Poland finds leak on one part of Druzhba oil pipeline from Russia to Europe (www.reuters.com)
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The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent, who view flexible work as equivalent to an 8% raise (www.businessinsider.com)
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Services resume after over 1,000 trapped in train near Tokyo (mainichi.jp)
YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Services resumed Sunday after over 1,000 passengers were trapped for nearly two hours in a train Saturday night near Tokyo, with some complaining of heatstroke and hyperventilation after it crashed into a power pole that had fallen onto the tracks, local authorities said.
Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Kim Jong Un tells North Korea arms factories to boost capacity -KCNA (www.reuters.com)
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Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills if users treated unfairly by bosses (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Philippines accuses China of firing water cannon at boats in South China Sea (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Typhoon Doksuri: Alarming pictures show floods in China, Philippines (www.bbc.co.uk)
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The Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Donald Trump social media post flagged by prosecutors in court filing (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Missing Mexican woman Maria Fernanda Sanchez found dead in Germany (www.reuters.com)
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Italian fugitive caught in Corfu thanks to photo celebrating football win (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Slovenia prime minister estimates flood damage at over €500M (www.politico.eu)
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Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace (www.chemistryworld.com)
Two dead, 57 rescued from migrant shipwrecks off Italy's Lampedusa (www.reuters.com)
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Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly" (www.reuters.com)
TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".
Japanese life expectancy falls in 2022 for 2nd straight year - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.
The remarkable recovery of Syria's earthquake baby (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Niger Coup: Nigerian Senate rejects Tinubu's troop deployment plan, urges political solution (www.premiumtimesng.com)
Pfizer and the Australian Senate (rumble.com)
Museveni, Kenyatta discuss DR Congo security crisis (www.newtimes.co.rw)
The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)
The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a "doom loop" for the world's poorest people, as staple food prices soar.
Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children’. It’s Already Spinning Out of Control. (pressprogress.ca)
The ‘Save the Children Convoy’ is struggling as organizers accuse one another of being ‘undercover cops’ or planning ‘violence’ and ‘terrorism’
President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage (www.washingtonpost.com)
This is an opinion piece by the democratically elected president of Niger.
Niger’s junta asks for help from Russian group Wagner as it faces military intervention threat (apnews.com)
Niger’s new military junta has asked for help from the Russian mercenary group Wagner as the deadline nears for it to release the country’s ousted president or face possible military intervention by the West African regional bloc, according to an analyst....
