Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog (www.autoblog.com)
Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A disease caused by a rare tissue-damaging bacteria is spreading in Japan after the country relaxed COVID-era restrictions....
Georgia's ruling party proposes LGBTQ+ "propaganda" law that compares homosexuality to incest (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’ (www.theguardian.com)
Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and devastate life as we know it. His new book, What If Fungi Win?, charts how we might overcome the rising threat....
Kremlin bots spam internet with fake celebrity quotes against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Russian bots with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15....
In Snap Election, French Left Forms Alliance To Counter Far Right and Neoliberals (www.commondreams.org)
UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief (www.theguardian.com)
For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight (www.cbc.ca)
Ukraine has recently dropped the conscription age from 27 to 25, increased fines for draft dodgers to half the average monthly wage and ordered embassies to stop renewing passports for Ukrainian men living abroad. All of this is part of an effort to get them to return home — and bolster the military’s ranks as the war enters...
Brazil brings 112 athletes to BRICS Games in Kazan, Russia (www.gov.br)
Singapore rushes to clean-up oil slick after boat hits stationary fuel supply ship (apnews.com)
Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba (www.cbc.ca)
The Royal Canadian Navy now finds itself in the unusual position of both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean and sharing an anchorage with them as a guest in the port of Havana — because Canada accepted an invitation to send a patrol ship to Cuba while the Russian navy is in town....
As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas (www.nytimes.com)
A Hungarian Rapper’s Bandwagon Gets an Unlikely New Rider [Orban] (www.nytimes.com)
'Our Leaders Are Not Leading': Groups Decry Yet Another G7 Climate Failure (www.commondreams.org)
Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill in Two Days Spreads in Japan (www.bloomberg.com)
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Seoul Says North Korea Sent Almost 5 Million Artillery Shells to Russia (www.kyivpost.com)
Global concern rises over bird flu as experts warn of potential human pandemic (www.irishstar.com)
Dutch tourist found dead, two Americans and two French tourists missing in Greece (www.independent.co.uk)
ICC must be allowed to carry out work ‘without intimidation’, say 93 member states (www.theguardian.com)
The international criminal court must be allowed to carry out its work “without intimidation”, a group of 93 states has said in a significant public intervention intended to reinforce support for the judicial body....
US unveils $1.5B in new energy, humanitarian aid for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Despite government support, ex-convicts involved in 2019 Hong Kong protests struggle to reintegrate (www.channelnewsasia.com)
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White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world (www.theguardian.com)
The Dutchman who gets Nike and Lego into wartime Russia’s stores (www.reuters.com)
93 Nations Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges for War Crimes in Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
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Who is the IDF general who ordered tank fire on a kibbutz home with 13 hostages inside? (www.haaretz.com)
Until she was taken out of the house, Porat identified nine living hostages. She wasn’t a witness to the close-range shooting of any of the hostages, or to any of them being hit in the exchange of fire. “I didn’t see anyone execute anyone,” she says. “I didn’t see a body.” That is compatible with what Hadas Dagan...
