Accused CIA Rapist to Use Ghislaine Maxwell Playbook at Trial (www.thedailybeast.com)
Zelenskyy’s corruption crackdown plan raises cover-up fears (www.politico.eu)
By equating corruption to treason, Zelenskyy’s office is manipulating the public’s desire for justice, said Vitaly Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center (Antac), a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization that monitors graft. In reality, Shabunin added, Zelenskyy’s office is pursuing other goals: to protect...
Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.
Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company (www.theguardian.com)
Facewatch uses cameras to check faces against a watch list and, despite widespread concern over the technology, it has already been introduced in hundreds of high street shops and supermarkets....
Japan tells citizens in China to lie low after Fukushima release (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Japan has told its citizens living in China to keep a low profile, including talking quietly in public, after Beijing blasted Tokyo for releasing treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Nobel Foundation cancels invitations to Russia, Belarus, Iran after backlash (ptv-news.com.pk)
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....
Demolitions as Tools of 'Collective Punishment': Examining Instances in India and Israel (thewire.in)
When a house is demolished due to the illegal activities of one of its inhabitants, all the other residents bear the repercussions of those actions. This practice is referred to as 'collective punishment'.
Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin (www.bbc.com)
Russia’s diplomats were once a key part of President Putin’s foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed....
US Republican senator praises UK Labour’s ‘Reaganesque’ policy (www.politico.eu)
Many Mobile Rice Threshers to Be Sent to Farms in DPRK (www.kcna.kp)
Hello, everyone. I felt we could all use a bit of mundane news. Today, North Korea finished producing dozens of rice threshing machines. 👍
Niger and the Sahel are Pushing Back Against Insecurity, Exploitation, and France (peoplesdispatch.org)
Berliners rave against the motorway as extension threatens 20 cultural venues (www.bbc.com)
Clubbers hold street party protesting against plan to flatten 20 venues in path of ring road extension
As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home (apnews.com)
Earlier this year, 13-year-old Mohammed Zalabani boarded a bus at an Israeli army checkpoint in the Shuafat refugee camp and lunged at an Israeli police officer with a kitchen knife.
UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed (www.essexlive.news)
The cable will run from the 49.9MW Willows Green Solar Farm near Felsted will the built mainly under roads for 5.3km east of the proposed solar farm to Braintree Substation near Galleys Corner....
Two Chinese citizens among 4 killed in attack on DRC gold convoy (www.aljazeera.com)
South Kivu province is the theatre of attacks staged by armed groups and there has been violence between locals and Chinese mining firms....
Russia’s African coup strategy - Microsoft Threat Analysis Center shares report on Russian influence operations in Africa, focusing on the Niger coup (blogs.microsoft.com)
Groundwater depletion rates in India could triple in coming decades as climate warms, study shows (news.umich.edu)
China looking to car sales as it seeks to get economy back on track (www.scmp.com)
India launches Aditya-L1 solar observatory, its 1st-ever sun probe (www.space.com)
Fresh off its success at the moon, India is now headed for the sun....
Ukraine war: Putin influencers profiting from war propaganda (www.bbc.com)
Alongside a daily ration of gruesome videos of drone strikes and false claims about Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, they share ads for anything from cryptocurrency to fashion....
Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway (www.reuters.com)
Israel: Police clash with Eritrean asylum seekers (www.bbc.com)
Russia labels Nobel-winning journalist 'foreign agent' (www.reuters.com)
Russian authorities on Friday designated Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov as a "foreign agent," a move often aimed at critics of Kremlin policies.