- The Chicago White Sox tried to celebrate the Fourth of July by declaring their independence from the rules of baseball, but they found out the hard way the rules still apply to them. The post White Sox Baserunners Blunder Their Way into the Stupidest Triple Play in MLB History first appeared on Mediaite.
- Dramatic footage of the arrest of Robert Crimo III was posted on Twitter, hours after a deadly shooting killed six people and wounded at least two dozen others. In the video taken near Lake Forest, Illinois, a gray Honda has been stopped at the intersection by throngs of police. The police order Crimo to exit […]
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) spoke out forcefully in favor of more gun control hours after a deadly shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. A gunman opened fire on an Independence Day parade on Monday, killing six and wounding more than two dozen others. “A little while ago, I spoke with President Biden who pledged all support […]
- An Iraq war veteran who lost both legs when an RPG hit her Army helicopter, Tammy Duckworth said recordings of the shooting reminded her of combat. The post ‘We Have to Get Rid of Assault Weapons’: Senator and Veteran Says Highland Park Shooting Sounded Like Iraq War All Over Again first appeared on Mediaite.
- The Republican gubernatorial nominee in Illinois is taking heat online after comments he made after Monday's shooting in Highland Park. The post GOP Gubernatorial Nominee Pilloried for Saying ‘Let’s Move On’ After Highland Park Shooting first appeared on Mediaite.
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Entertainment News
- Irv Gotti stated that Oliver Chastan’s Iconoclast has purchased the master recordings of Murder Inc. during BET Weekend. The seasoned music businessman revealed a $300 million transaction in which he sold a 50% stake in his master recordings and received additional cash for a number of film and television projects. Iconoclast, a company founded by […]
- Westside Gunn is set to deliver his new project on Friday. Hitting Instagram, Gunn announced that his new “art piece”, Peace Fly God, will be available to fans on Friday. “I’m back in the states and the homies pulled right up on me,” Gunn wrote. “Now, the tape is complete.” Gunn announced the project will […]
- Is there beef brewing between Nicki Minaj and Kanye West? During her headlining set at Essence Fest, Nicki Minaj cut her performance of “Monster” short. “A monster though!” Minaj said. “A monster though! But we don’t fuck with clowns.” “Monster” dropped back in 2010, partnering Nicki with YE, JAY-Z, Rick Ross, and Bon Iver. Minaj […]
- Bad Bunny is back on top of Billboard. The Latin superstar and his album Un Verano Sin Ti lands on top of the chart for a third non-consecutive week. The achievement comes in week 8 of the album. This week, Un Verano Sin Ti earned 115,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. The album debuted […]
Technology News
- The mod team behind Skyrim Together Reborn has set the project's full release for Friday, July 8 (noon EST). The online co-op mod allows for groups of two-to-eight players, synching quest completion, experience points, NPCs, items, difficulty, and other features. Players can also manually enable PvP, but the modders don't…
- Auslogics Duplicate File Finder scans your drive and lets you decide which identical files to remove. It allows you to search by name, date, or type for free without limitations.
- The Biden administration announced seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday. Jobs is one of three to receive the award posthumously, the others being John McCain and Richard Trumka.
- Ubisoft has announced that it plans to decommission the online services for 15 games on September 1. Users won't be able to play the multiplayer and co-op modes in these games anymore, linking accounts and online features will stop working, and worst of all, players will outright lose access to…
- The electric vehicle giant said over the weekend that it had delivered 254,695 vehicles in the April to June period. While it marks a 26% increase over the 201,250 vehicles delivered in the second quarter of 2021, that figure for the preceding quarter (Q1 2022) stood at 310,048.
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Trinidad & Tobago
- The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) vowed to unveil a “third kit” at the 2022 Concacaf W Championship, as the local football body aims to rebound from the embarrassment of using training jerseys at the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup tournament. The TTFA’s new white playing outfit bears a diagonal sash across the front of […]
- Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team head coach Kenwyne Jones and captain Karyn “Baby” Forbes promised a positive mindset tomorrow when they open their 2022 Concacaf W Championship against reigning Olympic champions, Canada, from 10pm (TT time) at the Estadio BBVA in Guadalupe, Mexico. The fixture is the second of a Group B doubleheader […]
- The earthy language of Phillip Alexander may make his commentaries unattractive to some people. It is useful however that he repeatedly sticks it to the establishment, revealing a far better understanding of socio-economic reality than many of our rulers—even though he might not get many votes at the ballot box. Frustration in establishment business circles […]
- I have had a lifelong love for curries. When I was a child, my favourite meal was rice, dhal and curried chicken. It was actually the rice and the curried chicken, but we were made to have the dhal on it. It felt like an interloper, interrupting the concentrated taste of the other two, and […]
- Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team head coach Kenwyne Jones has selected his 23-member squad for the 2022 Concacaf W Championship, with 20 players who participated for the Women Soca Warriors in the earlier round. The team is captained by midfielder Karyn “Baby” Forbes, who is one of six veterans from the 2015 World […]
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Japan
- Higher fertilizer and animal feed prices are putting the prefecture's key agriculture sector under pressure, making inflation an even bigger issue there than the rest …
- The study by Kyoto University and construction firm Kajima promises to bring ideas out of sci-fi and into reality by enabling humans to live outside …
- Shocking global geopolitical events in the past 50 years have changed the context of relations, bringing new challenges to both countries.
- The Vatican's unofficial representative in Hong Kong delivered a stark message before finishing his six-year posting in March: The freedoms they had enjoyed for decades …
- The problem experienced by the mobile phone carrier, Japan’s second-largest by number of subscribers, mushroomed into one of the country’s worst-ever network outages.
The Culture
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- Moments before standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial at the 1963 March on Washington, John Lewis frantically re-worked his remarks in response to organizers’ fears that his words were too incendiary. Among the many changes Lewis made, he replaced the line,Read more…
- I’ve got bad news for all my Swift fans out there, and I’m not talking Taylor. The Nancy Drew spinoff, Tom Swift, has been canceled after only five episodes on the CW network. The series which just launched on May 31 featured a nearly all Black cast, including Tian Richards who plays the show’s lead. […]
- After the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker at the hands of Akron, Ohio police, the city has decided to cancel its annual Fourth of July celebration. On Monday, a hail of nearly 90 bullets fell upon Walker, a Black Doordash driver, after what started out as a traffic stop, and ultimately, resulted in the end […]
- A proposed amendment in California’s constitution that would outlaw involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime failed to pass the state senate. As the Associated Press notes, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration argued that paying prisoners a $15-per-hour minimum wage would cost taxpayers billions.…Read more…
Democracy Now
- As the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, we speak with law professor Michele Goodwin, who has written extensively about how the criminalization of abortion polices motherhood. She discusses how on the eve of the court’s oral arguments in the Dobbs case in November, she wrote about how an abortion saved her life. She […]
- "A Devastating Ruling": Law Prof. Michele Goodwin & SCOTUS Attorney Kitty Kolbert on Overturning RoeAs protests continue across the country in response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, we speak with two leading legal scholars. Kathryn “Kitty” Kolbert is co-founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights and argued the landmark case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992, which upheld Roe v. […]
- Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history last year when she spoke at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. She was 22 years old when she read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem she finished right after the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. We continue our July Fourth […]
- "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic SpeechWe begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” He was addressing […]
- As activists across the U.S. are mobilizing to defend reproductive rights, we speak to the Dutch physician Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, who has dedicated her life to circumventing anti-abortion laws, including providing abortions on ships in international waters and sending abortions pills around the world. She also discusses navigating censorship on social media platforms, telemedicine, the […]
Politics
- POLITICO has exclusively obtained a trailer for Alex Holder’s “Unprecedented,” which was among the footage the filmmaker turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee.
- If Republicans flip at least one chamber this fall as expected, the fate of policy on multiple fronts will rest with a handful of House members.
- For more than half a century, lawmakers have found untapped alliances and diplomatic opportunities during overseas trips that voters rarely hear about.
- Hershel W. “Woody” Williams died last week at the age of 98.
- Rep. Zoe Lofgren provided insight into the Jan. 6 hearings.
Business News
- Travelers flying home from July Fourth getaways faced flight delays Monday, but airlines were canceling fewer flights than in the days leading up to the holiday weekend.
- Shares declined Tuesday in Europe after an upbeat session in Asia, while Wall Street futures slipped ahead of the reopening of U.S. markets from the Independence Day holiday.
- Scandinavian Airlines on Tuesday filed for bankruptcy in the United States, warning a walkout by 1,000 pilots a day earlier had put the future of the carrier at risk.
- The International Energy Agency says high prices for natural gas and supply fears due to the war in Ukraine will slow the growth in demand for the fossil fuel in the coming years.
- After the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal right to an abortion that's been in place for half a century, companies like Amazon, Disney, Apple and JP Morgan pledged to cover travel costs for employees who live in states where the procedure is now illegal so they can terminate pregnancies.
Nigeria
- The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised hopes of students that it is close to calling off the ongoing strike action that has lasted for over three months. ASUU on Monday issued a condition that will cause it to immediately call off the strike that led to the closure of many public universities […]
- Coventry University is ranked in the top 30 in the world for its ratio of international students and is placed in the top 100 universities in the world for ‘international outlook’.* According to the IDP Connect, Coventry University was the top university for Nigerian students in 2019/20, with over 750 students choosing Coventry, further […]
- Realmlux Limited the organizers of the Bonny Island Marathon in a Media Briefing held in Rivers State on Saturday, July 2, 2022 announce the return of the 5th Bonny Island Marathon scheduled for 10 December, 2022 with over 10,000 expected runners. The post Bonny Island Marathon announces December 10th for her 5th Edition appeared first […]
- The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna, Senator Uba Sani has picked governor Nasir El-Rufai's deputy, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe as his running mate for the upcoming 2023 gubernatorial elections in the state. Sani, who made the announcement on Monday night after consultations with critical stakeholders of Kaduna State, said "I am […]
- Businessman and philanthropist Femi Otedola on Tuesday said he prays that Bola Tinubu will get his heart desire to be Nigeria president in the 2023 election. Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) alongside former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party's Peter Obi are among […]
EV – News
- Shell subsidiary Ubitricity has placed the winning bid in a public tender issued by the city of Berlin to install at least 200 lantern charging points. The company will begin integrating the first charge points in autumn this year. According to the Shell subsidiary, the roll-out will start in the outer Berlin districts of Steglitz-Zehlendorf […]
- Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) has announced that its Can-Am brand will return to its roots as a motorbike manufacturer with an all-electric model line. To mark the brand’s 50th anniversary, the company will launch newly developed electric-powered motorbikes. The first models will be available around mid-2024. Can-Am was a motorbike production division of BRP between […]
- The Mayor of London’s Energy Efficiency Fund (MEEF) announced today it was providing capital Breathe for deploying 100 Tesla Model 3 to private hire drivers, including Uber, in London. The Vehicle-as-a-Service provider is further supported by fintech Zeti’s pay per mile platform ZERO. Breathe offers drivers a VaaS subscription, including insurance, maintenance and tyre replacements. […]
- US battery manufacturer Microvast has introduced two new lithium-ion cells and an improved battery pack. The new 48-ah and 53.5-ah NMC cells have been specifically designed to power commercial and special-purpose vehicles. Both new pouch cells are available in the same dimensions and can be integrated into Microvast’s new fourth-generation battery packs. Microvast manufactures its […]
- The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL has announced the third generation of its cell-to-pack battery technology. This is ready for mass production and is said to even outperform battery packs with 4680 cells in some respects. According to Chinese media reports, CATL claims that the internally named ‘Kirin battery’ CtP technology will deliver 13 per cent […]
Fox Media
- Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney suggested civilians should not be allowed to own guns after a shooting at a Fourth of July event left two police officers injured.
- The Supreme Court's abortion decision changed the subject from $5 gasoline and soaring inflation, but President Biden and Democrats shouldn't count on that continuing until November.
- Jacki Sundheim, a devout Jewish synagogue attendee, was the second person to be identified as a victim of Monday’s mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
- Two officers were shot during a Fourth of July gathering in Philadelphia. Police are still searching for the suspect.
- Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, whose campaign has doled out over $450K for private security, is on the board of directors for a radical foundation that wants to abolish police.
Press Freedom
- Federal law enforcement officers patrol Washington, D.C., in 2021. A recent Supreme Court ruling closed the door on journalists seeking monetary damages for First Amendment violations by federal employees.— REUTERS/JIM URQUHART This article is cross-posted from U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.In a Supreme Court term packed with controversial cases, one of the more-overlooked rulings has alarmed […]
- Londres (Reino Unido), 18 de Agosto 2014 The British home secretary has formally approved the extradition of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to the United States, in the latest development in a dangerous and misguided criminal prosecution that has the potential to criminalize national security journalism in the United States.Previously, a major coalition of civil liberties […]
- CC BY 2.0 Don Holloway Police in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, have used the aftermath of mass shootings to clamp down on press access and have threatened to violate the press freedom rights of journalists doing their jobs. According to recent reporting by the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, as tragedy unfolded in each […]
- CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia user Coolcaesar A new journalist surveillance scandal coming out of the Department of Justice drives home the need for a strong journalist shield law, but it’s worth taking a look at how the media guidelines work under the status quo. We’ve repeatedly argued that legislation is necessary to resolve questions about […]
- The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, where we attempt to document virtually every press freedom violation in the country, has, for some time, made available its database of thousands of incidents for export via the API. We want all the data we’ve collected over the past five years to be available to journalists, advocates, and policy […]
Middle East
- Jinen Trejen Roje carried out a series of actions in Van's Ipekyolu and Hakkari's Gever districts.
- The Piya and Ari production companies in Amed (Diyarbakır) have been besieged by police for 27 days.
- ‘Military police’ mercenaries affiliated with the Turkish state kidnapped 2 people in Sherawa.
- Aziz Oruç, one of the journalists arrested in Diyarbakır, said that they were arrested for their journalistic activities, adding, “The government sends a message to the West with this operation against the Kurds and Kurdish journalists.”
- Tens of thousands attended the 5th Ordinary Congress of the HDP in Ankara on Sunday, vowing resistance and democratic struggle.
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Canada
- Tamara Lich, an organizer of the 'Freedom Convoy,' is set to appear in an Ottawa court today for a bail hearing after being arrested last week for allegedly breaching one of her bail conditions.
- Chinese authorities have blocked Canadian government representatives from attending the trial of Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, the Canadian embassy said on Tuesday.
- After more than four months of ferocious fighting, Russia claimed a key victory: full control over one of the two provinces in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland.
- Simple advice from a friend to stay near the door may have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás from the deadly fate that befell 53 other migrants when they were abandoned trapped in a sweltering semi-trailer last week on the edge of San Antonio. The 20-year-old from Guatemala's capital said it was already hot on June […]
- One of the twin brothers who was killed in a shootout with police outside a bank in Saanich, B.C., last week had applied to join the Canadian Armed Forces but was rejected, a military spokesperson confirmed Monday.
Germany
- The phenomenally cheap 9-euro public transport travel pass has been available for a month. Should the scheme continue?
- Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer has received the Walther Rathenau Prize for her life's work in foreign policy. "We cannot change what happened, but it must never be allowed to happen again," the 100-year-old said.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under pressure to ease spiraling inflation. His plan is to come up with measures at a meeting of business leaders, trade unions and politicians. But they have very different ideas.
- Airports in Germany face dire staff shortages. That's why many are thinking about hiring experienced airport personnel from Turkey. Turkish media have welcomed the plan.
- The war in Ukraine and inflation have Germans concerned about their standard of living. Those who have the least are likely to suffer the most.
France
- France has repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria where family members of suspected Islamic State group jihadists have been held, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
- French President Emmanuel Macron reshuffled his government on Monday after losing his majority in the National Assembly, notably dropping Damien Abad, the solidarity minister accused of attempted rape. Follow the cabinet reshuffle as it happened on our liveblog. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
- Peter Brook, who has died aged 97, was among the most influential theatre directors of the 20th century, reinventing the art by paring it back to drama’s most basic and powerful elements.
- Iga Swiatek was dumped out of Wimbledon in straight sets on Saturday by French veteran Alizé Cornet, ending the world number one's 37-match winning streak.
- Airport workers striking for a third consecutive day on Saturday said they would stage another walkout at the French capital’s main international hub from July 8 to 10 to press their pay demands, signalling further disruption for early summer travellers.
Turkey
- Turkey reported 57,113 new coronavirus cases for the week between June 27 and July 3, according to the latest figures from the Health Ministry. The number of people who died in the…
- Six people were killed and 25 others were injured when a passenger bus overturned onto the roadside in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday. The bus was traveling from the northweste…
- The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) has launched a trial of automation of traffic lights to allow ambulances, fire trucks and other emergency vehicles to skip the traffic….
- Sprawling across a lush space by the side of a busy road, a compound in the Turkish capital Ankara is the first stopover for veterans of Turkey’s counterterrorism operations before…
- A Turkish court on Monday rejected the request to extradite a man wanted by Haiti over his alleged involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise and ordered his relea…
Philippines
- MANILA, Philippines—Despite high consumer prices, returning domestic demand amid economic reopening would allow the Philippines to grow the fastest in the region this year, the regional surveillance organization Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro) said on Tuesday (July 5). In its July quarterly update of the Asean+3 Regional Economic Outlook (Areo) report, Amro raised its 2022 […]
- MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is cool about a proposal to reduce government workforce in order lower national spending amid the pandemic, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Erwin Tulfo claimed Tuesday. According to the new DSWD chief, Marcos Jr. stressed during their first Cabinet meeting that no one should be […]
- MANILA, Philippines — Minors aged 12 to 17 may now get their booster shots against COVID-19, the Department of Health (DOH) announced Tuesday. In an advisory posted on its social media pages, the DOH said immunocompromised adolescents may avail of the booster dose after 28 days from getting their primary series dose while healthyadolescents (or […]
- BAGUIO CITY—A man died due to head injuries after a rock fell on their vehicle while traveling along the Halsema Highway in Atok town, Benguet province, on Monday, July 4, the police said. The fatality, Richardick Cayacay, 52, was hit in the head, investigators said. Cayacay's fellow passenger, Susan Ubongen, 59, also suffered head injuries […]
- KYIV — After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yuriy Makeyev found himself homeless and jobless: a combination of circumstances that brought him to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Now the 48-year-old, who has fled his home in the war-torn east, believes he can return to normal life thanks to a special […]
Africa News
- [Foroyaa] Haddy Sallah, the Director of Finance and Investment at the Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC) has said that the corporation has registered a growth in assets of seven hundred million (D700M) in 2020.
- [Foroyaa] The World Bank Group's Managing Director of Operations, Mr. Axel van Trotsenburg, is due to visit The Gambia today and he is expected to visit the bank's financed projects in the country as well.
- [Foroyaa] The Medical Research Council (MRC) Workers' Union held its biennial congress on Thursday, June 30, 2022 where the outgoing executive committee presented its financial and activity reports to the members.
- [Foroyaa] Commercial drivers in the Greater Banjul Area have called on the Government of The Gambia to reduce the fuel price, which is reported to have risen on July 1 2022.
- [The Point] The prices for petrol and diesel have increased again. The increase is influenced by the continuing impact of the war in Ukraine on international crude oil prices and the removal of costly fuel subsidies by the government.
Russia
- Prisoners were reportedly offered high salaries and potential amnesty for six months of military service.
- "Ukraine is forever in the past for the Kherson region. Russia is here forever," the Moscow-installed authorities said.
- The head of Ukraine’s Sumy region said earlier that Russian shelling wounded at least six people.
- Follow all the breaking news, comment and analysis about Russia's attack on Ukraine.
- The next hearing in basketball player Brittney Griner’s case is set for Thursday.
India
- Explained: Why DMK MP A Raja’s call for ‘autonomy’ in Tamil Nadu sparked a row
- SpiceJet Delhi-Dubai flight diverted to Pakistan's Karachi due to indicator light malfunctioning
- Amarnath Yatra temporarily suspended due to bad weather, pilgrims from Nunwan camp in Pahalgam stopped midway
- Kanpur violence 'mastermind and financer', builder Haji Wasi arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police
- Money laundering probe: ED conducts raids against Chinese smartphone giant Vivo, searches underway at 44 locations
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United Kingdom
- A pilot scheme will courier chemotherapy drugs from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight, NHS England says.
- Fresh questions about what the PM knew of the Chris Pincher claims feature in Tuesday's papers.
- A Methodist minister tells of his struggle with sexuality and how he was sent for conversion therapy.
- Wimbledon brings tennis to the spotlight every summer, though how does the sport work when you're blind?
- Companies must be transparent and flexible with customers facing budget pressures, experts say.
Asia
- Ukrainian peace negotiators planning to meet with Russian representatives have been told “not to eat or drink anything” after the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and two Ukrainian peace negotiators were reported to be suffering from what is suspected to be the effects of poisoning. Details of how the poisoning occurred have not been confirmed – […]
- Chinese property developers’ shares are under heavy downward pressure on Hong Kong markets after several said they may not be able to publish their annual results for 2021 as required by regulators by the end of March. Heavily-indebted property developers including Evergrande Group, China Aoyuan Group, Sunac China Holdings and Guangzhou R&F Properties all recently […]
- US President Joe Biden’s ill-advised and reportedly ad-libbed call for regime change in Russia last week implicitly raised the question what kind of government Washington has in mind should President Vladimir Putin be deposed or voluntary step down ahead of Russia’s 2024 presidential election. Biden’s line of what might charitably be called “thinking” has long […]
- Quantum technology, which makes use of the surprising and often counterintuitive properties of the subatomic universe, is revolutionizing the way information is gathered, stored, shared and analyzed. The commercial and scientific potential of the quantum revolution is vast, but it is in national security that quantum technology is making the biggest waves. National governments are […]
- On Sunday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi completed a six-day tour of South Asia, his first in more than two years. The tour was largely aimed at taking stock and kickstarting progress in China’s Belt and Road Initiative in this region. This, of course, placed India aside, as New Delhi has not yet joined the […]
Europe
- A small group of student protesters took to the streets of the Chilean capital on Monday to demand better conditions in schools as the Constitutional Convention delivered to the president a proposal for a new constitution.
- The stoppage over a pay claim will cut Norway's daily gas exports by 13%, the leading union said. It comes as gas supplies to Europe are already tight after Russian cutbacks.
- Ukraine's President Zelenskyy says "superhuman efforts" will be needed to defend the rest of the Donbas after Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the eastern Luhansk region.
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- Parts of northern Italy have already been rationing drinking water to try and deal with the problem.
China
- The 30 Nato allies will now begin a months-long period to ratify membership of the two Nordic countries.
- Ko acted in, wrote and directed hundreds of plays in his almost 40-year career, including runaway successes I Have a Date with Spring, and The Mad Phoenix. He died in his sleep on June 23.
- Andrew Leung says that while previous chief executives had not made a similar call before, it was normal practice for Legco to check with leader on focus areas.
- Foreign Minister Wang Yi also tells counterparts the country will carry out safety inspections on 20 reservoirs and dams.
- Hong Kong customs officers impound millions of untaxed cigarettes in a single month.
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