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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Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage (www.kyivpost.com)
In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here. (www.nytimes.com)
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Poland: Abortion Witch Hunt Targets Women, Doctors (www.hrw.org)
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)
Pope Francis Praises Historical Russian Imperialism Amid War in Ukraine (www.wsj.com)
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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
LGBTQ+ parents are being removed from their children’s birth certificates in Italy – here’s what’s behind this disturbing trend (theconversation.com)
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)
