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Portuguese PM quits over lithium, hydrogen corruption probe (www.reuters.com)

Portugal PM Antonio Costa resigns amid corruption allegations. (www.theguardian.com)

Portugal’s socialist prime minister, António Costa, has resigned hours after prosecutors examining alleged corruption involving lithium and “green” hydrogen deals announced that he was under investigation and police searched dozens of addresses, including his official residence and the environment and infrastructure...

Assassin’s Creed Publisher Continues To Downsize, Lays Off More Staff (kotaku.com)

Israel finds body of Ruth Peretz, disabled teen missing since October 7 (m.jpost.com)

P.E.I. photographer handcuffed, fined after taking pictures of Quebec City's iconic Château Frontenac (www.cbc.ca)

Israel-Gaza war fuels online anti-Semitism, Islamophobia in China (www.aljazeera.com)

A woman felt something in her ear. A spider was living in her ear canal (www.stuff.co.nz)

Russia to ease investment for ‘friendly’ countries (www.aljazeera.com)

There’s no usual “That’s because Putin is in panic!!!” in the article, so I’m adding it here – just in case....

20 killed & tens injured in a back-to-back Israeli massacre as jetfighters strike Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians (NSFL Video) (english.ahram.org.eg)

An Israeli airstrike on the Osama bin Zaid School in the Al-Saftawi neighbourhood in north Gaza City killed at least 20 and wounded 30 in the second massacre against civilians in less than five hours on Friday....

Malaysia issues ‘kill switch’ order to cut controversial concerts (www.theguardian.com)

Why ACPI? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

India to build 24 Cargo Ships for Russia (indiashippingnews.com)

UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger (www.theguardian.com)

The UK, US, EU and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology....

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim attacks on Israel, drawing their main sponsor Iran closer to Hamas war (www.politico.com)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels for the first time Tuesday claimed missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, drawing their main sponsor Iran closer into the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and further raising the risks of a regional conflict erupting....

China makes contentious comparison between Gaza and Xinjiang (www.newsweek.com)

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Arrow Interceptor Downs Ballistic Missile Over Red Sea (www.thedrive.com)

Polish archaeologists find remains of 17th-century woman and child padlocked in their graves (www.cnn.com)

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered the remains of a 17th-century child padlocked to his grave to stop him rising from the dead, a discovery that turns the spotlight on beliefs in vampires as Halloween approaches....

Argentina drivers hunt for fuel 'like water in the desert' amid shortage (www.reuters.com)

Cornell University police investigating online threats against Jewish students, president says (www.cnn.com)

Cornell University police are investigating a series of antisemitic threats made against the school’s Jewish community in online posts over the weekend, its president announced....

RSF video investigation into the death of Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon: the journalists' vehicle was explicitly targeted (rsf.org)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released a video reconstruction of the tragedy that resulted in the death of one journalist and the injury of several others. The initial findings of the investigation show that the reporters were not collateral victims of the shooting. One of their vehicles, marked "press", was targeted, and...