Burger King faces legal claim saying Whopper is too small (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Voice referendum: Australia to hold historic Indigenous vote in October (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Army officers say they are taking power in Gabon (www.bbc.co.uk)
China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles (www.bloomberg.com)
Germany agrees 32 bln euro tax cuts to give economy 'big boost' (www.reuters.com)
‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery (www.theguardian.com)
Woman complained of forgetfulness and depression before doctors pulled out an 8cm roundworm normally found in pythons
Sports leagues ask US for “instantaneous” DMCA takedowns and website blocking (arstechnica.com)
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Cybersecurity experts say the west has failed to learn lessons from Ukraine (arstechnica.com)
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Rolling out the Green Deal will be 'challenging,' warns Maroš Šefčovič, the EU's new climate czar (www.euronews.com)
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Von der Leyen proposes Wopke Hoekstra as EU Commissioner for climate action (www.euronews.com)
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U.S. Knew Saudis Were Killing African Migrants but Kept Silent - The New York Times | Ghostarchive (ghostarchive.org)
The United States was told last year that Saudi security forces were shooting, shelling and abusing groups of migrants, but it chose not to raise the issue publicly....
Bosnia and Herzegovina elections undemocratic, amplify ethnic divisions - Human Rights Court (www.euronews.com)
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Poland asks EU Court of Justice to cancel three EU climate policies (www.euronews.com)
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The big turnaround: how Europe's gas prices fell from €300 to €35 MWh in the span of a year (www.euronews.com)
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Mass Protests Against French Troops Intensify in Niger as the Deadline for their Withdrawal Approaches (peoplesdispatch.org)
New footage disproves Spanish FA president's World Cup kiss claims (metro.co.uk)
China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles (www.bloomberg.com)
China’s Semiconductor Ambitions Fuel European Brain Drain (www.bloomberg.com)
Unease Over New Zealand Overtures to US in Pacific (consortiumnews.com)
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.
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.
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.
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour (www.sustainableplastics.com)
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....
