Kadyrov, head of Chechnya, in critical condition (newsukraine.rbc.ua)
Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of meth, U.N. says (www.nbcnews.com)
Possibility of arrest grows for Bolsonaro over jewellery scandal (www.theguardian.com)
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.
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...
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)
‘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....
US says it is talking to Israel about safe passage for Gaza civilians (www.reuters.com)
The United States is talking to Israeli officials and others about the idea of a safe passage for Gaza civilians after Israel’s air strikes following a deadly Hamas attack over the weekend, the U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday....