Israel Approves thousands of illegal Building Permits in Palestinian West Bank (www.juancole.com)
Anger in Italy as tourist filmed carving names into the Colosseum (news.sky.com)
Over 85 settler attacks recorded in West Bank under one week (www.middleeasteye.net)
IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits (www.imf.org)
El Salvador's president is running for reelection, though critics say the constitution prohibits him (apnews.com)
New images show Chinese spy balloons over Asia (www.bbc.com)
Hezbollah says it downed Israeli drone in southern Lebanon (www.aljazeera.com)
Syrian survivors of enforced disappearance call on UN for justice (www.aljazeera.com)
Germany offers to station 4,000 troops in Lithuania to strengthen NATO's eastern flank (apnews.com)
Early vote count for Guatemala's presidential election indicates second round ahead (apnews.com)
Russian special services threatened families of Wagner chiefs until they retreated from Moscow (www.pravda.com.ua)
Sources of British special services have reported that the Russian secret services threatened to hurt the families of chiefs of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) before Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner and leader of the Wagner PMC, stopped his offensive on Moscow.
Thousands of North Koreans march in anti-US rallies as country marks Korean War anniversary (apnews.com)
Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria (apnews.com)
Chile's 'worst weather front' in a decade floods towns (video) (www.youtube.com)
New Zealand PM sparks row after flying to China with backup plane (www.theguardian.com)
Australia’s High Court dismisses Russia’s bid for injunction to halt its embassy’s eviction (apnews.com)
'It's getting cheaper': Drug use disorders increasing globally (www.euronews.com)
India’s protesting wrestlers to take sexual abuse fight to court (www.aljazeera.com)
Britons’ earlier deaths linked to NHS underinvestment – study (www.theguardian.com)
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Riders plunge from a derailed roller-coaster in Sweden, killing one and injuring several others (www.ctvnews.ca)
Netflix Reportedly Tells Harry and Meghan What They Must Deliver for $50 Million (www.thedailybeast.com)
McManus: Blinken tries to fix floor under U.S.-China relations (www.latimes.com)
When Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken went to Beijing last week to try to repair the frayed relationship between the United States and China, both sides kept expectations low....