Mexico to hold referendum on accountability of ex-presidents A referendum in Mexico on Sunday is going to cost Mexico about $25 million, few like the poorly written question on the ballot, and the vote is being held in the coronavirus pandemic
‘Bring everybody back’: AOC, Bowman and Cori Bush occupy Capitol steps to protest end of eviction moratorium Protest comes as the CDC’s eviction moratorium is set to expire
Belarus Olympics: Krystsina Tsimanouskaya refusing to fly home Krystsina Tsimanouskaya tells Reuters she will not go to Belarus after she is taken to Tokyo airport.
‘Flag worth defending’: Swedish Army places front-page newspaper ad ahead of Stockholm Pride, triggering debate online The Swedish Armed Forces have paid for a pro-LGBTQ ad in one of the country’s leading newspapers, featuring soldiers standing beneath a rainbow flag. The campaign has provoked some fiery discussions online.
Pizza for shots: UK targets young with vaccine incentives Restaurants, ride-hailing apps and food delivery services are backing Britain’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, offering discounts and even free slices of pizza to persuade young people to roll up their sleeves and get the shot
Police guarding polio vaccine teams attacked in Pakistan Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a police officer returning home after security duty with polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan
Helicopters circle and order people to 'go home' in world's strictest lockdown Avi Yemini, a correspondent for Rebel News Online with a history of being vocal about his controversial anti-lockdown views, posted the video of a helicopter circling overhead, enforcing lockdown measures, to Twitter
Tunisia’s President Holds Forth on Freedoms After Seizing Power “‘Why do you think that, at 67, I would start a career as a dictator?’” President Kais Saied said in a meeting with The New York Times, quoting Charles de Gaulle.
Hong Kong Cuts Ties With Teachers Union, Saying It Incited Protests The city’s education bureau said it would no longer meet with representatives or hear its concerns after two of China’s state-media outlets called for an investigation into the group.
A 'sense of achievement' for young Pakistani who summited K2 A young mountaineer who last week scaled the second-highest mountain on earth, says he felt a “sense of achievement” as he stood atop the K2 summit and hoisted the Pakistani flag
Germans detained in Croatia over kids, dog locked in hot car Croatian police have arrested a German couple for leaving their two children and a dog in a locked car with closed windows in hot weather
A 'sense of achievement' for young Pakistani who summited K2 A young mountaineer who last week scaled the second-highest mountain on earth, says he felt a “sense of achievement” as he stood atop the K2 summit and hoisted the Pakistani flag
Myanmar: State of emergency extended with coup leader as PM Gen Min Aung Hlaing takes on the new title and says emergency rule may last until August 2023.
Delta Variant Spreads to Indonesia's Remote, Vulnerable Islands For 18 months, a town in a remote, heavily forested part of eastern Borneo island had avoided the worst of Indonesia’s Covid-19 pandemic. Then, in early July, doctors in Tanah Grogot started seeing what they had long feared.
YouTube bans Sky News Australia for a week over alleged Covid misinformation YouTube has suspended one of the largest media companies in Australia, local Sky News, from posting on its platform for allegedly breaching Covid-19 misinformation policies.
2 rare Sumatran tigers recovering after catching COVID-19 Two rare Sumatran tigers at the zoo in the Indonesian capital are recovering after being infected with COVID-19
Sky News Australia temporarily suspended from YouTube ‘Disturbing attack on ability to think freely,’ says broadcaster
Sky News Australia barred for week by YouTube over Covid misinformation The digital giant bans the channel from uploading new content for a week over misinformation breaches.
Builder sends digger into apartment block ‘because he was owed money’ Man is reportedly subcontractor for building’s developer
100-year-old former concentration camp guard ‘to go on trial in Germany’ Man is said to have worked at Sachsenhausen for three years
Why are so many migrants coming to one of Europe’s smallest countries? Blame Belarus, officials say. Lithuania normally sees about 70 migrants cross its border with Belarus in a year. More than 2,600 crossed in July.
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Myanmar military leader says elections will be in 2 years Six months after seizing power from the elected government, Myanmar’s military leader has repeated his pledge to hold fresh elections in two years and cooperate with Southeast Asian nations on finding a political solution for his country
Earthquake rattles Greek islands close to Turkey The Athens-based Institute of Geodynamics says a 5.4-magnitude tremor occurred early Sunday in the Aegean Sea, near the small Greek island of Nisyros, west of Rhodes
Majority of Turkey wildfires under control, official says More than 100 wildfires have been brought under control in Turkey, according to officials
Riots Shatter Veneer of Coexistence in Israel’s Mixed Towns Israel’s Jewish and Palestinian communities looked past each other until violence and bloodshed forced a reckoning.Seventy-three years after Israel’s birth in the 1948 Independence War, in which hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled or were driven out at gunpoint, Jews and Arabs in Israel live side by side but largely blind to each others’ lives.