Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up' (www.reuters.com)
Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles (ground.news)
Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week (www.reuters.com)
New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn (www.independent.co.uk)
‘We Cannot Win’ Says Top Russian Commander (www.kyivpost.com)
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McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)
Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud....
Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along (www.mintpressnews.com)
Schools in France send dozens of Muslim girls home for wearing abayas (www.aljazeera.com)
Schoolgirls who refused to change out of the loose-fitting robes have been sent home with a letter to parents on secularism....
Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico (prospect.org)
Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death (www.cnn.com)
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin....
Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)
Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.
Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster border (apnews.com)
Ukraine to fire all regional military recruitment chiefs (www.reuters.com)
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Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples (fortune.com)
Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off....
Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)
China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.
China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD (www.dw.com)
China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid (www.businessinsider.com)
The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked (www.vice.com)
Thousands of purveyors of neo-Nazi tunes just had their day ruined by a crew of enterprising Scandinavian anti-fascists.
China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (www.theguardian.com)
TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)
Fears of peace talks with Putin rise amid US squabbling (thehill.com)
