A global day of protests draws thousands in Washington and other cities in pro-Palestinian marches (apnews.com)
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Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria after 9 soldiers were killed (apnews.com)
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. This comes a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq killed nine Turkish soldiers....
Fintech South Hub has turned Uruguay into a beacon for the sector in Latin America. - News (www.uruguayxxi.gub.uy)
ICT sector mission to Porto Alegre boosts collaboration between Uruguay and Brazil - News (www.uruguayxxi.gub.uy)
Cargo ship back in service after fire incident - Cook Islands News (www.cookislandsnews.com)
Businesses in Kikuyu struggling as festivities end – Kenya News Agency (www.kenyanews.go.ke)
Kakamega to host an international business conference – Kenya News Agency (www.kenyanews.go.ke)
IGRTC to address ECDE row – Kenya News Agency (www.kenyanews.go.ke)
Thailand moves to ban recreational cannabis use, 18 months after historic decriminalization (www.cnn.com)
Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legisalation banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months after the country became the first in Asia to decriminalize the plant....
Egypt says it’ll remain in control of its Gaza border after PM suggests Israel might take it over (www.timesofisrael.com)
The spokesperson for Egypt’s foreign ministry says Cairo will remain in control of its borders after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed during a press conference earlier this evening that Israel is considering taking control after the war over the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs for 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) along the...
Russia attacks 12 communities in Sumy Oblast, injuring 1 (kyivindependent.com)
Russian forces targeted 12 rural communities in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy Oblast on Jan. 13, injuring a civilian in the town of Shostka, the local military administration reported....
Blackout in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital as fuel runs out, babies at high risk (www.aljazeera.com)
“We’re trying to work with what we have. But we will have to stop working completely, because we don’t have any electricity,” one doctor at the hospital told Al Jazeera. “There’s a complete outage so how can we treat the patients?”...
Tough choices for Israel in US' Middle East vision - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
U.S. carries out new strike in Yemen after Biden vows to keep pressure on (www.reuters.com)
Japan says earthquake shook nuclear plant past safety limits - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
US explores options to seize Russian assets and funnel them to Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
Top Biden administration officials have spent the last year quietly trying to figure out how to divert billions of dollars in frozen Russian money to cash-starved Ukraine....
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
An unlikely charge of intent to commit treason landed Meir Baruchin, a grey-haired, softly spoken history and civics teacher, in the solitary confinement wing of Jerusalem’s notorious “Russian Compound” prison in early November....
A refugee bear from a bombed-out Ukraine zoo finds a new home in Scotland (apnews.com)
An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine — a rare Asiatic black bear — arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon....
Russian election candidate calls Ukraine war a ‘big mistake’ by Putin (www.nbcnews.com)
Boris Nadezhdin told the wives of Russia’s mobilized soldiers the war was “a big mistake by Putin, of course, and the consequences will be very grave.”...
Colombia landslide kills 23 including many sheltering in house (www.bbc.com)
A landslide in north-west Colombia has killed at least 23 people and injured around 30 more, local authorities say....
How Israel Dominates the Palestinian Economy (jacobin.com)
