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West Bank Palestinians face increasing restrictions and settler violence as Gaza war escalates (edition.cnn.com)

Losing ground to rebel alliance, Myanmar junta faces biggest test since coup (www.reuters.com)

‘Corpses on streets’: Sudan’s RSF kills 1,300 in Darfur, monitors say (www.aljazeera.com)

Blinken denounces civilian toll in Gaza, says ‘far too many Palestinians have been killed’ (www.cnn.com)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday gave one of his most direct condemnations of the civilian death toll in Gaza and said more needs to be done to “minimize harm to Palestinian civilians.”...

Bulgaria’s Russian gas games rile Europe (www.politico.eu)

Critics accuse Bulgaria of punishing Russia to curry favor with Brussels, while quietly helping Moscow regain its grip on Europe’s energy supplies.

Earth just had its hottest year on record — climate change is to blame (www.nature.com)

‘There are hundreds of mothers like me’ An interview with Oksana Pekhteleva, whose daughter’s killer won a presidential pardon for fighting in Ukraine (meduza.io)

On the night of January 13, 2020, a Kemerovo man named Vladislav Kanyus brutally murdered his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend, Vera Pekhteleva. For hours, neighbors listened to Pekhteleva scream in agony and repeatedly called the police, but by the time officers arrived, she was dead. Kanyus was sentenced to 17 years in prison, while...

Media watchdog says it was just 'raising questions' with insinuations about photographers and Hamas (apnews.com)

The head of an Israeli media watchdog, HonestReporting, says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened

No ‘export of workers’ to Israel, say trade unions in India (www.nationalheraldindia.com)

All major Indian trade unions have called upon the govt to scrap agreement with Israel to export Indian workers & appealed to workers to boycott Israeli products & refuse to handle Israeli cargo.

Putin looks set to run for president in 2024 — and there's no one who can oppose him right now (www.cnbc.com)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly decided to run in the March 2024 presidential election and he’s likely to win another six-year term in office, essentially because there’s no one that can oppose him....

Physicists Warn Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos (www.sciencealert.com)

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Department of the Air Force Scheduled to Launch Seventh X-37B Mission on December 7. The X-37B space plane will operate in “new orbital regimes” and test “future space domain awareness technologies.” (www.spaceforce.mil)

Kim Jong-un closes slate of North Korea’s embassies as sanctions bite (www.theguardian.com)

Bangladesh PM stands firm on pay rise amid deadly garment worker protests (www.aljazeera.com)

On average, 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day. (www.who.int)

As of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.

Myanmar risks breaking apart amid attacks by rebel militias: junta (www.bangkokpost.com)

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Two Jewish schools in Montreal hit by gunshots, police say (www.independent.co.uk)

Two Jewish schools in Montreal were hit overnight by gunshots, police said Thursday....

Israel-Hamas War: Israel Lowers Oct. 7 Death Toll Estimate to 1,200 (www.nytimes.com)

Once-in-a-century flooding swamps Somalia after historic drought -UN (www.reuters.com)

Canada PM Trudeau condemns violence after shots fired at Jewish schools (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/9065969...

Israeli forces kill 18 Palestinians in daytime raid in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)

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Greenland glaciers melt five times faster than 20 years ago (www.reuters.com)

Israeli Media 'Watchdog' Says It Was Just 'Raising Questions' With Insinuations About Photographers, Hamas (www.haaretz.com)

The executive director of an Israeli media watchdog organization, HonestReporting, says it was simply “raising questions” by publicly wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel — and sent some of the first images of its aftermath to a watching world — had been tipped...

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