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Israeli Forces Will Move Into Rafah, Cease-Fire Deal or Not, Netanyahu Says (www.nytimes.com)

Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays (www.theguardian.com)

Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000 people...

Gaza war: blaming Israel for October 7 Hamas attack makes peace less – not more – likely (theconversation.com)

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Gaza children searching for food to keep families alive (www.bbc.com)

More Than Half the World Faces High Risk of Measles Outbreaks Following 'Big Gaps' in Immunizations, WHO Says (people.com)

More than half the world will be at a “high or very high risk” of measles outbreaks by the end of 2024, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)....

Washington to Israel: Turn the lights back on in Gaza (www.politico.com)

The Biden administration is pressing Israel to restore telecommunications access to Gaza amid a massive blackout that has stretched a record six days and left millions of Palestinians without power or internet....

31,000 Ukrainian troops killed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy says (apnews.com)

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion....

Big Fat Missiles To Take Down Big Fat Russian Planes. How Ukraine Brought Back Its Massive S-200s. (www.forbes.com)

According to Ukrainian magazine Pravda, the missile the Ukrainian air force used to shoot down a rare Russian air force A-50 radar plane on Friday wasn’t an American-made Patriot, as many observers assumed....

Serbia protests after Croatia's foreign minister calls Vučić a Russian 'satellite' in the Balkans (abcnews.go.com)

Serbia has sent a protest note after the Croatian foreign minister called President Aleksandar Vučić a Russian “satellite” in the Balkans...

Saving Brazil’s rainforest starts with helping people and businesses make a living off cleared land (projects.apnews.com)

Poverty is killing the Amazon. Treating the soil and farmers better could help save what’s left.

Police beatings of pro-Palestinian schoolchildren spark outrage in Italy (www.deccanherald.com)

India confirms citizens have joined Russian military (www.dw.com)

New Delhi has confirmed that some of India’s citizens have signed up for “support jobs” with the Russian army. The Indian government says it is working with Moscow to secure their discharge....

Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise (apnews.com)

Navalny's body returned to mother, spokeswoman says (www.bbc.com)

The body of leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been returned to his mother, his spokesperson says....

‘Putin must lose everything’: defiant Zelenskiy hosts western leaders in Kyiv to mark two years of war (www.theguardian.com)

Ukraine’s president met the prime ministers of Italy, Canada and Belgium in a show of unity after recent battlefield defeats...

Bengal famine: Tracking down the last survivors of WW2's forgotten tragedy (www.bbc.com)

Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.

Berlin says EU should prepare for war by end of decade (www.euractiv.com)

How Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival (new.thecradle.co)

China says it aims to 'contain' foreign interference over Taiwan this year (www.reuters.com)

China aims to “contain” foreign interference over Taiwan and “resolutely combat” any efforts towards the island’s formal independence this year, which is the sensitive 75th anniversary of the founding of communist China, state media said on Friday....

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