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The West is buying Russian oil above the price ceiling (www.bloomberg.com)

Amid Multi-Prong Hollywood Strike, Netflix Refuses To Meet With Korean Actors Union (www.themarysue.com)

Netflix’s actors are not being paid in accordance with the success of the content they’ve provided—which is not exactly surprising.

"The Magician" Riad Salameh and the plundering of Lebanon (on.ft.com)

In June 2021, as Lebanon was in the throes of a debilitating financial crisis, the country’s central bank governor touched down at Paris’s Le Bourget airport by private jet, where customs officials found him carrying large amounts of undeclared cash....

Suspected Palestinian shooting attack at West Bank car wash kills 2 Israelis (apnews.com)

The two dead are father and son. Its suspected that the shooting were masked by the noise of the car wash machine

Tunisian Authorities Arrest Bakers' Union Chief as Bread Crisis Continues (peoplesdispatch.org)

Prosecutor General's Office: 502 Ukrainian children killed by Russia's all-out war, more than 1,100 injured (kyivindependent.com)

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France Reportedly Thinks US Backstabbed It During Nuland’s Trip to Niger (orinocotribune.com)

India, China, and Iran set up pavilions at Army 2023 in Moscow (www.thehindu.com)

Moscow Сourt Orders Sakharov Center's Dissolution - The Moscow Times (www.themoscowtimes.com)

A Russian court has ordered the closure of the Sakharov Center, one of the country’s oldest human rights groups, Interfax reported Friday....

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.

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.

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...