Singapore's baby bust: Record low births in 2023 deepen demographic crisis (www.population.news)
Mukuru dump: Kenya 'serial killer' arrested in Nairobi (www.bbc.com)
Kenyan police have arrested a man who they have described as a “serial killer” suspected to have been behind the gruesome murder of nine women whose mutilated bodies were found in a disused quarry used as a rubbish dump....
War has prevented 15m children being immunised against diseases, UN warns (www.theguardian.com)
Conflicts have hampered efforts to vaccinate children across the world, health leaders have warned, as new figures showed about 14.5 million children had not received a single immunisation dose....
Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers (www.theguardian.com)
The constant trauma (of the war) took its toll on Yasmeen Khuwaiter, who found out about her pregnancy two weeks before the war, and gave birth to triplets in April, two months before her due date....
From basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups create low-cost robots to fight Russia (apnews.com)
Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement....
Burkina Faso's military junta: 'Homosexuality will be punished by the law' (www.advocate.com)
German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign (www.theguardian.com)
A city in northern Germany has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silence in the classroom because of its close resemblance to a far-right Turkish gesture....
The West finally allowed Ukraine to strike back at Russia — and it seems to be working (www.cnn.com)
Bankir and his men have been trying to fight off Russian attacks along the Ukrainian front lines for more than two years. But it’s only now that they are finally able to strike where it hurts: Inside Russia’s own territory....
Kagame seeks fourth term as Rwandan president (www.bbc.com)
At Least 90 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Massacre in 'Safe Zone' of al-Mawasi (www.commondreams.org)
Brazilian Instagram influencer jailed for trafficking and slavery (www.bbc.com)
When two young Brazilian women were reported missing in September 2022, their families and the FBI launched a desperate search across the US to find them. All they knew was that they were living with wellness influencer Kat Torres....
The leader of Nepal's largest communist party has been named the country's new prime minister (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17994517
Kenya: Police face pressure over mutilated bodies in Nairobi (www.dw.com)
Mutilated and dismembered bodies were found in plastic bags at a dump site in the Mukuru slums of southern Nairobi. Preliminary investigations revealed that all the bodies were female....
EU to boycott Hungary’s foreign affairs summit (www.politico.eu)
Increasingly exasperated by Viktor Orbán’s obstruction of EU foreign policy, Brussels is contemplating an unprecedented step to boycott Hungary’s foreign affairs summit next month....
‘We now face guns’: Small-scale miners fear Wagner’s advances in CAR (www.aljazeera.com)
After President Faustin-Archange Touadera asked for help to deal with rebel groups in CAR in 2017, Russia’s Wagner Group arrived....
Ukraine Is Targeting Crimea, a Critical Base for Russia’s Invasion (www.nytimes.com)
Ukraine, now armed with American-made precision missiles, is for the first time capable of reaching every corner of Crimea — and the missiles are increasingly flying in both directions....
Ukraine has right to strike military targets within Russian territory, Stoltenberg says (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine has the right under international law to attack military targets located in Russian territory, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during an interview on the United News telethon July 14....
At least 17 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza overnight, officials say (www.reuters.com)
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and 50 were wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza City in the early hours of Sunday morning, civil emergency and health officials said....
'I stood to be an MP at the general election while homeless' (www.bbc.com)
A man who stood for election to Parliament despite becoming homeless during his campaigning says he wants to help other people who fall on hard times....
China, Russia announce joint naval exercises (www.voanews.com)
China and Russia announced Friday that they are conducting joint naval exercises in the waters and airspace near Zhanjiang city in the south of China.
Treason and espionage cases are rising in Russia since the war in Ukraine began (apnews.com)
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Germany’s doner kebab becomes symbol of angst over rising costs (www.politico.eu)
“I can still remember when doner kebabs were sold for €3.50,” reminisced one teenager amid calls for a price brake to stop rising kebab costs....
Kenyan police find more female body parts at Nairobi garbage dump (www.theguardian.com)
Kenyan police said that they had found more bags filled with dismembered female body parts on Saturday, the latest macabre discovery at a rubbish dump that has horrified and angered the country....