Creepy, venomous creatures wash ashore in Spanish hotspot – New York Post

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  1. Creepy, venomous creatures wash ashore in Spanish hotspot  New York Post
  2. Beaches in Spanish tourist hotspot shut after rare, venomous sea slugs found  CNN
  3. Spain Closes Popular Beach Area After Deadly Sea Creature with Potentially Fatal Sting Is Found  People.com
  4. Blue dragon sea slugs with venomous sting are closing Spain's tourist beaches for 2nd time this week  yahoo.com
  5. Beaches closed after discovery of venomous sea creature  The Independent
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​North Korea Honors Its Soldiers Who Fought in Ukraine War – The New York Times

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  1. ​North Korea Honors Its Soldiers Who Fought in Ukraine War  The New York Times
  2. Kim Jong Un acknowledges deaths of 100 North Korean soldiers he sent to fight for Vladimir Putin  Fox News
  3. North Korea’s Top Officers Sent to Russia Are Abruptly Called Home  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Kim Jong Un says his ‘heart aches’ over North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia, in rare admission of losses  CNN
  5. Kim Jong Un acknowledges Ukraine war losses at ceremony for fallen soldiers  The Washington Post
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Milei Adds a Corruption Scandal to His Mounting List of Woes – Bloomberg.com

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  1. Milei Adds a Corruption Scandal to His Mounting List of Woes  Bloomberg.com
  2. Argentine authorities probe Milei official over bribery accusations, media report  Reuters
  3. Disabled agency chief sacked after audio corruption claims  Buenos Aires Times
  4. Argentine cops conduct 15 raids in disability agency bribery probe  Buenos Aires Herald
  5. Argentina Corruption Scandal  The Herald Journal
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Ranil Wickremesinghe: Sri Lanka’s former president arrested – BBC

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  1. Ranil Wickremesinghe: Sri Lanka's former president arrested  BBC
  2. Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe Arrested on Corruption Charges  The New York Times
  3. Sri Lanka's former President Wickremesinghe remanded over alleged misuse of state funds  Reuters
  4. What in the World?  Foreign Policy
  5. Former Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested  Al Jazeera
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Home Office seeks to appeal against court ruling on asylum hotel – BBC

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  1. Home Office seeks to appeal against court ruling on asylum hotel  BBC
  2. How British hotels became a flashpoint for a furious immigration debate  CNN
  3. Protests expected at asylum hotels across UK as tensions mount  The Guardian
  4. Labour has just shown whose side it’s really on  The Telegraph
  5. Police braced for weekend of unrest as fresh wave of hotel protests clashes with Notting Hill Carnival  The Independent
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Checked out: Jenrick’s migrant hotel record haunts his rightwing bid for attention

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Far-right agitator or leadership hopeful? MPs call hypocrisy as former minister rails against system he expanded

Robert Jenrick had been migration minister for just a few days in 2022 when he gave a broadcast interview that could easily have been given by a minister in the current government.

“Suella Braverman [the former home secretary] and her predecessor, Priti Patel, were procuring more hotels,” he told Sky News. “What I have done in my short tenure is ramp that up and procure even more. Because November, historically, has been one of the highest months of the year for migrants illegally crossing the Channel.”

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Canada to drop counter-tariffs on some US goods one day after call with Trump

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Mark Carney says change will go into effect on 1 September but tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos will remain

Canada will drop its counter-tariffs on some American goods in the coming days, Mark Carney has said, as the country’s prime minister looks to end a protracted trade war with longtime ally the United States.

From 1 September, the Canadian government will remove some levies on US goods that comply with the North American free-trade pact, a move meant to “match” how the White House treated Canadian goods. Levies on steel, aluminum and autos will remain in place.

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David Lammy given warning after fishing with JD Vance without licence

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Foreign secretary referred himself to Environment Agency after hosting Vance at Chevening country retreat

David Lammy has received a formal warning after reporting himself for fishing without a licence with the US vice-president, JD Vance.

The foreign secretary took Vance angling at his official country retreat in Chevening, Kent, on 8 August as he hosted him at the start of a holiday in Britain.

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