UN sounds alarm on Darfur, warns world not to repeat history (www.politico.com)
Dozens of Chinese ships chase Philippine vessels as US renews warning it will defend its treaty ally (apnews.com)
As a U.S. Navy surveillance plane flew in circles, keeping a close watch, dozens of Chinese coast guard and accompanying ships chased and encircled Philippine vessels in the latest confrontation in one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the South China Sea....
Tata Steel: Hundreds of workers protest as job cuts loom (www.bbc.com)
Germany approves global minimum corporate tax (www.reuters.com)
Thousands in Honduras march in anti-government protest (www.reuters.com)
Marine Le Pen and her far-right RN party say they will attend Sunday's march against antisemitism in the French capital. But other parties say they refuse to march alongside a party founded by antisem (www.dw.com)
Mexico City imposes severe, monthslong water restrictions as drought dries up reservoirs (apnews.com)
Australia offers climate refuge to Tuvalu citizens (www.bbc.com)
Iceland declares state of emergency over volcanic eruption threat (www.theguardian.com)
Icelandic authorities have declared a state of emergency after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the country’s southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, signalling the increased likelihood of a volcanic eruption in the region....
Haunting Animation Shows All The Fires Burning in Northern Australia The Past 2 Months (www.sciencealert.com)
Hamas leaders say they have no regrets after the October 7 attack and the goal was to 'overthrow' the status quo (www.businessinsider.com)
More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in the month since Hamas’ terrorist attacks inside southern Israel, the group’s health ministry in Gaza says....
Black Christian leaders call for cease-fire in Gaza (religionnews.com)
In recent weeks, a group of Black Christian faith leaders met with White House officials and members of the Congressional Black Caucus, voicing concern about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza after Israel’s ground assault into the region.
Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered (www.bbc.com)
Tuvalu residents able to resettle in Australia as climate change 'threatens its existence' (www.abc.net.au)
Edinburgh to be first Scottish city to ban pavement parking (www.bbc.com)
West Bank Palestinians face increasing restrictions and settler violence as Gaza war escalates (edition.cnn.com)
Losing ground to rebel alliance, Myanmar junta faces biggest test since coup (www.reuters.com)
‘Corpses on streets’: Sudan’s RSF kills 1,300 in Darfur, monitors say (www.aljazeera.com)
Blinken denounces civilian toll in Gaza, says ‘far too many Palestinians have been killed’ (www.cnn.com)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday gave one of his most direct condemnations of the civilian death toll in Gaza and said more needs to be done to “minimize harm to Palestinian civilians.”...
Bulgaria’s Russian gas games rile Europe (www.politico.eu)
Critics accuse Bulgaria of punishing Russia to curry favor with Brussels, while quietly helping Moscow regain its grip on Europe’s energy supplies.
Earth just had its hottest year on record — climate change is to blame (www.nature.com)
‘There are hundreds of mothers like me’ An interview with Oksana Pekhteleva, whose daughter’s killer won a presidential pardon for fighting in Ukraine (meduza.io)
On the night of January 13, 2020, a Kemerovo man named Vladislav Kanyus brutally murdered his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend, Vera Pekhteleva. For hours, neighbors listened to Pekhteleva scream in agony and repeatedly called the police, but by the time officers arrived, she was dead. Kanyus was sentenced to 17 years in prison, while...
Media watchdog says it was just 'raising questions' with insinuations about photographers and Hamas (apnews.com)
The head of an Israeli media watchdog, HonestReporting, says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened
No ‘export of workers’ to Israel, say trade unions in India (www.nationalheraldindia.com)
All major Indian trade unions have called upon the govt to scrap agreement with Israel to export Indian workers & appealed to workers to boycott Israeli products & refuse to handle Israeli cargo.
Putin looks set to run for president in 2024 — and there's no one who can oppose him right now (www.cnbc.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly decided to run in the March 2024 presidential election and he’s likely to win another six-year term in office, essentially because there’s no one that can oppose him....
