Cuba for the first time asks UN for urgent aid to provide milk for children (english.elpais.com)
Ukraine-born Miss Japan winner relinquishes crown following affair (www.bbc.com)
The Ukraine-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a tabloid report revealed her affair with a married man....
Families of hostages storm Knesset meeting after Netanyahu rejects Hamas offer (www.theguardian.com)
Family members of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip have stormed a parliamentary meeting in Jerusalem to demand that Israel’s government does more to return their loved ones, as fighting in Khan Younis reached unprecedented levels....
Open secret at climate talks: The top temperature goal is mostly gone (www.politico.com)
Leading scientists worldwide delivered a striking dose of reality to the United Nations on Sunday: it’s “becoming inevitable” that countries will miss the ambitious target they set eight years ago for limiting the warming of the Earth....
EU condemns Hamas for using 'hospitals as human shields', urges Israeli restraint (www.reuters.com)
China ‘world’s biggest debt collector’ as poorer nations struggle with its loans (www.theguardian.com)
Country, estimated to be owed up to $1.5trn, is increasing penalties for late payments and cutting back on infrastructure projects...
Billionaire politicians have become 'shockingly common' around the world, new study finds (www.cnbc.com)
More than 11% of the world’s more than 2,000 billionaires have run for election or become politicians, according to a study highlighting the growing power and influence of the super-wealthy....
IDF shows foreign press Hamas bodycam videos, photos of murder, torture, decapitation (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Israeli government on Monday screened for 200 members of the foreign press some 43 minutes of harrowing scenes of murder, torture and decapitation from Hamas’s October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, in which over 1,400 people were killed, including raw videos from the terrorists’ bodycams....
Aftermath images from the Gaza hospital explosion are 'inconsistent' with an Israeli airstrike, former UN war crimes investigator says (www.businessinsider.com)
It’s official: The era of China’s global dominance is over (www.businessinsider.com)
China has reached the end of its economic boom. What comes next should worry every American business — and the rest of the world.
Gaza aid stuck as Egypt says Israel not cooperating - Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Paris is crawling with bedbugs. They're even riding the trains, and a ferry. (www.cbsnews.com)
Just 10 months before the opening of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, the French capital is battling an invasion of bedbugs....
Elon Musk angers German government with post backing far-right party (www.upi.com)
Zelenskyy implores world leaders to stick with fight against Russia (www.nbcnews.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared somber and, at times, angry in a blistering address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, as he sought to shore up support for his country’s war effort and demand that Russia be punished for the invasion....
Saudi Arabia reportedly sentences man to death for criticizing government on social media (www.cbsnews.com)
Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on Monday....
Wagner mercenary chief's plane was fine on radar until last 30 seconds (www.jpost.com)
Japan marks 78th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing (www.dw.com)
Japan on Sunday commemorated the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the final phase of World War II....
The UFO Whistleblower Is Back With More Crazy Claims (nymag.com)
Some crazy stuff in here. I don’t think that’s how dimensions work.
Severed finger mailed to French President Emmanuel Macron as protests raged (nypost.com)
Orban tells EU leaders Trump would act as "Russia-Ukraine peace broker" (www.straitstimes.com)
He claims Trump would act immediately upon winning the election, before taking office. Which sounds legally dubious, but not that that’s ever stopped Trump…
The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI (www.bbc.com)
Sperm whales communicate with each other using rhythmic sequences of clicks, called codas. It was previously thought that sperm whales had just 21 coda types. However, after studying almost 9,000 recordings, the Ceti researchers identified 156 distinct codas. They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they...
Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese military harassed Dutch warship enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea, Netherlands says (www.cnn.com)
A Dutch warship was harassed by Chinese military aircraft in the East China Sea on Friday, the Netherlands said, becoming the latest country to accuse Beijing’s forces of initiating potentially unsafe encounters in international waters....