Security Service and Armed Forces of Ukraine attack secret Russian headquarters in Melitopol (www.pravda.com.ua)
Spain hailstorm destroys nearly $43 million worth of crops as it hits nearly 100% of some farmers' harvests (www.cbsnews.com)
Chinese Police Detain Some Staff of Evergrande Wealth Unit (news.yahoo.com)
Brazil’s Lula backtracks on Putin arrest safety at Rio G20 (www.aljazeera.com)
Colombian President proposes Latin American alliance to transform 'war on drugs' (www.reuters.com)
Bogus Supplier of Jet-Engine Parts May Have Faked Employees Too (www.bloomberg.com)
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join the BRICS economic bloc (apnews.com)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six countries that will join the BRICS bloc of developing economies as new members from 2024, South Africa’s president said Thursday....
Ex-medical chief Jonathan Van-Tam takes job with Covid vaccine giant Moderna. Move may spark fresh questions over ‘revolving door’ between government and business. (www.independent.co.uk)
A plan for how Indonesia will spend $20 billion to transition to cleaner energy has been submitted (apnews.com)
New Zealand intelligence report accuses China, Russia, Iran of ‘foreign interference’ (www.theguardian.com)
‘It was his birthday’: Muslim lynched over suspicion of beef in western India (www.aljazeera.com)
Afan Abdul Ansari dies and companion Nasir Hussain battles for his life after attack by cow vigilantes in Maharashtra.
Content Warning: Images of dead birds. Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America (www.theguardian.com)
Millions of wild birds may have died from bird flu globally in the latest outbreak, researchers have said, as the viral disease ravages South America, with 200,000 deaths recorded in Peru alone....
South Korean dogs rescued from the meat trade brought to Montreal (montreal.citynews.ca)
Indonesians join peaceful rally in solidarity with Palestine (www.straitstimes.com)
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Kazakhstan welcomes France's Macron under Moscow's disapproving gaze (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Chinese developer Country Garden says it can't meet debt payment deadlines after sales slump (apnews.com)
Hezbollah Praises Hamas Attack, Warns Against Normalizing Ties With Israel (www.wsj.com)
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which like Palestinian militant groups also vows Israel’s destruction, praised the operation by Hamas inside Israel, according to Arab media. Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said it served as a warning against recognising Israel....
Nagorno-Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians will leave for Armenia, leadership says (www.reuters.com)
El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing (apnews.com)
Beijing says it now has capacity to build Taiwan rail link from Chinese mainland (www.scmp.com)
Crimean Bridge 2 : Highspeed Electric Boogaloo...
‘Huge’ coral bleaching unfolding across the Americas prompts fears of global tragedy (www.theguardian.com)
Xi's Losing Bet on Putin Is Backfiring (thehill.com)
Brazilian president's former lawyer takes seat as Supreme Court justice (apnews.com)
He helped Lula overturn a graft conviction stemming from Brazil’s sprawling “Car Wash” corruption investigation, getting him freed after 580 days of incarceration. The Supreme Court annulled all convictions of Lula, and ruled in 2021 that the judge overseeing the case had been biased. That allowed Lula to run successfuly...
Skepticism prevails as Chinese leaders promise to back private businesses to spur slowing economy (apnews.com)
Home sales are 30-40% below last year’s depressed level after the economy barely grew in the latest quarter, according to the owner, who would give only his surname, Cai. He has cut staff by 80% to 40 employees. Their income from sales commissions has fallen as much as 90%....
Seven Cuban athletes defect to Chile after Pan American Games (english.elpais.com)
According to sport journalist Francys Romero, 61 Cubans have broken their contracts or defected so far this year...
