Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus returned home to strife-torn Bangladesh to lead a new interim government after weeks of tumultuous student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to neighboring India.
Thousands of police and anti-racism protesters gathered on streets across Britain to challenge far-right groups that failed to materialize following more than a week of violent racist attacks. A “show of unity” prevented a repeat of the riots, London’s police chief said.
Israel has been fortifying its home front for months, but the urgency has risen sharply over the past 10 days as the country waits for a threatened attack from Iran and its proxies. Britain and Egypt asked their airlines to avoid Iranian and Lebanese airspace.
Last month was the second hottest July for the planet on record. Meanwhile, water temperatures in and around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have risen to their warmest in 400 years over the past decade, placing the world’s largest reef under threat.
US election
A little over two weeks ago, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had visions of an expansive national strategy that would result in a landslide victory. Now, as they struggle to blunt a surging Kamala Harris, campaign advisers say they are recalibrating to protect states once thought of as safe.
Investors are tiptoeing back into shares of US tech stocks following a sharp tumble, even as some still-elevated valuations threaten to punish dip buyers if markets stumble again.
The Bank of Japan managed to calm investor nerves during global market turmoil by reversing a calibrated strategy to communicate steady interest rate rises, but the flip-flop tests the bank’s resolve to phase out decades of radical stimulus.
Travel companies including Airbnb and Marriott International are forecasting a slowdown in leisure travel as US consumers wait longer to book vacations in a time when the economic outlook remains uncertain.
Companies and others responsible for some of America’s most toxic waste sites are using a federal health agency’s faulty reports to save money on cleanups, defend against lawsuits and deny victims compensation, a Reuters investigation found. A Missouri neighborhood’s tale.
The Wider Image
In the Amazon, an Indigenous trek marks territory where Brazil is absent. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Fifty Munduruku warriors hack their way with machetes through the undergrowth of the Amazon rainforest, marking the borders of their ancestral lands to finish a task that the Brazilian government has not.
It is a quiet but defiant act from a people fighting for decades to urge Brazil’s government to fully recognize their lands, a move that would grant legal protections against loggers, miners, and even the government’s own infrastructure projects.
World’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas. REUTERS/Evan Garcia
As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object – except this printer is more than 45 feet wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes.
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