Putin Won’t Attend BRICS Summit in Person, South Africa Says (www.bloomberg.com)
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UK apologizes to veterans for LGBT ban as damning review published (www.politico.eu)
[Houston Chronicle] U of H researchers find ruins of lost Maya city in Mexico jungle (www.chron.com)
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UN Human Rights Expert Calls for Immediate Close of Xinjiang Muslim Detention and Torture Facility (wapnews.org)
The North Atlantic just completely destroyed its June average temperature record (fediscience.org)
“The North Atlantic just completely destroyed its June average temperature record, breaking the previous record by more than 0.4 °C (0.7 °F)....
Police confirm search warrant in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing (www.cbc.ca)
Europe battles heatwave and fires, record temperatures scorch China (www.reuters.com)
Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai reformist leader who won election will not be PM (www.bbc.co.uk)
Korean Health & Medical Workers’ Union Achieves Breakthrough with General Strike (peoplesdispatch.org)
Chinese and Korean Talent Shine Bright in the 53rd International Physics Olympiad (eseawave.com)
Kevin Spacey accusers came forward to tell the truth, prosecutors tell London trial (www.reuters.com)
Palestine: Israeli settler attacks forcibly transfer Jerusalem community (www.nrc.no)
An Australian Regiment Is Yet To Answer for Abuses Committed in Afghanistan (newlinesmag.com)
Witness says commando killed prisoner to make room in helicopter. Commanders ordered junior officers to execute prisoners to register first “kill”. Soldier who leaked evidence of extrajudicial killing charged, possible life sentence. "We pin medals on serial killers.”
Turmoil in Thailand as rivals derail election winner's PM bid (www.reuters.com)
French MEPs score a win as Parliament agrees to rent €2M-a-year Strasbourg offices (www.politico.eu)
Israel condemns EU envoy's Gaza paragliding flight (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ukraine's farmers fear the worst after grain deal collapses (www.reuters.com)
Russia amasses 100,000 troops as it seeks breakthrough in Kharkiv region, Kyiv warns (www.politico.eu)
Wishma Sandamali: The siblings suing Japan over their sister's death (www.bbc.co.uk)
South Africa: Putin to miss BRICS summit by ‘mutual agreement’ (www.aljazeera.com)
The internationally wanted war criminal is not taking part in the Brics Summit
MI6 door ‘always open’ to Russian defectors, says UK spy chief Richard Moore (www.politico.eu)
Farage makes fresh allegations against UK's Coutts over account closures (www.reuters.com)
Scientists leave Japan for China, wooed by better teamwork, jobs (archive.is)
Pesticides: Public hearing with pesticide firms on toxicity studies (www.eureporter.co)
Exclusive: CEE countries to ask EU to extend Ukrainian grain import ban -minister (www.reuters.com)
