Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are ‘designed to fail’, say insiders (www.theguardian.com)
Africa's white rhino population rebounds for 1st time in a decade, new figures show (abcnews.go.com)
Brazil's president calls U.S. economic embargo on Cuba 'illegal,' condemns terrorist list label (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine says it has identified a Russian commander accused of Bucha atrocities (www.cnn.com)
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on (apnews.com)
Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change....
US caver who became trapped 1,000 metres deep in Turkey is moved halfway to surface (www.reuters.com)
Tech firms fail to tackle Russian propaganda - EU (www.bbc.com)
US Vetoes Resolution Calling for ‘Humanitarian Pause’ (www.truthdig.com)
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China says US military aid to Taiwan will not deter its will to unify the island (apnews.com)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores....
Hundreds of flights across Italy are canceled amid air transport strike at peak of tourism season (abcnews.go.com)
ROME – Hundreds of flights across Italy were canceled Saturday, forcing travelers at the peak of tourist season to make alternate plans, after air transport unions went ahead with a planned work stoppage two days following a train strike that paralyzed rail service....
Gaza becomes ‘a graveyard for children’ as Israel intensifies airstrikes (www.washingtonpost.com)
Russia arrests mathematician on terrorism charges minutes after his release from prison (abcnews.go.com)
In very rare move, Pope dismisses conservative US bishop Strickland (www.reuters.com)
Several more people arrested over a far-right German plot to launch a coup and kidnap a minister (apnews.com)
Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high (english.elpais.com)
Decades of mercury exposure has been linked to the high youth suicide rates in an Indigenous community in Canada (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers who studied three generations of mothers and their children from the community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario, have concluded that sustained exposure to the toxic metal helped cause a suicide rate three times higher than any other First Nations community – which are already far higher than among the country’s general...
Aftermath images from the Gaza hospital explosion are 'inconsistent' with an Israeli airstrike, former UN war crimes investigator says (www.businessinsider.com)
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.
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....
