WORLD NEWS HEADLINES: July 13, 2018

RoundupNewswires.com Editor Brian Harrod

Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic. As it turns out, the new nitro lids that Starbucks is leaning on to replace straws are made up of more plastic than the company's current lid/straw combination. (reason.com)

Group carves 'Fuck Trump' in Russian into 200 meter crop circle at UK farm ahead of Trump's UK visit(huffingtonpost.com)

Woman, 29, is feared missing after live-streaming herself throwing ink on a photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping (sbs.com.au)

U.S. reportedly issuing lifetime travel bans for anyone even remotely connected to Canada's legal cannabis industry(straight.com)

Mexico's next gov't will seek to decriminalize abortion nationwide (efe.com)

Donald Trump is ‘more loyal to Putin than to our NATO allies,' Democrat leaders say after Germany ‘insults’ (newsweek.com)

A farmer in the south of France stumbled across the first ever skull of a giant, four-tusked ancestor of the elephant but failed to inform palaeontologists for almost three years because he didn’t want any “bother” from fossil hunters. (telegraph.co.uk)

New investigation says partner in Trump's Toronto hotel raised financing after sending $100 million to a Putin-controlled bank (businessinsider.com)

British Man Poisoned By Novichok Has Regained Consciousness And Talked With Police (npr.org)

Trump touts 'very nice note' from Kim Jong Un that calls Trump 'Your Excellency' five times, completely ignores denuclearization (theweek.com)

A group of Kenyan politicians are on a trip to the World Cup in Russia, paid for by taxpayers and estimated to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's caused outrage in a country where the average person lives on $150 a month (bbc.com)

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Erik Prince, the founder of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, is making a new pitch for his proposal to turn U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan over to mercenaries (thehill.com)

French President Macron denies Trump claim that NATO powers agreed to increase defense spending (abcnews.go.com)

Trump won't rule out ceasing military exercises if Putin asks (cnn.com)

Transport UnionTSSA calls for Donald Trump to pay outstanding debt to ex-Scots hotel worker (eveningtimes.co.uk 

Trump: Brexit plan 'will probably kill' US trade deal 

England does not need a nation of Oxford degrees, Government's chosen social mobility chief warns - Dame Martina Milburn told MPs she is concerned that many young people are being "forced down an academic route that doesn't suit them" and wants to see an overhaul of vocational education. 

The current heatwave is providing a near-unprecedented bonanza for archaeologists, as scorched conditions all over Britain expose the previously undiscovered or long-hidden outlines of everything from ancient fortifications to remnants of the Second World War.

North Korean officials reportedly did not show up Thursday at a scheduled meeting with U.S. officials to discuss returning the remains of American soldiers, and instead suggested talking with United Nations military leaders about the issue. (thehill.com)

Ireland to become first country to end investments in fossil fuels (axios.com)

Trump trashes May's Brexit plans and hails Boris Johnson as future PM