Three Arrested After Spanish Tourist Gang-raped In India. An average of nearly 90 rapes were reported in India every day in 2022, according to data by the National Crime Records Bureau (www.barrons.com)
Evidence of Israel's unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate (www.amnesty.org)
The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between 10 and 16 October 2023.
U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage (fortune.com)
This month is the planet's hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
The Palestinian activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against a neverending backdrop of war (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Hamas Police Officer Fatally Shoots Boy Approaching Humanitarian Aid Truck to Keep Others Away: (themessenger.com)
White House warns Congress the US is out of money, nearly out of time to avoid 'kneecap' to Ukraine (apnews.com)
The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it....
Netanyahu Blasts Biden Admin For ‘Withholding’ Weapons From Israel In Harshest Criticism Yet: ‘Inconceivable’ (www.forbes.com)
Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected. (www.science.org)
Top Russian space scientist dies of mushroom poisoning (ptv-news.com.pk)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, known for brutal crackdowns against political opposition, dies at 63 (www.nbcnews.com)
Israel offers to evacuate babies from crippled Gaza hospital (www.reuters.com)
Finland has no private schools – and its pupils perform better than British children (inews.co.uk)
Finland ranked seventh in the world in OECD’s student assessment chart in 2018, well above the UK and the United States, where there is a mix of private and state education
Ukraine aid is dropped from government funding bill. That raises questions about future US support (apnews.com)
Canadian police won't investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman (abcnews.go.com)
The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct”...
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Zelenskiy to visit Washington in bid to break Senate deadlock on Ukraine aid (www.theguardian.com)
Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says (www.nature.com)
Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online. (www.nbcnews.com)
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat (www.theguardian.com)
German police raid homes of 17 people accused of posting antisemitic hate speech on social media (apnews.com)
Source: President Mahmoud Abbas cancels planned meeting with President Biden after hospital strike (apnews.com)
Third of Japan's 18-year-old women may never have children: study (www.japantimes.co.jp)
WHO says soda sweetener aspartame may cause cancer, but it's safe within limits (www.cnbc.com)
Russia's LGBTQ+ community is turning to Telegram as the government cracks down on them (www.lgbtqnation.com)
