China looking to car sales as it seeks to get economy back on track (www.scmp.com)
Israel: Police clash with Eritrean asylum seekers (www.bbc.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....
Storms:What Happened on the Viking Sky??#shorts (youtube.com)
Storms:What Happened on the Viking Sky?? Storms are the last thing anyone expects on a cruise vacation. What’s even worse is being stranded in the middle of a violent storm with no control over a massive cruise ship. This nightmare scenario became a reality for the passengers aboard the Viking Sky cruise ship. ✅ If you found...
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)
Myanmar’s Battle-Scarred Junta Replaces Five Security Ministers (www.irrawaddy.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.
China objects as US approves military aid to Taiwan under program aimed at sovereign nations (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/556545...
Norway: Equinor awards $369m oil and gas drilling contracts (www.ogv.energy)
To cut emissions from operations, Equinor says that both rigs have been revamped with energy-saving procedures and work methods....
Coalmine approvals in Australia this year could add 150m tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere (www.theguardian.com)
New coal mine? Approved.
Kazakhstan / Prime Minister Announces Plans For Referendum On Country’s First Nuclear Station (www.nucnet.org)
Kazahkstan Number One!
German Chancellor Scholz speaks out against new nuclear power (www.reuters.com)
Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo… then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?...
Singapore Presidential Election 2023: Tharman Shanmugaratnam in landslide 70.40% win (sg.news.yahoo.com)
DR Congo death toll rises to 43 in anti-UN protest (efe.com)
Kinshasa, Sep 1 (EFE).- At least 43 people were killed and 56 injured in protests against the UN peacekeeping mission this week in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government has said....
French security officers cleared over black man’s 2016 death in custody (www.france24.com)
French investigating magistrates have dropped their case against three gendarmes over the 2016 death of a young black man in custody that sparked violent protests, lawyers said Friday....
Workers stage Japan's first strike in decades over department store sale | Reuters | Ghostarchive (ghostarchive.org)
TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Workers at a major Tokyo department store went on strike on Thursday after talks with management over the planned sale of their company broke down, marking the first major walk-out the country has seen in decades....
The Countries That Helped Devastate Yemen Must Take Responsibility for Its Reconstruction (jacobin.com)
Russia Breaks Silence Over China Map Claiming Its Territory (www.newsweek.com)
Russia Breaks Silence Over China Map Claiming Its Territory...
'We Have to Act Fast': 2 Degrees of Warming Could Cause 1 Billion Deaths Over Next Century (www.ecowatch.com)
As Anniversary of Women’s Uprising Nears, Iran Cracks Down (www.nytimes.com)
The professor of artificial intelligence was a rising star at Iran’s elite Sharif University of Technology. He gained wider fame for his vocal support of the women-led uprising that rocked Iran last year. At one point, he refused to teach until Sharif students arrested in the government’s crackdown against protesters were...
At Russia's Doorsteps, B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Of US Air Force Performs Historic Hot Pit Refueling (www.eurasiantimes.com)
A US B-2 Spirit bomber recently carried out a historic hot pit refueling at Orland Air Base, Norway, marking the first landing of the stealth bomber in the Scandinavian nation....