Israel and the West reckon with a high-tech failure (www.politico.com)
The Hamas onslaught wasn’t supposed to be possible: A massive, deadly 2G attack on a 5G security state. The consequences are still reverberating....
Israel festival revelers shot at point-blank range, video shows (www.cnn.com)
Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings, new car dashcam video verified by CNN reveals....
Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel (www.reuters.com)
Israel announces 'total' blockade on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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Finland has no private schools – and its pupils perform better than British children (inews.co.uk)
Finland ranked seventh in the world in OECD’s student assessment chart in 2018, well above the UK and the United States, where there is a mix of private and state education
Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation (news.sky.com)
Ukraine hit Russia's most treasured air-defense system on its own soil, reports say (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukraine damaged one of Russia’s most treasured air-defense system in a drone attack, according to multiple reports....
Pope Francis suggests gay couples could be blessed in Vatican reversal (www.theguardian.com)
Conservative cardinals had challenged the pope to confirm teachings on LGBTQ+ issues...
Pope suggests blessings for same-sex unions possible in response to 5 conservative cardinals (apnews.com)
More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit (www.cnn.com)
More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit [38.8 °C]....
Panama Canal reduces the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day (apnews.com)
The Panama Canal announced Saturday it will reduce the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day, from 32 in August, due to a drought that has reduced the supply of fresh water needed to operate the locks....
Elon Musk angers German government with post backing far-right party (www.upi.com)
Canadian police won't investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman (abcnews.go.com)
The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct”...
Russia pardoned a murderer who put his girlfriend through a meat grinder because he agreed to fight in Ukraine, his mom says (www.businessinsider.com)
A Russian convicted murderer who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder has been pardoned after fighting against Ukraine, his mother said....
Uttar Pradesh : 13 year old Teen rape survivor raped again in police station, SHO arrested (indianexpress.com)
Microplastics Are Present In Clouds, Confirm Japanese Scientists (www.ndtv.com)
Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen (www.businessinsider.nl)
World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials (globalnews.ca)
Even China's 1.4 billion population can't fill all its vacant homes, former official says (www.reuters.com)
Even China’s population of 1.4 billion would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former official said on Saturday, in a rare public critique of the country’s crisis-hit property market....
Arson turns Amazon reforestation project to ashes (phys.org)
Caste matters : South Asian activists’ hunger strike to ban caste discrimination reaches day 18 (www.nbcnews.com)
A group of caste equity leaders have been fasting for more than two weeks to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill that would make caste discrimination illegal in California.
China sentences Uyghur scholar to life in jail (www.bbc.com)
A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for “endangering state security”....
Crown Prince: Saudi Arabia 'will continue doing sportswashing' for money (www.nbcsports.com)
Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists (www.cnn.com)
A top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation, rekindling a heated debate about the role of the world’s lingua franca in the country’s education system after years of rising nationalist sentiment under leader Xi Jinping....
Mexican cartels rank as nation’s fifth-largest employer: study (thehill.com)
Mexican cartels have seen a surge in growth in their participating members over the last decade, according to a new study, to the point where they have effectively become the nation’s fifth-largest employer....
