Physicists Warn Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos (www.sciencealert.com)
ScienceAlert.com
Department of the Air Force Scheduled to Launch Seventh X-37B Mission on December 7. The X-37B space plane will operate in “new orbital regimes” and test “future space domain awareness technologies.” (www.spaceforce.mil)
Kim Jong-un closes slate of North Korea’s embassies as sanctions bite (www.theguardian.com)
Bangladesh PM stands firm on pay rise amid deadly garment worker protests (www.aljazeera.com)
On average, 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day. (www.who.int)
As of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.
Myanmar risks breaking apart amid attacks by rebel militias: junta (www.bangkokpost.com)
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Two Jewish schools in Montreal hit by gunshots, police say (www.independent.co.uk)
Two Jewish schools in Montreal were hit overnight by gunshots, police said Thursday....
Israel-Hamas War: Israel Lowers Oct. 7 Death Toll Estimate to 1,200 (www.nytimes.com)
Once-in-a-century flooding swamps Somalia after historic drought -UN (www.reuters.com)
Canada PM Trudeau condemns violence after shots fired at Jewish schools (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/9065969...
Israeli forces kill 18 Palestinians in daytime raid in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
TheGuardian.com
Greenland glaciers melt five times faster than 20 years ago (www.reuters.com)
Israeli Media 'Watchdog' Says It Was Just 'Raising Questions' With Insinuations About Photographers, Hamas (www.haaretz.com)
The executive director of an Israeli media watchdog organization, HonestReporting, says it was simply “raising questions” by publicly wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel — and sent some of the first images of its aftermath to a watching world — had been tipped...
Transgender people can be baptized Catholic, serve as godparents, Vatican says (www.reuters.com)
Philippines denounces China for 'unprovoked acts of coercion' to block resupply mission (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine ready to compromise ahead of EU decision on launching membership talks (www.politico.eu)
The European Commission’s recommendation that Ukraine start formal talks to become a member of the EU afforded a rare moment of joy to a country fighting off an invasion by Russia, Olga Stefanishyna, Ukrainian deputy prime minister, said Thursday....
Rapid urbanisation is stoking paranormal anxieties in China | Aeon Essays | Ghostarchive (ghostarchive.org)
Do you believe in ghosts?
Toxic heavy smog in eastern Pakistan makes tens of thousands sick (apnews.com)
Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and parks for four days, officials said Thursday....
Israel-Hamas war in numbers: Scale of destruction in Gaza is unprecedented (english.elpais.com)
Optus loses court bid to keep report into cause of cyber-attack secret | Optus | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
News organisations reject allegations of complicity in October 7 attacks (www.aljazeera.com)
AlJazeera.com
More protests in Bangladesh as garment workers reject pay increase (www.reuters.com)
Israeli diplomat pressured US college to drop course on ‘apartheid’ debate (www.theguardian.com)
Man crushed to death by robot in South Korea (www.bbc.com)
A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling, reports say.
Who are Israeli settlers, and why do they live on Palestinian lands? (www.aljazeera.com)
As many as 700,000 Israeli settlers are living illegally in the occupied West Bank as settler violence surges.
