Temperatures in Spain shatter records as October kicks off (www.reuters.com)
Indonesia is set to launch Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway, largely funded by China (apnews.com)
Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media (thediplomat.com)
Brazil's top court boosts indigenous rights in landmark ruling (www.bbc.com)
"Brazil’s Supreme Court has rejected efforts to restrict native peoples’ rights to reservations on their ancestral lands....
As Azerbaijan Consolidates Control, Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
6 women are rescued from a refrigerated truck in France after making distress call to a BBC reporter (apnews.com)
Germany bans ‘cult-like, deeply racist’ far-right group, carries out raids (www.aljazeera.com)
Around 100 people killed, 150 injured in a fire at a wedding hall in Iraq (www.nbcnews.com)
As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid' (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)
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)
When Zionists redefine ‘antisemitism’ into a political cudgel (therealnews.com)
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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Oil prices have risen. That's making gas more expensive for US drivers and helping Russia's war (apnews.com)
WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers’ strike (www.latimes.com)
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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