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Inflated rents, high interest rates and lack of supply create European housing crisis (www.france24.com)

Climate change has already displaced more than 43 million children: U.N. report (www.salon.com)

new report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed that more than 43 million children were displaced due to weather events — all of which were linked to climate change — in the years from 2016 to 2021. This amounts to roughly 20,000 child displacements every single day....

Health on the ballot as Argentina poised to elect ‘anarcho-capitalist’ bent on slashing social protections (theconversation.com)

NYT assists Modi govt's assault on India's free press : Statement on Worldwide Media Holdings’ investment in NewsClick (www.thehindu.com)

In this statement, Jason Pfetcher, manager of Worldwide Media Holdings, clarifies on the provenance of the funds that the for-profit investment vehicle based in the U.S. invested in NewsClick

Retired US Army sergeant arrested for alleged attempts to spy for China (www.bbc.com)

A former US Army sergeant has been arrested for illegally retaining classified information and attempting to provide it to China’s spy service....

Food Inflation Is Still High Around the World (www.bloomberg.com)

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The ungovernable Republicans: ‘Their goal is chaos’ (archive.ph)

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Gates Foundation Wants Help to Create Digital ID and Payments System (reclaimthenet.org)

UK passport database to be used to identify suspects from CCTV footage...

EU summit to look at changes the bloc needs to make to welcome Ukraine, others as new members (apnews.com)

A day after pledging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy their unwavering support, the European Union on Friday came face to face with one of its worst political headaches on a key commitment — how and when to welcome destitute and battered Ukraine into the bloc....

Putin Threatens To Kill Klaus Schwab (odysee.com)

More than one-third of millennials believe they won’t get a dime of Social Security when they retire, so they’re taking matters into their own hands (creditnews.com)

Of all generational cohorts, older millennials are most likely to generate enough income to retire comfortably, according to the latest Vanguard Retirement Readiness report....

Dengue will 'take off' in southern Europe, US, Africa this decade, WHO scientist says (www.reuters.com)

An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel (apnews.com)

Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues....

Developed nations pledge $9.3 billion to global climate fund at gathering in Germany (apnews.com)

Developed countries pledged $9.3 billion to help poor nations tackle climate change at a conference held in the German city of Bonn on Thursday, authorities said. However, nongovernmental groups criticized the outcome, saying the funds fall short of what is needed to tackle climate change....

William Lai: Democratic elections show Taiwan is ‘already independent’ from China (www.independent.co.uk)

Taiwan is already independent and sovereign as it elects its own president, the self-governed island’s presidential frontrunner said....

Extreme weather displaced 43m children in past six years, Unicef reports (www.theguardian.com)

At least 43 million child displacements were linked to extreme weather events over the past six years, the equivalent of 20,000 children being forced to abandon their homes and school every single day, new research has found....

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel peace prize (www.theguardian.com)

Narges Mohammadi, the most prominent jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for fighting the oppression of women in the country....

After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot (www.abc.net.au)

The Worrying Democratic Erosions in South Korea (www.newyorker.com)

'Every hunter is hunted': How drones in Ukraine forever changed war (youtu.be)

Donald Trump accused of sharing nuclear submarine details with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt (www.abc.net.au)

Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says (apnews.com)

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Putin suggests a new narrative for Prigozhin’s deadly plane crash: cocaine and grenades. (www.nytimes.com)

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia claimed on Thursday that the warlord Yevgeny V. Prigozhin and his associates may have brought down their private jet with hand grenades while possibly under the influence of cocaine — a new narrative from the Kremlin about the August plane crash widely seen as an assassination carried out...

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