Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years (apnews.com)
China to increase investments in Myanmar with 3 Free-Trade Zones on Burma-China Border (www.irrawaddy.com)
China’s summer of climate destruction (www.bbc.com)
China sees both extreme heat and devastating floods, including in areas where flooding was unheard of.
The mobile game funding a revolution in Myanmar (www.bbc.co.uk)
China says will back Bangladesh against ‘external interference’ (www.thehindu.com)
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A rice shortage is sending prices soaring across the world. And things could get worse (apnews.com)
Countries worldwide are scrambling to secure rice after a partial ban on exports by India cut global supplies by roughly a fifth.
‘Orphaned by decree’: Italy’s same-sex parents react to losing their rights (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing PM Giorgia Meloni has demanded councils register only biological parents on birth certificates, leaving partners in legal limbo
Papua New Guinea to open Israel embassy in Jerusalem (www.aljazeera.com)
Pacific island nation to join handful of countries operating from city whose status is at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
Cambodia: US, Turkish, Saudi Arabian, Chinese and Cambodian nationals sent to court for storming of Siem Reap dental clinic (www.khmertimeskh.com)
11 people connected with the armed storming of a Siem Reap dentis's last week to free a foreign heroin smuggler have been sent to court in Phnom Penh
Caste matters : The caste of a chair (scroll.in)
How oppressive upper castes in an Inidan state's local government (Tamil Nadu’s panchayats) use chairs and the protocols surrounding them to discriminate against Dalit women presidents.
Sevilla stars wear t-shirts in solidarity as Iniesta joins support of Jenni Hermoso (talksport.com)
Putin breaks silence on Wagner boss Prigozhin, presumed dead in plane crash (youtu.be)
Russian president Vladimir Putin breaks his silence on the plane crash a day earlier that reportedly killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior...
Latvia PM: Let EU countries with no colonial past lead diplomacy with BRICS+ (www.politico.eu)
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WORLD LARGEST ONLINEB2BMARKETPLACE BEST BUSINESS WHOLESALE SUPPLIERS (bit.ly)
Norway: World’s biggest floating wind farm will power oil and gas platforms (www.euronews.com)
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Chinese activist who mocked Xi Jinping flees to South Korea on jet ski, arrested (www.indiatoday.in)
Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter (arstechnica.com)
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Caste matters : Family alleges harassment by teachers after Dalit boy found dead in Rajasthan school (www.thehindu.com)
Family of the boy in Rajasthan says he was harassed by two of his teachers who used casteist slurs against him and that the school principal did not take action even after complaints
Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup (www.bbc.com)
Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.
Dollar dumped? India just bought 1 million barrels of oil from the UAE using rupees instead of USD for the first time — why this could mean doom for the greenback (finance.yahoo.com)
Dutch Supreme Court confirms immunity of former Israeli officers over a deadly 2014 Gaza airstrike (apnews.com)
China bans seafood from Japan as Fukushima nuclear plant releases treated wastewater into ocean (www.euronews.com)
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As Japan releases Fukushima wastewater into the ocean, Pacific Islanders are reminded of a never-ending nuclear legacy (grist.org)
Indigenous communities worry the decision will compound existing health disparities....