Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say ( wapo.st )
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‘Ghost flights’: Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole ( www.theguardian.com )
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Prices soar in Argentina after Milei’s currency devaluation ( english.elpais.com )
40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far ( www.insider.com )
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 )
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Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight’s Engines Told Cops He’d Taken Shrooms, Feds Say ( www.thedailybeast.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....
Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean ( www.theguardian.com )
Spanish FA president Rubiales resigns over Hermoso kiss ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Saudi LGBTQ refugees live in fear of being kidnapped ( www.indexoncensorship.org )
[The British magazine ‘Index On Censorship’ publishes an article which has reportedly been blocked by Vice to not offend Saudi Arabia.]
China stops releasing youth jobs data as economic figures disappoint ( m.koreatimes.co.kr )
China on Tuesday said it would stop releasing data on its rising youth unemployment as a raft of disappointing figures stoked concerns over the state of the world’s second largest economy....
Dozens of cancer patients could die as Gaza’s main cancer treatment hospital forced to stop most activities over fuel shortage, UN says ( news.un.org )
The UN human rights office OHCHR noted that given the high number of civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza “and the scale of the destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, there are “serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.”
Intelligence suggests agents of India behind killing of B.C. Sikh leader: Trudeau ( globalnews.ca )
Younger people more likely to doubt merits of democracy – global poll ( www.theguardian.com )
Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them....
Pope Francis Praises Historical Russian Imperialism Amid War in Ukraine ( www.wsj.com )
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Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in the U.S. criticizes government online ( www.nbcnews.com )
Ukraine says Russia planning 'false flag' attack at Belarus refinery ( www.reuters.com )
The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of preparing to stage a “false flag” attack at the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus in order to blame Ukrainian saboteurs as part of an effort to draw Minsk into the war in Ukraine....
Anger across Italy as killing of student highlights country’s femicide rate ( www.theguardian.com )
Ukrainian Accounts of Torture Point to Systematic Russian Policy, Expert Says ( www.nytimes.com )
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Kai Cenat: Police plan to charge Twitch streamer after PS5 giveaway mayhem ( www.bbc.com )
Police say they plan to charge US YouTuber Kai Cenat after a video games console giveaway event he organised sparked mayhem in New York....
German prosecutors charge 27 over alleged far-right plot to topple government ( www.theguardian.com )
How Hollywood appeases China, explained by the Barbie movie ( www.vox.com )
UK: Police hunt for thief who stole 14 beehives in Welsh town ( news.sky.com )
Seems pretty unbeelievable. If you’ve seen an apiarist behiving suspiciously, consider giving the police a buzz. If it leads to the missing hives, maybe you’ll hornet a reward.
‘We Can Never Forgive This’: In Odesa, Attacks Stoke Hatred of Russia ( www.nytimes.com )
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The “Hunt for Hamas” Narrative Is Obscuring Israel’s Real Plans for Gaza ( www.thenation.com )
America’s media and political class is analyzing, debating, and shaping a narrative in Gaza that’s entirely different from the one being discussed in Israeli media and among Israeli political leaders. This gap, born from casual racism, deliberate credulity, and reflexive alignment with the US government’s party line, is...
