Hamas regroups in northern Gaza to prepare new offensive (www.theguardian.com)
Haiti: Five killed as protest against prime minister spreads (www.dw.com)
Protests have swept through Haiti as increasingly violent demonstrations demand the resignation of Ariel Henry. According to a 2022 accord, Henry was to cede power on February 7, 2024....
Hamas proposes 135-day Gaza truce with complete Israeli withdrawal (www.reuters.com)
Hamas has proposed a ceasefire plan that would quiet the guns in Gaza for four-and-a-half months, during which all hostages would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip and an agreement would be reached on an end to the war....
Netanyahu dismisses Hamas ceasefire proposal, insists on total victory (www.reuters.com)
DOHA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday total victory in Gaza was within reach, rejecting the latest offer from Hamas for a ceasefire to ensure the return of hostages still held in the besieged enclave....
US drone strike kills Iran-backed militia leader in Baghdad (www.bbc.com)
A senior commander of an Iran-backed militia has been killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad....
US funding failure will have serious battlefield consequences, says Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
As the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine approaches, Ukrainian officials say the delay in US support has already had a clear impact on the battlefield, where Kyiv’s exhausted troops have a severe hardware deficit in comparison to the Russians
China named as hypothetical enemy for 1st time in Japan-U.S. exercise (english.kyodonews.net)
Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli summit envisions Gaza resettlement (www.972mag.com)
The strangest sight at the “Conference for Israel’s Victory,” which took place on Sunday evening at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, wasn’t the map depicting dozens of new settlements that Israeli settlers hope to establish throughout the Gaza Strip after the war is over. It was the moment when thousands of...
Biden-Backed Bipartisan Senate Bill Targets Key Humanitarian Aid For Palestinians (www.huffpost.com)
Democrats’ stunning turn-around on U.S.-provided funding for UNRWA is a triumph for hard-right activists and Republican lawmakers who have long sought to undermine the U.N. agency.
South Korea’s foreign worker plan put on hold as Philippines suspends labour deployment (www.straitstimes.com)
SEOUL – A moratorium set by the Philippine government on sending the country’s workers to South Korea has put the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s plan to bring in foreign domestic workers on hold, while also leaving some local farms with a shortage of workers as they will have fewer seasonal workers from the Philippines...
Del Monte Kenya representatives accused of seeking to cover up circumstances of men’s deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Representatives of Del Monte Kenya have been accused of offering bribes in an attempt to cover up the circumstances in which four men died after going to steal pineapples from its farm in December....
Argentina inflation surges past 200%, hitting highest level in decades (www.nbcnews.com)
Spain suspends arms exports to Israel; reiterates need for Palestine statehood (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
‘Everything beautiful has been destroyed’: Palestinians mourn a city in tatters (www.theguardian.com)
Its walls collapsed and its minaret cut short, Gaza’s Omari mosque remains standing but vastly diminished. Around it, the historic old city is also in tatters. The 7th-century mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, was Gaza’s most famous and its surroundings a focal point of the Palestinian enclave’s history and...
Brazil starts mass vaccination amid upsurge in dengue fever (www.theguardian.com)
Emergency measures taken as 364,855 cases of mosquito-borne infection reported this year, a fourfold increase on year before...
Ethiopia: UK warns of food crisis triggered by war and drought (www.bbc.com)
James Landale travels with the UK Africa minister to northern Ethiopia, where the situation is deteriorating.
Myanmar’s Military Driven Out of Township in Northern Rakhine, Reports Say (www.irrawaddy.com)
The Arakan Army (AA) has taken control of Rakhine State’s Minbya Township after capturing the last two military battalion headquarters in the township on Tuesday, according to Rakhine media reports....
Indonesian rebels say they're ready to free a New Zealand pilot taken hostage a year ago (www.washingtonpost.com)
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region expressed their readiness Wednesday to release a New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage a year ago....
‘Our last stop is Rafah’: trapped Palestinians await Israeli onslaught (www.theguardian.com)
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into the small southern Gaza border city of Rafah are being forced to contemplate being displaced once more as an Israeli offensive looms....
Pakistan Polls 2024: Pak suspends mobile services for election day (www.livemint.com)
Pakistan suspended mobile phone services nationwide Thursday for election day, the interior ministry said, citing the need to “maintain law and order"....
Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses (www.reuters.com)
King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says (www.bbc.com)
Azerbaijani president on track for 94 percent landslide in tainted election (www.politico.eu)
The vote comes just months after Ilham Aliyev declared victory in the decades-old Nagorno-Karabakh conflict....
Ukraine-born Miss Japan winner relinquishes crown following affair (www.bbc.com)
The Ukraine-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a tabloid report revealed her affair with a married man....