9 dead, 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar’s Pemba Island (www.nbcnews.com)
Garry Kasparov added to Russia’s list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ (novayagazeta.eu)
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Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ on Rafah (www.politico.eu)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of United States President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”...
UK lawyer to oversee ICC investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestinian territories (www.theguardian.com)
Iran Wants $2.5 Billion For Dual National Hostage (www.iranintl.com)
After Russia lost 2 prized A-50 planes, Ukraine struck a factory that's replacing them, reports say (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukraine carried out drone strikes on an aircraft plant in southern Russia, reports say....
Israeli human rights groups accuse country of failing to abide by ICJ’s Gaza aid ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Irish prime minister concedes defeat in vote over constitutional amendments about family and women (apnews.com)
Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s (www.theguardian.com)
What is CAA? How it fast tracks Indian citizenship of religious minorities from South Asian nations (www.wionews.com)
Israel starving thousands of Palestinian detainees in its prisons: NGO (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
France is world's second biggest arms exporter, just ahead of Russia: report (www.rfi.fr)
Weapons imports to Europe nearly doubled over the past five years, partly due to the war in Ukraine, while exports from Russia halved, researchers said on Monday. Ukraine has become the world’s fourth largest arms importer, while France has replaced Russia as the world’s second largest exporter behind the United States....
Seoul enhances infertility aid in response to 0.55 total fertility rate (www.chosun.com)
East Asia countries birth rate crisis continues. In response to total fertility rate of 0.55, Korea enhances infertility aid.
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages (www.theguardian.com)
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future...
Children in Haiti describe harrowing stories of survival as gangs rampage | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Netanyahu denies Palestinians are starving (www.politico.eu)
US asked China and India for help to prevent Russia from carrying out a nuclear strike in 2022, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
3 Palestinians arrested in Italy on terrorist plot suspicion (www.i24news.tv)
Fifty people treated after ‘technical problem’ caused ‘strong movement’ on Latam flight from Sydney (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats...
Rupert Murdoch engaged, at 92, for 6th time, to Roman Abramovich's former mother-in-law (abcnews.go.com)
India says it uncovers trafficking racket duping people into fighting for Russia in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Russia to hold joint naval drills with Iran and China in Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea (english.alarabiya.net)
A new surge of settler outposts is terrorizing Palestinians off their land (www.972mag.com)
Since late December, Palestinians living in the village of Battir, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, have been cut off from significant portions of their land. A group of Israeli settlers simply arrived in the area one day — which UNESCO has designated as a world heritage site — and set up a new outpost, with a...