Craig's Daily Newsfeed

2026-08-07 · 20 items

World (3)

Middle East

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign defence pact

BBC World

World (ex-US, ex-ME)

Besieged Sudanese city faces relentless drone strikes and risk of mass atrocities, U.N. warns

NPR News

US as the world sees it

Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders

BBC World

International (in-language) (7)

India

Foreign Ministry weekly press briefing: Somalia to West Asia, MEA lays out India's policy

state · India state — DD News (Hindi)

Bangladesh's former foreign minister under Yunus makes claims about India

independent · India independent — BBC Hindi

Russia

Lawyer assesses prospects of a lawsuit to remove Yabloko from Duma elections

state · Russia state — RIA Novosti (Russian)

FSB raids crypto exchangers in Moscow City, detains over 20 — some thought they worked for the FSB

independent · Russia independent — Meduza (Russian)

China

Seoul temperature tops 40°C as South Korea suffers worst heatwave in its history

state · China state — China News Service (Chinese)

Japan

Kumamoto earthquake: 38 dead including suspected disaster-related deaths, 6,651 in shelters

state · Japan public — NHK (Japanese)

Kyoto University Hospital medical accident: wrong site removed in brain tumor surgery, patient left unable to breathe on own

independent · Japan independent — Asahi Shimbun (Japanese)

Local (2)

Vermont

A walk through downtown Burlington shows a city in crisis

VTDigger

Puerto Rico

Daily reservoir monitor: 13 reservoirs drop, five see slight rise, as rationing begins

Puerto Rico — El Nuevo Día (Spanish)

Tech & Science (4)

Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Ars Technica

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon

Hacker News

Jony Ive's first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey-puck-sized smart speaker

The Verge

Large genome models used to design new viruses

Ars Technica

Anime (1)

Giant Ojō-sama TV Anime Reveals Visual, Staff, January 2027 Premiere

Anime News Network

Comedy (1)

We Might Be Drunk Ep 273: Adam Carolla

Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk

Podcasts (2)

Matt Taibbi, America's Top Gonzo Journalist, on How the Media Lost Its Mind

Josh Szeps - Uncomfortable Conversations

WTF? Gladiator Battles on the White House Lawn: How MMA & the Manosphere Took Over America

Josh Szeps - Uncomfortable Conversations