Tearful Russian billionaire who spent $2 billion on art tells jurors Sotheby's cheated him (abcnews.go.com)
Russia, Iran preparing to sign treaty to develop military-technological cooperation (kyivindependent.com)
Nauru switches diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China (apnews.com)
The Pacific Island nation of Nauru said Monday that it is switching diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China, a move that reduces the dwindling number of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies to 12 around the world....
German government rejects protesting farmers' demands for more subsidies (www.abc.net.au)
UK-US air strikes launched against Houthis in Yemen (www.bbc.com)
UK and US airstrikes will not stop Red Sea attacks, Houthis warn (www.standard.co.uk)
Terror attack leaves wounded and dead in israel, Hamas claims responsibility (www.jpost.com)
Israel-Gaza live updates: 1 dead, 13 injured in car-ramming attacks near Tel Aviv (abcnews.go.com)
Hamas releases video of three Israeli hostages saying they'll learn 'fate' on Monday (www.standard.co.uk)
The undated 37-second video of Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, released on Sunday night showed them speaking presumably under duress, pleading with Israel’s government to end the war and get them home....
Iran strikes targets in northern Iraq and Syria as regional tensions escalate (apnews.com)
Iran fired missiles late Monday at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria....
US military says it seized Iranian weapons bound for Houthis (www.theguardian.com)
US Navy Seals seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week in which two of its commandos went missing, the US military said on Tuesday....
Africa's Catholic hierarchy refuses same-sex blessings, says such unions are contrary to God's will (apnews.com)
In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement Thursday refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples and asserting that such unions are “contrary to the will of God.”...
Nauru's financial demands key to breaking ties with Taiwan: Official - Focus Taiwan (focustaiwan.tw)
Immigration Center Funding May Have Prompted Nauru Split: Source - TaiwanPlus News | Don't Miss This (www.cleburnetimesreview.com)
Asylum centre funding hole behind Beijing ‘ambush’ of Taiwan on Nauru (www.afr.com)
U.S. forces recovered Iranian warheads in Navy SEAL mission gone awry (www.washingtonpost.com)
The U.S. military said the arms shipment, intercepted off the coast of Somalia, was destined for militants in Yemen blamed for attacks in the Red Sea...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard deployed in Yemen (www.semafor.com)
Yemeni gov't blames Houthis for "dragging country into confrontation" (english.news.cn)
Houthi rebels fire cruise missile at American destroyer in Red Sea (www.euronews.com)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a US fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said....
London: 200,000 Protesters March Against Israel's War on Gaza (unicornriot.ninja)
Putin: Russia will concentrate more military units near Finland (yle.fi)
As a Finn I say this is fine. Every military resource that is tied down and not raping and destroying Ukraine is net positive.
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
Egypt's Suez Canal revenues down 40% due to Houthi attacks (www.reuters.com)
Dollar revenues from Egypt’s Suez Canal are down 40% from the beginning of the year compared to 2023, canal authority head Osama Rabie said on Thursday, after attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthis caused major shippers to divert away from the route....
Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea (apnews.com)
Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza....
One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since October 7 (edition.cnn.com)
