Brazil riots: First man tried for storming government buildings gets 17 years (www.bbc.com)
Schoolchildren in Russia will learn to handle rifles, operate UAVs (www.ukrinform.net)
Russian central bank jacks up interest rates to 12% at emergency meeting after ruble plunge (www.cnbc.com)
Russia’s central bank on Tuesday hiked interest rates by 350 basis points to 12% at an emergency meeting, as Moscow looks to halt a rapid depreciation of the country’s ruble currency....
Australian man and his dog survive months at sea eating raw fish and rainwater (www.independent.co.uk)
Doctors at Gaza’s biggest hospital say newborns are dying after facility goes ‘out of service’ (www.nbcnews.com)
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Pope removes conservative critic Joseph Strickland as bishop of Tyler, Texas (www.cbsnews.com)
“This is total war,” Matt wrote on social media. “Francis is a clear and present danger not only to Catholics the world over but also to the whole world itself.”...
Chinese ship's anchor caused damage to Baltic gas pipeline, Finland suggests (news.sky.com)
A Chinese container ship’s dislodged anchor caused damage to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, Finnish police believe....
Julian Assange to be made honorary citizen of Rome (www.reuters.com)
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U.S. declares 21 endangered species extinct
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A court in China sentences a famed Uyghur scholar to life in prison, foundation says (apnews.com)
Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts (www.bbc.com)
China's animal lovers fight illegal cat meat trade (www.bangkokpost.com)
Iran arrests lawyer at funeral of girl who died after metro incident (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza under blackout as Israel reports 'good progress' in war against Hamas (www.reuters.com)
9 UN staffers killed in airstrikes in Gaza (thehill.com)
Pilot dies after plane crashes during gender reveal party in Mexico (edition.cnn.com)
Alan Francisco Rangel of the Sinaloa Red Cross told CNN that paramedics treated the pilot at the crash site in San Pedro, Navolato and then took him to a local hospital, where he died.
Cheng Lei: Journalist held in China says she misses sunshine (www.bbc.com)
Academic body invalidates superconductor research results (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
US accuses China of pattern of ‘dangerous’ air force manoeuvres against military planes (www.theguardian.com)
Pentagon cites more than 180 incidents of aggression against US aircraft over the East and South China seas...
Russia’s Avdiivka offensive is failing, says top Ukrainian officer (www.theguardian.com)
A top Ukrainian commander has claimed that Russia’s biggest offensive in months – involving tanks, thousands of soldiers and armoured vehicles in an attack on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka – is failing, as he admitted Kyiv’s own attempts to advance in the south were proving “difficult”....
'They're just meat': Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin (www.reuters.com)
Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts....
Iran rounds up activists and relatives of killed protesters ahead of Mahsa Amini anniversary (edition.cnn.com)
Japan says seawater radioactivity below limits near Fukushima (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors....
DNA database to be used to crack down on dog faeces in French town (www.theguardian.com)
Israel raids Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital, urges Hamas to surrender (www.reuters.com)
