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…

NBC New York, by Myles Miller and Marc Santia: A 20-year-old mother pushing her 3-month-old child in a stroller was executed at point-blank range by a gunman wearing all black on Manhattan’s Upper East Side Wednesday, and that suspect remained…

Fast Company, by Sy Mukherjee: Until recently, CRISPR—the gene-editing technology that won scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry—sounded more like science fiction than medicine; lab-created molecular scissors are used to snip out problematic DNA…

Faithwire, by Tré Goins-Phillips: The latest comic-book version of the popular Marvel superhero Spider-Man will be homosexual. Marvel Entertainment, which was purchased by The Walt Disney Company for $4 billion in 2009, is slated to soon introduce “Web-Weaver,” an alternate-universe…

CNS News: Pope Francis met today at the Vatican with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) and her husband Paul Pelosi, just two days after the speaker had publicly declared her commitment to pushing Congress to enact legislation “to enshrine Roe v….