'Unconscionable': Prosecution of Arundhati Roy Sanctioned Under Indian Anti-Terror Law | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan, kills in 48 hours (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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Kotak’s CEO says Indians should work 84 hours a week (hellobanker.in)
Brazil brings 112 athletes to BRICS Games in Kazan, Russia (www.gov.br)
For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight (www.cbc.ca)
Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military’s ranks as the war enters...
Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’ (www.theguardian.com)
Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and devastate life as we know it. His new book, What If Fungi Win?, charts how we might overcome the rising threat....
Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A disease caused by a rare tissue-damaging bacteria is spreading in Japan after the country relaxed COVID-era restrictions....
Singapore rushes to clean-up oil slick after boat hits stationary fuel supply ship (apnews.com)
UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog (www.autoblog.com)
Georgia's ruling party proposes LGBTQ+ "propaganda" law that compares homosexuality to incest (www.lgbtqnation.com)
A Hungarian Rapper’s Bandwagon Gets an Unlikely New Rider [Orban] (www.nytimes.com)
As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas (www.nytimes.com)
Despite government support, ex-convicts involved in 2019 Hong Kong protests struggle to reintegrate (www.channelnewsasia.com)
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White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world (www.theguardian.com)
Kremlin bots spam internet with fake celebrity quotes against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Russian bots with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15....
US unveils $1.5B in new energy, humanitarian aid for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Dutch tourist found dead, two Americans and two French tourists missing in Greece (www.independent.co.uk)
In Snap Election, French Left Forms Alliance To Counter Far Right and Neoliberals (www.commondreams.org)
'Our Leaders Are Not Leading': Groups Decry Yet Another G7 Climate Failure (www.commondreams.org)
ICC must be allowed to carry out work ‘without intimidation’, say 93 member states (www.theguardian.com)
The international criminal court must be allowed to carry out its work “without intimidation”, a group of 93 states has said in a significant public intervention intended to reinforce support for the judicial body....
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Who is the IDF general who ordered tank fire on a kibbutz home with 13 hostages inside? (www.haaretz.com)
Until she was taken out of the house, Porat identified nine living hostages. She wasn’t a witness to the close-range shooting of any of the hostages, or to any of them being hit in the exchange of fire. “I didn’t see anyone execute anyone,” she says. “I didn’t see a body.” That is compatible with what Hadas Dagan...