As Azerbaijan Consolidates Control, Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid' (apnews.com)
U.S. HELPED PAKISTAN GET IMF BAILOUT WITH SECRET ARMS DEAL FOR UKRAINE, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL (theintercept.com)
Vatican presses world leaders at UN to work on rules for lethal autonomous weapons (apnews.com)
Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability (www.hrw.org)
Mexican auto parts workers face blacklist after union campaign (therealnews.com)
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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WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers’ strike (www.latimes.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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In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. (www.nytimes.com)
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Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean (www.theguardian.com)
All Wilko shops to shut with 12,500 jobs likely to go (www.bbc.co.uk)
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.
300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before (edition.cnn.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
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...
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...
NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport (www.wfsb.com)
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....
Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria (apnews.com)
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....
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.