Manny Pacquiao faces Floyd Mayweather in $300m showdown on May 2 . Pac-Man has released own entrance song 'Lalaban Ako Para Sa Filipino' The 36-year-old also directed the music video ahead of Las Vegas clash .


The schedule is rigorous and exhausting: wake up at 6:00 AM, get ready, study the scriptures for an hour or so, then it's out into the street, knocking doors, keeping appointments, teaching lessons to people, performing service (helping old people with gardening, painting people's houses, helping people move, just whatever kind of help people might have), delivering media people have requested (like if you've ever seen those commercials the church has where people can call a number and request a free video or Bible or Book of Mormon or something), etc. You basically work as hard as you can all day, then fall exhausted into bed about 10:30 and do it all again the next day. After a few months I was asked to serve in leadership positions (they're are "District Leaders" and "Zone Leaders" who oversee other missionaries in their areas) so I had all of my regular missionary duties as well as keeping tabs on the needs of the other men and women (Elders and Sisters, as we called each other) in addition. You don't have anything: a suitcase containing a bunch of dark slacks and white shirts and ties, your scriptures and journal, maybe a few personal things, and that's it. You spend every minute outside of the bathroom with another missionary whom you've never met before (I was lucky, though, as my companions were all really great guys).


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Suvir Mirchandani measured ink used in typefaces and found Garamond was most cost-effective . Teenager came up with the idea for his school science project .


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West Ham are hoping to sign AC Milan youngster M'Baye Niang on loan . 19-year-old has attracted interest from Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal .


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The New York Times: "Seizing on a groundswell of support for rewriting the nation's immigration laws ..." The Washington Post: "Obama added to momentum on Capitol Hill in favor of an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws ..." We saw the same supportive approach when The Pentagon lifted a ban on women serving in front-line combat positions, which, despite some conservative opposition, was greeted with favorable features that largely depicted the move as long overdue. Watch: Should N.Y. Times Have Censored Company Name Over the S-Word? As with many perpetual Beltway disputes, the contours of a common-sense compromise on immigration have been clear for some time. The right wants tougher border enforcement and employer verification procedures. The left wants undocumented immigrants taken out of the "shadows," as Obama put it, and given a chance to become openly productive members of society. The key are the tradeoffs. How long would a path to citizenship take? Are fines and back taxes required? How do we ensure that those who broke the law don't get an unfair advantage over legal applicants? I don't argue with the standard political analysis that the moment may be ripe for immigration reform. Watch: Media Seize on Emotional Moment of Gabby Giffords' Testimony . Mitt Romney, who talked about wanting immigrants to "self-deport," got clobbered among Hispanic voters. The GOP has lost the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections.


1:12. pull up on the parking lot, a block away from the hair dressers. 1:27. hoist myself through the doors, finally here. vomit at the ready. 1:32 and so, the empty hairdressers greeted me, this would be an in and out job, nothing more, nothing less. quick and clean. the woman at the reception desk comes up to lead me to a chair after a few minutes of waiting and just as i open my mouth to say 'thanks'. a storm of regret, jack, bacardi, coke and dry biscuits topples out like niagara falls, sliding down her dress, the majority of it on the floor and her shoes and then i slump back into a stationary position only for her to do some sort of patrick stewart quadruple take. i'm freaking out, she's freaking out, the other hairdresser is in a limbo of anger and laughter and i just lift my hands up in defense and walk at a fairly brisk pace backwards while saying sorry all the while. still haven't got my hair cut. edit: i didn't add it for the overall flow and comedic effect of the story but my roommate drove me up there, i did not drink and drive.


Gilbert definitely has a new spicy hot spot, Joyride Taco House complete with festive decor with a relaxed and friendly atomosphere! I joined friends and family on opening night 7 in all, Justin our waiter handled us like a pro. Not only was he a good waiter but everytime I blinked there was someone at our table with water, drink refills or clearing our table asking us if we needed anything else, they rock the team work attitude! From the homemade chips & fireroasted salsa of which we devoured 3-4 helpings to the tasty chicken tinga, shrimp & scallop tacos,chicken nachos,machaca burritos, empanadas and El Domingo dessert with carmelized pineapple, caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream we finished every tasty bite! \nAn extra thank you for replacing my picky princesses taco, which came with beans she wasn't willing to eat, once the beans were gone so was her taco! Happy kid, happpy Mom!\nThis is the place to go to add a little spice in your foodie life! I'm looking forward to going back to try the variety of drinks and dive into the charred habenero "melt your face" salsa! Oh yes, and more chips please!


My breakthrough came when David Wilson , Senior Director at Machine Intelligence Corp , noticed my project at the Global Tech Summit . Within two weeks , I was hired as a machine learning specialist at their Seattle office . Now , three years later , I lead a team of 8 engineers , managing a budget of 1.2million annually .


His data-dependent chart format made him an enabler for amateur statisticians and precocious list-compilers, kids who couldn't afford subscriptions to the trade magazines. The sturdy scaffolding under Kasem's success was his voice: upbeat, naturally modulated, soothing without being smarmy. Hear him once and he became Casey: familiar, somehow. You could accuse him of being corny, a shameless Pez dispenser of sentimental patter and clich쨬©d advice along with pablum pop. You'd be literally correct but also fundamentally clueless about his down-to-earth appeal. Kasem managed to be commercial without coming across like a hyped-up huckster. He made it seem easy, and also seamless, for instance segueing from a convoluted factoid about Top 10 hits with the word "Doctor" in the title to a Dr. Pepper spot. His voice was the product of formative years spent jumping from radio station to station as well as some acting work. Voice-over gigs proved to be a consistent and profitable sidelight; Kasem's resonant tones appeared in commercials and cartoons. Somewhat improbably, he supplied the voice of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers on "Scooby-Doo." No doubt this further endears him to a generation weaned on musty anachronisms such as network television and Top 40 radio. Tributes: 'Keep reaching for the stars' Truthfully, even at his most popular, Kasem was a bit of an anachronism. When "America's Top 40" debuted in 1970, the rock revolution was in full swing, and free-form FM radio was on the rise.


Current Analysis of Age-Related Treatment Response Patterns During quarterly assessments spanning 18 months , researchers at SeniorCare Institute observed distinct patterns. Chief Medical Officer Robert Williams from the Geriatric Medicine Department reported that subjects from Uppsala County showed 15 % higher responsiveness. The study, funded with 3.2million euros , utilized advanced monitoring systems with device identifiers and addresses recorded for data integrity. Patient records were secured using encrypted protocols and unique identifiers.


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Groundwater is definitely declining. What now? “We need to protect water supplies,” says Wash. Gov. Ferguson. But conservation alone won't solve the problem


Forage King brings gospel of gathering to Northwest. Robin Greenfield has sworn off groceries for a year. Here’s how, here’s why


Fergus McIntosh: “Fact-checking is like taking a car apart in a workshop”. In a media landscape riddled with disinformation, where tracing information back to its source has become difficult, fact-checking by editorial teams is vital. Few know the stakes of this essential work better than Fergus McIntosh, the head research editor running the historic fact-checking department at the American weekly magazine The New Yorker.


Why I chose to study journalism. The context may be challenging and the future uncertain, but Kamiel Vermeulen remains optimistic. The 26-year-old journalist from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) recently completed a master’s degree in journalism and is convinced that the profession has a bright future ahead.


Quality information, an endangered public good. In a world where it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between reliable news and falsehoods, urgent action is needed to defend the right to trustworthy information.


Charity Ekezie: “News organizations need to find more creative ways to engage with youth”. Trained as a journalist, Nigerian content creator Charity Ekezie has shifted from traditional media to focus entirely on digital platforms. In viral videos posted on social media, the TikTok star with 3.7 million followers uses humour to challenge stereotypical perceptions of Africa.


The fake parenting expert Chinese daughters invented to talk to their parents. A fictional parenting expert became a viral sensation after giving Chinese daughters a voice their parents were more willing to hear.


Nepali Poet Viplob Pratik on literature, language, and a life shaped by words. Global Voices interviews leading Nepali writer Viplob Pratik about his four-decade literary career, reflections on language, culture, technology, society, and literature's enduring relevance across generations in changing times today worldwide.


New female falcon takes up residence in MSU nest box, but no eggs are laid. By Demonte Thomas A new female peregrine falcon has appeared at Michigan State University's falcon nesting box atop Spartan Stadium, marking a significant change at a nesting site occupied by peregrine falcons for years.


Study finds climate warming directly affects the makeup of plant communities. By Anna Barnes In Michigan, sugar maple populations are rising and eastern redbud trees are making their way north, while coniferous trees, like the black spruce, continue to decline. One suspected cause: climate warming.


Pride is at Home in Sarajevo, But the Rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina Struggles to Follow. Last year, the sixth Sarajevo Pride March brought thousands of people to the streets of Sarajevo in support of the queer community in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


Memorials and Commemorations in Prijedor: Preserving Facts or Entrenching Divisions? Once a well-known iron ore mine, after 1992, the name Omarska became synonymous with the most notorious detention camp where Bosniaks and Croats from the Prijedor area were tortured and killed.


Srebrenica Youth School 2026. On the occasion of commemorating the 31st anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, the Srebrenica Youth School 2026, organized by the Post-Conflict Research Center, will take place from July 6 to 12 in Sarajevo, Tuzla, and Srebrenica.


Interactive museum adventures in Sarajevo and Zagreb. The post-Yugoslav transition has given rise to various complex relationships with the past.


Tuzla’s Kapija: A Place of Memory and A Crime Awaiting Justice. Powerful verses are engraved at the Kapija Memorial, where, on Youth Day, May 25th, 1995, a massacre was committed against the young people of Tuzla.


Somalia’s emerging security vacuum. Last week, Reuters reported that the United States had informed the African Union (AU) that it would no longer support United Nations-funded logistical assistance for the AU Support and Stabilisation


BHEKISISA CROSSWORD #7. Think you know South Africa’s health system? Put your knowledge to the test with Bhekisisa’s health crossword. Drawing on years of reporting, investigations, data and policy coverage, the puzzle offers a fun way to explore the stories, issues and people that have shaped healthcare in South Africa. Stuck on a clue? The answers are waiting somewhere on


Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade. This week on Health Beat, the booming market for illegal weight-loss jabs: why are so many people willing to risk them?


Collapse of the Amazon Basin Ecosystem: A Death Foretold. If deforestation continues to rise, forest ecosystems — so vital for conserving biodiversity, replenishing water, and maintaining atmospheric balance, as well as being the ancestral home of thousands of Indigenous peoples — are doomed.


Unity, territory, and resistance mark the Assembly of Social Movements. The assembly highlights grassroots work, autonomy, and popular alternatives as pillars of change


March for climate: at COP30, 70,000 people demand climate justice. During the march, we also explored the histories of struggle of people from various regions of the planet


U.S. Treasury sanctions on a VPN service knocked out Telegram’s short-link domain worldwide. U.S. Treasury Department sanctions caused a global outage of the t.me domain on July 14, writes the author of the Telegram channel teleLakel, who obtained an official comment from Identity Digital, the company that operates the .me top-level domain.


Russian media executive Ksenia Sobchak dismisses ‘leaked messages’ that appear to show her dictating her outlet’s coverage: ‘Now it’s ethical to discuss invented screenshots?’. On July 8, the hacker group Black Mirror — which publishes data leaks from the accounts of people tied to the Russian state — and the anonymous VChK-OGPU project posted screenshots of several private conversations. One of the people in them, they said, was the journalist and media executive Ksenia Sobchak.


Ukrainska Pravda: Zelensky offers the prime minister’s job to Naftohaz chief Serhiy Koretsky and a mandate to steel Ukraine’s energy system for the war’s hardest winter yet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered the prime minister’s post to Serhiy Koretsky, the head of the energy company Naftohaz, the Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing unnamed sources. The Financial Times and RBC-Ukraine had earlier named Koretsky one of the leading candidates for the job.


The frustrations (and aspirations) of an annual report. Across thousands of grassroots organisations in India, a familiar ritual unfolds every year—the making of an annual report. It usually begins with the best intentions of the founder, moves through the chaos of middle management, is fed with inputs from team members on the ground, is compiled by someone who focuses on the aesthetics of the document more than its content, and somehow ends in a glossy document that looks far more calm and organised than the process that produced it. This article is written from the point of view of one such report. -- Hi, you can call me AR.vf.VF.VFF.VFFFF.doc. My pronouns are she/her because I am expected to look flawless while quietly carrying a lot of expectations. Today, I’m going to tell you my story. Conception I was conceived nine months ago in the mind of our leader, in our monthly team meeting, which is where good intentions go to become somebody else’s problem. I was assigned to the newest, youngest team member whose only relevant qualifications were


Why women dream of making chili powder in Meghalaya. https://youtu.be/viKmcXQXlbQ?si=TTTBRkkqNajyxa82 In 2020, SeSTA started working with people in the villages of North Garo Hills district in Meghalaya with the aim of creating sustainable livelihoods. The mandate was to help poultry farmers, crop farmers, and micro-entrepreneurs in boosting production, setting up market linkages, and adopting scientific practices that allow them to increase their income in the long run. It soon became a process of collaboration where people brought in fresh ideas and traditional knowledge to make the most of the support that was reaching them. In this video, Hejilla Sangma, Laijish Sangma, Salche D Sangma, and Usha R Marak talk about using community networks to diversify their businesses and what they hope to achieve in the future. Sandip Rabha and Sesrang Koksie from SeSTA and Kalkamchi M Sangma from Faith Foundation also contributed to this article.


Thaak, kantalo aney garmi: Climate reshapes artisans’ lives in Ahmedabad. Shahnaz Kucheravala, a 44-year-old master craftsperson in Ahmedabad, describes how the making of handicrafts is shaped by seasonal patterns. “Block printing is done during the summer when the dye and fabric can dry easily. Periods of low humidity are better for embroidery and stitching, as natural fabrics tend to expand, get mouldy, or stained during the monsoon.” However, rising heat, humidity, and unseasonal rainfall in recent years have begun disrupting these traditional rhythms. “We get most of our work in the summer ahead of the festive season. But with artisans or their family members falling sick because of the heat, it becomes hard to complete orders and sometimes we even lose clients,” she explains. Globally, extreme weather events such as heatwaves are becoming more frequent and prolonged, with urban heat island effects intensifying in densely populated cities. Gujarat is no exception. The state ranks among the world’s top fifty regions most at risk from climate hazards. Ahmedabad district in particular has seen a consistent increase in the duration and intensity


A personality test for the social sector paglus: Part II. The social sector has many personalities. The idealistic. The chaotic. The deeply, sometimes alarmingly, committed. Over time, you meet these personalities in meeting rooms that run 40 minutes over, in e-mail threads that should have been a two-line message, and in pilot projects that have been ‘bas abhi thode time’ away from scale for approximately four years. You recognise them before their names even appear on the thread, a kind of sixth sense, developed through suffering and shared Google Docs. This article is part 2 of your field guide to these familiar figures. 1. The M&E enthusiast If it cannot be measured, it did not happen. If it can be measured, it must be reported quarterly. In four formats. Secretly holds the whole programme together. Nobody says this enough. 2. The whisperer Knows exactly whom to call for what. Across organisations, districts, and government departments, and that one helpful person buried three levels deep in bureaucracy. You do not question their network. You forward the problem and wait, gratefully. Has


Amazon Drought, Kalangala Agroforests & Carbon Confusion. From carbon delays to cultural planting models, today’s forest fixes reveal a deeper tension between what’s counted and what actually counts.


How To Celebrate a Falling Empire This Semiquincentennial. Plus: Why a non-unanimous decision on birthright citizenship should concern us all—and how we keep fighting when we want to give in to crippling fear, grief, and panic.


From a Photo to Abuse: How AI Is Used to Harm Women Online in Indonesia. Trigger warning: The story contains descriptions of digital sexual abuse and violence. AI tools are making it easier to create sexualized images without consent while victims face real-world consequences and live in fear. Big tech platforms, from Meta to X, TikTok, Telegram, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI, haven’t done enough about it. It was June


Bantaeng’s Dust Season: Living on the Front Lines of the Nickel Boom. Residents around the Bantaeng Industrial Park must live with thick dust and the constant roar of nickel smelters that are steadily damaging their health and the environment. The “national strategic project” the government promotes as a road to prosperity has instead become a source of seemingly endless hardship. Ambo One afternoon in October 2025, thick


E20 debate reveals India’s uneven energy transition trade-offs. India’s ethanol push boosts energy security and farm incomes, but consumers remain unconvinced amid mileage and price concerns. The controversy surrounding India’s E20 fuel programme has exposed a deeper tension than a disagreement over automotive technology. Recent proceedings in the Supreme Court and the subsequent clarification issued by the government brought renewed attention to a


Nationalistic performance versus Bushido traditions: Debates over Japanese cleanup at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The domestic cynicism serves as a vital reminder that true national dignity cannot be manufactured for international praise.


Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus found in Milwaukee. Here’s how to protect yourself. Milwaukee residents are being urged to take extra precautions against bites after the first mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus in the state this year were identified in the city, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services


Post From Community: Gallery Night MKE at Charles Allis Art Museum. Join us for Milwaukee Summer Gallery Night on July 17, and Gallery Day on the 18th.


CN Appeal of 231 Bay Street North Intensification Closed at OLT Following City Council Action. The CN Rail appeal of a Hamilton Committee of Adjustment decision approving intensification within an existing building at 231 Bay Street North has been closed at the Ontario Land Tribunal. CN Rail filed the appeal because the building’s long-standing residential use was not recognized and had not been deemed a “Class 4 Area” as defined


Joey’s Linkblog: A Journalism Focused Edition. This edition of my linkblog is focused on journalism. It is a collection of links to stories and issues of interest to my work.


City Manager Marnie Cluckie Departing Hamilton to become CAO of Halifax Regional Municipality. Cluckie will become Halifax's Chief Administrative Officer after two and a half years leading Hamilton.


Hamilton Police Board Cancels Meeting at Last Minute: No Reason Provided. Last week, Council Citizen appointee Anjali Menezes unexpectedly resigned and called for Ontario's Solicitor General to dissolve the Board.


12-Storey, 153-Unit Rental Tower Proposed for Governor’s Road and Ogilvie Street in Dundas Valley. Wilson says community consultation will be critical given the area's ecological and heritage significance. Design Review hearing on July 9th.


Dr. Anjali Menezes Quits Hamilton Police Board and Calls on Solicitor General to Dissolve It. Menezes says the board is a rubber-stamp for police and has failed marginalized communities


NJ legislators approve bills on data centers, nuclear energy and more. New Jersey legislators pondered and passed more than 100 bills Tuesday in Trenton on their race to summer recess.


New Jersey passes bill to expand nuclear energy. Despite opposition from advocacy groups and concerns about cost, the legislature unanimously passed the "Power NJ Act" to increase nuclear power across the state.


The Russian ‘counterterrorism’ unit behind Alexei Navalny’s poisoning tried to automate its search for domestic dissent using Meta’s Llama 2. After a year and a half, the project collapsed. The FSB’s Second Service is officially charged with protecting the constitutional order and combating terrorism. In practice, the unit works to stamp out dissent in Russia: it has plotted the assassinations of opposition politicians, works to restrict internet access, and monitors the news for signs of dissent. To automate that last job, the “Dvoyka” — as the Second Service is known — commissioned an AI-powered system for monitoring news outlets and social media in the spring of 2024. The developer was the Kazan-based company Mikord, which had also worked on components of Russia’s unified military registry and was hacked in December 2025. iStories examined material from that breach relating to the FSB’s news monitoring system. The system was called PAUK — Russian for “SPIDER.”


Goldenrod Therapeutics raises $6.5 million to test UNMC-created drug that could change modern medicine. Incubated by Houston-based Fannin Innovation Studio, the 11h drug created in Nebraska will move toward phase 1 clinical trials in humans. If successful, it could serve as a miracle treatment for incurable neurodegenerative diseases.


BHEKISISA CROSSWORD #8. Think you know South Africa’s health system? Put your knowledge to the test with Bhekisisa’s health crossword. Drawing on years of reporting, investigations, data and policy coverage, the puzzle offers a fun way to explore the stories, issues and people that have shaped healthcare in South Africa. Stuck on a clue? The answers are waiting somewhere on


Who belongs on your board. A good board can add tremendous value to an organisation. The law requires every registered nonprofit to have one, but in the early stages, boards are often made up of friends and family. It rarely evolves to include other kinds of individuals who can add value to the role and to the organisation's mission. Founders of nonprofits in India continue to rely heavily on inviting board members they already have some relationship with, usually directly or through other board members or stakeholders of the organisation. This isn't always problematic, but it does limit how well an organisation can identify the best person for an effective board role. Nonprofits also tend to prioritise funding and fundraising skills as the key requirement for board involvement. And while this is an important element, given that a lot of funding in India is based on relationships and on the founder’s own credibility, it raises a real question. If a nonprofit wants to strengthen its board beyond its ability to draw in funding, what are


Is Meghalaya learning to read its own health data? For decades, any serious conversation about public health in India's Northeast has begun with an apology for the gaps in research, evidence, and data. Policy briefs hedge with caveats. Academic papers note the absence of region-specific studies. Programme reviews flag poor reporting. And somewhere in that recurring acknowledgement of what is missing, the Northeast has become an afterthought in national health discussions—visible on the map, but often invisible in the evidence. Meghalaya exemplified this most sharply. A state of more than 30 lakh people, governed through a layered patchwork of district administrations, traditional institutions, and autonomous district councils, it rarely appeared in national health literature except as a data point in a table, or worse, as a missing value. That absence of reliable data has real consequences. When data does not exist, decisions get made anyway on assumptions borrowed from elsewhere, on national averages that erase local variation, on the instincts of administrators who might or might not understand the terrain. The absence of data is never neutral. It shapes


Operation Sindoor: Did Rajnath Singh claim no soldiers were killed? Soon after the Union government on June 26 officially disclosed the names of the six armed forces personnel killed during Operation Sindoor last year, Opposition leaders demanded Union defence minister Rajnath Singh’s resignation alleging that Singh had “lied to” Parliament and the general public in his 2025 speech, by claiming that no soldiers had been


Federal Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Are Bankrupting States. Some Are Fighting Back.


Ukrainian heritage month bill stalls as House breaks for summer. Bill S-210 has passed the Senate and cleared a House committee, but MPs did not complete the final debate before the Commons adjourned until Sept. 21.


AI is reshaping both sides of Canada’s immigration fraud battle. As artificial intelligence becomes a tool for both fraudsters and the federal government, Canada’s immigration system is entering an arms race in which the same technology is being used to deceive authorities—and to detect deception.


Russia’s state gas giant Gazprom drops 5% to an all-time low on the Moscow Exchange. Gazprom shares fell to 83.98 rubles on the Moscow Exchange on July 16, hitting an all-time low — down 5% from the previous session’s close.


‘I felt like I had been loaned out’: the children sent to relatives in search of a better life. Image Description: A folded school uniform rests on a concrete floor beside a straw broom, a shallow metal basin, and a small cooking pot. The room is dim and empty with no people present. Fatimah’s life would never be the same after her mother decided to move on with a new husband. She was born out…


The “Politics” of Faces on Interior Ministry Pages. On the Syrian Interior Ministry’s official Telegram channel, news of an arrest is rarely presented as a mere administrative notice. More often, it is accompanied by a photograph, a video clip, or emphatic language that frames the detainee not as a suspect still under investigation, but as part of an almost fully formed security narrative: “terrorist cell,” “criminal,” “preemptive strike,” “the Ministry brought them down.”...


Why Syria Needs to Reckon With the Massacres of 1860. Last July, as I watched with sorrow the bloodshed unfolding in Suwayda, I found myself, almost instinctively, searching the pages of history for answers. I was outside Syria at the time, but I had with me Eugene Rogan’s The Damascus Events, which recounts in detail another massacre that likewise unfolded beneath the July sun, more than a century and a half before the events in...


Syria’s Antiquities Trade Fantasy. Over the past several years, antiquities trafficking – and the brokerage networks that grew up around it – have become more than a fringe phenomenon linked to illegal excavation and smuggling. They have come to embody what might be called an “economy of illusion”: a moment when thousands of Syrians shifted from looking for work to looking for a miracle, and from relying on hard...


He was supposed to fund Russia’s drive to replace Western imports. So how did an adult-diaper factory end up losing 50 million rubles? A Moscow court has ordered the detention of Dmitry Kolobov on suspicion of fraud on an especially large scale. Kolobov formerly headed the Industry and Trade Ministry’s Department for Industrial Development and Socially Significant Goods. The Russian state news agency TASS and the business news outlet RBC reported the detention, citing sources.


As Russian missiles and drones pound Kyiv, the EU targets the conglomerate that builds the guidance systems for both. The European Council imposed sanctions in July in response to Russian strikes on Kyiv. The measures target Irina Kharisova, chair of ABS Electro’s board, and five companies within the group.


Are nesting dolls and kokoshnik headdresses even Russian? A former Pushkin Museum director’s answer just got her reported to prosecutors. On June 18, Elizaveta Likhacheva, an art historian and former director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, sat down with YouTuber Pavel Kostin for an interview that focused mainly on education and child-rearing — but it was her remarks on Russian culture and identity that drew the most attention. “Why distance ourselves from Western culture? I don’t understand it,” she told Kostin. “Russia is part of a great civilization. For us, this may be our last chance to reckon with that question.”


Baruipur rape-murder accused Ananda Sardar was CPI(M)’s polling agent? No, fake document viral. A screenshot of an alleged Facebook post is being widely shared on social media with the claim that Ananda (Anondo) Sardar, one of the accused arrested in the alleged rape and murder of a minor in West Bengal’s Baruipur, had served as a CPI(M) polling agent during the 2026 assembly elections. The minor girl’s body


Beyond the spotlight: Three PhD scholars, 21 days without food, and a government that remains unmoved. By the time Delhi Police removed Sonam Wangchuk from Jantar Mantar and admitted him to Safdarjung Hospital on the morning of July 18, the spotlight had already been fixed on his deteriorating health. But a few metres away from the main stage, three lesser-known faces remained where they had been for three weeks — still


Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’. “I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.”


In a Wisconsin land rush, data centers made them millionaires. Some sellers whose properties fetched several times the fair market value are dissatisfied, and their former neighbors aren’t happy either.


Nepal’s slum demolitions spark human rights outcry. Nepal’s slum demolitions have displaced thousands, turning a promise of land reform into a human rights crisis. The mass eviction of slums and informal settlements in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and surrounding districts has displaced an estimated 15,000–20,000 people. On April 25, the Nepal government began forcibly removing landless residents from the Kathmandu Valley, later extending


Roscosmos institute scientist arrested in Moscow on treason charges. Moscow’s Meshchansky Court has arrested Maxim Kravchuk, a 35-year-old scientist, on treason charges, the Russian Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti and the Russian business news outlet RBC reported.


Moscow Exchange index falls to lowest since fall 2022. Russia’s Moscow Exchange index dropped below 1,900 points at Monday’s open for the first time since October 10, 2022.


Prairie Portraits: Amy Johnson. The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and community builders from Nebraska's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.


A 12-year-old’s antiwar drawing sent her father to Russian prison. Three years later, they’re starting over in Paris after a stalled bid for asylum in Germany. In the fall of 2024, Alexei Moskalev — released from prison after being convicted of “discrediting” the Russian military — reunited with his 14-year-old daughter, Masha, and the two moved from Russia to Armenia. There, they applied for a German humanitarian visa. But in 2025, Germany effectively closed that program to Russians. In March 2026, France issued humanitarian visas to the Moskalevs. On July 17, they were granted political asylum. Bereg, a cooperative of independent journalists, spoke with Alexei Moskalev about how the family’s new life is beginning. Meduza is publishing the interview in full.


Roskomnadzor says it isn’t blocking the App Store, but Russia’s outage started the day after its ultimatum to Apple expired. Users in Russia have been reporting problems with the App Store. Availability of the service began declining on July 16 and has not recovered since. Roskomnadzor representatives said they are not blocking the App Store. Journalists, however, suspect Russian authorities imposed the restrictions in response to Apple’s recent removal of VK apps from the App Store. Here’s what’s confirmed so far, and what a full App Store block in Russia could mean for users.


Milwaukee celebrates Hank Aaron with mural at Clinton Rose Senior Center. Henry “Hank” Aaron’s legacy and the 50th anniversary of his 755th home run were honored Monday in Milwaukee.


In Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta, debt can be deadlier than droughts. Farmers too scarred by extreme droughts and saltwater intrusion to borrow again


Myanmar’s lifeline river becomes harder to navigate. Longer dry spells, stronger monsoon currents and conflict-driven forest loss are making the Lay Myo River – one of northern Rakhine State's main transport lifelines – shallower and less predictable


What’s in a cut: the grass not so green on the other side. As climate impacts intensify, tender beef lovers in Viet Nam ultimately face ethical questions beyond food fraud


Democratising outcomes-based financing. India set out on its outcomes-based finance (OBF) journey in 2015 with the Educate Girls Development Impact Bond. Since then, at least USD 59 million[1] has been mobilised through various OBF initiatives across sectors such as health, education, employment, and livelihoods.[2] OBF is broadly defined as a flexible set of financing mechanisms and organisational strategies that link payments to the achievement of pre-defined and verified outcomes. All OBF mechanisms are defined around three principles: the extent to which funding is tied to results, the balance between outputs and outcomes used to trigger payments, and allocation of performance risk among stakeholders. Discussions around scaling and mainstreaming OBF have recently gained momentum. This has been bolstered by the success of early initiatives and the government’s promotion of OBF for skilling and livelihoods. One of the ways in which OBF can be scaled is by ensuring that a larger number of donors and implementation partners (IPs) can participate, which is critical for the approach to gain credibility and evolve. While OBF


Transforming South Africa’s power grid, virtually. As South Africa's renewables boom creates millions of connected energy assets, Virtual Power Plants could transform homes into a smart network. Thabo Molelekwa investigates


Pollution regulations flouted as Zimbabwe’s plastic crisis deepens. Zimbabwe has had laws banning thin plastic packaging and polystyrene containers since 2010, but plastic waste has grown by 50,000 tonnes since then. Macdonald Mudzaki investigates


Mexico’s 99% Demanded Justice by Showing FIFA, Billionaires, and Corporations a Red Card


Baton-with-nails videos indeed from July 20 protests. Delhi Police, PIB’s ‘fact check’ incorrect. After participants from the July 20 march in Delhi put up videos on social media saying that police were carrying batons with nails fixed on them during the crackdown on protesters, Delhi police called the claims misleading and false. Two videos surfaced on social media showing such batons and protesters confronting police officers about their


Company secures world-first fusion power license in Washington. Construction is underway for a plant that will provide electricity for a Microsoft data center


BHEKISISA CROSSWORD #9. Think you know South Africa’s health system? Put your knowledge to the test with Bhekisisa’s health crossword. Drawing on years of reporting, investigations, data and policy coverage, the puzzle offers a fun way to explore the stories, issues and people that have shaped healthcare in South Africa. Stuck on a clue? The answers are waiting somewhere on


Old, unrelated video falsely shared as showing youths gathering at India Gate in support of the Delhi Police against the CJP protests. The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) began a sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 20 June 2026, demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged examination irregularities. Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk joined the protest on 28 June and began an indefinite hunger strike. On 20 July, protesters launched a “Chalo


Mob vandalizing SUV: Bihar video falsely viral as Muslim CJP protestor torching BJP leader’s car. A video, around 37 seconds in length, is viral on social media, showing a Muslim man trying to set fire to a black SUV. It is being shared as showing a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protestor setting ablaze a car of a BJP worker in broad daylight. In the video, policemen can be spotted negotiating


None of these videos show Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay visiting Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) began a sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 20 June 2026, demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged examination irregularities. Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk joined the protest on 28 June and began an indefinite hunger strike. On 20 July, protesters launched a “Chalo


Oracle credit rating drops amid Wisconsin fight over data center credit rules. The downgrade comes as Oracle challenges state regulators' decision to require companies with lower credit ratings to post millions in collateral for new data centers.


From Mexico to Venezuela: A diaspora’s race to save lives. From Mexico, Venezuelans mobilized within hours, building trusted networks to deliver aid and proving that solidarity can cross any border.


No one fired pellet guns in Delhi. Someone owes 25-year-old Irshad Mansoori an explanation. He lies in a hospital bed with a pellet lodged near a blood vessel in his neck even after undergoing a surgery on July 21. Someone should also explain to 19-year-old Sahil Lochab, recovering from a surgery on July 22, how he received a grievous eye injury and


Russian man gets 20 years for killing military police officer who tried to detain his deserter son. The Lipetsk Regional Court sentenced 63-year-old Alexey Zaitsev to 20 years in prison for killing a military police officer, the court’s press service reported.


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Old Bihar protest video falsely shared as showing police action during the CJP protest in Delhi. The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) began a sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 20 June 2026, demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged examination irregularities. Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk joined the protest on 28 June 2026 and launched an indefinite hunger strike. On 20 July 2026, protesters’ “Chalo


What frontline social workers need to stay safe at work. On August 5, 2019, Kritika*, a counsellor at Shakti Shalini, was withdrawing cash from an ATM near our office in Jangpura, New Delhi, when she was attacked by a group of eight people attempting to abduct her. The attack was led by the former partner of a survivor of sexual and gender-based violence living at Shakti Shalini's shelter home. Kritika was handling the case, protecting the survivor’s well-being and identity. Despite the presence of several bystanders, she did not get any help when she was attacked. Kritika eventually managed to escape, but her case is not an exception. While there is limited data on the safety of frontline social workers, human rights defenders, and crisis responders, evidence from the health sector shows that violence against frontline workers is routine. During the COVID-19 pandemic alone, 133 attacks against healthcare workers were documented despite the existence of legal protections. Frontline social workers, however, continue to play a critical role in crisis response, social justice, development, and empowerment efforts without comparable recognition or


Scattered by War, United by Football. When Bosnia and Herzegovina qualified for the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Mexico and Canada, celebrations erupted across the country and throughout Bosnian communities around the world.


Kommersant: foreign messaging app audience in Russia grew 26%. Telegram remains among leaders despite being blocked. The combined audience of foreign messaging apps that remain unblocked in Russia grew 26% in the second quarter of 2026, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported, citing a study by the Russian mobile operator MTS AdTech.


Electricity consumption in occupied Crimea nearly halves in July amid blackouts from Ukrainian strikes. Electricity consumption in occupied Crimea fell 42% year over year in the first 20 days of July 2026, and dropped 28% compared with the first 20 days of June, according to a study by the independent Russian media outlet The Bell.


Tickets to nowhere: Haitian refugees fall prey to travel scams. Across Haitian social media, testimonies about fraudulent travel agencies appear almost every week. Most of these agencies ask for between 3,500 and 5,000 US dollars for trips that never actually happen.


Russian disinformation network Storm-1516 accused of targeting French presidential candidate Édouard Philippe with fake health claims. A French security source told AFP that the Russian disinformation network “Storm-1516” targeted former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, one of the declared candidates for the French presidency, as part of an effort to interfere in France’s presidential election.


City Notice: Complete Application for 520 Highway No. 8 (Stoney Creek). The City of Hamilton issued a required Planning Act notice on Friday that a complete application for an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment has been amended for a proposed 12-storey “purpose-built rental building” at 520 Highway No. 8 in Stoney Creek, located on the southwest corner at Dewitt Road.


How transnational movements can shield African civil spaces. In the past, state repression was largely contained within a country's own frontiers. Today, autocrats are cooperating across borders, using digital surveillance.


The Citizenship Backlog IRCC Isn’t Counting. IRCC confirmed it resolved the real holdup in one applicant’s citizenship file last year — and confirmed it has no practice of telling people when a problem happens.


Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters. A new once-a-month HIV prevention pill is moving into the final stage of testing. But early South African uptake data of the six-monthly anti-HIV jab suggest the biggest breakthrough may not be a new medicine — it may be giving people more ways to protect themselves.


BHEKISISA CROSSWORD #10. Think you know South Africa’s health system? Put your knowledge to the test with Bhekisisa’s health crossword. Drawing on years of reporting, investigations, data and policy coverage, the puzzle offers a fun way to explore the stories, issues and people that have shaped healthcare in South Africa. Stuck on a clue? The answers are waiting somewhere on


If your nonprofit was a bird. A peacock showing its best self vs an ostrich burying its head in the sand.


‘All of this has to be stopped’: Kazakh president calls for war in Ukraine to be ‘frozen’ atmeeting with Putin. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for the war between Russia and Ukraine to be frozen during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to video published by propagandist Pavel Zarubin.


The Killers and the Killed: The Sarajevo Safari Investigations. Not one sniper who participated in the Siege of Sarajevo has ever been prosecuted. Three decades later, four European governments, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, are investigating an allegation that some of the snipers were not even soldiers, but foreign nationals who paid to take part in the so-called “Sarajevo Safari.”


Powerful storm kills one, injures about 30 in southern Russia. See the flooded streets, toppled trees, and wrecked cars. On July 25, a powerful storm with heavy rain and thunderstorms swept through Russia’s Rostov region. One person died in the storm, and 28 more were injured, according to the latest data cited by Rostov-on-Don Mayor Alexander Skryabin on July 26. Due to the bad weather, 15 cities and districts in the region were left without electricity, and Rostov and several other towns had water supply problems (restored by the morning of July 26). The storm damaged buildings and toppled hundreds of trees: more than a thousand in Rostov alone, according to the mayor. Rostov region Governor Yuri Slyusar assured residents that the administration is overseeing recovery efforts, and asked people in the region to stay home if possible. Meduza is publishing photos and videos of the storm’s aftermath in the Rostov region.


Post From Community: City of Milwaukee Election Commission announces start of early voting for August 11 Partisan Primary. Early Voting begins Tuesday, July 28, at six sites across Milwaukee.


The unasked question in the Epstein case: Were any victims stateless? If even a few stateless children were pulled into Epstein’s trafficking network, that fact matters. It matters legally. It matters morally. And it matters for every stateless child.


Zelensky arrives in the US. He has talks planned with U.S. President Trump. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the United States, he announced on his Telegram channel.