Study: China's Housing Bubble Break The Two-Child Policy (stop-population-decline.ghost.io)
The amount of plastic that reaches the sea is ten times less than previously thought, but that is not good news (english.elpais.com)
The good news is that, according to a new study, some 500,000 tons of plastic — over ten times less than previous estimates — reach the sea every year, according to a new study. The bad news is that this plastic lasts longer than it was believed to, sometimes decades longer.
From Athens, the ECB will announce the digital euro – How it will work (hellas.postsen.com)
Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians (www.theguardian.com)
From Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, it amounts to an art collection that could grace any gallery in the world....
WHO issues global alert on a cold medicine made in India after a Bloomberg News test found it was tainted with toxic chemicals (www.bloomberg.com)
Ukraine war: Five killed in Russian missile strike eastern Ukraine, officials say (www.bbc.com)
Around 20 Killed in Burkina Faso Suspected Terror Attack (www.voanews.com)
Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels (www.bbc.co.uk)
Taliban Prepare Suicide Bombers in Water Dispute With Iran (time.com)
US mulls backing Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti (www.reuters.com)
Cambodia’s king signs royal decree to nominate Hun Manet as PM (www.rfa.org)
Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday issued a royal decree to appoint Hun Sen’s eldest son Hun Manet as the country’s prime minister, ensuring that the transfer of power from father to son will occur later this month....
North Korean hackers breached top Russian missile maker (www.reuters.com)
Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.
Bear escapes from crate in plane’s cargo hold at Dubai airport (www.theguardian.com)
Nazi symbols and child pornography found in German police chats (www.euronews.com)
Woman arrested in plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine says (abcnews.go.com)
‘I shout from the rooftops I exist’: Brazilians identifying as Indigenous up by 90% in 12 years (www.theguardian.com)
The 37-year-old is part of a growing number of Brazilians reclaiming their Indigenous identity, as reflected in new census data published on Monday. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the number of people identifying as Indigenous has increased by nearly 90% in just 12 years, from 896,917 to...
Chinese soldiers pledge to sacrifice their lives in documentary on Taiwan invasion (www.theguardian.com)
Biden vowed to reform immigration detention. Instead, private prisons benefited (www.reuters.com)
The stalled reform coincided with a boom in private prison revenues from ICE contracts during the Biden administration and an increase in the percentage of detainees being held in private facilities, according to an analysis of ICE data by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shared exclusively with Reuters.
Russia unleashes strikes against Ukraine; Kyiv targets Crimea bridge (www.aljazeera.com)
Russia says it shot down a drone heading for Moscow in the third such attack in a week, while officials in both Russia and Ukraine have confirmed Ukraine targeted two bridges linking Crimea to the mainland....
Families in Turkey's quake cities battle dust and rubble six months on (www.bbc.com)
Hulya Yesiloglu gazes just beyond her temporary tent city towards a cemetery and says she often wonders if she would have been better off ending up there rather than surviving Turkey’s twin earthquakes....
Germany: Factory output plunges amid economic gloom (www.dw.com)
Germany’s industrial output fell for a second consecutive month in June, figures published on Monday show, with a drop of 1.5% far wider than the previous month’s slip of 0.1%....
Mexico: Gunmen Group Kidnapped 7 Police Officers in Zacatecas (www.telesurenglish.net)
On Sunday, at least seven Mexican police officers were kidnapped when a group of armed men broke into the police headquarters in the municipality of Villa Hidalgo, in the state of Zacatecas....
Kremlin Says 'Theoretically Possible' to Not Hold Presidential Elections (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin can choose not to hold presidential elections next year because he will “obviously” win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said late Sunday.
US deployed warships after China, Russia naval patrol near Alaska (www.aljazeera.com)
The United States deployed four navy warships after Russian and Chinese naval forces conducted joint patrols near the Alaskan coast, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)....
5 Victorian-era diseases that are back in the West (www.politico.eu)
