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Italy’s far-right government submits plan to decriminalise abuse of office (www.theguardian.com)

For First Time in Two Decades, U.S. Buys More From Mexico Than China (www.nytimes.com)

Russian Blogger Charged With ‘Rehabilitating Nazism’ for WWII Monument Tickling Video (www.themoscowtimes.com)

Election of the Day: Pakistan (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)

India: Violence erupts in Uttarakhand's Haldwani after madrasa demolition; shoot-at-sight ordered (www.hindustantimes.com)

13 sentenced to death for homosexuality in Yemen (today.lorientlejour.com)

A Houthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, a judicial source said Tuesday, as human rights groups decried a rise in abuses by the Iran-backed rebels....

IMF Warns Of Maldives Foreign Debt Crisis, After China Borrowing (www.ibtimes.com)

Data of half the population of France stolen in its largest ever cyberattack. This is what we know (www.euronews.com)

One in two French people’s data was stolen in a major cybersecurity breach - the largest ever in France - leaving 33 million at risk....

Tucker Carlson interviews Putin and asks Zelenskyy for conversation (www.pravda.com.ua)

Notorious former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has conducted an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin – the reason for his visit to Moscow – and said he has requested an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy....

Putin challenger Boris Nadezhdin barred from Russia's election (www.bbc.com)

Mr Nadezhdin has been relatively critical of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine when few dissenting voices have been tolerated in Russia....

Israeli Army Probing Death of 12 Hostages in Kibbutz Be'eri House Shelled on Orders of Senior Officer (www.haaretz.com)

An Israel Defense Forces General Staff team has begun investigating an incident in which 12 hostages held by Hamas terrorists were killed in the home of Pessi Cohen in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7....

Exxon plan for Guyana oil exploration risks raising tensions with Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)

2024 Begins With More Record Heat Worldwide | On the heels of Earth’s warmest year, January was the eighth month in a row in which global temperatures blew past previous records. (www.nytimes.com)

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Crowded Gazan City Bombed as Negotiators Try to Revive Cease-Fire Talks (www.nytimes.com)

Airstrikes hit a southern Gaza border city crowded with civilians on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced a cease-fire proposal by Hamas and signaled that the Israeli military was preparing to move into the area....

Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)

Killer whale pod trapped by sea ice in Japan has seemingly escaped, local official says (abcnews.go.com)

A pod of orcas that appeared to be trapped by drift sea ice off Japan’s main northern island of Hokkaido has seemingly escaped the icy enclosure, according to a local official....

Brazil police seizing Bolsonaro passport, arresting close aides (www.reuters.com)

BRASILIA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Brazil’s federal police on Thursday sought to confiscate former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and arrest some of his closest aides, sources said, as part of an investigation into an alleged coup attempt after he lost the 2022 election....

North Korea scraps all economic cooperation agreements with South Korea (globalnews.ca)

North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly has voted to scrap all agreements signed with South Korea on promoting economic cooperation, the North’s official KCNA news agency reported on Thursday, as the two Koreas’ relations continue to deteriorate sharply....

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