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Trump heard on CNN tape discussing secret documents (www.bbc.com)

An audio recording in which Donald Trump appears to acknowledge keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media....

Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)

Regarding the Eviction of the Self-Organized Refugee Camp in Lavrio, Greece (crimethinc.com)

How Turkey’s War on Kurds and the European Union’s War on Migrants Intersect

LGBTQ+ parents are being removed from their children’s birth certificates in Italy – here’s what’s behind this disturbing trend (theconversation.com)

300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before (edition.cnn.com)

Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria (apnews.com)

Pope Francis Praises Historical Russian Imperialism Amid War in Ukraine (www.wsj.com)

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Moderation / Rules of "news" community?

I can’t seem to find anything in a sidebar or sticky thread that talks about the moderation / rules of the news community. I’m very interested in coming to this community to learn about news, but right now it seems whats being posted tends to be relatively low (lower?) quality....

Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko, who replaced supermarket price tags with anti-war statements, faces a 10-year sentence (web.archive.org)

Skochilenkos lawyers began presenting proof of her innocence. They weren’t able to question the prosecution’s experts, as they both failed to show up to the court hearing, saying that they had both ended up in a hospital. But the defence still has a lot of unanswered questions towards the experts. They are now planning on...

Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean (www.theguardian.com)

Feds tell automakers not to comply with Mass. “right to repair” law (arstechnica.com)

Pakistan army trades tanks for tractors in food-security push (asia.nikkei.com)

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LGBT Rights Group Shuttered in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (www.hrw.org)

Tanya Kamal Darwish, CEO of Rasan Organization, told Human Rights Watch that the purported reason for closing the group down was not because of its activities, but because the judge took issue with its logo, which contains the colors of the rainbow. The court order states that “the expert committee confirmed that the logo of...

NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport (www.wfsb.com)

In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. (www.nytimes.com)

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PSA: this community is now for "World News", and "US News" is now its own community

summary: we have !usnews for US news now. please use that going forward for most US news you’ve previously posted here...

Poland: Abortion Witch Hunt Targets Women, Doctors (www.hrw.org)

Supercut of Mike Lindell's problematic deposition (www.youtube.com)

Mike Lindell’s behavior in deposition has earned him a motion for sanctions. See all of the exhibits in one cut.

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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WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers’ strike (www.latimes.com)

Estonia becomes the first ex-Soviet country to legalize gay marriages (www.themayor.eu)

The Riigikogu, Estonia’s Parliament, passed a new law which legalizes marriage for same-sex couples, thus becoming the first post-Soviet country to do so. That this happened in the month of June, which is generally when most Pride parades take place around the world, is also highly symbolic and poignant.

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