Russia forces adult content creator & hook-up app user to help entrap gay men ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Brazil’s Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia ( apnews.com )
SAO PAULO (AP) — The indictment of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation, with more potentially in store....
NATO leaders will vow to pour weapons into Ukraine for another year, but membership is off the table ( apnews.com )
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO leaders plan to pledge next week to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year, hoping to reassure the war-ravaged country of their ongoing support and show Russian President Vladimir Putin that they will not walk away....
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election ( www.theguardian.com )
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Man who stabbed South Korea’s opposition leader sentenced to 15 years in prison ( apnews.com )
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man who stabbed South Korea’s opposition leader in the neck earlier this year was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday, court officials said....
Afghanistan has been through everything. Now it wants to dust off its postal service and modernize ( apnews.com )
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have adopted a creative approach for connecting. They use mosques as drop points for bills and cash, a “pay and pray” system....
Fierce fighting breaks out as militias launch new attacks against regime in Myanmar’s civil war ( apnews.com )
BANGKOK (AP) — New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered cease-fire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war....
A week after an alleged coup attempt in Bolivia, confusion and conspiracy theories reign ( apnews.com )
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A plan to stage a coup against Bolivia’s president was not what Gen. Tomás Peña y Lillo was expecting when he entered the military headquarters in La Paz last Wednesday....
Increasingly Isolated US Leans on Anglophone Countries Instead of Policy Changes ( truthout.org )
