the US State Department said in a statement on Tuesday....
Central Moscow building hit by drone in latest attack on Russian capital (www.theguardian.com)
Moscow airports suspend flights briefly as drone hits site in city centre, with two others brought down across the region
Russian dam collapse due to heavy rains cuts off cargo rail link to far east (www.seafoodsource.com)
Tropical Storm Franklin nears Haiti and the Dominican Republic bringing fears of floods, landslides (apnews.com)
Somaliland’s main hospital suffers shortages as fighting escalates (www.aljazeera.com)
Las Anod, Somaliland – Eight months into a conflict between armed forces of the breakaway state of Somaliland and local Dhulbahante militias in Las Anod, Somalia, hospitals in the embattled city are desperately working to maintain lifesaving supplies....
Chinese property developer Country Garden to be removed from Hang Seng Index on Sept. 4 (www.cnbc.com)
Rice prices soar, fanning fears of food inflation spike in Asia (www.cnbc.com)
Chinese activist Kwon Pyong, a critic of Xi Jinping, flees to South Korea on jet ski (www.abc.net.au)
Ukraine blows up five jets ‘deep within Russian territory’ (news.yahoo.com)
Ukraine media say Kyiv saboteurs were behind drone attacks on air bases deep inside Russia (apnews.com)
Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv’s military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at air bases deep inside Russia, Ukraine media claimed Tuesday....
US commerce secretary meets China envoy before trip to stabilise ties (www.aljazeera.com)
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has held “productive” talks with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng in advance of a China trip aimed at cooling tensions between the world’s two largest economies....
The rise of pro-Western disinformation (unherd.com)
UK antitrust enforcer to Microsoft: You can’t bully us (www.politico.eu)
China Pouring in Billions to Prop Up Myanmar's Military Regime (www.irrawaddy.com)
Imran Khan’s Ouster Is a Story of US Power and Propaganda (jacobin.com)
Wagner chief Prigozhin appears in first video since Russian mutiny (www.nbcnews.com)
In a brief video shared by Russian social media channels, a person who appears to be the exiled mercenary chief says he is recruiting “real strong men.”
More than 200 former Afghan officials and security forces killed since Taliban takeover, UN says (apnews.com)
More than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday....
Greece to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jet fighters, Zelenskyy says (www.aljazeera.com)
Greece’s offer to train Ukraine’s fighter pilots comes after Denmark and the Netherlands announced they would supply F-16s to Kyiv.