US and UK carry out fresh strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen (www.bbc.com)
The Pentagon says US and UK fighter planes have carried out strikes on 18 Houthi sites in Yemen - the fourth such joint operation by the allies....
Saving Brazil’s rainforest starts with helping people and businesses make a living off cleared land (projects.apnews.com)
Poverty is killing the Amazon. Treating the soil and farmers better could help save what’s left.
Valencia fire: Ten bodies found as Spanish police search gutted flats (www.bbc.com)
India farmers' protest: X admits to taking down posts and accounts (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12295581...
With spears and shields, India's Nihang Sikh warriors join farmers' protest (www.reuters.com)
SHAMBHU, India, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of protesting Indian farmers facing off with security forces have come under the protection of the Nihang Sikhs, a warrior sect dating back to the 1600s distinguished by their ink-blue robes and ancient weapons such as swords and spears....
Exclusive: Chinese police work in Kiribati, Hawaii's Pacific neighbour (www.reuters.com)
SYDNEY, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database program, Kiribati officials told Reuters....
Footballer Dani Alves guilty of sexual assault (www.bbc.com)
Mexico talks with Canada about high number of asylum requests (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/15839911...
China’s coast guard has triggered ‘panic’ in Taiwan. That’s only part of Beijing’s plan (www.cnn.com)
King Xia, a Taiwanese tourist boat, was taking 23 passengers on a journey around Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Islands just miles from China’s southeastern coast when it was intercepted by two Chinese coast guard vessels....
Hundreds of Ukrainian Troops Feared Captured or Missing in Chaotic Retreat (www.nytimes.com)
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops may have been captured by advancing Russian units or disappeared during Ukraine’s chaotic retreat from the eastern city of Avdiivka, according to senior Western officials and soldiers fighting for Ukraine, a devastating loss that could deal a blow to already weakening morale....
US warns Israel against ground offensive into Rafah in draft UN resolution (www.ft.com)
Brazil recalls ambassador to Israel in row over Lula’s Gaza comments (www.aljazeera.com)
Netanyahu: Israel will maintain full security control over Gaza Strip, West Bank (www.jpost.com)
Identifying the Mystery Vessel at the Site of Trinidad & Tobago’s National Emergency Oil Spill - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Dozens killed in outbreak of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea highlands (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil’s Lula compares Israel’s war on Gaza with the Holocaust (www.aljazeera.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/15675273...
Japan Loses Third-Largest Economy Spot To Germany After Slipping Into Recession (www.forbes.com)
Egypt builds 'buffer zone' in Sinai as 1.4 million Gazans face displacement: Report (thecradle.co)
Russian opposition leader Navalny has died, prison service says (www.bbc.co.uk)
Palestinian doctor flees hospital stormed by IDF only to go back to work in overcrowded Rafah (www.nbcnews.com)
Israeli soldiers stormed Nasser Hospital overnight, forcing patients and staff to evacuate the last major functional medical facility in southern Gaza. Dr. Mohammad Harara, whom NBC News has been following at Nasser since December, joined an estimated 1 million displaced Gazans crammed in the southern border town of Rafah. But...
Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)
Fuel continues to leak from overturned and abandoned barge as stain spreads into the Caribbean Sea...
Australia, Canada and NZ warn Israel against ‘catastrophic’ Rafah ground offensive (www.theguardian.com)
Indonesia may have just elected a strongman (www.vox.com)
A relic from Indonesia’s dictatorship is the new president....
Seven civilians killed in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)
In Greece, same-sex couples await a landmark parliamentary vote on marriage equality (www.npr.org)
