Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire as Israeli soldiers battle Hamas on second day of surprise attack (apnews.com)
Spanish FA president Rubiales resigns over Hermoso kiss (www.bbc.co.uk)
UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed (www.essexlive.news)
The cable will run from the 49.9MW Willows Green Solar Farm near Felsted will the built mainly under roads for 5.3km east of the proposed solar farm to Braintree Substation near Galleys Corner....
Texas Guardsmen spied on migrants via WhatsApp, mishandled secret docs (www.armytimes.com)
Pentagon: No info to support missile strike theory for Prigozhin crash (www.reuters.com)
Births in China could fall to 7 million in 2023 (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
Serbian coal miners uncover Roman ship (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/999267...
From extreme heat to deadly storms, Europe has no rest from ‘summer of hell’ (www.politico.eu)
France Descends into Authoritarianism Following Protests (scheerpost.com)
Three killed, Chinese consulate damaged in Russian attack on Ukraine's port cities (www.reuters.com)
TSMC plans to build second Arizona chip plant for 3nm process (www.fierceelectronics.com)
Columbia Suspends Pro-Palestine Student Groups Amid Crackdown on Free Speech (truthout.org)
“No one should participate in any Columbia events until SJP and JVP are reinstated,” one civil rights attorney wrote....
"As Long as Palestine is Occupied, No Country is Free" (peoplesdispatch.org)
‘Pervasive and relentless’ racism on the rise in Europe, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
The survey of 6,752 people of African descent in 13 countries – Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden – found 45% had experienced racial discrimination, an increase of six percentage points from 39% in 2016.
Biden and Aides Advise Israel to Avoid Widening War With Hezbollah Strike (www.nytimes.com)
Seymour Hersh: The Plan to Wipe Out Hamas [hard paywall] (seymourhersh.substack.com)
TL;DR: Flatten the buildings and then use upgraded American bunker buster bombs, which may or may not be able to penetrate deep enough. And then ultimately, “The Israeli hope is that Qatar and Egypt will take the refugee crisis off its hands.”...
Defense stocks jump as war rages between Israel and Hamas (markets.businessinsider.com)
China ridicules Taiwan's defence goals as island unveils new submarine (www.abc.net.au)
The submarines will use a combat system by US defence company Lockheed Martin Corp and carry US-made torpedoes....
Armenians will leave Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region amid fear of ethnic cleansing (www.cnbc.com)
Russia is Preparing the Next Generation to Die for Their Country (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Iran's women a year after Mahsa Amini's death: 'I wear what I like now' (www.bbc.com)
Iran's protests may have subsided, but women have found new ways to defy the country's regime.
Australian lawmakers head to US to lobby against efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Assange (apnews.com)
The Dangerous Convergence of Religious Nationalism in Israel and America (wagingnonviolence.org)
People around the world got really into feeding birds during the pandemic (www.popsci.com)
Countries with higher species of bird diversity saw the biggest jump in searches for proper wild bird feeding.
World Passes Highest Average Global Temperature Recorded (www.ecowatch.com)
