Yemeni gov't blames Houthis for "dragging country into confrontation" (english.news.cn)
Houthi rebels fire cruise missile at American destroyer in Red Sea (www.euronews.com)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a US fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said....
London: 200,000 Protesters March Against Israel's War on Gaza (unicornriot.ninja)
Putin: Russia will concentrate more military units near Finland (yle.fi)
As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
Egypt's Suez Canal revenues down 40% due to Houthi attacks (www.reuters.com)
Dollar revenues from Egypt’s Suez Canal are down 40% from the beginning of the year compared to 2023, canal authority head Osama Rabie said on Thursday, after attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthis caused major shippers to divert away from the route....
Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea (apnews.com)
Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza....
One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since October 7 (edition.cnn.com)
Explosions reported near US Consulate in Iraq; Iran claims responsibility (abcnews.go.com)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed it was targeting “the headquarters of spies.”...
Israel Bombed an Al Jazeera Cameraman — and Blocked Evacuation Efforts as He Bled to Death (theintercept.com)
“IT WAS AS if a storm had targeted us.” On the afternoon of December 15, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Farhana school in Khan Younis where Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, had just wrapped up filming the aftermath of an earlier bombardment in the area....
China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com)
Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family
Taiwan loses diplomatic ally to China days after presidential election (www.cnn.com)
Taiwan has lost another diplomatic ally to China just days after its presidential election in what Taipei said was both sudden and designed by Beijing to suppress the island’s “democratic achievements.”...
Exclusive: Hamas, Islamic Jihad accused of using child soldiers in war against Israel (www.foxnews.com)
Hamas runs summer camps, in which the children learn to shoot weapons, attack from a tunnel, fight against tanks and kidnap soldiers. The camps are early stages for military training in Hamas and integration into the military wing. According to the United Nations website for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General...
Russia Threatens 'Imminent Retaliation' for Latvia’s Seizure of 'Moscow House' (www.themoscowtimes.com)
US assistance to Ukraine has ‘ground to a halt’ amid political infighting, White House says (www.independent.co.uk)
India shipped over $1 million of navy-grade fuel to Myanmar since coup (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/13379697...
Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria with the aim of reducing need for imports (apnews.com)
The $19 billion facility, which has a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day, has started to produce diesel and aviation fuel, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery company reported Saturday. As Nigeria’s first privately owned oil refinery, the project “is a game-changer for our country,” it added.
Indian workers heading to Israel will receive no medical coverage or employment guarantee: Report (scroll.in)
Arakan Army resistance force says it has taken control of a strategic township in western Myanmar (apnews.com)
Air in central Male’ unusually polluted - The Edition (edition.mv)
He Warned of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine. Then He Was Thrown in a Russian Jail and Tortured (www.wsj.com)
Now in exile in Boston and working for MIT, Andriy Tuz wonders if he will ever be able to go home again...
Myanmar Military Bows to Powerful Ethnic Army, Gives it More Towns Near China Border (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/13378133...
Scientists crack mystery of how MS gene spread (www.bbc.com)
Why are diseases more common in some parts of Europe than others, and why are northern Europeans taller than their southern counterparts?...