Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm (arstechnica.com)
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Russia halted a breakthrough wartime deal on Monday that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa and Asia where hunger is a growing threat (apnews.com)
Indigenous Voice: Australians reject historic Indigenous referendum - BBC News (bbc.in)
Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.
Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods under US federal inquiry over reports of illegal child labor (www.npr.org)
Cheng Lei: Journalist held in China says she misses sunshine (www.bbc.com)
UNICEF: 700 Palestinian children killed by Israel (www.mittelstand-brics.com)
Archaeologists in Zambia discover oldest wooden structure in the world, dating to 476,000 years ago (www.msn.com)
Archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence yet of a wooden structure crafted by the hands of a human ancestor. Two tree trunks, notched like Lincoln Logs, were preserved at the bottom of the Kalambo River in Zambia. If the logs’ estimated 476,000-year-old age is correct, it means that woodworking might predate the...
Japan tells citizens in China to lie low after Fukushima release (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Japan has told its citizens living in China to keep a low profile, including talking quietly in public, after Beijing blasted Tokyo for releasing treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Ex-medical chief Jonathan Van-Tam takes job with Covid vaccine giant Moderna. Move may spark fresh questions over ‘revolving door’ between government and business. (www.independent.co.uk)
Fruit is disappearing from Italian orchards due to extreme weather, farmers warn (www.euronews.com)
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Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly" (www.reuters.com)
TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".
Swedish embassy in Baghdad stormed, set alight over Koran burning (www.reuters.com)
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Afghanistan: Women protest against beauty salon closures (www.bbc.co.uk)
Greenland glaciers melt five times faster than 20 years ago (www.reuters.com)
Israeli attack hits medical convoy at Gaza hospital gate, officials say (www.aljazeera.com)
Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer (www.bbc.com)
Russia police crisis: Burned out, disappointed and demoralised (www.bbc.com)
Russia's police force is in crisis, with officers are quitting to become taxi-drivers and couriers.
Government should pay compensation for secretive Cold War-era testing, St. Louis victims say (apnews.com)
As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe they’re due compensation, too.
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
At least 150 killed, hundreds more feared dead as Storm Daniel sweeps Libya (www.aa.com.tr)
The head of the Red Crescent in Benghazi, Kais Fhakeri, has confirmed that Storm Daniel has killed at least 150 people dead in Derna, after water levels in the city rose as high as three metres (10 feet)....
Judge Acquits Two Palestine Action Protesters Who Shut Down a Drone Factory Because their Actions were 'Proportionate' (www.thecanary.co)
Argentinian Journalist and Activist Facundo Molares Murdered by Buenos Aires Police (www.leftvoice.org)
‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter (www.theguardian.com)
Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother
UN chief condemns attack on ambulance convoy in Gaza: ‘This must stop’ (thehill.com)
The United Nations (U.N.) condemned a recent attack by Israel on a convoy of ambulances leaving a Gaza hospital. “I am horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy outside Al Shi…
Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of a Climate Summit (theintercept.com)
Melissa Aronczyk, media studies professor at Rutgers University and co-author of “A Strategic Nature,” a book about the history of environmental PR, said the increased fossil fuel presence at COP is part of the industry’s decadeslong attempt to avoid regulation. “Working with U.S. PR firms, oil and gas companies, car...
