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Chinese air force incursions into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone week of September 11-18, 2023 (pbs.twimg.com)

Russia’s LGBTQ+ community unites amid Kremlin crackdown (www.euronews.com)

Surveillance and the threat of imprisonment: Euronews spoke to Russian queer activists who have chosen to stay in the country, despite increasing hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community

In Risky Hunt for Secrets, U.S. and China Expand Global Spy Operations (www.nytimes.com)

The nations are taking bold steps in the espionage shadow war to try to collect intelligence on leadership thinking and military capabilities.

Tories and Local Governments Refuse To Approve More Homes (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)

‘Everything is tired here’: gloom spreads through German manufacturing (www.ft.com)

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Death and disappearance of British volunteers in Ukraine exposes rivalry in foreign legion. Comrades fear two men may have been killed not by Russians but by fellow foreign soldiers. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years (www.economist.com)

As the sun dipped on July 3rd, the fighting in a refugee camp in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, entered its second night. Ambulances ferried the injured through makeshift roadblocks, flaming tyres pumped a toxic black smoke into the air, and drones hummed faintly overhead. Israel’s army has carried out its largest raid on a...

Thailand's Pita quits as leader of election-winning party after failed PM bid (www.reuters.com)

‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000 (www.theguardian.com)

Amazon Deforestation Down 66% From Last July in Lula's Brazil (www.ecowatch.com)

Spanish FA president Rubiales resigns over Hermoso kiss (www.bbc.co.uk)

Kishida attack suspect accused of attempted murder (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Officers in Wakayama Prefecture believe that suspect Ryuji Kimura, 24, intended to harm the prime minister and others with his homemade explosive.

This is what Earth's hottest summer on record looks like (www.sbs.com.au)

Graphs show the dire reality of spiking temperatures around the world, in what is quickly shaping up to be Earth's hottest year since records began.

UN envoy links temporary foreign worker program in Canada to slavery (www.cbc.ca)

Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)

Historically, the disaster restoration industry was made up of smaller, independent businesses handling local projects. But after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, private equity firms saw an opportunity to consolidate the market by buying up smaller companies, and some estimates value the US restoration industry as high as $200bn.

Johnny Kitagawa: J-pop agency boss resigns over predator's abuse (www.bbc.com)

Julie Fujishima admits for the first time that rampant sexual abuse took place in her uncle's agency.

Armenia to exercise with US troops next week in sign of frustration with Russia (www.reuters.com)

Osaka frets over World Expo failure amid slow pavilion construction (mainichi.jp)

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Concerns are growing among the organizers of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka that the event may flop due to the slower-than-antici

Jordan shoots down drug-laden drone from Syria in ninth incident this year (www.aljazeera.com)

The military says a drone carrying crystal meth is intercepted after crossing the country’s border with Syria....

Amid anticorruption purge, Ukraine set to appoint Muslim defence chief (www.aljazeera.com)

Rustem Umerov is from the Muslim Tatar community in Crimea that largely resisted Russia’s 2014 annexation.

Natural Gas Stands To Win As Offshore Wind Takes A Hit | OilPrice.com (oilprice.com)

In filings submitted to the New York state regulatory authority, other prominent offshore wind developers, such as Norway’s energy major Equinor and British oil major BP, have officially requested a staggering 54% increase in the price of electricity generated at three planned offshore wind farms....

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