In China’s Clothing Markets, a Battle Over the Future of Livestreaming (www.sixthtone.com)
Russia got richer even as the war in Ukraine raged on last year, while the West shed trillions of dollars of wealth (www.businessinsider.com)
Canada wildfire: all 20,000 Yellowknife residents evacuating (www.reuters.com)
Water bombers flew low over Yellowknife as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories. Officials say the fire, which is moving slowly, is now 15 km (10 miles) northwest of the city and could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain....
Germany U-turns on commitment to meet NATO spending target annually (www.politico.eu)
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Burger King follows McDonald's in cutting tomatoes from its India menu (www.cnn.com)
Tomatoes are off the menu in India as Burger King becomes the latest fast food chain to be impacted by rising prices of the culinary staple.
Hundreds riot in Israel, demand settler detained for murdering Palestinian teenager freed. (www.timesofisrael.com)
Yehiel Indore, the man in question, was released to house arrest two days ago.
Russia's Game-Changer: Producing Shahed Drones Internally! | russia ukraine war (youtu.be)
🚀 Russia’s Game-Changer: Producing Shahed Drones Internally! 🚀...
The Hard Reality: Ukraine’s Last-Gasp Offensive Has Failed (www.19fortyfive.com)
Mexico Demands Texas Remove Floating Barrier of Buoys with Saw Blades in Rio Grande (www.democracynow.org)
U.S. sanctions 4 Russian operatives for 2020 poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny (www.cbsnews.com)
The US Treasury Department identified the sanctioned operatives as Alexey Alexandrovich Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Vladimirovich Osipov and Vladimir Alexandrovich Panyaev. Three of the four have worked with a specialized laboratory run by the Russian security service known as the FSB Criminalistics Institute. All...
Pakistan: Mob burns churches over blasphemy claims (www.bbc.co.uk)
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President Maduro Demands the Return of Citgo from the United States (popularresistance.org)
On Monday, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, demanded the return of the company Citgo, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), to the Government of the United States (US), after denouncing that it was stolen by that country....
Caste matters: in India Dalit Student Attacked for Studying Well, Anti-Caste Groups Ring Alarm (www.newsclick.in)
A group of high school students broke into the Dalit student’s home and hacked him with a sickle.
South Korea's low fertility won't slow down housing prices in time (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
Radioactive material found as Australian border force raid Sydney home (www.bbc.co.uk)
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US approves landmark missile defence deal between Israel and Germany (www.aljazeera.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than...
Malaysia air crash: Deaths feared as plane hits motorway (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Tenerife wildfires lead to evacuation of villages (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Nato official suggests Ukraine could give up land in exchange for membership (www.theguardian.com)
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Siege on Manipur: Hindu Nationalists' War for Ethnic Supremacy (thewire.in)
Across India, experiments to forge the 'Hindu national community' are predicated on the breakage of minoritised Muslims and Christians, and Adivasis and Dalits. What's happening in Manipur is part of a plan operationalised by the Hindu Right decades ago.
With a simple question, Ukrainians probe mental health at a time of war (www.npr.org)
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EU to reach winter gas storage target months ahead of new deadline (www.euronews.com)
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16 Aug : President Zelensky Ukraine will stand firm and emerge victorious (youtu.be)
held a meeting of the Staff today. Frontline issues that are currently important. Defense issues that are strategically important. The commanders reported on the situation in the eastern and southern directions. The Commander-in-Chief and the Ministry of Defense spoke about munitions. Deputy Prime Minister Fedorov and the State...
Sweden raises terrorist alert level after Koran burnings (www.reuters.com)
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