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Beijing and Shanghai cut down payments as part of stimulus aimed at reviving housing markets (www.scmp.com)

Putin unveils new Russian nuclear submarines to flex naval muscle beyond Ukraine (www.france24.com)

Israel's open rejection of a 'two-state solution' undermines US Middle East policy (news.sky.com)

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Wrongfully jailed for 20 years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation (www.theguardian.com)

Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews (www.haaretz.com)

The United Nations approves a cease-fire resolution despite U.S. opposition (www.npr.org)

Hong Kong leader praises election turnout as voter numbers hit record low (apnews.com)

UK’s Sunak wins parliament vote on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda (www.aljazeera.com)

Saudi Arabia is trying to block a global deal to end fossil fuels, negotiators say (www.carbonbrief.org)

Maduro’s land grab in Guyana is a cynical ploy to hang on to power in Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)

It also seems clear that the dispute, which centres on control of the Essequibo region in western Guyana, a sparsely populated area the size of Greece that constitutes about two-thirds of Guyanese territory, is mostly about oil. In 2015, the US oil giant, ExxonMobil, discovered a big field off Guyana’s coast, largely within...

Menu signed by Mao Zedong brings a quarter million dollars at auction (apnews.com)

Kenya follows Malawi in sending farm workers to Israel amid Hamas war (www.bbc.com)

Kremlin Says Hopes US Congress Will Block Future Ukraine Aid (www.barrons.com)

The Kremlin said Thursday it hoped US lawmakers would continue to block White House requests for emergency aid for Ukraine amid an internal feud in Washington over immigration reforms....

Scholars Who Study the Middle East Are Afraid to Speak Out (www.chronicle.com)

China’s Xi goes full Stalin with purge (www.politico.eu)

A Brand-New Ukrainian Drone Blasted A Russian Machine Gun From 1910 (www.forbes.com)

A Ukrainian drone has claimed a very old prize: a Russian M1910 machine gun—a type that first appeared in, you guessed it, 1910....

Moscow boosts troop numbers, citing Ukraine war, NATO expansion (www.politico.eu)

Russia is boosting the number of troops in its military for the second time in 15 months, citing the war in Ukraine and the expansion of the NATO defense alliance....

Still alive! Golden mole not seen for 80 years and presumed extinct is found again in South Africa (apnews.com)

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a species of mole with an iridescent golden coat and the ability to almost “swim” through sand dunes after it hadn’t been seen for more than 80 years and was thought to be extinct....

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