The Telegraph, by Will Brown: A catastrophic decline of vulture populations in Africa and Asia is causing alarm among researchers, who fear that a “cascade” effect could lead to the spread of deadly old and new diseases, including plague, anthrax,…

The Jerusalem Post: Tehran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has yet to decide whether to build it, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told Al Jazeera’s Arabic service on Sunday. Tehran will also…

AP News, by Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless: Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the U.K.’s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a…

The Sunday Post, by Mark Howarth: An Edinburgh-based research team fears plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in our seas, has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic. The landmark research…

Newsweek, by Isabel Van Brugen: From July 17, Hong Kong will require all COVID-19 patients under home quarantine to wear an electronic bracelet to stop them from leaving their homes, the city’s new health minister Lo Chung-mau announced Monday. Lo,…

Frontline News, by Yudi Sherman: The “new world order” was outlined and presented this week at the World Government Summit 2022 in Dubai. The conference, which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, had over 4,000 participants, including global officials, advisors,…

CNN, by Irene Nasser and Nimi Princewill: Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of the highly infectious Marburg virus disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday in a statement. The announcement comes after two unrelated patients from the…

Reuters, by Layli Foroudi and Sergio Goncalves: Wildfires spread further in southwest France on Saturday, with nearly 10,000 hectares on fire in the Gironde region, up from 7,300 hectares on Friday. More than 12,200 people had been evacuated from the…

GreatGameIndia: Social credit apps, if poorly developed or used, can lead to serious limitations on, and violations of, citizens’ rights and freedoms, as well as discriminatory practices. Nevertheless, Italy has created a new social credit app to reward citizens for…

Journal Star, by Frank Jordans: Germany is hosting this year’s meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven leading economies in the Bavarian resort of Elmau. Before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia triggered a cascade of crises over food,…

AP News, by Rod McGuirk and Mark Baker: Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. Emergency response teams made 100 rescues…

AP News, by Michael Tarm, Kathleen Foody, and Roger Schneider: A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of…