Revealed: how US residents are funding illegal settlements in the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China (www.nbcnews.com)
276 Indians stuck in a French airport for days for a human trafficking probe have left for India (www.nbcnews.com)
A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation departed Monday for India with 276 Indians aboard, authorities said. The passengers had been heading to Nicaragua but were instead blocked inside a rural French airport for four days in an exceptional holiday ordeal....
Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader found, says team (www.bbc.com)
Anti-war candidate barred from Russia’s presidential election (www.theguardian.com)
Yekaterina Duntsova wanted to end the conflict in Ukraine, but her candidacy was rejected over alleged flaws in her application...
Maersk says it will resume shipping in the Red Sea (www.cnn.com)
Global shipping giant Maersk will restart operations in the Red Sea after suspending activity there following attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on commercial vessels....
After approving blessings for same-sex couples, Pope asks Vatican staff to avoid 'rigid ideologies' (www.independent.co.uk)
Pope Francis has urged Vatican bureaucrats to avoid “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from understanding today’s reality...
Pope decries ‘appalling harvest’ of civilian deaths in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Viktor Orbán: The EU is blackmailing Hungary (www.politico.eu)
Hungarian PM lashes out at Brussels for holding back billions of euros....
Putin could attack Baltics and Moldova next, says Belgian army chief (www.politico.eu)
After Ukraine, the Kremlin’s next targets could be Moldova and the Baltic countries, Belgian army chief Michel Hofman has warned....
Brazilian girl commits suicide due to Fake News on big Instagram Gossip Page (g1.globo.com)
They basically posted that she had an affair with Whindersson Nunes. When she posted that it was fake, the owner of the page responded: oh come on, you can’t fool anyone with those acting skills. She ended up committing suicide due to all the harassment from the fake news. There’s a Xwitter thread explaining everything...
Netherlands to supply Ukraine with 18 F-16 fighter jets (nltimes.nl)
The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with eighteen F-16 fighter jets, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte confirmed on Friday. He wrote on social media that he notified his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of the caretaker Cabinet’s decision during a phone call on Friday morning....
Auschwitz Museum Decries Israeli Mayor's 'Sick' Call to 'Empty' Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
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Iran, Eurasian Economic Union sign free trade agreement (www.presstv.co.uk)
Jewish and Arab volunteers help Arab Israeli farmers suffering from labor shortage amid war in Gaza (www.timesofisrael.com)
Uttar Pradesh: School van driver booked for raping 12-year-old girl (www.edexlive.com)
Uttar Pradesh: Cop held for ‘raping’ woman (indianexpress.com)
Thousands protest in Belgrade to demand annulment of elections (www.reuters.com)
Russia Plans to Mobilize Ukrainian Children in Occupied Territories (www.kyivpost.com)
Documents from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) – now supposedly incorporated into Russia by Putin’s decree – showed the Kremlin’s plans to conscript children born in 2007 for its upcoming mobilization, reported Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol....
China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests (www.nytimes.com)
In the remote desert where China detonated its first atom bomb nearly 60 years ago, a drilling rig recently bored a deep vertical shaft that is estimated to plunge down at least a third of a mile. It is the strongest evidence yet that Beijing is weighing whether to test a new generation of nuclear arms that could increase the...
Iran summons Russia’s envoy again over islands dispute | Politics News | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Iranian Authorities Seize Sakharov Prize Awarded To Honor Mahsa Amini, Rights Groups Say (www.rferl.org)
Iranian authorities have seized the prestigious Sakharov Prize that was awarded by the European Parliament to honor Mahsa Amini, whose September 2022 death in custody sparked nationwide anti-government protests and who came to symbolize battle for human rights for Iranian women....
Egypt proposes 14-day ceasefire in Gaza, Hamas to release 40 hostages - report (m.jpost.com)
Egypt proposed a new outline for a hostage release deal on Sunday that would see Hamas release 40 Israelis taken into the Gaza Strip in exchange for a 14-day truce, Israeli and foreign media reported....