US leads global oil production for sixth straight year: EIA (www.businesstimes.com.sg)
U.S. embassy warns of imminent attack in Moscow by 'extremists' (www.yahoo.com)
India still world’s largest arms importer with Russia being its top supplier: Report (www.wionews.com)
France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists and vets are urging the president to afford the world’s most traded species better protections...
International Booker Prize: four South American authors among the finalists - Buenos Aires Herald (buenosairesherald.com)
Haitian PM tenders resignation after Jamaica talks (www.reuters.com)
9 dead, 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar’s Pemba Island (www.nbcnews.com)
Garry Kasparov added to Russia’s list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ (novayagazeta.eu)
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Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ on Rafah (www.politico.eu)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of United States President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”...
UK lawyer to oversee ICC investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestinian territories (www.theguardian.com)
Iran Wants $2.5 Billion For Dual National Hostage (www.iranintl.com)
After Russia lost 2 prized A-50 planes, Ukraine struck a factory that's replacing them, reports say (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukraine carried out drone strikes on an aircraft plant in southern Russia, reports say....
Israeli human rights groups accuse country of failing to abide by ICJ’s Gaza aid ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Irish prime minister concedes defeat in vote over constitutional amendments about family and women (apnews.com)
Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s (www.theguardian.com)
What is CAA? How it fast tracks Indian citizenship of religious minorities from South Asian nations (www.wionews.com)
Israel starving thousands of Palestinian detainees in its prisons: NGO (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
France is world's second biggest arms exporter, just ahead of Russia: report (www.rfi.fr)
Weapons imports to Europe nearly doubled over the past five years, partly due to the war in Ukraine, while exports from Russia halved, researchers said on Monday. Ukraine has become the world’s fourth largest arms importer, while France has replaced Russia as the world’s second largest exporter behind the United States....
Seoul enhances infertility aid in response to 0.55 total fertility rate (www.chosun.com)
East Asia countries birth rate crisis continues. In response to total fertility rate of 0.55, Korea enhances infertility aid.
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages (www.theguardian.com)
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future...