Dragon Ball: Japan manga creator Akira Toriyama dies (www.bbc.com)
The creator of Dragon Ball, one of the most influential and best-selling Japanese comics of all time, has died at 68....
Jumana's desperate journey shows how more than half of Gaza fell into a state of ruin (www.abc.net.au)
Israeli military review of Gaza aid convoy deaths finds most killed in stampede (www.reuters.com)
It's not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too (apnews.com)
Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by Israeli forces and has suffered long cutoffs of food supplies. At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration at the north’s Kamal Adwan and Shifa hospitals, according to the Health Ministry. Most of the dead are children — including ones as...
Silent march in Warsaw for woman who died after being raped in street | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)
US says UFO sightings likely secret military tests (www.bbc.co.uk)
Breaking: At least 2 people Dead As Russian drone hit Cars in Kharkiv, Ukraine (bit.ly)
The attack with the drones was at about 15 pm. According to preliminary data, a 58-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman …
BREAKING: Russian Forces Attack Ukraine As Multiple Explosions Hits Sumy Oblast with aerial bombs (bit.ly)
Russian forces have carried out two launches of guided aerial bombs on Sumy Oblast, with explosions heard in the city of Sumy. An air-raid warning has been…
India deports first group of Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup (www.reuters.com)
The Tel Aviv torture trail: Israel's role in the Abu Ghraib scandal (thecradle.co)
Israel’s documented torture and abuse of Palestinians may evoke comparisons to US tactics employed during the Iraqi occupation, but a closer look reveals their distinct origins rooted in the Zionist entity.
Gunmen snatch nearly 300 Nigerian schoolchildren from morning assembly (www.thetimes.co.uk)
More than 350,000 civilians have been killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists; 2 million displaced, say the UN....
An Israeli responder's work on Oct. 7 shows the challenges of investigating atrocities (www.npr.org)
Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children (english.elpais.com)
Ukraine war latest: Allies collect funding to purchase 800,000 shells for Ukraine, Czech PM says (kyivindependent.com)
Protests in New Zealand denounce government’s complicity in genocide in Gaza (www.wsws.org)
U.S. fears Haiti could fall ‘at any time’ as doubts grow over Biden’s backup Kenya (www.miamiherald.com)
Ukraine War: UK Prepares to supply more than 10,000 drones to Ukraine (tinyurl.com)
Six people killed in Canadian capital in rare case of mass murder (www.reuters.com)
Israel ‘accepts six-week ceasefire deal’ as Hamas response awaited, US officials say (www.theguardian.com)
U.N. report: ‘Convincing’ information Hamas raped, tortured hostages (www.washingtonpost.com)
A team of United Nations experts tasked with gathering information on sexual violence linked to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel found “reasonable grounds to believe” that some victims were sexually assaulted, including rape and gang rape, according to a U.N. report released Monday....
How China Came to Dominate the World in Solar Energy (www.nytimes.com)
Israeli tanks deliberately ran over dozens of Palestinians (www.middleeasteye.net)
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As Gaza's hunger crisis worsens, emaciated children at hospitals (www.reuters.com)
Two Palestinian toddlers with sunken eyes and emaciated faces, one in a yellow cardigan and the other in a stripy top, were lying side by side on a bed in a Gaza clinic, their thin, bony legs protruding from diapers that looked too big for them....
Gaza war: both sides are reporting sexual violence committed by their enemy – but these crimes are hard to investigate (theconversation.com)
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Each month since June 2023 has seen new temperature highs for the time of year (www.bbc.com)
Last month was the world’s warmest February in modern times, the EU’s climate service says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a row....
