Argentina election: Youths’ anger fuels far-right populist (www.opendemocracy.net)
China's judiciary, conviction rate in 2022 reaches 99.975% while criminal justice data culled from official reports and database (safeguarddefenders.com)
Some 1,430,000 criminal verdicts at court of first instance were issued in 2022. Of those, 354 were not guilty judgments, the NGO Safeguard Defenders says.
Putin rules out rejoining Black Sea grain deal, despite famine fears (www.politico.eu)
New Delhi smog grows more intense as farm fires rage (www.reuters.com)
India and Pakistan choked by heavy smog, leaving thousands sick (www.abc.net.au)
Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying | WIRED (www.wired.com)
Haiti’s most powerful gang boss calls for uprising to overthrow prime minister (www.theguardian.com)
Spanish police arrest man for touching reporter's bottom while live on air (www.reuters.com)
Japan may take China to WTO over Fukushima-driven seafood import ban (www.reuters.com)
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Wagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin was on plane that crashed north of Moscow, Russian civil aviation authority says (news.sky.com)
Blood Simple. Several Russian journalists and activists were poisoned in Europe (theins.ru)
Elena Kostyuchenko, Natalia Arno, and Irina Babloyan, have long worked to expose the Kremlin’s lies. While traveling through Europe in the last year, each was poisoned by unknown toxins. Their cases remain unsolved. Why?
Moon rocket blasts off, carrying Russia’s hope of first successful lunar landing since 1976 (www.theguardian.com)
The Luna-25 mission will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area, and sending back data for signs of water or its building blocks, which could raise the possibility of a future human colony on the moon.
An American soldier is detained by North Korea after crossing its heavily armed border (apnews.com)
Ghanaian children wrongly taken in raids backed by US charity IJM (www.bbc.co.uk)
It gets weirder. One branch of the Christian charity takes children and has their parents put into jail, while another branch of the same Christian charity uses the parents’ unfair jailing as fundraisers for the charity, saying they will use the money to get the parents out of jail. (The parents they put into jail in the first...
Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement (www.engadget.com)
Gaza, babies in incubators at risk as hospitals run out of fuel, UN says (news.un.org)
Two in three hospitals in the enclave are “partially functional” as the aid is a “drop in the ocean”, says Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, UN health agency (WHO) representative in the occupied Palestinian territory....
Protests in Guatemala Shut Down the Country for More Than a Week (progressive.org)
Philippines condemns Chinese 'floating barrier' in South China Sea (www.reuters.com)
Putin's Hunger Games: The Ukraine War Is Forcing Millions to Face Starvation and 'Look Death in the Eyes' (www.rollingstone.com)
"More than 80 percent of food imports in Somalia and East Africa were already coming from Ukraine and Russia even before the war,” Shashwat Saraf, the regional emergency director for East Africa at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Nairobi, Kenya. “Over the past year, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are coming out of...
Ukraine orders evacuation of northeastern city of Kupyansk as Russia claims advances (www.cnn.com)
“Over the past 24 hours, Russians massively shelled settlements of Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Izium and Kupyansk districts with guided aerial bombs and other weapons,” said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration.
Uruguay’s missing women may have been trafficked. Why doesn’t the state care? (www.opendemocracy.net)
For six years, Nancy Baladán has ridden her motorcycle along Uruguay’s country paths and urban highways in search of answers about the night that altered her life forever....
Nearly 100 dead or missing in Mexico from hurricane, food and water worries persist (www.reuters.com)
SAS had ‘gone too far’ in Afghanistan, inquiry into claims of unlawful killings told (www.theguardian.com)
US Sends Hostage Rescue Experts to Israel and Puts Special Ops ‘Door Kickers’ on Alert (themessenger.com)
Israel intensifies its strikes and vows to besiege Gaza as it scours south for Hamas fighters (apnews.com)
