'Embarrassing for Putin': Russian territory is under occupation for the first time since WWII (www.abc.net.au)
Zelenskyy: If Trump Has Plan to End the Ukraine War 'He Should Tell Us Today' (www.commondreams.org)
Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia (www.economist.com)
I don’t blame them. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia to win.
WATCH: Hamas blocks IDF fuel delivery to Gaza's Shifa Hospital (www.jpost.com)
By MAYA ZANGER-NADIS NOVEMBER 12, 2023 19:09 Updated: NOVEMBER 12, 2023 21:26...
Dutch king and queen are confronted by angry protesters on visit to a slavery museum in South Africa (apnews.com)
Portuguese tourist assaulted by Turkish police, jailed for 20 days for "looking gay" (www.gerceknews.com)
Russian parliament bans gender reassignment surgery for trans people (www.bbc.com)
Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard takes gold in Olympic breaking final (apnews.com)
Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) took gold in the first Olympic men’s breaking tournament Saturday....
Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas (apnews.com)
Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog (www.autoblog.com)
Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain (www.theguardian.com)
US president’s remarks to Time magazine about PM’s role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government...
Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds (www.dw.com)
Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank....
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas official says they will repeat Oct. 7 attacks (news.yahoo.com)
Quote: “We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do it again and again. The Al-Aqsa Deluge [the name Hamas gave its 7 October onslaught - ed.] is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth. Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are...
No tritium found in fish one month after Fukushima water release (www.japantimes.co.jp)
No detectable amount of tritium has been found in fish samples taken from waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where the discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea began a month ago, the government said Monday....
China's new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why? (www.independent.co.uk)
China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount. What is the map, and why is it upsetting people so much?...
Insane heatwave grips southern Europe. Land surface temperature in some areas of Extremadura in Spain reached 60° Celsius!! (www.copernicus.eu)
A severe heatwave is ongoing in Europe. Temperature records broken in France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain....
Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel (www.bbc.com)
Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens (www.pbs.org)
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
Mexico is heading towards its most violent election ever, with 30 candidates murdered, 77 threatened and 11 kidnapped (english.elpais.com)
More than 170 attacks have been committed against politicians in the lead-up to the June elections. This violence has put campaigns under tension and is sowing doubts about governability in several regions. Specialists warn that the line between the Mexican state and organized crime is increasingly blurred...
High Court In India Rules That Viewing, Downloading Child Porn Is Not A Crime - The Publica (www.thepublica.com)
Humanity will shrink in the future: 97% of countries will experience negative growth by 2100 (english.elpais.com)
Antisemitic incidents in Germany rose by 320% after Hamas attacked Israel, a monitoring group says (apnews.com)
A group tracking antisemitism in Germany said Tuesday that it documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7....
Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024 (www.economist.com)
Even China's 1.4 billion population can't fill all its vacant homes, former official says (www.reuters.com)
Even China’s population of 1.4 billion would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former official said on Saturday, in a rare public critique of the country’s crisis-hit property market....
