‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter (www.theguardian.com)
Day-trippers will have to pay €5 to visit Italian city under scheme designed to protect it from excess tourism...
Zelenskyy to US: Iran’s attack on Israel is ‘wake-up call’ to fortify America’s allies (www.politico.eu)
South Korea’s population dips below 50M (www.chosun.com)
Elderly set to exceed 30% by 2034...
Israel's 'Where's Daddy?' AI system helps target suspected Hamas militants when they're at home with their families, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
As civilian casualties continue to mount in the wartorn Gaza Strip, reports of Israel's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting of Hamas militants are facing increasing scrutiny. A report by the Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this month said that Israeli forces had relied heavily on two AI...
Hamas, Al Jazeera admit: Story of IDF rapes in Gaza hospital fabricated (www.jpost.com)
UN team says rape, gang rape likely occurred during Hamas attack on Israel (www.reuters.com)
Russian pilot who defected found dead in Spain, says Ukraine security agency (www.theguardian.com)
A Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year in a secret operation has been found dead in Spain, according to the main military intelligence agency in Kyiv....
China is reportedly scrubbing the internet of negative coverage of its economy (www.businessinsider.com)
CIA director: Not passing Ukraine aid would be a mistake 'of historic proportions' (www.politico.com)
Helping Ukraine is “a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns,” the CIA director wrote....
Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes? (www.dw.com)
Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in...
Newest NATO member Finland signs defence pact with US (www.euronews.com)
NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States....
Biden invites Zelensky to White House Tuesday as war funding dries up (www.france24.com)
China tells WHO it has no 'unusual or novel diseases' amid spike in illness among children (www.abc.net.au)
The data showed an increase in hospital admissions of children due to diseases including bacterial infection, RSV, influenza and common cold viruses since October....
‘Carrot knife’ trend among teens in S. Korea sparks concerns over potential violent behaviour (www.straitstimes.com)
Bilal went out to harvest his olives, an Israeli settler shot him (www.aljazeera.com)
Palestinian Bilal Saleh was shot in the chest by an Israeli settler as he was harvesting his olive trees in al-Sawiya, occupied West Bank.
Telegram has blocked Hamas channels on Android because Google forced it to (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2606865
Gaza authorities say 700 Palestinians killed in overnight strikes as Israel intensifies bombing campaign (www.reuters.com)
GAZA/JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes, Gaza’s health ministry said on Tuesday, the highest 24-hour death toll since Israel began a bombing campaign to crush Hamas militants who stunned the country with a deadly Oct. 7 attack....
US renews warning it will defend Philippines after incidents with Chinese vessels in South China Sea (apnews.com)
The United States renewed a warning Monday that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack under a 1951 treaty, after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels off a contested shoal in the South China Sea....
Julian Assange to be made honorary citizen of Rome (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1242124...
Scores killed in Israeli air strikes on families fleeing northern Gaza (www.middleeasteye.net)
Festivalgoers, children, soldiers: What we know about the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas (edition.cnn.com)
Shani Louk, a German-Israeli national, was among festivalgoers who had gathered in farmland near the Gaza-Israel border for what was supposed to be an all-night dance party celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot....
Family of kidnapped Israeli shares video of her abduction by Hamas (www.timesofisrael.com)
The family of Noa Argamani is sharing harrowing footage of her abduction in southern Israel earlier today....
Pope Francis calls US Catholic Church 'reactionary' (www.dw.com)
Pope Francis has lamented a “very strong reactionary attitude” in the US Catholic Church, saying that ideology had replaced faith in some parts of it and some members had failed to understand “there is an appropriate evolution in understanding matters of faith and morals.”...
Tesla's CEO optimistic on progress for self-driving, robots (www.reuters.com)
Australian man and his dog rescued by Mexican tuna boat after drifting 3 months in the Pacific Ocean (www.google.com)
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