Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat (www.wired.com)
Africa: 'Historic Milestone' As Child Mortality Hits Record Low of 4.9 Million in 2022 (allafrica.com)
Furious Hungary summons US envoy over Biden’s ‘dictatorship’ comment (www.theguardian.com)
US president said Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is ‘looking for a dictatorship’ after Orbán met with Trump in Florida...
Senior IDF officer censured over demolition of Gaza university without approval (www.timesofisrael.com)
Footage widely shared on social media showed a massive blast at Israa University, prompting US President Joe Biden’s administration to ask Israel for clarification....
Bird flu strain raises alarm as H5N1 virus kills South American wildlife (www.reuters.com)
The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread more aggressively than ever before in wild birds and marine mammals since arriving in South America in 2022, raising the risk of it evolving into a bigger threat to humans, according to interviews with eight scientists....
Foreign media report destruction of two Ukrainian Patriot systems (www.pravda.com.ua)
US pause on funding UN's main Palestinian relief agency may become permanent (www.reuters.com)
Nigerian kidnappers demand $620,000 for release of school hostages (www.reuters.com)
Former president of Honduras convicted in US of aiding drug traffickers (apnews.com)
Egypt sentences top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood to death | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Thailand election body seeks to dissolve progressive party that won 2023 vote (www.theguardian.com)
Move comes after court found that efforts to amend lese majeste laws by Move Forward party were unconstitutional...
This year people in prison also elect president (article in Spanish) (elpais.com)
Methane emissions from energy sector remain at historic highs, fueling climate crisis (english.elpais.com)
Dramatic rise in women and girls being cut, new FGM data reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Progress to prevent female genital mutilation needs to be ‘27 times faster’, says UN...
Portugal's election leaves the country uncertain of its future but heartens Europe's radical right (apnews.com)
Portugal’s inconclusive general election results mean weeks of political uncertainty ahead, and give fresh energy to Europe’s shift toward the radical right....
Trump's plan to end the Ukraine war is to totally cut off funding, says Putin's closest EU ally (www.businessinsider.com)
Trump “will not give a penny” more to Ukraine if he becomes president, Hungary’s prime minister said....
Russian lawmakers seek to nullify Soviet transfer of Crimea to Ukraine (uk.news.yahoo.com)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to the State Duma that would rewrite a chapter of history by nullifying the Soviet decision in 1954 to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine....
Haiti spirals to collapse as gangs tighten grip (www.bbc.com)
China stone tool find suggests ancient humans in area not as cut off as thought (www.scmp.com)
Navalny ally Leonid Volkov vows to continue fight against Putin after hammer attack in Vilnius (www.theguardian.com)
India’s top court orders SBI to disclose electoral bonds details by Tuesday (www.aljazeera.com)
Pressure rises on Biden, Democrats to reject AIPAC funds (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - A coalition of progressive groups is asking U.S. President Joe Biden and other Democratic Party officials to not accept endorsements or contributions from a pro-Israel group and its affiliated super PACs.
Trudeau says some Pro-Palestinian protests cross the line into hate, harassment (www.cbc.ca)
Russia reports Ukrainian drone strikes on targets deep inside its territory and a border incursion (apnews.com)
Ukraine launched a wave of long-range drones against targets deep inside Russia on Tuesday, Russian officials said, hitting at least two oil facilities in the attack on eight regions of Russia in the latest display of Kyiv’s expanding drone capacity....
A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board has crashed on takeoff, officials say (abcnews.go.com)
A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said....
