Cuba’s female boxers dream of Olympic glory after ban lifted (www.aljazeera.com)
Cuban women fight to make name for themselves in the world of boxing that was, until very recently, only open to men....
Chile launches push to find people disappeared in Pinochet era (www.aljazeera.com)
National Search Plan aims to locate remains of people who were forcibly disappeared during post-coup authoritarian rule....
MIT Technology Review: Here’s what we know about hurricanes and climate change (www.technologyreview.com)
Storms are becoming more likely to stall in one place, dumping more rain on concentrated areas, as Hurricane Harvey did in Houston in 2017....
Saudi Arabian fund buys stake in PFL mixed martial arts league (www.aljazeera.com)
A company formed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has acquired a minority stake in the United States’ Professional Fighters League (PFL) and will create a regional tournament as the kingdom’s sports investment push expands into mixed martial arts (MMA)....
India’s communications ‘backdoor’ attracts surveillance companies. Little-known Israeli groups emerge as key providers of tracking equipment installed at subsea cable stations. (www.ft.com)
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China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles (www.bloomberg.com)
China’s Semiconductor Ambitions Fuel European Brain Drain (www.bloomberg.com)
BRICS MATERIALS: the flourishing intra-BRICS oil trade (bne.eu)
Addition of KSA, UAE, Iran means share has doubled to 42% of crude oil output in 2022. "Saudi pricing oil exports to China and India in non-dollar currencies does not spell the end of the dollar as the international currency of choice,” says ING. Trade within bloc makes trade hard to sanction by West.
Spain set gold standard amid cheers for the players and boos for the coach [10 day old context for the Hermoso/Rubiales dispute] (archive.ph)
I haven’t seen a lot about the background to this dispute, so I thought people might be interested. This was published soon after the final, before the forcible kiss became a scandal.
China says will back Bangladesh against ‘external interference’ (www.thehindu.com)
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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.
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Nicaragua and China advance in procedures for beef exports (jpmas.com.ni)
Vietnam, Philippines and Brunei to join cross-border QR payment scheme (asia.nikkei.com)
CodeLlama-34B - the First Open-Source Model Beating GPT-4 on HumanEvals
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3879861...
‘You must all die’: The Myanmar military’s war on Sagaing Catholics (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
George Jackson’s unfinished revolution (therealnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1898561...
A Year after the Assassination of its Leaders, South Africa's Abahlali baseMjondolo Continues to Advance (peoplesdispatch.org)
MPs Call for Former Guantanamo Detainee Ravil Mingazov to be Reunited with His Family in the UK (www.thecanary.co)
Singapore Called On to Stop Feeding Myanmar Junta’s War Machine (www.irrawaddy.com)
African Union preparing for inter-Sudanese dialogue - Dabanga Radio TV Online (www.dabangasudan.org)
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Four Myanmar junta soldiers extorting money killed in Moywa Town (www.mizzima.com)
Atlantic Ocean sees record burst of tropical storms (www.axios.com)
The cork holding back the Atlantic Ocean's tropical storm activity popped off this week, with a record set for the most tropical storms to form so quickly.