Russia mounts surprise assault on northern Ukraine in most serious cross-border offensive in two years (www.cnn.com)
Russian forces have made two cross-border assaults inside northern Ukraine, according to information from Ukrainian sources and officials, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling a “new wave of counteroffensive actions” by Russia....
Static recompilation of Majora's Mask available for Windows/Linux (github.com)
Cohen’s Testimony Makes Clear: Trump’s Greed Fueled This Whole Debacle (www.thedailybeast.com)
Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate (www.npr.org)
US commander appeared to suggest UK special forces were operating in Ukraine (www.businessinsider.com)
Reports of army killing of villagers in Myanmar supported by photos and harrowing tale of a survivor (apnews.com)
UK will become dangerous under Keir Starmer, Says Rishi Sunak: vows to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP (www.arktrek.shop)
American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life (theintercept.com)
Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions....
'Children Are Starving': Rafah Suffers as Israel Halts All Aid and Escalates Assault (www.commondreams.org)
NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+ (www.gamingonlinux.com)
GamesIndustry.biz: Microsoft's mystifying mismanagement (www.gamesindustry.biz)
If you’re a developer working for Xbox, what can you do to secure your job?
Thirsty in paradise: Water crises are a growing problem across the Caribbean islands (theconversation.com)
Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe...
Ocasio-Cortez: State of US health care is ‘barbarism’ (www.thehill.com)
Georgia State University mistakenly sends 1,500 applicants acceptance letters (www.cnn.com)
Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border (www.theguardian.com)
Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems...
Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements (apnews.com)
Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don’t make a dent in the crisis....
Parents of over 900 Israeli soldiers urge IDF to call off ‘death trap’ Rafah attack (www.theguardian.com)
Letter sent to defence minister and IDF chief says assault on city ‘appears to be nothing short of recklessness’...
Inside Germany’s Taxpayer Funded Neo-Nazi Networks (www.thedial.world)
Former US military intelligence official says he resigned over Gaza war (ground.news)
A former U.S. military intelligence official released a letter on Monday that explained to his colleagues at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that his November resignation was in fact due to “moral injury” stemming from U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza and the harm caused to Palestinians.
Kristi Noem banned by two more Native tribes in South Dakota (www.theguardian.com)
Governor, plagued by dog-killing story, unwelcome in 20% of her state after she accused tribal leaders of benefiting from cartels...