Libya floods: Why damage to Derna was so catastrophic ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Brazil’s Lula backtracks on Putin arrest safety at Rio G20 ( www.aljazeera.com )
Police vehicle rams into climate protestors that block only road into Burning Man festival. ( youtu.be )
China objects as US approves military aid to Taiwan under program aimed at sovereign nations ( apnews.com )
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China's Centaline Property says mainland China unit has 'huge' unpaid developers' commissions ( www.channelnewsasia.com )
The Hong Kong property agency’s mainland arm, Centaline Property Agency (Shenzhen), has not recovered some commission fees as property developers grapple with the debt crisis and liquidity crunch, Centaline said. The Shenzhen unit has paid fixed salaries up to July, Centaline said, adding that all of units were operating...
U.S. Knew Saudis Were Killing African Migrants ( www.nytimes.com )
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Argentina to use IMF money to pay back part of a currency swap with China, sources say ( www.reuters.com )
Wagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin was on plane that crashed north of Moscow, Russian civil aviation authority says ( news.sky.com )
Saudi Border Guards Accused of Killing Hundreds of African Migrants ( www.nytimes.com )
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China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
One Chinese company sent 1,000 drones to Russia in the two months before the war, according to figures compiled by Molfar Global, an open source research organisation. The drones were sent to a Russian firm called Samson, which similarly describes itself as a wholesaler of games and toys and appears to be a shell company,...
Lottery sales in China soar, as youth seek to scratch an economic itch amid faltering fiscal forecasts ( hongkongfp.com )
Lottery sales in China soared to almost 274 billion yuan in the first half of the year, an increase of more than 50 percent year-on-year, with analysts pointing to a growing economic malaise as a possible explanation.
‘One big adventure’: the Russian minister who fled the draft to drive trucks in the US ( www.theguardian.com )
After years navigating the byzantine corridors of provincial Russian power, Denis Sharonov now works as a truck driver, steering his way through the vast highways of the US.
Russian warship fires warning shots on cargo ship in Black Sea ( www.reuters.com )
Canadians returning home from Maui tell stories of ‘war zone’ horror ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
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Uyghur dentist held hostage in China's Xinjiang region as his wife and daughter wait in vain in the U.S. ( thechinaproject.com )
Ablimit Abliz, a dentist in Ürümqi, has not been accused of any crime, but the government won’t let him leave or speak freely to his wife, Adalet Sabit, who lives in Virginia. Their case is far from unique.
Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan ( theintercept.com )
The Intercept has made extensive efforts to authenticate the document. Given the security climate in Pakistan, independent confirmation from sources in the Pakistani government was not possible. The Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment....
West African military leaders agree action over Niger coup | Africanews ( www.africanews.com )
Indian Minister of Home Affairs blames Manipur violence on Myanmar refugees ( www.mizzima.com )
Uruguay’s missing women may have been trafficked. Why doesn’t the state care? ( www.opendemocracy.net )
For six years, Nancy Baladán has ridden her motorcycle along Uruguay’s country paths and urban highways in search of answers about the night that altered her life forever....
Myanmar’s military said it bombed ‘terrorists.’ It killed children. ( wapo.st )
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Ukrainian official says drones hit naval ship in Russian port. It's the latest attack inside Russia ( apnews.com )
Lush paid managers £5m in bonuses after taking £5m in state support ( www.theguardian.com )
El Salvador’s Congress votes to allow mass trials in gang crackdown ( www.aljazeera.com )
Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town ( wapo.st )
Taiwanese citizens take the nation's defense into their own hands: Interview with scholar Wen Liu ( globalvoices.org )
For people in Taiwan living under regular military threats from China, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the West’s responses to it have prompted queries about the Taiwanese military forces’ own readiness and resilience. In the early days following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Taipei quickly...
