Drivers stunned by sudden shutdown of Michigan trucking company ( cdllife.com )
AUR wants referendums on family and cash payments ( www.romaniajournal.ro ) Romanian
n.r.: AUR is the most popular far right party in Romania at the moment...
Buzzy social app Fizz sues rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging ( www.theguardian.com )
Indonesia is set to launch Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway, largely funded by China ( apnews.com )
Ukrainian children as young as 4 months old are being forcibly taken to Russia. Officials don't know what is happening to them. ( www.businessinsider.com )
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/3977999...
JPMorgan to pay $75m to settle Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking lawsuit with US Virgin Islands ( www.independent.co.uk )
New revelations from the Snowden archive surface ( www.computerweekly.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5196551...
Poland: Abortion Witch Hunt Targets Women, Doctors ( www.hrw.org )
Gaetz says McCarthy ‘lying,’ in response to accusations he’s colluding with Swalwell ( thehill.com )
“I am the most investigated man in the entire Congress, and right there you saw Kevin McCarthy lying like a dead dog because I have never asked him to interfere in any ethics matter,” Gaetz said....
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief ( www.nytimes.com )
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
2,000 people are feared dead in flooding in eastern Libya after weekend storm, prime minister says ( apnews.com )
1.2m Palestinians face devastating humanitarian crisis because of US aid block ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
Transgaz Romania takes over all Gazprom operations in the Republic of Moldova, including Transdniestria ( tvrmoldova.md )
Operatorul național de transport al gazelor naturale din România, Transgaz, prin filiala sa Vestmoldtransgaz, este pe ultima sută de metri până la preluarea integrală a acestor operațiuni în Republica Moldova, inclusiv în regiunea separatistă Transnistria, conform declarațiilor directorului general al Transgaz, Ion...
Ukrainian Counteroffensive Pierces Main Russian Defensive Line in Southeast ( www.wsj.com )
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/6175094...
The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service blocks [far-right minister] Purra's choice for media advisor role due to China links ( yle.fi )
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/6040987...
A deadly tick-borne epidemic is raging. Dogs are key to ending it. ( wapo.st )
WP gift article expires in 14 days....
Shares of China developer Evergrande plunges after resuming Hong Kong trading ( techxplore.com )
CIA stairwell attack among flood of sexual misconduct complaints at U.S. spy agency ( apnews.com )
Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion in 2022, the IMF says ( www.imf.org )
As the world struggles to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and parts of Asia, Europe and the United States swelter in extreme heat, subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas are costing the equivalent of 7.1 percent of global gross domestic product. That’s more than governments spend annually on education (4.3...
The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like 'the last person on earth' ( www.jta.org )
Saudi Arabia, Iran among six nations invited to join BRICS ( libertarianinstitute.org )
Edit: replaced with Aljazeera article, a known news source...
‘I’m ready to die for Russia but not for criminals and thieves:' Russian military officers on why they deserted after Russia invaded Ukraine ( meduza.io )
Canada’s raging fires have burned the equivalent of Alabama ( wapo.st )
Large blazes in the Northwest Territories have forced evacuations and military deployments....
China's sliding yuan could be next 'black swan event' for markets, hedge fund EDL says ( www.reuters.com )
EDL Capital, which manages about $1 billion, said factors weighing on the yuan include geopolitical tensions driving Western countries to re-home supply chains that will starve China of foreign investment. China’s labour market has also grown less competitive versus other Asian countries such as Vietnam and India, while a...
