Brazilian President Lula to undergo hip surgery, will work from home for 3 weeks (apnews.com)
India suspends visa services in Canada as diplomatic fight grows (www.cbc.ca)
Colombian government and rebels agree on ceasefire (www.dw.com)
China's Xi likely to skip G20 summit in India (www.reuters.com)
Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to skip a summit of G20 leaders in India next week, sources familiar with the matter in India and China told Reuters....
What is life like inside the world’s largest refugee camp? (www.aljazeera.com)
It is monsoon season in Bangladesh. Every year from June to October, heavy rainfall befalls the country. For one million Rohingya refugees housed near the base of the country’s spine, there is little defence against the elements - natural or manmade....
Firefighters battle smoke and heat to control a major wildfire in Spain’s tourist island of Tenerife (english.elpais.com)
From a different source in Spanish, updated yesterday: eldiario.es/…/tenerife-no-descansa-espera-lluvia-…...
China Evergrande seeks Chapter 15 protection in Manhattan bankruptcy court (www.reuters.com)
China Evergrande, which is the world’s most heavily indebted property developer and became the poster child for China’s property crisis, on Thursday filed for protection from creditors in a U.S. bankruptcy court.
Hawaii wildfires: Six deaths confirmed as blazes engulf Maui (www.bbc.com)
In 2020, Maui had a population of 168,307, the third-highest of the Hawaiian Islands
Taliban Prepare Suicide Bombers in Water Dispute With Iran (time.com)
Locals hold party to “celebrate” 10th birthday of unused road bridge in Warsaw (notesfrompoland.com)
Two pilots were killed when their Canadair CL-215 plane crashed on the island of Evia, east of Athens, the air force said. It gave their ages as 34 and 27. (www.cbc.ca)
A Canadian-built plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed on Tuesday, as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned of tough days ahead, with blazes destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands of tourists from the island of Rhodes....
India, Manipur genocide : The Many Inversions of Justice and Accountability in Manipur (thewire.in)
The authorities who chose not to act despite knowing about the horrors in Manipur too are guilty, but who will hold them to account?
Chinese cities brace for floods as heat scorches inland regions (www.reuters.com)
U.N. Security Council schedules a vote on a resolution urging humanitarian pauses, corridors in Gaza (apnews.com)
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Sri Lanka agrees to send 10,000 farm workers to Israel (en.globes.co.il)
Ukraine says it is ready to repel Russia's offensive actions in Bakhmut (www.reuters.com)
Police ‘stopped pro-Israel rally in Golders Green due to safety fears’ (www.standard.co.uk)
India conducts space flight test ahead of planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025 (www.politico.com)
India successfully carried out Saturday the first of a series of key test flights after overcoming a technical glitch ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space by 2025, the space agency said.
UN chief calls on Israel to open aid ‘lifeline’ for Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Ukraine displays recovered artifacts it says were stolen by Russians (apnews.com)
Israel plans to sever links with Gaza after three-phase war (www.ft.com)
In the most explicit comments yet on the government’s strategy, defence minister Yoav Gallant told the Knesset foreign and defence committee that Israel would no longer have “responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip” once the war was over.
Paris 2024 Olympics headquarters, event management firms raided (www.reuters.com)
Undiplomatic impunity: Chinese embassy leaves New Zealand landlord with $900 bill (www.theguardian.com)
Man accused of Finland psychotherapy hack charged with 21,000 counts of extortion (www.theguardian.com)
Erdogan tells Palestinians to ‘stop harassment’ of Israelis (english.alarabiya.net)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday told Palestinians to “stop their harassment” of Israelis and for both sides to respect the rules of war, as fighting raged in Gaza....