El Salvador's president is running for reelection, though critics say the constitution prohibits him (apnews.com)
IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits (www.imf.org)
Hezbollah says it downed Israeli drone in southern Lebanon (www.aljazeera.com)
Syrian survivors of enforced disappearance call on UN for justice (www.aljazeera.com)
Germany offers to station 4,000 troops in Lithuania to strengthen NATO's eastern flank (apnews.com)
Early vote count for Guatemala's presidential election indicates second round ahead (apnews.com)
Russian special services threatened families of Wagner chiefs until they retreated from Moscow (www.pravda.com.ua)
Sources of British special services have reported that the Russian secret services threatened to hurt the families of chiefs of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) before Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner and leader of the Wagner PMC, stopped his offensive on Moscow.
Thousands of North Koreans march in anti-US rallies as country marks Korean War anniversary (apnews.com)
Chile's 'worst weather front' in a decade floods towns (video) (www.youtube.com)
New Zealand PM sparks row after flying to China with backup plane (www.theguardian.com)
Australia’s High Court dismisses Russia’s bid for injunction to halt its embassy’s eviction (apnews.com)
'It's getting cheaper': Drug use disorders increasing globally (www.euronews.com)
Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria (apnews.com)
India’s protesting wrestlers to take sexual abuse fight to court (www.aljazeera.com)
Britons’ earlier deaths linked to NHS underinvestment – study (www.theguardian.com)
Riders plunge from a derailed roller-coaster in Sweden, killing one and injuring several others (www.ctvnews.ca)
McManus: Blinken tries to fix floor under U.S.-China relations (www.latimes.com)
When Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken went to Beijing last week to try to repair the frayed relationship between the United States and China, both sides kept expectations low....
Netflix Reportedly Tells Harry and Meghan What They Must Deliver for $50 Million (www.thedailybeast.com)
Iran deported 90,000 Afghan refugees since March: report (www.newarab.com)
End the Exceptionalism: Will the United States Ever Sanction Israel? (www.palestinechronicle.com)
Saudi Arabia executes 2 Yemenis for terrorism offenses (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
United Wa State Army will not withdraw its 5 bases from Myanmar-Thai border as per Thai request (elevenmyanmar.com)
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Drugs cause decline in downtown São Paulo (video) (www.youtube.com)
Morocco intercepts over 25,000 migration attempts in 2023 (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Israeli Reports: Washington Suspends Support for Projects in Illegal West Bank Settlements (www.palestinechronicle.com)
