Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along (www.mintpressnews.com)
Row over restaurant ‘wealth screening’ boils over in French resort of St-Tropez (www.theguardian.com)
The Nice Matin newspaper quoted unnamed insiders as saying that some restaurants in St-Tropez, a favoured summer haunt of celebrities and the international jet set for more than half a century, had taken to checking customers’ names against their database and refusing reservations if a previous visit was not felt to have...
Pakistan president denies approving laws giving military more power (www.bbc.com)
How Ukraine is exploiting Biden’s cluster bomb gamble (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Progressive Luisa González and Millionaire Daniel Noboa Head to Run Off Elections in Ecuador (peoplesdispatch.org)
India: Christians Attacked and Bible Torn in Church Attack in Delhi During Sunday Service (thewire.in)
A 100-strong mob surrounded the police station in Delhi’s GTB Nagar for several hours and raised provocative slogans as the pastor and injured persons reached to file their complaint.
North Korea's Kim directs cruise missile test as South Korea, US begin drills (www.reuters.com)
Peruvian De Facto Minister of Defense Travels to DC Solidifying US Militarization of Country (blackagendareport.com)
"The Magician" Riad Salameh and the plundering of Lebanon (on.ft.com)
In June 2021, as Lebanon was in the throes of a debilitating financial crisis, the country’s central bank governor touched down at Paris’s Le Bourget airport by private jet, where customs officials found him carrying large amounts of undeclared cash....
Rail whistleblowers fired for voicing safety concerns despite efforts to end practice of retaliation (apnews.com)
207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death (unseen-japan.com)
A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.
U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal (www.washingtonpost.com)
Monday briefing: Are the vanished British Museum relics the tip of the iceberg? (www.theguardian.com) Japanese
In today’s newsletter: As police in the UK launch an investigation into what happened to missing artefacts, an art detective explains why such thefts are so difficult to prevent
Record number of teachers quit for mental health reasons in 2021 (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Education ministry officials say long working hours is one of the factors behind the rise.
Ukraine’s sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood. The government is worried. (www.economist.com)
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Mozambique's Health System is in Turmoil (peoplesdispatch.org)
Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans (www.newsweek.com)
Anticorruption Crusader Presidential Candidate Wins Runoff Election in Guatemala, in Rebuke to Establishment (archive.ph)
Canadian oil company’s extraction pump and dump scam highlights criminal resource extraction in Namibia (www.thecanadafiles.com)
Niger: We’ll Hand Over In 3 Years – General Tchiani - Daily Trust (dailytrust.com)
Porn Is Illegal in Ukraine But That Might Be About to Change (www.kyivpost.com)
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Signs at Spanish beaches warn English-speaking tourists to stay away (www.independent.co.uk)
The threat of rock falls, water contamination and jellyfish have been used to deter visitors from Mallorcan beaches
Shark nets to return to NSW beaches despite calls from councils to abolish practice (www.theguardian.com)
Environmentalists say nets’ bycatch unacceptable but premier Chris Minns says alternative technologies not as good a replacement
Israeli police arrest and brand Palestinian with ‘Star of David’: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
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