Bell Pottinger’s Wicked Wiki Ways – Controversial London public relations firm Bell Pottinger seems to have side-stepped Wikipedia regulations and has been able to edit entries about the Gupta family, leaked e-mails show. [tlive]

Pro-Gupta Bots Unmasked – The Twitterati has come to the defence of South Africa’s democracy by outing fake pro-Gupta Twitter accounts. The software-run accounts — known as Twitter bots — have been used to promote the “white monopoly capital” narrative. Many were created in India. [tlive]

Trump’s Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton – President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. [nyt]

Trump Aides: Russia Flap Proves Don Jr. Is The ‘Fredo’ Of The First Family – Former Trump campaign officials said Trump Jr.’s role in the scandal involving a Kremlin-linked lawyer is just the latest in a series of mistakes by the president’s first born son. [beast]

‘Tipping Point For Nuclear War’ – North Korea Lashes Out After US Practice Bombing Run – North Korea on Sunday lashed out at a live-fire drill the US and South Korea staged in a show of force against Pyongyang, accusing Washington of pushing the peninsula to the “tipping point” of nuclear war. [tele]

France Wants To Jail The Luxury-Loving Playboy Son Of Africa’s Longest Serving President – A French prosecutor has asked a court to sentence the vice president of Equatorial Guinea to three years in prison for embezzling $115 million from his country to buy luxury cars, real estate, and other assets in France. [qz]

350,000 Demand UK Allow Terminally Ill Baby To Travel To US – The parents of a terminally-ill British baby boy on Sunday delivered a petition of over 350,000 signatures demanding they be allowed to take him to the United States from treatment. [afp]

Serial Rhino Poaching Brothers Back In Court – Two brothers accused of rhino poaching, Deon and Niklaas van Deventer, and Onward Muchangowa – a Zimbabwean national – are expected back in the Makhado Magistrate’s Court on Monday. [n24]

Cardinal George Pell, A Top Vatican Cleric, Returns To Australia To Face Sexual Assault Charges – The most senior Vatican cleric to ever be charged in the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal returned to Australia on Monday to stand trial in his home state on charges alleging he sexually assaulted multiple people years ago. [time]

Tesla Wins Bid To Build World’s Largest Lithium-Ion Battery For South Australia – Musk said Tesla was so serious about the endeavor, he wrote on Twitter that the project could be completed within 100 days of a signed deal or it’d come free of charge. [verge]

Valtteri Bottas Wins Austrian Grand Prix To Jolt Lewis Hamilton’s Title Hopes – That he is behind the eight ball again on departing from the Styria mountains will not be a major surprise to Lewis Hamilton, nor is it a new experience for a driver who has been down on points by this race in two of the three previous seasons. [guardian]

I’ll Never Fail Drugs Test – Farah – Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah tells BBC Breakfast he is “never going to fail a test” following the release of hacked documents that appear to show his test results once caused suspicion. [bbc]

Shia LaBeouf Arrested For Public Drunkenness In Georgia – Actor Shia LaBeouf has been released from a Georgia jail after posting $7,000 bond on charges of public drunkenness. [usat]

Blac Chyna Files For Restraining Order Against Rob Kardashian After He Posted Explicit Images – An attorney for Blac Chyna filed Friday for a temporary restraining order against reality star Rob Kardashian after he posted sexually explicit images of the model on Instagram and Twitter. [smh]

The Pompeii Man Would’ve Been a Lonely Masturbator – Between slaves and shockingly cheap sex for purchase, masturbation seems to have been relatively uncommon in the ancient world. [beast]

Daddy Yankee Is First Latin Artist To Reach No. 1 On Spotify – Despacito remix, featuring vocals by Justin Bieber, hit top spot on streaming service’s global music chart. [cbc]

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