India and China agree to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of troops on their disputed border (apnews.com)
NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff, India’s government said....
A Russian man accused of staging a car bombing on Ukrainian orders has been arrested (apnews.com)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top security agency said Friday that it arrested a man accused of staging a car bombing on Ukrainian orders....
Exclusive: China's Iranian crude imports find new market in northeast (www.reuters.com)
A year has passed since Niger’s dramatic coup. Life has become more dangerous and desperate (apnews.com)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — When a group of military officers appeared on state television in Niger one year ago to make a dramatic announcement of a coup, they said they deposed the West African nation’s elected government for two key reasons: its security, and economic crises....
Franco-Swiss Basel-Mulhouse airport evacuated after bomb alert - French police (www.reuters.com)
Search for people missing after Ethiopia mudslides continues as death toll rises to 257 (apnews.com)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Search teams were still digging at the site of deadly mudslides in southern Ethiopia on Friday, as the death toll rose to 257, according to the U.N. humanitarian office....
Venezuelan voters face crucial choice: Reelect Maduro or give opposition a chance after 25 years (apnews.com)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to reelect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to undo the ruling party’s policies that caused economic collapse and forced...
Philippines plans to siphon off oil cargo from sunken tanker to avert ‘environmental catastrophe’ (apnews.com)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — There is no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak, the Philippine coast guard said Friday, and plans are being firmed up to try to siphon off the highly toxic shipment to prevent a major spill that could...
2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The former prisoners of war still puzzle over the strange events leading up to the night now seared into their memories, when an explosion ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks and killed so many comrades two years ago....
A mysterious pile of bones could hold evidence of Japanese war crimes, activists say (apnews.com)
TOKYO (AP) — Depending on who you ask, the bones that have been sitting in a Tokyo repository for decades could be either leftovers from early 20th century anatomy classes, or the unburied and unidentified victims of one of the country’s most notorious war crimes....
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Philippines 'prepares for worst' after oil spill (www.bbc.com)
The Philippine Coast Guard has deployed floating barriers and started to clean up an oil spill to prevent it from reaching the capital, Manila....
French rail lines disrupted by ‘coordinated sabotage’ ahead of Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony (www.cnn.com)
France's rail network hit by 'huge arson attack' ahead of Olympics opening ceremony (www.standard.co.uk)
Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza's ranks of thousands of orphans (apnews.com)
The 2-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her little body riddled with scars from shrapnel. She squirmed, her breath heaving, as doctors examined her and the tube in her chest....
‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war (www.theguardian.com)
Passports recovered from battlefields in Sudan suggest the United Arab Emirates is covertly putting boots on the ground in the country’s devastating civil war, according to leaked documents....
China issues rare praise to Philippine president for his ban on Chinese online gambling operators (apnews.com)
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Sri Lanka will hold presidential election on Sept. 21, its first since declaring bankruptcy in 2022 (apnews.com)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Sept. 21 that will likely be a test of confidence in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis....
Israeli Snipers Firing at 'Anyone Who Is Moving' in Khan Younis (www.commondreams.org)
Kamala Harris says ‘I will not be silent’ on suffering in Gaza after Netanyahu talks (www.theguardian.com)
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa cartel, arrested in Texas, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)
The leader and co-founder of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cartel, along with a son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were arrested Thursday by the FBI, federal authorities announced....
Chinese and Russian bombers patrolling off Alaska raise concerns about growing military cooperation (apnews.com)
Australia imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers and youth group over violent attacks on Palestinians (www.theguardian.com)
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[Original article in Spanish] 33 Medical Aspirants Reportedly Cheated on Admission Exam in Querétaro (www.nmas.com.mx)
The authorities of the Autonomous University of Querétaro are investigating the results of 33 applicants to the Faculty of Medicine who obtained one hundred percent correct answers in an exam, which made them suspicious and they began to investigate.