From the BBC World Service: India, the world’s largest onion exporter, has imposed a 40% export duty on onions. It’s an attempt to improve domestic availability and rein in soaring food price inflation. Israel’s political lurch to the right and its controversial plans to overhaul the justice system could be starting to have a direct impact on its population, with one in three Israelis now thinking of emigrating. India could make history if its third lunar mission successfully touches down near the moon’s south pole.

Investors are piling money on new generative AI firms. How much is too much? Plus, the state of the Microsoft Activision acquisition in the U.K.

The movie theater chain is consolidating their stocks in an unusual move that could dilute value but help with raising revenue. Plus, semiconductor chips.

From the BBC World Service: Microsoft has filed changes to its proposed takeover video game maker, Activision Blizzard, in an attempt to win over the U.K. competition regulator, which previously blocked the $69 billion deal. The BRICS group of developing economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — are meeting in Johannesburg for their annual summit. Expanding membership and de-dollarization are both high on the agenda. Jakarta is the world’s most polluted city; the air quality is so bad, that from today, thousands of civil servants will work from home for the next two months.

Some workers love it, but others are taking less time off than they used to. Plus, the BRICS summit will tackle expansion and weaning off the U.S. dollar.

Could they help San Francisco, where pandemic recovery has been slow? Plus, global wealth inequality and the 2023 World Cup.

From the BBC World Service: China’s economy hasn’t bounced back from the pandemic and now its central bank is stepping in, cutting one of its key interest rates for the second time in three months. Protests over economic hardship in Syria’s southern province of Sweida are continuing and there are calls for President Bashar al-Assad to step down. As the most successful Women’s World Cup finishes, the infrastructure and facilities for the women’s game lags behind the enthusiasm.

In Croatia, not enough Croatians. Migrants from Asia are picking up the slack. Plus, who has the most debt in the world?

Title IX and big spending on college sports are two reasons so many female soccer players came up through a U.S. university. That’s had an impact on this year’s World Cup. Plus, home buying loans and Chinese real estate.