‘We cannot operate, we have no drugs’: Gaza’s indirect casualties mount as health service decimated (www.theguardian.com)
Health services in Gaza are “decimated”, with medical staff exhausted after three months of war forced to extract shrapnel without adequate pain relief, conduct amputations without anaesthetics and watch children die of cancers because of a lack of facilities and medicine....
Gangs in Haiti have attacked a community for 4 days and residents fear the violence could spread (apnews.com)
Ministers admit losing track of 5,600 asylum claimants - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Swiss cocaine so cheap and widely used they’re considering legalising it (www.telegraph.co.uk)
NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia (thehill.com)
Top NATO official Adm. Rob Bauer warned Thursday that a larger war with Russia and other adversaries is a real threat amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine....
Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes? (www.dw.com)
Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in...
'Banker of the Climate Crisis': Lawsuit Targets ING in the Netherlands. (www.commondreams.org)
The Red Sea Conflict Is Scrambling Shipping. Europe Is Bearing the Brunt (www.wsj.com)
Europe is again on the front line of the latest geopolitical tensions, a development that threatens to widen the economic gap between it and the U.S....
Donkey cart loaded with explosives kills a police officer and critically injures 4 others in Kenya (apnews.com)
A donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb blew up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border Thursday, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others, authorities said....
Estonia expels Russian head of church (kyivindependent.com)
The Estonian government did not extend the residence permit of Metropolitan Yevgeniy of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, forcing him to leave by Feb. 6, the ERR public broadcaster reported on Jan. 18....
Alarm as Israeli forces move closer to crowded areas in southern Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
As Israeli forces have moved further into southern Gaza, airstrikes and close-combat fighting are approaching areas crowded with more than a million people seeking refuge from the destruction across the rest of the territory....
Switzerland to host Ukraine peace summit at Zelenskyy's request (www.ctvnews.ca)
Man jailed for record 50 years for criticising Thai monarchy (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil backs Beijing's 'One China policy,' foreign minister Wang Yi says (www.reuters.com)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday welcomed Brazil’s support for Beijing’s “One China policy” that states Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, a move that strengthens bilateral ties with South America’s largest country....
‘Worst leader’: Myanmar Military’s winter of discontent (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
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President Biden Signs Stopgap Bill, Averts Government Shutdown (businesswisehub.com)
U.S. wants Japanese shipyards to help keep warships ready to fight in Asia (www.reuters.com)
The United States and Japan are looking to make a deal for Japanese shipyards to regularly overhaul and maintain U.S. Navy warships so they can stay in Asian waters ready for any potential conflict, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said on Friday....
Japan’s lunar lander is on the moon, but its status is unclear (www.cnn.com)
France Rejects Genocide Accusations Against Israel in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
“To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold,” France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday....
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Iran emerges from the shadows to broaden the proxy war with Israel (www.bloomberg.com)
The shape-shifting conflict in the Middle East saw Iran openly go on the offensive for the first time since the war in Gaza began, as Tehran’s latest round of existential brinkmanship with Israel spread further from the tiny Mediterranean enclave....
Will new criminal bills turn India into a police state ahead of 2024 vote? (www.aljazeera.com)
Late last month India’s parliament passed two sets of controversial legislation in the biggest overhaul of the criminal justice system and telecom laws that critics say could greatly increase police powers and facilitate mass surveillance....