Gangsters, Money and Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market (www.propublica.org)
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It's now been in effect for two years (www.independent.co.uk)
Irish prime minister concedes defeat in a vote over constitutional amendments about family and women (apnews.com)
Rains Are Scarce in the Amazon. Instead, Megafires Are Raging. (www.nytimes.com)
The fires in the Amazon, which reaches across nine South American nations, are the result of an extreme drought fueled by climate change, experts said....
Five Gazans Killed by US Aid Airdrops as Biden Faces Backlash Over 'Gimmicks' (www.commondreams.org)
Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming (www.cbc.ca)
Canadian government will resume funding to United Nations relief agency for Palestinians (www.cbc.ca)
Ukraine claims it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones (apnews.com)
Albania, wary of Russia, reopens Soviet-era air base to NATO (www.reuters.com)
KUCOVA, Albania, March 4 (Reuters) - NATO member Albania, which has no fighter jets of its own, opened a rebuilt Soviet-era air base to serve NATO aircraft on Monday amid an increased threat from Russia, Prime Minister Edi Rama said....
Ukraine Live: Putin in Shocks as Ukraine shot down three more Russian warplanes – Officials (central24.online)
Israel Bolsters Ukraine’s Air Defense With Missile Warning System Amid Conflict (trendydigests.com)
Africa’s Donkeys Are Coveted by China. Can the Continent Protect Them? (www.nytimes.com)
Governments are seeking to curb donkey skin exports to China, where demand for traditional medicine and other products is threatening animals that rural households need....
Rafah Attack Escalates “Most Transparent Genocide of All Time,” Scholar Says (truthout.org)
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Bengal famine: Tracking down the last survivors of WW2's forgotten tragedy (www.bbc.com)
Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.
Israel plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it's a response to a Palestinian attack (www.independent.co.uk)
Julian Assange judge previously acted for MI6 (www.declassifieduk.org)
Video is said to show U.N. relief worker taking Israeli shot on Oct. 7 (www.washingtonpost.com)
A U.N. relief worker alleged by Israel to have participated in the Oct. 7 attacks was captured on video that day removing the limp body of an Israeli man who had been shot at Kibbutz Beeri and driving off with it, according to information released Friday by Israeli authorities....
Who Should Run Gaza After the War? (www.thefp.com)
MBFC...
Gaza war: What we know about Israel's Rafah hostage rescue raid (www.bbc.com)
Details have begun to emerge of an overnight Israeli military operation which freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages held captive by Hamas in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip....
Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’ (www.theguardian.com)
A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say....
2 Jewish Israelis detained for allegedly spitting at Christian cleric in Jerusalem (www.timesofisrael.com)
It was the first such reported incident since October, when police said they had marked a significant rise in attacks on Christians in Jerusalem, with 17 incidents reported in the six months prior.
Malaysia’s top court invalidates state’s Islam-based laws on incest, sodomy and other offenses (apnews.com)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court on Friday struck down Shariah-based criminal laws in an opposition-run state, saying they encroached on federal authority. Islamists denounced the decision and said it could undermine religious courts across the Muslim-majority nation....
Burning Alive in Myanmar: Two Resistance Fighters Executed in Public (www.irrawaddy.com)
Two anti-junta fighters in their 20s were executed in public in a village in Magwe Region and a video of the crime, which occurred about three months ago, was uploaded to social media on Tuesday and is circulating there....
Executions and public floggings rise in Yemen under Houthis’ reign of terror (www.telegraph.co.uk)
