Israel's jobless rate spikes to 9.6% in Oct due to Hamas war (www.reuters.com)
Nicaragua leaves Organization of American States in 'step away from democracy,' U.S. says (www.latimes.com)
The U.S. State Department called Nicaragua’s formal withdrawal from the Organization of American States on Sunday “another step away from democracy.”...
UK white paper raises concerns over China’s growing foreign aid role (www.theguardian.com)
Government paper says Britain must act robustly if interests challenged by the Chinese development model
Scholz pledges greater investment in Africa's green energy sector (www.reuters.com)
Argentina's black market currency traders brace for uncertainty (www.reuters.com)
Video shows dozens of bodies after alleged attack at UN-run school in Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Taiwan's former U.S. envoy, vilified by China, is named vice presidential candidate (www.cnbc.com)
Lai Ching-te, the frontrunner for Taiwan’s presidency, named on Monday Taipei’s former envoy to the United States as his running mate in January’s election, a high-profile diplomat well known in Washington but who Beijing denounces as a separatist....
UK doctor who worked at Shifa confirms Gaza hospital used for ‘non-medical purposes’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
A British doctor who used to work at Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical center, under which the IDF says Hamas operates a major command and control base, has confirmed that there were areas of the hospital where he could not go, or else he would be shot....
[Spain] Sira Rego, born in Valencia and raised in Palestine, to lead the Ministry of Children (valenciaplaza.com)
Sira Rego leaves her position as a member of the European Parliament to join the newly formed coalition government of Pedro Sanchez, to be appointed Minister of Youth and Childhood, as part of the party Sumar’s cuota....
Finland's Russian community angry over border closures (www.euronews.com)
Pro-Palestinian Activists Take Over Amsterdam Central Station (unicornriot.ninja)
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says (www.theguardian.com)
The American Book Award winner was said to be heading south for the Rafah crossing when he was picked up at a checkpoint
Bolsonaro under investigation for ‘harassing’ humpback whale (www.theguardian.com)
Following Israeli rebuke, Palestinian Authority foreign ministry deletes claim from social media that the Oct. 7 rave massacre was committed by the IDF (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Palestinian Authority falsely claimed Sunday that a preliminary investigation by the Israel Police has revealed that the Israel Defense Forces was responsible for the death of all 364 partygoers near Kibbutz Re’im during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, drawing fierce denunciation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...
Australian retail lobby groups refuse to disclose amount of funding from tobacco and vaping industries (www.theguardian.com)
CNN analysis: Video suggests IDF might have rearranged weaponry at Al-Shifa prior to news crew visits (edition.cnn.com)
Trump and Bolsonaro salute Javier Milei as far right rejoice around the world (www.theguardian.com)
Luminaries of the global far right are in raptures over Javier Milei’s thumping election victory in Argentina which experts predict will turn Buenos Aires into a new stomping ground for the populist radical right....
Israel's lack of a strategy is the strategy (www.npr.org)
The late Ariel Sharon, a longtime Israeli soldier and political leader, confided his thoughts to his close friend Uri Dan, an Israeli journalist. Their beliefs can be found in This Burning Land, by Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin....
Biggest protest in Spain against Catalan amnesty law draws 170,000 (www.reuters.com)
US defense secretary meets with Zelenskyy in Kyiv to show steadfast support for Ukraine (apnews.com)
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Monday in a high-profile push to keep money and weapons flowing to Ukraine even as U.S. and international resources are stretched by the new global risks raised by the Israel-Hamas conflict....
Israel Takes Fight Underground to Hamas’s Vast Gaza Tunnel Network (www.wsj.com)
TEL AVIV—Israeli forces have taken control of much of northern Gaza—at least the parts that are above ground. Beneath the strip’s devastated urban landscape, Hamas still reigns....
Israeli government looks to shutter local Al Jazeera bureau (www.axios.com)
Israel’s communications minister is seeking to temporarily shut down Al Jazeera’s local bureau through new emergency regulations, drawing sharp criticism from press freedom groups.
Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held at Gaza's Shifa hospital (www.reuters.com)
JERUSALEM, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive.
Heavy fighting breaks out around another Gaza hospital after babies evacuated from Shifa (apnews.com)
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting erupted Monday around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, as Israeli forces focus on clearing medical facilities that they say Hamas militants use for cover....
Fortified terror tunnel exposed underneath Gaza's Al Shifa hospital complex (www.ynetnews.com)
IDF says tunnel, outfitted with blast-proof door and firing hole, found alongside booby-trapped vehicle loaded with weapons
