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Videos Show Russia Is Lying About Secret Attack on its Ship (www.thedailybeast.com)

Governments plan more fossil fuel production despite climate pledges, report says (apnews.com)

Despite frequent and devastating heat waves, droughts, floods and fire, major fossil fuel-producing countries still plan to extract more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with the Paris climate accord’s goal for limiting global temperature rise, according to a United Nations-backed study...

One of Putin's guards who denounced the war and fled Russia says he's being pursued even in South America (www.businessinsider.com)

The Global South is the epicenter of poor air quality, which suffocates and kills the most vulnerable (english.elpais.com)

Internet Shutdown Means Manipur Is Burning in the Dark (www.wired.co.uk)

Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova 'dies of starvation' after decade of only eating raw fruit and vegetables (news.sky.com)

What countries will heat up the most in a 2°-warmer world: the need for air conditioning will skyrocket, with Africa and Europe hit hardest. (arstechnica.com)

Israel says no exceptions to Gaza siege unless hostages freed (www.reuters.com)

Dalit woman raped, filmed, forced to eat beef by two Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh, after being lured by friend (www.indiatoday.in)

Part of China's economic miracle was a mirage. Reality check is next (www.reuters.com)

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first major reform plans a decade ago were also his boldest, envisaging a transition to a Western-style free market economy driven by services and consumption by 2020....

Festivalgoers, children, soldiers: What we know about the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas (edition.cnn.com)

Shani Louk, a German-Israeli national, was among festivalgoers who had gathered in farmland near the Gaza-Israel border for what was supposed to be an all-night dance party celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot....

After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot (www.abc.net.au)

Brazil launches biggest ever operation against illegal cattle farms in Amazon (www.theguardian.com)

The Brazilian government has launched its biggest ever operation to remove thousands of cows owned by illegal land grabbers from indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest....

BBC News - Luis Rubiales: Spanish FA will take legal action over Jennifer Hermoso 'lies' (www.bbc.co.uk)

Quebec judge gives go-ahead for lawsuit over sterilisation of Indigenous women (www.theguardian.com)

Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach (BBC News) (www.bbc.com)

Tourist who allegedly carved names into Rome’s Colosseum says he didn’t know the ‘antiquity of the monument’ | CNN (www.cnn.com)

The tourist who was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum late last month has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office, his defense lawyer told CNN on Thursday....

Sydney police plan to use ‘extraordinary’ powers to search pro-Palestinian protesters and demand ID (www.theguardian.com)

Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists (www.cnn.com)

A top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation, rekindling a heated debate about the role of the world’s lingua franca in the country’s education system after years of rising nationalist sentiment under leader Xi Jinping....

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