As the Olympics loom, Paris's transport grid worries wheelchair users (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2138709...
Turkish-Dutch Corendon Airlines testing an ‘Only Adults’ zone (www.usatoday.com)
Corendon Airlines is testing the “Only Adult” zones on flights between Amsterdam and Curaçao starting in November....
Greece to launch drones, temperature sensors to better fight wildfires (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2142851...
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour (www.sustainableplastics.com)
Germany agrees corporate tax cuts to 'stimulate' economy – DW – 08/29/2023 (www.dw.com)
Xi Jinping Thought on Austerity With Chinese Characteristics (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
[Finland's] government coalition revealed the contents of its anti-racism statement -- in the wake of a summer of racism and far-right scandals [from the cabinet] (yle.fi)
Post title from the lead paragraph for better context. I prefer original ones but felt it missed the beat somewhat. Hope I didn’t add much bias....
Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) (www.youtube.com)
Texas Guardsmen spied on migrants via WhatsApp, mishandled secret docs (www.armytimes.com)
Nagorno-Karabakh: 'People are fainting queuing up for bread' (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2122033...
Wallace confirms resignation as UK defence minister in letter to PM Sunak (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2137339...
Former Afghan Guantanamo Prisoner Calls for Compensation (www.telesurenglish.net)
Mohammad Nasim has been suffering from psychological diseases since he was arrested by U.S. troops....
Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points To Kyiv (www.spiegel.de)
only a handful of investigators at most have been assigned to work on the Nord Stream case on a full-time basis....
The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service blocks [far-right minister] Purra's choice for media advisor role due to China links (yle.fi)
IL: Supo blocks Purra’s choice for media advisor role due to China links...
EU purchases of Russian LNG up 40% compared to pre-war levels, new study finds (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2121597...
South Korea’s war on unions has geopolitical implications (therealnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2120884...
At least 38 people have died in a fire in a building in South Africa's biggest city, authorities say (apnews.com)
U.S. government hits Bankman-Fried and attorneys with 4 million pages of discovery. His lawyers argue that the government is overwhelming their client, without allowing him to prepare for court. (cryptoslate.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2935925...
Caste matters : California Assembly passes anti-caste Bill, soon to make it official state law (www.thenewsminute.com)
In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With...
Egypt Planning To Drill 35 New Natural Gas Wells (menafn.com)
…the Nargis-1 exploration well […] holds about 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas…...
Exclusive: Russia will not probe Prigozhin plane crash under international rules (www.reuters.com)
Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules "at the moment."
Blue supermoon: World gazes at rare lunar phenomenon (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2122081...
How Germany's 'Reichsbürger' sovereign citizens movement became a threat to the state (www.abc.net.au)
Denmark plans jail term for burning Quran in public (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1898872...
Letter From the Haitian People to African Countries (popularresistance.org)
“None of the countries in the land of our ancestors (Africa) should be echoing the message of the former slave-holding colonial powers, who have become imperialist powers and are now actively engaged in the criminal project to destabilize Haiti by systematically sabotaging her sovereignty, and in which the US-UN occupation is...
