‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee (www.theguardian.com)
Honduran President Xiomara Castro rejects US interference and condemns coup plot (peoplesdispatch.org)
New allegations against MbS go unchallenged by the west (thecradle.co)
A former top Saudi intelligence official, Saad al-Jabri, accused MbS of forging his father King Salman’s signature to deploy ground troops to Yemen in 2015, and accused him of conspiring to murder former King Abdullah to make way for his father’s reign. These explosive claims were featured in the BBC documentary The Kingdom:...
The False Promise of Ukraine’s Deep Strikes Into Russia (www.foreignaffairs.com)
Germany withdraws troops from Niger (www.dw.com)
Taiwan's 3rd-largest political party head arrested over corruption scandal (www3.nhk.or.jp)
Desperate to save Pokrovsk, the Ukrainian National Guard has deployed one Of its few offensive brigades. But sending in the Kara-Dag Brigade hasn’t halted the Russian advance. (www.forbes.com)
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Labour ‘laser-focused’ on Israel trade deal amid ongoing genocide (www.declassifieduk.org)
Trade negotiations between the UK and Israel seek to establish a new bilateral agreement and have been ongoing since 2022. In the talks Reynolds is dealing with a minister in Tel Aviv, Nir Barkat, who is one of the more extreme proponents of Israel’s brutal war in Gaza....
