French privacy chief warns against using facial recognition for 2024 Olympics (www.politico.eu)
Dramatic fossil shows pugnacious mammal attacking a dinosaur (www.reuters.com)
ICC ruling opens way to investigation on killings in Philippines (www.reuters.com)
12-year-old girl killed by junta artillery near Magway-Chin border [Myanmar] (myanmar-now.org)
Mormonism: A deep state intelligence network posing as a religion (lemm.ee)
Mormonism is the fastest growing religion in terms of adherents and the fortune. Despite all the scandals about Mormonism (polygamy, pedophilia, anti-LGBT community, drug trafficking, financial abuse …), it is still on the rise and continues to draw in more followers. However, documents have unraveled the mystique of Mormonism...
North Korea: US soldier held after crossing demilitarized zone (BBC News) (www.bbc.com)
Social media riot shutdowns possible under EU content law, top official says (www.politico.eu)
“If they don’t act immediately, we’ll be able to ban the operation [of the platforms] on our territory.” Nineteen very large online platforms will have to comply to limit the spread of illegal and harmful content.
Spain antitrust watchdog fines Amazon, Apple $218 million (www.reuters.com)
Wagner: Satellite images reveal Belarus camp arrival (www.bbc.co.uk)
Qin Gang: China's 'missing' foreign minister sparks guessing game (www.bbc.co.uk)
US government adds two more spyware makers to deny list (techcrunch.com)
UK presses ahead with cuts to troop numbers (www.politico.eu)
USAID chief visits Odesa, unveils $250m for Ukrainian farmers (www.reuters.com)
Spain election: Trans youths' families fear for rights under a right-wing government (www.reuters.com)
Wildfire burns forests north of Athens, other blazes tamed (www.reuters.com)
Former Spanish king seeks to throw out ex-lover's UK harassment case (www.reuters.com)
MEPs blast European Commission for signing deal with Tunisia's 'cruel dictator' (www.euronews.com)
First US nuclear sub docks in South Korea since 1981 (www.bbc.co.uk)
Colombian rescuers search for children after river burst its banks (www.bbc.co.uk)
Tourist deluge, heatwave lay bare Italy's taxi shortage (www.reuters.com)
It's Official, Say NOAA and NASA: This June Was the Hottest Ever Recorded on Earth (www.commondreams.org)
NASA called the soaring heat "part of a pattern of increasing global temperatures, as a result of human activities, mainly carbon dioxide emissions."
Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say (www.houstonchronicle.com)
WASHINGTON — Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the...