America’s Indo-Pacific Alliances Are Astonishingly Strong (foreignpolicy.com)
A widespread criticism of the Trump administration’s foreign policy is that it wrecked—or at least severely undermined—the United States’ power and standing in the world, particularly by alienating long-standing allies and partners. Besides his public disdain for NATO, then-U.S. President Donald Trump questioned aloud...
Freed Palestinian Prisoners Say They Faced Torture and Rape in Israeli Jails (www.democracynow.org)
Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza came after Israel and Hamas completed a seventh exchange of captives. On Thursday, eight Israelis held by Hamas were released, while 30 Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails. Israel’s government says it believes Hamas still holds 137 hostages kidnapped during the October 7 attacks. Newly...
Four children among seven injured in Pakistan blast near Peshawar school (www.aljazeera.com)
Japan's frontier islanders decry lack of plan to aid Taiwanese fleeing attack (www.reuters.com)
Israel,UAE to establish land bridge between ports: Israeli media (english.almayadeen.net)
Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Charged with Secretly Acting as an Agent of the Cuban Government (www.justice.gov)
Federal prosecutors have charged Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, Florida, a former U.S. Department of State employee who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 and ultimately as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, with committing multiple federal crimes by secretly acting for decades as an agent...
Thousands gather in New Zealand to protest government’s Indigenous policies | Politics News | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Thailand’s Solution to Corrupt Big-Pharma of the West (www.youtube.com)
Divers have found wreckage, 5 remains from Osprey aircraft that crashed off Japan, US Air Force says (www.politico.com)
Mindanao, Philippines: ISIS claims deadly blast at Catholic mass in Marawi (edition.cnn.com)
At least 13 killed in armed fighting in India’s ethnic riots-hit Manipur (www.aljazeera.com)
Floods, landslides kill dozens in northern Tanzania (www.aljazeera.com)
Faith leaders speak out against antisemitism and Islamophobia at London vigil (www.aol.co.uk)
People stood in the cold and rain outside Downing Street and heard Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby say “there is no good ever in the death of an innocent Israeli, there is no good ever in the death of an innocent Palestinian”....
Over 700 killed in last 24 hours as Israel intensifies strikes (www.aljazeera.com)
Mexico's next president likely to be a woman after third-party candidate leaves race (abcnews.go.com)
MEXICO CITY – A third-party candidate announced Saturday he is leaving Mexico’s 2024 presidential race, practically ensuring the country ’s next president will be a woman....
Ukraine Confirms Russian Troops Executed Two Ukrainian Soldiers Upon Surrender, Initiates Probe (www.kyivpost.com)
The Strategic Committee of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed the authenticity of the footage showing Russian troops gunning down two Ukrainian soldiers upon surrender....
One dead, two injured in Paris attack, French interior minister says (edition.cnn.com)
…One man – a German tourist born in the Philippines – had been killed in the attack and two others sustained non-life threatening injuries, he added....
Philippines says China has executed 2 Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite appeals (www.scmp.com)
Analysis | As Myanmar’s Junta Loses Control, Its Coup Leader Ratchets Up His Blame Game (www.irrawaddy.com)
Top Russian court bans LGBT movement as 'extremist' (www.reuters.com)
Singapore and Zurich tie for top ranking among world's most expensive cities (www.france24.com)
Singapore and Zurich tied for the world’s most expensive city this year, followed by Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said on Thursday as it cautioned that the global cost-of-living crisis was not yet over....
Fighting in over 200 townships since Myanmar coup (www.mizzima.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/10372100...
Bedouin family desperate for news on teenagers held hostage in Gaza (www.bbc.com)
There are only a handful of child hostages left inside Gaza. Under the agreement struck between Israel and Hamas, under-19s were supposed to be released from captivity. On the sixth day, five more were freed, and almost 40 have now been returned home in total. But so far, Aisha and Bilal haven’t been among them.