Growth hormone treatment for children spiking in Korea (m.koreaherald.com)
Azerbaijan launches operation against Nagorno-Karabakh and demands surrender (www.bbc.com)
Azerbaijan has said its military measures in Nagorno-Karabakh are continuing for a second day, having launched what it calls “anti-terror” operations in the enclave....
Guyana Is World’s Most Booming Economy — And Is Set to Grow 38% This Year (www.bloomberg.com)
Guyana’s economy will expand 38% this year as a wave of oil wealth transforms the South American nation, the International Monetary Fund said Monday....
Big Pharma's Johnson & Johnson under investigation in South Africa over 'excessive' drug prices (apnews.com)
Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter gets 17 years for role in riot (www.dw.com)
Johannesburg building fire kills at least 73 people, many believed to be homeless (www.cbc.ca)
Sanctioned Russian Chemical Tanker Damaged By UAF Drones Near The Kerch Bridge In Crimea (euroweeklynews.com)
BBC News - US limits Hungarian visa rights over security risk (www.bbc.co.uk)
Putin says Russia does not reject talks with Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
July 29 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that an African initiative could be a basis for peace in Ukraine but that Ukrainian attacks made it hard to realise....
Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman (www.bbc.com)
A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly was a man or woman has been solved....
Afghanistan: Children are the main victims of unexploded and abandoned weapons - Afghanistan (reliefweb.int)
Zelensky says safety rules ‘violated’ in Ukrainian military ceremony hit by deadly Russian strike (www.cnn.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said safety rules had been “violated,” leaving soldiers and civilians exposed to a deadly Russian missile strike on a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, which he described as “a tragedy that could have been avoided.”...
UN: Thousands in Gaza break into warehouses in search of aid (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Former U.S. Rep Amash says relatives killed in Gaza church air strike (www.reuters.com)
Israel flattens Gaza district, hits Orthodox church as invasion looms (www.reuters.com)
Italy PM Giorgia Meloni splits from partner after off-air lewd TV remarks (www.bbc.com)
Western leaders accused of hypocrisy over response to Palestine, Ukraine (www.aljazeera.com)
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Putin suggests a new narrative for Prigozhin’s deadly plane crash: cocaine and grenades. (www.nytimes.com)
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia claimed on Thursday that the warlord Yevgeny V. Prigozhin and his associates may have brought down their private jet with hand grenades while possibly under the influence of cocaine — a new narrative from the Kremlin about the August plane crash widely seen as an assassination carried out...
Pakistan police bust organ trafficking ring that took kidneys from hundreds (www.bbc.com)
Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive (www.washingtonpost.com)
Facebook has retreated from its professed ideals in India under pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
Turkey's central bank hikes interest rate to 30% (www.cnbc.com)
Five Americans freed in prisoner swap with Iran, official says (www.nbcnews.com)
Staged videos fuel religious hate and misogyny in India (www.bbc.com)
Ukrainian Tank Losses Diminish As Polish Technicians Save More And More Damaged Leopard 2s (www.forbes.com)
If Kyiv’s allies can fix up every Western tank that analysts have counted as damaged, Leopard 2 losses might total … three.
