Why Is the Indian State Reigniting a 13-Year-Old Case Against Arundhati Roy? (thewire.in)
The FIR is not just about a speech in 2010. It is against everything she has stood for since her 1998 essay ‘The End of Imagination’.
Myanmar: at least 29 people killed in attack on camp for displaced people (www.theguardian.com)
Pope Francis Signals Support for Fossil Fuel Phase Out Ahead of Crucial Climate Negotiations (www.commondreams.org)
Canada Should Declassify Nazi War Criminal Report (blogs.timesofisrael.com)
CCTV shows moment of Turkey blast (www.bbc.com)
An explosion outside Turkey's interior ministry in Ankara, was a "terrorist attack", a minister said.
Western Leaders Urge Arms Manufacturing in Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
Hospital operator plans to open Tokyo's 1st 'baby hatch' in FY 2024 (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO -- A social welfare corporation based in the capital's Sumida Ward revealed on Sept. 28 that it is planning to establish a "baby hatch" at one of its hospitals in the ward in fiscal 2024 to anonymously accept infants whose parents are unable to raise them.
What It Means to Be an Indian Muslim Today (thewire.in)
After Ramesh Bidhuri's slurs against Danish Ali went viral, some of us Muslims expressed a deep sense of astonishment and others, the total lack of it. Indian Muslims have fallen short of accurate vocabulary to describe the everyday humiliations we face.
Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability (www.hrw.org)
What U.S taxpayers are getting for their money in Ukraine (www.cbsnews.com)
Venezuela Signs Agreement with Trinidad and Tobago for Joint Gas Projects (orinocotribune.com)
Czech protesters rally against government's pro-Western policies (www.reuters.com)
Oooops, bad news to Blyatnesky, someone no longer want to be part of his childish game.
New COVID vaccine could help protect against possible "tripledemic" (www.cbsnews.com)
Opposition attacks Polish government over alleged migrant visa corruption scheme (notesfrompoland.com)
Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers (ec.europa.eu)
The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft - under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In total, 22 core platform services provided by gatekeepers have been designated. The six gatekeepers will now have six months to ensure full compliance...
Xi, Modi agree to 'de-escalate' tensions on disputed Himalayan border (new.thecradle.co)
Loch Ness Monster: Hunters flock to Scotland for the biggest Nessie search in half a century (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1891445...
Scorched Europe battles deadly fires, Turkey shuts shipping lane (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1808124...
Saudi Arabia discusses defense cooperation with Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran (saudigazette.com.sa)
Canadian oil company’s extraction pump and dump scam highlights criminal resource extraction in Namibia (www.thecanadafiles.com)
"The Magician" Riad Salameh and the plundering of Lebanon (on.ft.com)
In June 2021, as Lebanon was in the throes of a debilitating financial crisis, the country’s central bank governor touched down at Paris’s Le Bourget airport by private jet, where customs officials found him carrying large amounts of undeclared cash....
Suspected Palestinian shooting attack at West Bank car wash kills 2 Israelis (apnews.com)
The two dead are father and son. Its suspected that the shooting were masked by the noise of the car wash machine
As Senegal Organizes Troops to Invade Niger, Violence Mars ‘Constitutional Order’ within its Own Borders (peoplesdispatch.org)
Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July and what comes next (www.nature.com)
Israel FM: Israel won’t reopen its two Gaza crossings after war (www.jpost.com)
