'Largest Houthi attack to date' in Red Sea repelled by HMS Diamond and US warships, Grant Shapps says (news.sky.com)
[UK] Architect of postal scandal demands immunity (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Geheimplan gegen Deutschland - secret plot against germany (correctiv.org)
Secret plan against Germany...
Gabriel Attal becomes France’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister (www.cnn.com)
US Navy shoots down barrage of Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen over Red Sea, US Central Command says (www.cnn.com)
The US Navy shot down 21 Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen, according to a statement from US Central Command, in one of the largest Houthi attacks to take place in the Red Sea in recent months....
Spain makes face masks mandatory in hospitals and clinics after a spike in respiratory illnesses (apnews.com)
Face masks will be mandatory in hospitals and healthcare centers in Spain starting Wednesday due to a surge in respiratory illnesses, the Health Ministry said....
Families of Israelis killed in Be'eri home hit by tank fire on October 7 demand probe (www.haaretz.com)
Family members of Israelis who were killed on October 7 after a standoff between Hamas terrorists and the Israeli army led to the army firing a tank at a house where the civilians were held hostage are demanding that the military probe its actions that day....
Woman in her 90s pulled alive from rubble 124 hours after Japan quake (www.cnn.com)
An elderly woman in her 90s has been rescued from under the rubble of a two-story house more than five days after a powerful earthquake struck Japan....
Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows (theintercept.com)
The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza showed a consistent bias against Palestinians, according to an Intercept analysis of major media coverage....
Armed men break into a live TV studio in Ecuador as the country is rocked by a series of attacks (apnews.com)
Canada blocks citizenship for Russian blogger who criticised Ukraine war. [update: Canada reverses course, will grant citizenship says Minister of Immigration] (www.theguardian.com)
Polish police arrest MPs in presidential palace as rule-of-law battle heats up (www.politico.eu)
In a dramatic escalation of Poland’s battle to restore rule of law, the police entered the country’s presidential palace on Tuesday evening and took two MPs into custody who had been hiding under the protection of President Andrzej Duda after being sentenced to prison terms for abuse of power....
Israeli lawmakers say it out loud: Mass Migration from Gaza and Jewish resettlement (www.haaretz.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12959522...
One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since October 7 | CNN (www.cnn.com)
A heavy wave of Russian missile attacks pounds areas across Ukraine, killing at least 4 civilians (www.seattletimes.com)
Ukraine came under strong Russian missile attacks that struck near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country.
German FM: Suffering of Palestinians ‘cannot go on’ (www.politico.eu)
The suffering of Palestinian civilians “cannot go on,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned Tuesday during a visit to Cairo, urging more concrete measures to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip....
A US citizen has been arrested in Moscow on drug charges (apnews.com)
A U.S. citizen has been arrested on drug charges in Russia, officials said Tuesday, a move that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions over Ukraine....
Norway to approve controversial deep-sea mining (www.bbc.com)
Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining....
China’s Tesla-beating EV maker BYD has carmakers around the world ‘in a state of shock’ over its prices (fortune.com)
When China’s BYD recently overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla as the global leader in sales of electric vehicles, casual observers of the auto industry might have been surprised....
Weak economy, COVID rampage likely shrank China's population again in 2023 (www.reuters.com)
Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters....
Children Born During the War in Gaza Will Never Truly Escape It (www.nytimes.com)
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Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees (www.972mag.com)
In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were...
Gabriel Attal is France's youngest-ever and first openly gay prime minister (apnews.com)
Gabriel Attal was named Tuesday as France’s youngest-ever prime minister, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the rest of his term amid growing political pressure from the far right....
1.4 million of people visited orthodox church in Russia during Christmas (www.kommersant.ru)
Counted by russian police, they are present during such events....
