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Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment (www.timesofisrael.com)

Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana (www.cbsnews.com)

Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight’s Engines Told Cops He’d Taken Shrooms, Feds Say (www.thedailybeast.com)

Meta begins process to end news access to Facebook, Instagram users in Canada (globalnews.ca)

Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered' (www.livescience.com)

A vital ocean current system that helps regulate the Northern Hemisphere’s climate could collapse anytime from 2025 and unleash climate chaos, a controversial new study warns....

House passes Ukraine / Israel aid package (www.cnn.com)

US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (www.bbc.com)

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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)

From the “no matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse” department.

Top UN court orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of ordering cease-fire (apnews.com)

Here is a pdf of the ICJ’s Order of 26 January 2024....

A Louisiana teen traveled to the West Bank to learn about his roots. He was shot dead. (www.nbcnews.com)

Spotify to phase out service in Uruguay following new copyright bill requiring ‘fair and equitable remuneration’ (www.theguardian.com)

Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony (apnews.com)

Argentina’s gig workers are rallying against regulation — and supporting the libertarian candidate (restofworld.org)

Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution (www.theguardian.com)

Israel strikes Gaza tower as death tolls jump after Hamas attack (www.aljazeera.com)

At least 198 Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids; Hamas attack kills 70 Israelis, ‘big number’ also captured.

In Singapore, a certificate to own a car now costs $106,000 (www.reuters.com)

"Every home becomes a prison:" Now, Taliban stops Afghan women from sightseeing (www.firstpost.com)

“Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature, as we see from this latest ban on women visiting Band-e-Amir,” Human Rights Watch’s Associate Women’s Rights Director Heather Barr says.

WikiLeaks publishes "The Intolerance Network", over 17,000 documents from right-wing campaigning organisations globally (wikileaks.org)

The data covers the work of organisations HazteOir and CitizenGO, comprising documents which date from 2001 to 2017 like spreadsheets of donors and members, strategy and planning documents, letters, financial charts and legal and training documents. HazteOir was first founded in 2001 in Spain to campaign for right wing values,...

Kevin Spacey cleared of sexually assaulting four men (www.theguardian.com)

Jury at Southwark crown court finds Oscar-winning actor, 64, not guilty after four-week trial

'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library (www.bbc.com)

If the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places....

Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza (www.reuters.com)

Some senior U.S. officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find “credible or reliable” Israel’s assurances that it is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo....

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