Drone shows people trapped in Pakistan cable car (www.bbc.com)
This is very scary and yet they have to do this in their daily commute to school.
The Kremlin won't admit how many soldiers have died in Ukraine, but researchers have now identified 30,000 dead Russians by name (www.businessinsider.com)
Baltic states seek to decouple grid from Russia (www.dw.com)
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are seeking to disconnect from an energy grid network shared with Russia and Belarus by early 2025. Vilnius is pushing from an earlier exit from the grid, which Tallin opposes.
Ukraine updates: Putin warns Poland not to attack Belarus (www.dw.com)
After Poland reacted to the arrival of Wagner mercenary troops to Belarus by moving some of its troops to its eastern border, Russia’s Vladimir Putin accused Warsaw of trying to seize more land in eastern Europe....
Hamas built a mock Israeli town in Gaza and practiced its attack in plain sight — but Israel didn't react, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Hamas duped Israel into thinking it cared more about economic stability than a war, Reuters said....
Armenia’s parliament defies Russia in vote to join international criminal court (www.theguardian.com)
Moscow criticises ‘inappropriate’ decision that would oblige former ally to arrest Putin if he visits...
Kuwait to distribute 100,000 copies of Quran in Sweden after Muslim holy book desecrated at one-man protest (www.cbsnews.com)
Kuwait announced this week that it will print thousands of copies of the Quran in Swedish to be distributed in the Nordic country, calling it an effort to educate the Swedish people on Islamic “values of coexistence.” The plan was announced after the desecration of a Quran during a one-man anti-Islam protest that Swedish...
70 hours/week with 1 day off must become norm: Congress MP backs Narayana Murthy (www.hindustantimes.com)
Israeli Cabinet said slated to okay police use of live fire against protesters blocking roads during multi-front war (www.timesofisrael.com)
Israel-Palestine war: Rising Gaza football star and father killed in Israeli strike (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Ukraine’s American-Made M39 Missiles May Have Wrecked 21 Russian Helicopters In A Single Operation (www.forbes.com)
The damage from Ukraine’s first-ever strike with American-supplied M39 missiles, targeting a pair of helicopter bases in Russian-occupied southern and eastern Ukraine, likely resulted in greater damage than even the Ukrainian defense ministry initially claimed....
China is hoarding the world's gold (www.newsweek.com)
Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing (www.theguardian.com)
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Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of ‘something big’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
Zelensky: Israel has ‘indisputable’ right to defend itself from terror (www.timesofisrael.com)
Ukraine’s Jewish president says world must stand united against terror as Hamas launches deadly surprise assault...
Polish opposition head Donald Tusk leads march to boost chances to unseat conservatives in election (apnews.com)
Opposition leader Donald Tusk told supporters that political “change for the better is inevitable” in Poland as he opened a massive march Sunday to try to boost his political coalition’s chances of unseating the country’s conservative government in an upcoming parliamentary election....
Doctors in England told not to start new patients on ADHD drugs due to shortage (www.theguardian.com)
Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild (www.theguardian.com)
Putin pulls out of South Africa summit amid arrest threat (www.newsweek.com)
‘Plastic air pollution’: Microplastics in clouds could be exacerbating climate change, study says (www.euronews.com)
The presence of tiny plastics in clouds risks the contamination of ‘everything we eat and drink’, researchers say....
Sweeping study finds 1,000 cases of sexual abuse in Swiss Catholic Church since 1950 (www.swissinfo.ch)
Workers stage Japan's first strike in decades over department store sale (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine says it liberates strategic southeastern settlement (www.reuters.com)
Russian anti-war TV protest journalist given 8+ years in prison (www.politico.eu)
Marina Ovsyannikova, a former Russian state TV editor turned Kremlin critic, has been sentenced in absentia to eight and a half years in prison by a Moscow court....
‘Russian-only’ businesses in Thailand’s Phuket spark backlash (www.aljazeera.com)
A huge influx of Russians in Phuket is producing a backlash from locals, amid complaints of a booming Russian-only economy that covers everything from hair salons to taxi firms....
