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Last ship leaves Ukraine port ahead of Black Sea grain-deal deadline (www.reuters.com)

The last ship to travel under a U.N.-brokered deal that allows the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain left the port of Odesa early on Sunday ahead of a deadline to extend the agreement, according to a Reuters witness and MarineTraffic.com....

Iraqi PM Sudani, Syria's Assad hold talks on security, water in Damascus (www.reuters.com)

BAGHDAD, July 16 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Sunday in the first such visit by an Iraqi premier since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011....

Living in ‘an oven’: Heatwave grips displacement camps in Syria (www.aljazeera.com)

“We live as if we are inside an oven, struggling to breathe due to the heat inside the tent. If it weren’t for the water we sprinkle on the tent, we would have died from the intense heat,” Dandoush told Al Jazeera on Saturday.

China, Russia to start joint air and sea drill in Sea of Japan (www.reuters.com)

BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) - A Chinese naval flotilla set off on Sunday to join Russian naval and air forces in the Sea of Japan in an exercise aimed at “safeguarding the security of strategic waterways”, according to China’s defence ministry....

Thousands evacuated as Spanish island wildfire out of control (www.reuters.com)

July 16 (Reuters) - At least 4,000 people have been evacuated as a forest fire burned out of control on the Spanish island of La Palma, authorities said on Sunday, as Europe struggled to cope with a heatwave....

Adam Posen: ‘Russia and North Korea worked hard to be self-sufficient, it has not turned out well for them’ (archive.is)

The Netherlands short 390.000 homes in 2023 (www.iamexpat.nl)

Namibian Workers Protest ‘Slave Labor’ At Shop Rite (popularresistance.org)

Shoprite Holdings, the largest supermarket retail chain in Africa, is under fire from workers organizing against grueling work conditions. The current surge in organizing follows the suicide of Shoprite worker Fabiola Zondjembo, a Walvis Bay woman who ended her life by drowning after enduring constant abuse at her job. For...

Europe’s lurch to the far-right, and its influence on UK Conservatives (leftfootforward.org)

With its general election just a week away, fears are mounting that the hard-right Vox party could form part of the national government. The win would embolden far-right parties that have been thriving across Europe. The UK cannot afford to be complacent about the rise of the protectionist far-right that’s taking shape all...

Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue is down 50% and cash flow is negative (www.cnn.com)

Russian parliament bans gender reassignment surgery for trans people (www.bbc.com)

South Korea flood: Rescuers battle to reach cars in submerged Cheongju tunnel (www.bbc.co.uk)

‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f (www.theguardian.com)

Wagner mercenaries have arrived in Belarus, Ukraine confirms (www.bbc.com)

Zelenskyy blasts ‘absurd’ draft text that hedges on Ukraine’s NATO membership timeline (www.politico.eu)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday denounced NATO negotiators for balking at offering Kyiv a concrete path to joining NATO in a draft communiqué being hammered out at an alliance summit.