‘I’m so scared, please come’: Hind Rajab, six, found dead in Gaza 12 days after cry for help (www.theguardian.com)
Indian state's polygamy ban divides some Muslim women (www.reuters.com)
NEW DELHI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort including her own case before the nation’s Supreme Court....
Thailand cracks down on knock-off ‘elephant trousers’ flooding in from China (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Nicaragua's crackdown on Catholic Church spreads fear among the faithful, there and in exile (apnews.com)
Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services: the situation for Catholic clergy and faithful in Nicaragua is only worsening in 2024, according to exiled priests, laypeople in the Central American country and human rights...
Israel hits back at Moody’s downgrade over Gaza war impact (on.ft.com)
Israel hits back at Moody’s downgrade over Gaza war impact
Irish women’s basketball team refused to shake hands with Israel (www.theguardian.com)
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Egypt threatens to suspend key peace treaty if Israel pushes into Rafah on its border, officials say (apnews.com)
The threat to suspend the Camp David Accords came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said sending troops into Rafah was necessary to win the war against Hamas.
Israel's finance minister blasts Moody's downgrade of the the country's credit rating (abcnews.go.com)
Pakistan: How Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif can both declare victory (www.reuters.com)
"Former Pakistani prime ministers and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan both declared victory in elections marred by delayed results and militant attacks, throwing the country into further political turmoil,”...
US threatens sanctions to tear New Delhi from Moscow (www.indiatoday.in)
Head of UN agency for Palestinians defies Israeli calls to quit (archive.md)
The intelligence assessment, which has been seen by the FT, provides no evidence for the claims, which it says are based on smartphone intercepts and captured identity cards.
'Cliff-Like' Collapse of Critical Current System More Likely Than Thought: Study (www.commondreams.org)
Desperate Gazans in Rafah fear coming Israeli assault (www.reuters.com)
Sky News ‘Not Seen Proof’ That UNWRA Aids Hamas After Reviewing Israel’s ‘Evidence’ (www.mediaite.com)
“The Israeli intelligence documents make several claims that Sky News has not seen proof of and many of the claims, even if true, do not directly implicate UNRWA,” Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall wrote Thursday.
Indonesia State Apparatus Is Preparing to Throw Election to a Notorious Massacre General (theintercept.com)
More fake aircraft are popping up at Russian bases in a crude attempt to fool Ukraine (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia has a history of painting decoy military aircraft at its airbases around the country....
How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli strikes kill 44 Palestinians in Rafah after Netanyahu says ground invasion is coming there (apnews.com)
including more than a dozen children
Billionaire PayPal co-founder backs doping-friendly Olympics — the ‘Enhanced Games’ (www.forbes.com.au)
Climate change row as British scientists claim ‘Day After Tomorrow’ modelling is wrong (www.telegraph.co.uk)
U.N. Agency in Gaza Fought Hamas Infiltration; Not Hard Enough, Israel Says (www.nytimes.com)
Current and former UNRWA officials say that the agency has long taken seriously and investigated accusations of infiltration by Hamas, which seized power in Gaza in 2007. The agency has variously responded to tips from Israel, the United States and its own networks. It was the kind of challenge, they said, that all aid groups...
Myanmar: All men and women of eligible age now required to serve in army (www.wionews.com)
Irish unification referendum by 2030, Sinn Fein leader tells Sky News (news.sky.com)
Mary Lou McDonald had previously said unification was within “touching distance” after the return of power-sharing government to Northern Ireland, led by her Sinn Fein colleague Michelle O’Neill. But she acknowledges there is “an awful lot of work to be done”....
The president seized 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children pay the consequences (apnews.com)
Tears welled in Alex’s eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador’s police as she walked to work in a clothing factory....
Biden urged to include politicians in sanctions on violent Israeli settlers (www.theguardian.com)
There are growing calls for Joe Biden to use his new executive order sanctioning violent Israeli settlers to also target political leaders, including government ministers, responsible for driving attacks against Palestinians....
