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Venezuela-Guyana dispute: Maduro mobilizes the army and announces annexation of Essequibo (english.elpais.com)

Operation 1027 reshapes Myanmar’s post-coup war [IISS Myanmar Conflict Map] (myanmar.iiss.org)

Military lawyer David McBride pleads guilty to unlawfully sharing secret allegations of Australian war crimes (www.abc.net.au)

Australian navy divers injured after sonar pulses detected from Chinese warship (www.smh.com.au)

Israel-Hamas War: Israeli Army Takes Journalists on Controlled Visit to Gaza Hospital (www.nytimes.com)

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Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns (www.theguardian.com)

The online hate and conspiracies driving a new wave of antisemitism | Ben Judah (www.independent.co.uk)

There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah

EU negotiators agree on historic law to restore Europe’s nature (www.euractiv.com)

Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.

Romanian SMR Nuclear Plant Project with NuScale Technology Moves Forward Despite US Setback (www.romaniajournal.ro)

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Cyber security analysts accuse China of attacking Cambodian government infrastructure as part of a "long-term espionage campaign" (feddit.de)

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Suella Braverman accuses police of double standards on rallies (www.theguardian.com)

5,500 women in Gaza set to give birth ‘in race against death’, UN official says (news.un.org)

Laila Baker, Regional Director for the Arab States at the sexual and reproductive health agency, said she fears for the fate of new mothers and their children amid the “loss of complete humanity” in Gaza....

Democracy ‘in trouble, stagnant at best, and declining in many places’ (www.aljazeera.com)

Marathoners in Beijing go maskless, unfazed by smog (www.reuters.com)

Secret U.S. War in Lebanon Is Tinder for Escalation of Israel–Gaza Conflict (theintercept.com)

If Israel invades Gaza it will be a disaster for both Palestinians and Israelis | Michael Barnett | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Konrad Wolf Prize 2023 goes to Julian Assange for his work and disclosure of "illegal state actions, injustices, murders and war crimes" (www.adk.de)

The German Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) said that Assange’s work and positions have focused “our attention on illegal state actions, injustices, murders and war crimes – things that were meant to remain in the dark, concealed and obscured from the public view, from the citizens.”...

Daredevil: Born Again Gets Major Creative Reboot With Original Writers Being Let Go | Entertainment News (www.gadgets360.com)

‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers (www.theguardian.com)

In a series of interviews conducted over several years, 14 women from east Africa and the Philippines recounted their experiences with recruitment agencies hiring for the United Arab Emirates, including alleging they were denied food, held captive and treated violently.

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