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Kim Jong Un tells North Korea arms factories to boost capacity -KCNA (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1121798...
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".
Japanese life expectancy falls in 2022 for 2nd straight year - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.
Nigeria's Senate refuses to support ECOWAS plan for West-backed military intervention (peoplesdispatch.org)
Is Ukraine's counteroffensive failing? Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative (www.nbcnews.com)
Some U.S. officials are frustrated at the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has gained less than 100 square miles of territory.
[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.
I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones....
US border agents habitually abuse human rights, report reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians as raids continue across occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem (peoplesdispatch.org)
Brazil’s Lula slams UN over war in Ukraine (www.laprensalatina.com)
Report Details ‘Shocking Pattern’ of Abuse by US Agents at Mexico Border (scheerpost.com)
Has Windows become Spyware? (www.youtube.com)
Climate change made July hotter for 4 of 5 humans on Earth, scientists find - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
(AP) -- Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boos
Argentina won't use 'one dollar' of reserves to repay IMF, says Massa (www.reuters.com)
Interesting article about life for Uyghurs in Xinjiang and how one poet and filmmaker escaped persecution (www.theguardian.com)
As ECOWAS threatens intervention in Niger, neighbouring juntas vow mutual defence (www.msn.com)
NATO announces $1B fund to back startups supporting ‘safety, freedom and human empowerment’ (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/914897...
Lori Vallow: Cult mum who killed children sentenced to life in prison (www.bbc.co.uk)
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US presses Taliban on human rights at Doha talks (www.bbc.co.uk)
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'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film (www.nbcnews.com)
Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.
Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice -- and scientists are scrambling to figure out why | CNN (www.cnn.com)
As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.
Niger puts an end to uranium and gold export to France (english.almayadeen.net)
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For the digital readers, on which platform do you read and why?...
China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)
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South Korea has given up on talking to the North (www.economist.com)
Why Europe, U.S., China & Russia are Not the Same for Latin America (www.struggle-la-lucha.org)