Houthis in Yemen blow up a resident’s house, killing at least 9 from the same family (apnews.com)
Former Pakistani minister warns Taliban: ‘Another attack on Pakistan, our troops will seize Wakhan’ (www.khaama.com)
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)
Netanyahu Assails Schumer, Dramatizing Partisan Split Over Israel (www.nytimes.com)
How did Canada end up with worse air quality than the US? (www.theguardian.com)
Year of devastating wildfires meant Canadians were breathing worse air than southern neighbours for first time ever...
Thousands rally in Slovakia to condemn a government plan to overhaul public broadcasting (apnews.com)
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands Slovaks rallied in the capital on Friday to condemn a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to overhaul the country’s public broadcasting during a wave of anti-government protests....
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (www.theguardian.com)
E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says (apnews.com)
U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further....
No bidders present at Myanmar auction for $90 million sale of Suu Kyi's home (www.reuters.com)
North Korea claims progress in developing a hypersonic missile designed to strike distant U.S. targets (www.nbcnews.com)
A hypersonic missile is among the high-tech weapons systems that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to introduce to cope with what he called deepening U.S. hostility....
Scoop: Biden privately told Bibi he's not trying to push him out (www.axios.com)
Behind the scenes: During the call with Biden on Monday, Netanyahu complained about Schumer’s speech and Biden’s endorsement of it. He also claimed the public political attacks against him in the U.S. are interference in Israeli politics, the sources said....
How Biden became embroiled in a Gaza conflict with no end in sight (www.washingtonpost.com)
On Oct. 27, three weeks into Israel’s punishing counterattack in Gaza, top Biden officials privately told a small group assembled at the White House what they would not say in public: Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets....
In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms (www.reuters.com)
Reuters saw 10 badly malnourished children during a visit last week to the al-Awda health centre in Rafah, arranged with nursing staff who gave the news agency unimpeded access to the ward.
Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti's capital, with at least a dozen killed nearby (apnews.com)
‘We stand here as Jewish men who refute the Holocaust being hijacked’: Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza: Increasing numbers of newborns on brink of death, agencies warn (news.un.org)
“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO)....
Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election with 88% of the vote, early results show (www.politico.eu)
Campaigners warn over failure to curb Europe’s ‘runaway’ transport emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Greenhouse gases from sector could make up 44% of continent’s total output by 2030, says transport group...
Heiress to let 50 strangers decide fate of her fortune (www.bangkokpost.com)
Israel kills police officer in charge of securing aid convoys (www.middleeasteye.net)
The Palestinian police general killed by Israeli forces on Monday morning was in charge of securing the entry of aid trucks into northern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera....
The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country (www.cnn.com)
All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide....
Czech Republic to deliver thousands of extra artillery shells to Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
The Czech Republic says it is on the verge of delivering thousands of extra artillery shells to Ukraine, just weeks after it announced an initiative to source the much-needed supplies from outside the EU....
Bob Marley’s band The Wailers to play in Hong Kong for the first time (www.scmp.com)
South Korea Sees Marriage Bump for First Time in Over a Decade (open.substack.com)
Kenyan leader signs affordable housing bill into law (apanews.net)
