Philip Morris International CEO Said Cigarettes Should Be Banned – And that the company will stop selling Marlboros in the UK within a decade. [insider]

South Africa Moves To Adjusted Level 3 Lockdown – Here Are The New Rules – President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that several of South Africa’s lockdown regulations will be relaxed as the country moves to an adjusted level 3 lockdown with immediate effect. [btech]

Level 3: You Could Go To Jail If You Don’t Count Heads When You Are In A Church Or Restaurant – As of Sunday night, you can go to jail in South Africa for being a room with too many other people. [busins]

Anatomy Of A ‘Rigged’ Contract: Digital Vibes Tender Deeply Flawed, Unlawful And Invalid, Says SIU – New filings from the Special Investigating Unit concerning the Department of Health’s Digital Vibes contract illustrate how the tender process was allegedly ‘rigged’ to favour the connected communications firm. [mav]

Europe Clamps Down Amid Fears Over Rapid Spread Of Delta Variant – Governments are launching de facto vaccine passport schemes as they try to head off a summer Covid wave like the UK’s. [guardian]

Tucker Carlson Confronted At Montana Fishing Shop, Called The ‘Worst Human Being’ – A Montana man accused the Fox News host of killing people with vaccine misinformation and supporting “extreme racism.” [nbc]

More Than 250 UK / Ireland Scout Leaders Have Been Convicted Of Child Sexual Abuse – The abuse cases stretch back as far as the 1950s, but also include convictions in recent years, including two men who were jailed last year. [tele]

America’s Nuclear Waste Has Nowhere To Go And More Is Coming – Outside the sleepy Maine town of Wiscasset (population 3,700), armed guards patrol a slab of concrete surrounded by a chain link fence. On the slab is 60 cement and steel canisters containing 550 tons of nuclear waste with nowhere to go. [vice]

Japan’s Own Wins First Skateboarding Medal At Tokyo Olympics – In the neighborhood where he grew up skateboarding, 22-year-old Yuto Horigome won the first ever Olympic Gold medal for skateboarding. [npr]

See Rare Snow Leopard On Camera For First Time In Years – Camera traps in East Kazakhstan captured video of one of the world’s most elusive cats for the first time since 2017 in the region. [cnn]

Let’s Chat About Crypto Savings Vaults Versus Bank Savings Accounts – You cannot do a straight comparison between a South African savings account, which is Rand-denominated, and a US Dollar-denominated savings account, due in large part to something called ‘Rand depreciation’. [here]

Mark In The Metaverse – Facebook’s CEO on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’. [verge]

China: New Maglev Train With A Top Speed Of 600 km/h Unveiled – The new maglev bullet train is not only fast, but is also said to emit low levels of noise and requires less maintenance. [bhp]

Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck Are Instagram Official – “52, what it do.” That’s how Jennifer Lopez proclaimed her 52nd birthday yesterday. [vogue]

Buried In Concrete: How The Mafia Made A Killing From The Destruction Of Italy’s South – The south of the country bears the scars of how bosses enriched their clans with illegal, brutalist buildings and gaudy, now decaying, villas. [guardian]

It’s Impossible To Look Away From Kanye West’s Spectacle – His ability to summon an audience of thousands to Atlanta to hear a new album after years of turmoil is a testament to his power—even if ‘Donda’ isn’t even finished. [vice]

Heather Graham, 51, Shows Off Her Incredible Body – In a black bikini during an idyllic vacation in Italy. [dm]

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