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Headlines: 21-27 July 2025

Friday, 25 July 2025

Thailand-Cambodia border dispute: 130,000 Thai civilians evacuated amid second day of clashes: fighting spreads to 12 locations (LINK) 25 July 2025


Gaza running out of specialized food to save malnourished children, UN agencies say: supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food will be depleted by mid-August if nothing changes, says Unicef (LINK) 25 July 2025


TikTok influencer based in Arizona sentenced in D.C. to 8.5 years for aiding North Korean IT sanctions evasion scheme: North Korean plot to infiltrate the U.S. tech workforce and fund the regime's weapons programme (LINK) 25 July 2025

— She ran a "laptop farm" , allowing North Korean IT workers to remotely access U.S.-based networks while appearing to be physically located inside the country, and laundered wages, aiding over 300 job placements. Between 2020 and her arrest, she helped operatives obtain remote roles at more than 300 American companies, including Fortune 500 firms, a major television network, and a leading aerospace manufacturer. North Korea has been linked to several other major crypto heists, including those targeting Bybit, the Ronin Bridge, Harmony, and various DeFi platforms.


Thursday, 24 July 2025

French plan to recognise Palestine: US 'strongly rejects' plan, Saudis hail 'historic decision' (LINK) 24 July 2025

— France intends to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the UN General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday in hopes of bringing peace to the region, but the plan drew angry rebukes from Israel and the United States.


One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished, UNRWA says, and it has thousands of truckloads of supplies near Gaza which it wants to deliver (LINK) 24 July 2025


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a new bill restoring the independence of the country’s anti-corruption agencies after protests, EU criticism (LINK) 24 July 2025


Tether freezes $1.6m in USDT linked to Gaza-based terror financing as Bitcoin holds near $118,700 support (LINK) 24 July 2025


Ripple alerts community to possible rise in deepfake scams impersonating XRP executives on YouTube (LINK) 24 July 2025


Venus Williams says she returned to tennis "for the health insurance" (LINK) 24 July 2025


Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Protests in Ukraine as Zelensky signs bill targeting anti-corruption bodies (LINK) 23 July 2025

— The new law grants the prosecutor general control of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (Sap), and critics say it undermines their authority. In an address, Zelensky said both agencies would still "work" but needed to be cleared of "Russian influence".


Gold gains with weaker dollar as traders weigh the Fed's future (LINK) 23 July 2025


U.S. federal appeals court in San Francisco finds Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block (LINK) 23 July 2025


Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change (LINK) 23 July 2025


Unprecedented sargassum surge threatens tourism in the Caribbean (LINK) 23 July 2025


Swiss-based Proton to debut Lumo, a new privacy-focused AI chatbot (LINK) 23 July 2025

— Unlike ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — all of which gather user data and continue to hold onto it for training and archival purposes — all of your chats with Lumo are completely end-to-end encrypted. Additionally, the company claims that it won't keep logs of your chats, and that any chat history or usage of the AI can only be accessed on the user's device. Access it for free at lumo.proton.me or by downloading the Lumo app on Android or iPhone devices.


Tuesday, 22 July 2025

At least 72 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in previous 24 hours as Unwra chief brands Gaza 'hell on earth': Head of UN Palestinian Refugee Agency says aid distribution points are a 'sadistic death trap' (LINK) 22 July 2025

— Unrwa commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini said snipers opened fire randomly on crowds at aid sites as if they are given a "licence to kill". The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation responded by claiming the UN was "refusing" to deliver aid in Gaza that could help end the desperation in the region.


Over a dozen children in Gaza dead of malnutrition over the past 3 days, Hamas-run ministry says (LINK) — ground.news: 42 media reports (LINK) 22 July 2025

— Gaza's health ministry said 33 people in total have died from malnutrition in last 48 hours. It brings the total number of these deaths to 101, including 80 children, according to the Hamas-run ministry.


New 2500m2 artwork in Alps by French-Swiss artist Saype on the summit above Villars-sur-Ollon in Canton Vaud (LINK) 22 July 2025

— Titled "Towards the Horizon", it depicts a kneeling boy with a backpack, next to books and a pile of rocks. Made with chalk and charcoal it will hopefully be visible for several weeks, until it is washed away.


Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency: White House cites Unesco's focus on 'divisive social and cultural causes' in latest withdrawal from global bodies (LINK) 22 July 2025

— US withdrawal is to take effect in December 2026. The US provides about 8% of the body's total budget, making the financial impact of Washington's departure less severe than for other organisations, such as the WHO, for which the US is by far the biggest financial backer.


Trump Media & Technology Group is now the fifth-largest publicly traded corporate holder of Bitcoin (LINK) 22 July 2025


French culture minister Rachida Dati and former Renault CEO Nissan Carlos Ghosn will be tried for corruption (LINK) 22 July 2025

— Ghosn is under several international arrest warrants and is legally barred from leaving Lebanon, where he sought refuge in December 2019 after fleeing Japan, where he was incarcerated.


Lötschental: funicular and restaurants below Blatten gain daily visitors after disaster: minibuses run almsot full on sunny days to Kummenalp and Faldumalp west of Lauchernalp, saving a 5-hour walk (LINK in French) 22 July 2025


Monday, 21 July 2025

UN mission in Afghanistan concerned by Taliban's arrest of Afghan women and girls for dress code violations (LINK) 21 July 2025

— In May 2022, the Taliban government issued a decree calling for women to show only their eyes and recommending they wear a head-to-toe burqa. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said it was concerned by the arrest of "numerous" women and girls in Kabul between July 16 and 19, who authorities claimed had not followed instructions on wearing the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf. "These incidents serve to further isolate women and girls, contribute to a climate of fear, and erode public trust," the mission added, without details including the number of arrests or the ages and where they have been held.


White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell (LINK) 21 July 2025


IOM makes a high-level hire as thousands in the agency lose jobs (LINK) 21 July 2025

— Appointment of Michele Sison, a close ally of Director-General Amy Pope, another American,as director of the Washington-based IOM Global Office may violate the organization’s internal rules on staff age. PassBlue found that appointments cannot be offered to candidates who are 63 and older. Sison, born in 1959, turned 66 in May. At the time of her hire, she was technically over the age limit, which would have made her ineligible under the stated guidelines. In February employees were told about 3,000 were about to get laid off in agencywide job cuts. An additional 20 percent staff cut, affecting 250 positions at IOM headquarters, followed shortly thereafter. In total, IOM has laid off more than 6,000 of its personnel worldwide so far this year.

— "Although Pope assured staff in an email that executive posts would not be spared from the 'structural adjustments', this has not been the case. Sources told PassBlue that jobs close to Pope have largely been protected from the major shakeup." In 2024, the US was the IOM's largest donor, contributing $1.6 billion in voluntary funding to its operations. That support has dropped significantly with President Donald Trump’s UN-wide and other funding cuts, but neither IOM nor the State Department provided precise information on the amounts.


Bondi takes revenge on family of man who created anti-ICE app: fires wife (LINK) 21 July 2025

— Joshua Aaron created ICEBlock to show where raids are taking place. Pam Bondi's Justice Department has fired the wife of the man who developed a controversial "anti-ICE" warning system after far-right influencer Laura Loomer attacked her on X. Carolyn Feinstein, who is married to ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron, had served as a forensic accountant at the DOJ's Office of the U.S. Trustee for almost a decade. On Friday she received an email from the department informing her that her position would be terminated.


Rising food prices driven by climate crisis threaten world’s poorest, report finds (LINK) 21 July 2025


Microsoft warns of active SharePoint cyber attack: 54 victims confirmed (LINK) 21 July 2025


Revolut kicks off recruitment drive for 400+ as new Western Europe HQ takes shape in Paris following the recent appointment of Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier as CEO Western Europe (LINK) 21 July 2025

— The company now employs over 13,000 people globally. Serving over 60 million customers across Europe and beyond, Revolut champions a hybrid working model.


Bangladesh: at least 19 dead after air force jet crashes into school: Air Force says the F-7 jet experienced a mechanical fault after taking off for a training exercise in Dhaka (LINK) 21 July 2025


White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell (LINK) 21 July 2025


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