Japan Airlines jet bursts into flames after collision with earthquake relief plane at Tokyo Haneda airport (www.cnn.com)
A Japan Airlines plane carrying hundreds of passengers burst into flames on landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday after it was in collision with another aircraft involved in earthquake relief efforts....
Putin: Russia will concentrate more military units near Finland (yle.fi)
As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says (www.theguardian.com)
Swathes of Siberia freeze in temperatures below -58 Celsius (www.reuters.com)
Bedbug infestation fears in Hong Kong spark panic buying of insecticides (www.scmp.com)
India and Pakistan choked by heavy smog, leaving thousands sick (www.abc.net.au)
Israel's Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, sources say (feddit.de)
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Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians (www.theguardian.com)
Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’
"It breaks my heart to see children around me strive for a cup of clean water and cannot find it:" Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children, Unicef says (www.unicef.org)
Unicef Spokesperson James Elder calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war. “Gaza must be opened for the safe, sustained and unimpeded access of humanitarian aid, including water, food, medical supplies, and fuel,” he says.
Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages (www.reuters.com)
What an empty offer. You have no value compared to the hostages. Hamas hates the hostages. They might hate this man too, but not in their blood the way they hate the people who have been killing them and their families. There’s no shot at this being accepted....
American leftists are celebrating Hamas? (www.youtube.com)
Threads is rolling out an edit button, and it's not locked behind a paywall | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
US Sends Hostage Rescue Experts to Israel and Puts Special Ops ‘Door Kickers’ on Alert (themessenger.com)
ChatGPT's mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
China Accuses US of Hacking Huawei Servers as Far Back as 2009 (beehaw.org)
China accused the US of infiltrating Huawei Technologies Co. servers beginning in 2009, part of a broad-based effort to steal data that culminated in tens of thousands of cyber-attacks against Chinese targets last year....
Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews (www.nbcnews.com)
Arundhati Roy: ‘Biden, Macron know what’s going on in India but won’t talk’ (www.aljazeera.com)
We have a situation where we are talking about one nation, one language, one election. But actually we are in a situation where you have one dictator, one corporation....
Russia Says Ukrainian Drone Attacks Not Possible Without Help from the West (news.antiwar.com)
Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat (www.bbc.com)
Russia attacks Ukraine in broad daylight on Monday morning, killing at least 29 civilians and badly damaging Kyiv’s main children’s hospital in the deadliest air strike in months (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Israeli Attack on Rafah Tent Camp Kills Dozens, Wounds 50 (truthout.org)
Coke—and Dozens of Others—Pledged to Quit Russia. They’re Still There. (www.bloomberg.com)
After Vladimir Putin’s troops surged over the Ukrainian border in February 2022, the Coca-Cola Co. was among the first multinationals to pledge it would quit Russia in protest. Aiming to avoid the inevitable headaches of complying with expected Western sanctions on the Kremlin, Coke asked its partners there to pull its cans...
"Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy (www.atlanticcouncil.org)
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Russia Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Its Use of Chemical Weapons in Ukraine, the US Government Says (www.state.gov)
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