Kim Jong Un wants Trump back, elite defector tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse: An investigation has discovered that these organized groups accessed inside intelabout rhino movements from people with past government ties (news.mongabay.com)
Bangladesh arrests more than 10,000 in crackdown on protests (amp.theguardian.com)
Eight Indians killed while fighting against Ukraine in Russian army (euromaidanpress.com)
Face of British army recruitment drive wins payout for racist and sexist abuse (www.theguardian.com)
A former soldier who appeared on recruitment posters for the British army has received a settlement and an apology after taking it to an employment tribunal over the racist and sexist abuse she was subjected to during her career....
Tunisian presidential candidates complain of restrictions and intimidation (www.reuters.com)
TUNIS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Tunisian opposition parties, presidential candidates and human rights groups have accused the authorities of using “arbitrary restrictions” and intimidation in order to ensure the re-election of President Kais Saied in a vote set for Oct. 6....
Catalan separatists vote on far-reaching government deal (www.reuters.com)
BARCELONA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Grassroots members of Catalonia’s separatist ERC party were voting on Friday on a regional government deal with Spain’s ruling Socialists that could patch up Madrid’s uneasy relations with the region but also impact Spain’s entire fiscal system....
Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight, Kremlin says (www.reuters.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian nationals, including Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, following a prisoner exchange between Russia with Western countries, during a ceremony at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia August 1, 2024...
The Paris Olympics may look fair and inclusive on TV. The truth is much darker | Rokhaya Diallo (www.theguardian.com)
this unifying narrative introduced an Olympic and Paralympic Games that in reality are not all that inclusive. (…) To make these Games happen, Paris had to undertake a programme of intense social cleansing....
A murderer goes free: Germany blanches at grim moral calculus (www.reuters.com)
BERLIN, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Relatives of the man murdered by a Russian hitman in a Berlin park have voiced disappointment at the killer’s release, reflecting unease in Germany at the moral equation that secured freedom for 16 political prisoners in Russian and Belarusian jails....
Israel should apologise and consider compensation over killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza, report says [Daniel Hurst | 2 Aug 2024 | The Guardian] (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-Australian military chief finds IDF made ‘errors’ before strikes on World Central Kitchen and says families want Israeli apology from ‘appropriate level’...
‘We didn’t sign that treaty’: in Canada, the Anishinaabe fight for land they never gave up (www.theguardian.com)
While Indigenous nations fight the crown for compensation owed from an agreement signed in 1850, one nation fights a different battle...
U.S. Recognizes Edmundo González as Winner of Venezuela Election [Julie Turkewitz | Published Aug. 1, 2024 | Updated Aug. 2, 2024 | NY Times] (www.nytimes.com)
The United States on Thursday night recognized Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González, as the winner of the country’s disputed election....
India police rescue American woman chained to tree in jungle who claims husband left her there to die (www.cbsnews.com)
Police in India found a 50-year-old American woman chained to a tree in a forest in the country’s western Maharashtra state, where she claims her Indian husband left her to die. Maharashtra Police told CBS News the woman, identified as Lalita Kayi Kumar, was found in a forest in the Sindhudurg district of the state, about 280...
Nigerians struggle to make ends meet amid economic crisis (www.dw.com)
The worst economic crisis in decades in Nigeria has citizens sacrificing to get by. Medicines, food and other basic commodities are priced beyond the reach of many....
Turkey blocks access to Instagram. It's in response to removal of posts on Hamas chief, reports say (apnews.com)
Turkey’s communications authority blocked access to the social media platform Instagram on Friday, the latest instance of a clampdown on websites in the country....
Germany joins multinational force monitoring Korean border (www.dw.com)
Germany officially became the 18th member of the US-led United Nations Command (UNC) in South Korea on Friday....
Police fire gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests over Nigeria’s economy. At least 2 killed (apnews.com)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria on Thursday as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. At least two people were reported killed....
Woman says police errors have left rape suspect free to stalk her (www.bbc.com)
A woman who says she was raped in 2017 has described the criminal justice system as “absolutely broken” after a series of problems and errors allowed the accused man to allegedly start stalking her....
Brittany Higgins: Australian senator sues alleged rape victim (www.bbc.com)
An Australian senator is suing a former staff member who says she was raped inside Parliament House for defamation, over claims the politician helped cover it up....
British prime minister announces policing plan to deal with violence after fatal stabbing of girls (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the “tiny mindless minority” behind unrest that has plagued several cities after a horrific stabbing at a children’s dance class and vowed to put a stop to it as the 17-year-old suspect was named Thursday in part to counter misinformation blamed as one cause of...
What options does Maduro have after Venezuela’s contested presidential election? (apnews.com)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a small copy of the constitution as he gives a news conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, three days after his disputed reelection....
Reports Mount of Israel’s Torture & Rape of Palestinians Prisoners (www.democracynow.org)
Leader of the Venezuelan opposition says she is in hiding and fears for her life (amp.miamiherald.com)
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she is in hiding and that she fears for her freedom and for her life, in an op-ed published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal....