Niger coup: Decision time for West Africa as deadline nears (www.bbc.com)
Deadline is extended One option is for the Ecowas leaders to extend the deadline....
A feud between a patriarch and a militia leader adds to the woes of Iraqi Christians (apnews.com)
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Christians have struggled since the Nineveh plains, their historic homeland of rolling hills dotted with wheat and barley fields, were wrested back from Islamic State extremists six years ago....
South Korea stabbing and car-ramming injures 13 near Seoul (www.nbcnews.com)
India, Manipur genocide : From Manipur; A Peace Activist’s Account Of State Criminality & Culpability (article-14.com)
In this blow-by-blow account, peace activist Harsh Mander describes his journey to Manipur, where he met Meitei and Kuki families broken by three months of ethnic violence, life inside the camps where hundreds live in despair, unsure if they will ever return to their scorched villages, and the “extreme culpability” of a...
Workers at Grindr Announce Union with CWA (code-cwa.org)
The UFO Whistleblower Is Back With More Crazy Claims (nymag.com)
Some crazy stuff in here. I don’t think that’s how dimensions work.
North Korea's Kim shows off banned missiles to Russian minister (www.reuters.com)
SEOUL, July 27 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday, state media KCNA reported, giving him a tour of a defence expo featuring Pyongyang’s banned ballistic missiles as both sides pledged to boost ties....
North Korea's Kim gives Russia defence minister tour of arms expo (www.reuters.com)
SEOUL, July 27 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday, state media KCNA reported, giving him a tour of a defence expo featuring Pyongyang’s banned ballistic missiles as both sides pledged to boost ties....
Top Chinese diplomat proposes talks with Japan, South Korea - Kyodo (www.reuters.com)
TOKYO, July 23 (Reuters) - Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi proposed high-level talks between China, Japan and South Korea in a meeting with the Japanese foreign minister in Indonesia this month, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday....
France issues arrest warrant for Syria's President Assad - source (www.reuters.com)
Ex-USAID director in Gaza says it was well known Hamas used Shifa Hospital, traveled in ambulances (www.timesofisrael.com)
Rescuers drill to reach 40 workers in India tunnel collapse (www.reuters.com)
Poland's newly elected parliament meets for the first time (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Across the world compassion for migrants has given way to cruel proformance politics. (www.theguardian.com)
Wednesday, the UK supreme court will give its verdict on the Rwanda deportation scheme. The decision will clearly have a major impact on those who face deportation. It will have an impact, too, on the political debate about immigration, with government supporters either hailing a victory or bemoaning the treachery of the liberal...
Portuguese PM António Costa resigns over lithium deal probe (www.bbc.com)
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa says he has handed his resignation to the president, after investigators searched his official residence in an inquiry into alleged corruption....
India to alert Ottawa after Khalistani terrorist Pannun threatens to blow up Air India (www.theweek.in)
UN agency in Gaza says urgent cease-fire is a matter of life and death for millions of Palestinians (apnews.com)
Venezuela's top court suspends results of opposition presidential primary (www.reuters.com)
Terrorists killed in exchange of fire at Erez crossing; Jake Sullivan says Washington candid with Israel
A terrorist squad attacked troops at the Erez border crossing to Gaza, resulting in casualties. IDF expanded its operations in Gaza and engaged with Hezbollah in the north....
Elon Musk announces Starlink internet connectivity for Gaza aid organisations (www.businesstoday.in)
Hungary, Slovakia criticise more aid to Ukraine as EU fights over budget (www.reuters.com)
Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh ebbs as Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control (apnews.com)
The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh left the region Monday, completing a grueling weeklong exodus of over 100,000 people — more than 80% of its residents — after Azerbaijan reclaimed the area in a lightning military operation....
How should Australia respond to India’s ‘complicated, problematic’ democracy? (www.smh.com.au)
Labor MP Andrew Charlton, whose electorate has the nation’s biggest Indian diaspora community, says Australians should not be hung up on the superpower’s flaws.