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Sudan 'spiralling out of control' as 1 million flee country, UN warns (www.reuters.com)

South Korea fines mobile carriers US$25 million for exaggerating 5G network speed (www.channelnewsasia.com)

Bolsonaro Wanted to Breach Brazil’s Voting System, Hacker Testifies (www.thedailybeast.com)

Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction (abcnews.go.com)

The entire capital city of Canada's Northwest Territories has been ordered to evacuate as hundreds of wildfires scorch the region, officials say (www.cnn.com)

Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public (apnews.com)

Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.

China's defense minister promises to boost cooperation with Russian ally Belarus (apnews.com)

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu on Thursday visited Belarus and said his country would increase military cooperation with Russia’s neighbor and ally, where Moscow is deploying tactical nuclear weapons.

Caste matters : In India Dalit Student Attacked for Studying Well, Anti-Caste Groups Ring Alarm (www.newsclick.in)

A group of high school students broke into the Dalit student’s home and hacked him with a sickle.

Siege on Manipur: Hindu Nationalists' War for Ethnic Supremacy (thewire.in)

Across India, experiments to forge the 'Hindu national community' are predicated on the breakage of minoritised Muslims and Christians, and Adivasis and Dalits. What's happening in Manipur is part of a plan operationalised by the Hindu Right decades ago.

World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events (apnews.com)

The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

China's state banks seen selling dollars for yuan in London and New York hours (www.reuters.com)

China’s major state-owned banks were seen busy selling U.S. dollars to buy yuan in both onshore and offshore spot foreign exchange markets this week, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, in an attempt to slow the yuan’s depreciation.

CBC: Sask. engineer slapped with an 18-month suspension after designing bridge that collapsed hours after opening (www.cbc.ca)

CBC: Yellowknife begins evacuation as wildfires approach (www.cbc.ca)

CabinRadio.ca: As it happened: All of Yellowknife told to evacuate (cabinradio.ca)

Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online. (www.nbcnews.com)

A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.