Russia tries to unfreeze gold reserves for climate funds at COP28 (www.reuters.com)
China-EU cooperation to provide more stability amid global challenges (english.news.cn)
Troubled by a Resurgent Russia and Bickering Allies, Ukraine Hunkers Down (www.wsj.com)
China rejects EU’s trade deficit complaint (www.politico.eu)
Leaked audio of heated meeting reveals hostages’ fury at Netanyahu (www.cnn.com)
A female abductee freed with her children – but without her husband, who remains in captivity – is heard on one recording saying: “The feeling we had there was that no one was doing anything for us. The fact is that I was in a hiding place that was shelled and we had to be smuggled out and we were wounded. That’s besides...
No Sign Of Forced Labour At Xinjiang Site, Says VW (www.barrons.com)
Swiss bank Banque Pictet admits hiding $5.6 billion of Americans' money from IRS (www.cnbc.com)
Global journalist group says Israel-Hamas conflict is a war beyond compare for media deaths (apnews.com)
Nigeria airstrike 'mistakenly' kills worshippers at religious festival (www.bbc.com)
Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China (www.theguardian.com)
Former Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow flees territory for Canada (www.theguardian.com)
Former Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow who was jailed over her role in pro-democracy protests revealed on Sunday she had moved to Canada and would not return to meet her bail conditions....
USS Carney shoots down drones, responds to ballistic missile attack on commercial vessel (www.cnn.com)
The USS Carney shot down at least three Houthi drones headed in the ship’s direction in the southern Red Sea on Sunday and responded to a distress call from a civilian commercial vessel that was fired upon by a ballistic missile, a US defense official said....
Philippines says China has executed two Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite appeals (apnews.com)
How the U.S. courted the Philippines to thwart China (www.reuters.com)
America has rushed to mend relations with its former colony after ties frayed under former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. It has lavished attention on new leader Ferdinand Marcos Jr and sent military equipment and vaccines. Washington needs Manila in its camp as tensions with China rise in the Indo-Pacific. Reuters got...
One dead and another injured in Paris attack near Eiffel Tower, minister says (www.standard.co.uk)
A person has died and another was injured after an assailant attacked passersby in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower, the French Interior Minister said on Saturday....
Milei appoints former minister with pro-Nazi past as head of state lawyers (english.elpais.com)
The president-elect of Argentina, the far-right Javier Milei, appointed Rodolfo Barra, a former Minister of Justice forced to resign in 1996 due to his past in pro-Nazi organizations, as the future head of the State’s Attorneys this Friday. The appointment, which will take effect on December 10, generated rejection from the...
Russia Imported Over 100,000 Asian Migrants to Donbas, Plans to Create Cross-Border Commonwealth (www.kyivpost.com)
The Kremlin is trying to change the demographics in the occupied territories by importing migrants from Central Asia to replace the indigenous Ukrainian population and plans to merge Ukrainian and Russian regions to create a “Donbas” commonwealth, according to reports....
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lashes out at NATO and the West (www.euronews.com)
Lavrov told a meeting of OSCE ministers in North Macedonia that the organisation was an “appendage” of NATO and the EU, before walking out....
Palestinian olive farmers hold tight to their roots amid surge in settler attacks (news.mongabay.com)
Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank face economic devastation as a surge in violence by illegal Israeli settlers and the Israeli military prevents them from harvesting their olives. Around 100,000 Palestinian families are estimated to rely on these trees as a source of income....
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (www.972mag.com)
Israeli intelligence leak details extent of warnings over Hamas attack (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine spy chief's wife Marianna Budanova ill in suspected poisoning (www.bbc.com)
The wife of Ukraine’s spy chief, Lt Gen Kyrylo Budanov, is being treated in hospital for suspected poisoning with heavy metals, a Ukrainian intelligence source has confirmed to the BBC....
South Korea: Man gets 14-month jail term for praising North in poem (www.bbc.com)
Gaza war fuels tensions in Iraq (www.theguardian.com)
machine gun fire, customary during funerals, illuminated the night sky as dozens of men converged in a dimly lit, unpaved alley on the edges of the sprawling slums of Sadr city to pay their respects. A giant picture of Ali Hassan al-Daraaji had been erected outside the family home in north-east Baghdad to announce his...