North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’ ( www.rfa.org )
Christie on new Trump charges: ‘These guys were acting like the Corleones with no experience’ ( thehill.com )
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ® compared new charges against former President Trump that accuse him of working with Mar-a-Lago employees to delete surveillance footage at the club to the tactics of the fictionalized Corleone organized crime family....
Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer' ( www.reuters.com )
Germany bans ‘cult-like, deeply racist’ far-right group, carries out raids ( www.aljazeera.com )
‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalists ( www.indexoncensorship.org )
“It is undeniable that the intrinsics of Julian’s case are so shocking it is something one would expect from the worst dictatorships,” Stella Assange says....
Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts. ( portside.org )
Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors" ( pluralistic.net )
Zelensky asks to visit Israel in show of solidarity ( www.axios.com )
An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel ( apnews.com )
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat ( www.economist.com )
Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say ( wapo.st )
WP gift article expires in 14 days....
US proposes January start for Trump election trial ( www.reuters.com )
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a federal judge to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden on Jan. 2, 2024....
Hong Kong judge defies government’s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song, saying it could undermine freedom of expression ( www.theguardian.com )
The government had sought the injunction banning online publication or distribution of the song, arguing it insulted China’s national anthem and could give people the impression that Hong Kong was an independent country.
Israel, Hamas agree on four-day truce, hostage release and aid into Gaza ( www.reuters.com )
Note that this isn’t ALL the hostages – just 50 in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. archive.org link...
Gaza’s Largest Hospitals Close, Premature Babies Taken Out of Incubators, Israeli Forces Reportedly Entered Hospitals and Fired at Patients ( www.democracynow.org )
“Five kids in the pediatric [Shifa Hospital] ICU left alone in Rantisi Hospital, and we don’t know what’s going on with them. The communications were lost, so they might be dead or alive,” one of the doctors said....
US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm ( www.theguardian.com )
A Summer Rite in Spain: Coping With the British Tourist Invasion ( www.nytimes.com )
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Trump’s defense in the 2020 election case, explained by legal experts ( www.vox.com )
Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense against federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election is beginning to take shape....
"A ticking time bomb that can explode at any time", as EVs surge, so does nickel mining’s death toll ( restofworld.org )
Chinese demand for nickel, an important ingredient in EV batteries, has triggered a mining boom in the remote regions of Indonesia. The country has signed over a dozen deals worth more than $15 billion with suppliers for EV giants like Tesla and Hyundai Motor, but deaths and injuries from industrial accidents have been racking...
UN chief uses rare power to warn Security Council of impending ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza ( apnews.com )
NATO should be ready for ‘bad news’ from Ukraine, Stoltenberg warns ( www.politico.eu )
What bad news? Why? Hasn’t UA been winning all along, for 1.5 years?
Portugal just ran on 100 percent renewables for 6 days in a row ( grist.org )
U.S. President Biden says "Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under single government" and "extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop" ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5830159...
Israel intensifies ground and air strikes on nearly cut-off Gaza while UN denounces 'war crimes' in conflict for first time and warns many will soon starve to death ( english.elpais.com )
“In the beginning, people could go to the market or to the stores. Now, no more. Stores have empty shelves. People are struggling to get food, but there are already people starving in Gaza,” warns Nebal Farsakh, spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, speaking over the phone....
Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts ( apnews.com )
