JPMorgan to pay $75m to settle Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking lawsuit with US Virgin Islands ( www.independent.co.uk )
Divided loyalties ( africasacountry.com )
Somalia’s political landscape is increasingly fragmented due to regional and clan differences. Is this the end of the centralized state and a unified, national identity?
Pakistan army trades tanks for tractors in food-security push ( asia.nikkei.com )
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Oil prices have risen. That's making gas more expensive for US drivers and helping Russia's war ( apnews.com )
Philippines condemns Chinese 'floating barrier' in South China Sea ( www.reuters.com )
WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers’ strike ( www.latimes.com )
Haiti’s most powerful gang boss calls for uprising to overthrow prime minister ( www.theguardian.com )
France to withdraw ambassador, troops from Niger after coup: Macron ( www.aljazeera.com )
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Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech ( www.theguardian.com )
Russia dismisses Ukraine peace plan: ‘Let’s decide it on the battlefield’ ( www.scmp.com )
The second time in three years Azerbaijani troops may have killed Russian peacekeepers, but Moscow is saving its ire for Armenia ( meduza.io ) Romanian
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Thousands protest in Armenia over military strike on Nagorno-Karabakh ( www.theguardian.com )
The European Court for Human Rights awards Azat Miftakhov 26,000 Euro for being tortured while imprisoned by Russia ( caseazatmiftakhov.org )
Ethiopia faces new charge of atrocities in Amhara ( www.theeastafrican.co.ke )
Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) are facing new allegations of atrocities in Amhara region, just a month after authorities in Addis Ababa imposed a state of emergency in the area to deal with a local rebellion....
China Accuses US of Hacking Huawei Servers as Far Back as 2009 ( beehaw.org )
China accused the US of infiltrating Huawei Technologies Co. servers beginning in 2009, part of a broad-based effort to steal data that culminated in tens of thousands of cyber-attacks against Chinese targets last year....
Torture, rape, killings in Manipur: An Indian state's brutal conflict ( www.bbc.com )
A Lampedusa, une « submersion migratoire » en trompe-l'oeil ( www.euractiv.fr ) French
New revelations from the Snowden archive surface ( www.computerweekly.com )
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Azerbaijan launches military action in Karabakh to disarm Armenians ( www.reuters.com ) Romanian
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Inside South Africa's Operation Dudula: 'Why we hate foreigners' ( www.bbc.com )
Intelligence suggests agents of India behind killing of B.C. Sikh leader: Trudeau ( globalnews.ca )
Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage ( www.kyivpost.com )
Victims of Guatemalan military seek justice for war crimes ( theworld.org )
In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. ( www.nytimes.com )
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