Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• CBC ☛ 2024-07-19 [Older] Fake nurse pleads guilty to assaulting patients by IV injection

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Japan's drinks companies look to tap into foreign markets

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] US: Famous sex therapist 'Dr. Ruth' dead at 96

• Manchester Evening News ☛ Why Spice has 'crept back' to Manchester

  The city was dubbed 'Spicechester' such was the prevalence of people being left in 'zombie-like' states as a result of the synthetic cannabinoid and former 'legal high', back in 2017.

  [...]

  Things got so bad there were 58 drug-related call-outs to the city centre on one weekend alone. Things have improved markedly since then. Emerging from the crisis, a drug monitoring, testing, and alert system has won plaudits and been replicated up and down the country.

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] China cooking oil scandal exposes food safety problem

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Blastocystis: Gut parasites that keep you healthy

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Cooling cities with country air

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] Childhood vaccinations stall globally, WHO warns

• CBC ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Poilievre wants to shut down Montreal's supervised drug-inhalation site and others that 'endanger the public'

• CBC ☛ 2024-07-18 [Older] 500 Olympic-sized pools of partially treated sewage hit Toronto's waterways after storm

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-17 [Older] Paraguay finds 4 tons of cocaine in Belgium sugar shipment

• The Journal ☛ Israeli military to vaccinate soldiers against polio after high levels found in Gaza sewage

  Polio can cause paralysis and in extreme cases death.

Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Merit Makes Right: Microsoft Lays Off DEI Team, Leader Calls Policies 'No Longer Business Critical'

  Apparently, diversity, equity and inclusion are not mission-critical for a major business to operate smoothly.

  And that’s not according to a conservative think tank or anything of that ilk.

• TechStory Media ☛ NetherRealm Studios Faces Layoffs, Closing Mobile Division and Mortal Kombat Onslaught

  Adding to the unfortunate trend plaguing the gaming industry in 2024, NetherRealm Studios, the renowned developer behind Mortal Kombat and Injustice franchises, has been hit with layoffs. According to former employees and industry reports, the brunt of the cuts appears to have fallen on the studio’s entire mobile team.

Defence/Aggression

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Court: Mainz wrong to sack El Ghazi over Gaza comments

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] Germany arrests suspected Hezbollah member

• Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-07-17 [Older] On Stochastic Terrorism and Speech as Violence

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] North Korea decries 'illegal' joint NATO declaration

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] Jihadis in northern Mozambique use rape as a weapon of war

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] European Commission to partly boycott Hungary's presidency

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] Afghan women taking the initiative against the Taliban

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] A new arms race in Europe? US long-range weapons in Germany

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] China's joint maneuvers with Belarus: Is the SCO behind it?

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] Ecuador court sentences suspects in candidate murder

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] Germany: Police search rural Bavaria after dead body found

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-14 [Older] Where does Germany stand on gun control?

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-14 [Older] North Korea: Kim's sister outraged by leaflets from South

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-14 [Older] Trump rally: FBI searching for motive behind shooting

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-14 [Older] Israel says Hamas brigade commander killed in Gaza strike

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-14 [Older] Kenya: Police face pressure over mutilated bodies in Nairobi

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] How 'dangerous' is a new NATO office in Jordan?

Environment

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Heat in the city: Can cold air corridors help?

• US News And World Report ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Caribbean Seeks Help in Fighting Climate Change After Hurricane Beryl Devastates Small Islands

• Vox ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Why Hurricane Beryl was more than Houston could handle

• Vox ☛ 2024-07-11 [Older] The US is failing renters during extreme heat waves

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-17 [Older] Europe: Scorching heatwave bakes Greece, Balkan region

• Energy/Transportation

  • The Age AU ☛ 2024-07-19 [Older] Australia news LIVE: CFMEU fallout continues; Energy ministers to discuss cost of living, supply

  • International Business Times ☛ 2024-07-18 [Older] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Diversifies Portfolio with Investments in AI, Apparel, and Energy Stocks

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-07-18 [Older] California First State to Get Federal Funds for Hydrogen Energy Hub to Help Replace Fossil Fuels

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Michigan’s electric energy future could be wasting away in a junk drawer

  • CBC ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] TC Energy's $15B Keystone XL legal claim against U.S. government thrown out

  • Vox ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Energy drinks are everywhere. How dangerous are they?

  • NL Times ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] Energy firm may add fees for 24/7 energy access; Home batteries could fix national grid

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] EU faces green dilemma in sourcing nickel from Indonesia

• Wildlife/Nature

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Turkey Presents Bill to Get Stray Dogs off the Streets

  • BIA Net ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Wildfires in western Turkey claim three lives

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Dozens of pilot whales die on beach off Scotland

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] New Zealand: 'World's rarest whale' washes ashore

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] Romania approves bear cull increase after hiker death

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] In Canada's Remote Labrador, Tiny Happy Valley Hosts Thousands of Wildfire Evacuees

Finance

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-17 [Older] Germany's coalition agrees on a contentious 2025 budget

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] China: Communist Party meets amid economic slump

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] Nigeria: High cost of living bites hard

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] Pakistan reaches $7 billion aid deal with IMF

• CBC ☛ 2024-07-11 [Older] U.S. private equity firm to buy Héroux-Devtek in deal valued at $1.35B

• Mexico News Daily ☛ 2024-07-11 [Older] Brews without borders: How Beermex links Canada and Mexico through beer

• Scheerpost ☛ 2024-07-19 [Older] Canada Makes an Unprecedented Push for Multifamily Housing

Lobbying/Politics

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Paul Kagame: Rwanda's strongman leader

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] US: Senator Menendez convicted on corruption charges

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-14 [Older] In Tunisia, those running for office risk repression

2024-07-19 [Older] In response to Trump speech, AMLO plans to send his ‘friend Donald’ a letter

TruthOut ☛ 2024-07-19 [Older] Trump’s RNC Speech Riddled With Lies, Xenophobia and False Claims of Unity

Vox ☛ 2024-07-19 [Older] It’s Trump’s party now. Mostly.

Vox ☛ 2024-07-19 [Older] The RNC clarified Trump’s 2024 persona: Moderate authoritarian weirdo

2024-07-18 [Older] Adrian Ramsay reacts to King’s Speech

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-12 [Older] Elon Musk's X platform in breach of EU rules

Scheerpost ☛ 2024-07-18 [Older] Supreme Court Affirms Platforms’ First Amendment Right to Curate Speech

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] France condemns Argentina footballers' 'racist remarks'

ANF News ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] IPJ condemns killing of journalist Ibrahim, urges Turkey and Iraq to launch investigation

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Germany bans right-wing extremist Compact magazine

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-17 [Older] Quest for tighter borders, may threaten EU's Schengen idea

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-17 [Older] Romania court bars Andrew Tate from EU travel until trial

BIA Net ☛ 2024-07-18 [Older] Turkey becomes first country to ban Wattpad

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-13 [Older] Pakistan: Court acquits Imran Khan in illegal marriage case

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-16 [Older] Pakistan: Why banning Imran Khan's party could backfire

Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-07-15 [Older] Will China ever overtake the US economy?