Lithuania moves to ditch controversial 'anti-gay propaganda' law (www.euronews.com)
Legal and social discrimination blight the small Baltic state’s LGBT+ community....
Blasts hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns, Israel points to 'aerial threat' (www.reuters.com)
Tsingtao: Video shows Chinese beer worker urinating into tank (www.bbc.com)
Chinese authorities are investigating after a viral video appeared to show a worker from Tsingtao urinating into a tank, believed to contain ingredients for its popular beer....
Li Keqiang: Former Chinese premier dies from heart attack at 68 (www.bbc.com)
Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang has died at 68, state media has reported....
Tigray: Risse im Frieden (www.woz.ch)
Mit einem Kugleschreiber notiert er Zahlen auf seine linke Handfäche. “Am ersten Tag”, sagt er, “starben vier Menschen. Am nächsten Tag elf. Dann neunzehn, dann neun, dann achtzehn. Die fremden Soldaten erschossen junge Männer, aber auch Frauen, Kinder und Alte.” Sein Blick wandert pber die Felder zur gelb verputzen...
Auf allen Kanälen: Was SRF für wichtig hält (www.woz.ch)
Nun lässt eine Studie aufhorchen. Dieser zufolge widmete die «Tagesschau» 2022 etwa der Ohrfeige, die der Hollywoodstar Will Smith seinem Schauspielkollegen Chris Rock bei der Oscar-Verleihung verpasst hatte, einen 180 Sekunden langen Beitrag. Anschliessend folgte noch ein 145 Sekunden langer Bericht über die Preisverleihung...
Slovakia’s Fico announces halt of military aid to Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Slovakia’s newly elected Prime Minister Robert Fico pledged on Thursday to stop delivering weapons to Ukraine, just one day after taking office....
Dispatches from Ukraine’s front lines: A strike devastates a village of 300 (www.aljazeera.com)
Friday, October 6...
Biden Cast Doubt On Gaza’s Death Statistics — But They're Cited Internally (www.huffpost.com)
IDF releases recording of Gazan saying Hamas shooting at people trying to flee south (www.timesofisrael.com)
The man says that Hamas is placing roadblocks with cars, and “just sending people back home.”...
Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson (www.bbc.co.uk)
I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion....
Swedish court acquits Russian-born businessman of spying for Moscow (apnews.com)
In photos: "Nightmare scenario" Hurricane Otis mars Acapulco, Mexico (www.axios.com)
Hurricane Otis made landfall directly on Acapulco, Mexico, as a violent Category 5 storm on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people and causing extensive damage to the beach resort city.
Italy's Free-Fall Birth Rate: 2023's First Half Seen 3,500 Fewer Births (stoppopulationdecline.org)
Al Jazeera says Israeli airstrike killed the family of its Gaza correspondent (www.theguardian.com)
Are social media giants censoring pro-Palestine voices amid Israel’s war? (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation (www.politico.eu)
Tory MP Crispin Blunt arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of drugs (www.theguardian.com)
A senior Conservative MP, Crispin Blunt, has been arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of drugs....
UK will wait and see if China attends AI summit, says Sunak (www.irishnews.com)
Israel vows to ‘teach UN a lesson’ in row over Hamas attack comments (www.independent.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/7945843...
China said the US is a disruptor of peace in response to Pentagon report on China’s military buildup (abcnews.go.com)
China said the United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the world in a scathing response Wednesday to a Pentagon report on China’s growing military buildup....
EU Pitched Client-Side Scanning By Targeting Certain EU Residents With Misleading Ads (www.techdirt.com)
North Korea says Israel bombed Gaza hospital, calls US 'accomplice' (www.reuters.com)
North Korea’s foreign ministry accused Israel of bombing a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Oct 17., saying it had openly committed a war crime “under the undisguised patronage of the United States”....
Condemnation after Israeli strike on Gaza church (www.aljazeera.com)
The death toll from the Israeli bombardment on a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza has risen to eight, with dozens more reported wounded....
Broken Lebanon cannot afford war, and Hezbollah knows it (www.reuters.com)
With an economy in ruins and a crumbling state, Lebanon can ill afford another war between Hezbollah and Israel....
