Cyprus excludes new asylum seekers from resettlement scheme (www.reuters.com)
South Africa Inflation Lowest In 20 Months (markets.businessinsider.com)
(RTTNews) - South Africa’s consumer price inflation slowed for an eighth month in a row in June to its lowest level in nearly two years, preliminary data from Statistics South Africa showed Wednesday....
ICC ruling opens way to investigation on killings in Philippines (www.reuters.com)
Spanish presidency pitches new approach to tackle EU fiscal reform, hoping to ink a deal in autumn (www.euronews.com)
Iranian President Takes Another Tour to Consolidate South-South Cooperation, this Time to Africa (peoplesdispatch.org)
Foreign borrowers issue a record amount of yuan debt, helping internationalize China's currency (archive.is)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Should Keep Up the Pressure on Washington & Demand the Release of Julian Assange (covertactionmagazine.com)
Aussies have shown a double standard: they jumped to the defense of David Hicks, who was unjustly imprisoned and tortured at Guantanamo Bay but have only recently began tepidly standing up for Julian Assange years into his unjust incarceration for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes.
Myanmar crisis to top agenda at ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting (www.mizzima.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1358415...
Nick Corbishley: Is Peru About to Descend Into Another Wave of Political Violence, This Time With US Troops on the Ground? (www.nakedcapitalism.com)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/923915...
How the Taliban crushed the CIA's heroin bonanza in Afghanistan (new.thecradle.co)
The Taliban has not once, but twice eradicated Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation, the world’s largest source of heroin. Despite western accusations, it has never been The Taliban behind the Afghan drug industry, but only ever the US and its allies, with billions in profits breezily laundered through the global financial...
Washington Drops Drug Trafficking Charges Against Operation Gideon Commander (orinocotribune.com)
Bolivia taps China, Russia in bid to unlock huge lithium riches (www.aljazeera.com)
All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
National Research Foundation approved State of science: Where India lags (indianexpress.com)
Human Rights Watch reports new evidence of Ukrainian use of banned landmines (archive.today)
Greece migrant tragedy: Survivor accounts say coastguard towing attempt precipitated disaster (www.eureporter.co)
Backlash Against Weaponized Dollar Is Growing Across the World (archive.is)
The Supreme Court rejects Biden's plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt (apnews.com)
'I shot a 5-year-old': Ex-Wagner soldiers admit to killing children in Ukraine (www.euronews.com)
Two former fighters gave interviews to an exiled human rights activist who runs the website Gulagu.net, which reports on corruption and torture in Russia. Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev describe their actions in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, including executing 60 wounded prisoners, some of whom were Russian...
State actor involvement in Nord Stream pipeline attacks is 'main scenario', says Swedish investigator (www.reuters.com)
We Are Witnessing a Global De-Dollarisation Spree (internationalbanker.com)
Russia Ends Another of Ukraine's War Crimes - Fresh Water Flows Again to Crimea (www.reuters.com)
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments (archive.is)
Japan Firms Exit Taiwan Offshore Wind Projects, Deepening Industry Crisis (www.bloomberg.com)
This happened to a few offshore projects in America’s New England region as well. Maybe offshore wind isn’t as “cheap” as I thought it was.