More than 60 people arrested at a gay wedding in southern Nigeria (www.aljazeera.com)
Arrests of gay people are common in Nigeria where gay marriage is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
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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.
Brother of prominent Saudi scholar sentenced to death over tweets (www.middleeasteye.net)
Tweets made from anonymous account with nine followers, focused on unemployment, inflation, mismanagement of resources, release of political prisoners.
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US shouldn’t preach morality to Israel, Smotrich says, backing Ben-Gvir (www.jpost.com)
The United States is in no position to go after Israel on human rights issues given how its army acted in Iraq and Afghanistan, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) said.
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New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour (www.sustainableplastics.com)
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Caste matters : Dalit student attacked by caste Hindu students for laughing inside bus in Tamil Nadu, India (www.thenewsminute.com)
In another case of caste-based violence among school students in Tamil Nadu, more than 20 caste Hindu students belonging to the Urali Gounder community attacked a Dalit student and his grandmother in Karur district on Saturday, August 26, for laughing inside a bus....
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Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
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Caste matters : California Assembly passes anti-caste Bill, soon to make it official state law (www.thenewsminute.com)
In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With...
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Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police (www.theguardian.com)
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Exclusive: First Ugandan charged with 'aggravated homosexuality' punishable by death (www.reuters.com)
A 20-year-old man has become the first Ugandan to be charged with "aggravated homosexuality", an offence punishable by death under the country's recently enacted anti-gay law, prosecutors and his lawyer said.
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Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis (www.cnn.com)
Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....
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Toyota halts operations at most Japan assembly plants due to system failure (www.reuters.com)
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Greece battles Europe's deadliest fire of the summer for 10th day (www.reuters.com)
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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.
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Turkish-Dutch Corendon Airlines testing an ‘Only Adults’ zone (www.usatoday.com)
Corendon Airlines is testing the “Only Adult” zones on flights between Amsterdam and Curaçao starting in November....
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U.S. government hits Bankman-Fried and attorneys with 4 million pages of discovery. His lawyers argue that the government is overwhelming their client, without allowing him to prepare for court. (cryptoslate.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2935925...
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OP ED: China’s Fast and Cheap Nuclear Gives Its Climate Ambitions a Boost (archive.is)
… a steady construction pipeline helps […]. Equipment and component makers can standardize production when they know there will be demand for their specialized goods year after year, and more experienced construction crews can avoid costly delays. […] And, of course, China’s one-party system has proven more adept than...
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Environmental Leaders From 185 Countries Launch Biodiversity Protection Fund (www.ecowatch.com)
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China's economy in crisis, on the brink of collapse? (www.lemonde.fr)
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Pakistan court drops Imran Khan's sedition case, ruling on graft appeal due Tuesday (www.reuters.com)
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China to increase investments in Myanmar with 3 Free-Trade Zones on Burma-China Border (www.irrawaddy.com)
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Pope Francis Praises Historical Russian Imperialism Amid War in Ukraine (www.wsj.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/5780512...
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China says will back Bangladesh against ‘external interference’ (www.thehindu.com)
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‘Technical issue” is causing a major disruption to UK flights (www.theverge.com)
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