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UK Conservatives suspend MP for saying London's mayor was under the control of Islamists (www.france24.com)

EU warns Israel against "catastrophic" Rafah offensive (www.reuters.com)

BRUSSELS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The European Union on Monday warned Israel against launching an offensive in Rafah that ministers said would create a disaster for the roughly 1.5 million refugees crammed into the city on the southern edge of Gaza. “An attack on Rafah would be absolutely catastrophic … it would be...

Pope Francis cancels a meeting with Rome deacons because of mild flu, the Vatican says (apnews.com)

Pope Francis has canceled an audience scheduled for Saturday as a precaution after coming down with mild flu, the Vatican press office said in a short statement, without adding further details....

Shamima Begum: Woman who joined ISIS as a teen loses challenge against the removal of her UK citizenship (www.cnn.com)

A woman who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship....

Houthis to step up Red Sea strikes, use 'submarine weapons', leader says (www.reuters.com)

“Operations in the Red and Arabian Seas, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden are continuing, escalating, and effective,” Abdul Malik al-Houthi added in a televised speech. He gave no details of the submarine weapons....

Rafah Attack Escalates “Most Transparent Genocide of All Time,” Scholar Says (truthout.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16060292...

WWII-era bomb safely detonated at sea after one of the largest peacetime evacuations in UK history (apnews.com)

A World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in British history has been detonated at sea, the Ministry of Defense said on Saturday....

‘It was an execution’: family mourns boy shot dead by Israeli forces (www.theguardian.com)

Nihal Abu Ayash, 16, was reportedly the 100th Palestinian child to be killed in the West Bank since Hamas’s 7 October attack...

The Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza Can Only Get Worse (www.newyorker.com)

On the run from Russia: the defector to Ukraine shot dead on the Costa Blanca (www.theguardian.com)

Maksim Kuzminov flew a Russian miltary helicopter to Ukraine. Armed with a new identity, he moved to a Spanish resort. Then he was killed in an underground car park...

The politics behind a new Auschwitz exhibition for a country that no longer exists (www.haaretz.com)

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Israel's PM Netanyahu lays out Gaza plan for after the war - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy (www.bbc.com)

The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis....

Assange’s wife says ‘the world is watching’ extradition appeal hearing (thehill.com)

Germany passes law to legalize cannabis - the ninth country to do so (www.msn.com)

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Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts (www.ohchr.org)

Why relations between DR Congo and Rwanda are deteriorating (www.semafor.com)

Tensions are escalating between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following the advance of M23 rebel forces in recent weeks towards the city of Goma in eastern DRC....

Brazil’s Lula compares Israel’s war on Gaza with the Holocaust (www.aljazeera.com)

‘House of horrors’ rabbi takes cushy deal after pleading guilty to enslaving 30 women: reports (www.msn.com)

Angry French farmers storm into Paris agriculture fair (www.theguardian.com)

Protesters clash with police before planned visit by French president Emmanuel Macron...

Gunmen sent by Moscow killed defector sheltering in Alicante, Spanish intelligence services say (english.elpais.com)

Spain’s Foreign Ministry will send a strong response if the involvement of Russian secret services in the crime is proven...

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