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Highly paid Sydney Metro contractors 'replaced' in wake of 'serious' allegations (www.abc.net.au)

Imran Khan, Pakistan former PM, sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption (www.theguardian.com)

Ruling against Khan and wife Bushra Bibi comes just a day after a 10-year sentence was handed down, and just before Pakistan goes to the polls in a general election...

Military intelligence: Russia shows no intent to return bodies of POWs allegedly on crashed Il-76 (kyivindependent.com)

Russia shows no willingness to return bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) allegedly killed in an Il-76 plane crash on Jan. 24, Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) spokesperson Andrii Yusov said in a comment to Suspilne, published on Jan. 30....

Order to liquidate property giant China Evergrande is just one step in fixing China's debt crisis (apnews.com)

Bi-2: Russia anti-war band arrested in Thailand faces deportation (www.bbc.com)

FT: EU agrees to set aside billions in profits from frozen Russian assets (kyivindependent.com)

The European Union has agreed to set aside billions of euros of profits from frozen Russian Central Bank assets, paving the way to allow the profits to be transferred to Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Jan. 29, citing a draft text....

A group of Japanese citizens launches a lawsuit against the police to stop alleged 'racial profiling' (apnews.com)

A group of Japanese citizens, including a man of Pakistani descent, launched a civil lawsuit against the country’s police on Monday, accusing the authorities of racial profiling and discrimination and demanding an end to the alleged practice....

Moment vibrating phones alerted UN to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (www.bbc.co.uk)

U.N. to Investigate Claim That Employees Participated in Oct. 7 Attack (www.nytimes.com)

The United Nations on Friday fired 12 of its employees in Gaza and began an investigation into them after accusations by Israel that they had helped plan and had participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist assault that left about 1,200 Israelis dead and more than 240 others captured....

Swiss aid payments for UNRWA are in doubt (www.swissinfo.ch)

UNRWA claims: UN agency condemns aid halt over alleged help for Hamas attacks (www.bbc.com)

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Key takeaways from the World Court decision in Israeli genocide case (www.reuters.com)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel on Friday to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire....

Theresa May to confront Home Office over ‘appalling’ secret policy on trafficking victims (www.theguardian.com)

Department has admitted that it hid the policy due to concerns about former PM’s reaction

Climate change forces African migrants into dangerous treks by sea, desert (abcnews.go.com)

“We rely on the sea but there is nothing left in this sea.”...

Exclusive: China presses Iran to rein in Houthi attacks in Red Sea, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Mexico high schoolers take up arms after village kidnappings (news.yahoo.com)

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as young as 12 to join its ranks, the latest sign of how some parts of the country are struggling to cope with organized crime....

Junta-controlled Myanmar court orders sale of Opposition Leader Suu Kyi’s home (www.bangkokpost.com)

Nepal asks Russia to send back Nepalis recruited to fight in Ukraine and the bodies of those killed (apnews.com)

Nepal has asked Russia to send back hundreds of Nepali nationals who were recruited to fight against Ukraine and repatriate the bodies of those who died in the conflict, Nepal’s top diplomat said Thursday....

Israel Tries to Rebut Genocide Charge by Declassifying Cabinet Decisions (www.nytimes.com)

Israel Tries to Rebut Genocide Charge by Declassifying Cabinet Decisions...

UK must comply with human rights court, president says (uk.news.yahoo.com)

LONDON (Reuters) -The president of Europe’s human rights court said on Thursday Britain had a legal obligation to comply with its injunctions after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would ignore such orders over his plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda....

Israeli Tank Attacks U.N. Shelter, Killing 9 and Wounding at Least 75, United Nations Says (www.military.com)

An Israeli tank attack on a United Nations center sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians has killed at least nine people and wounded 75 others in Gaza’s second largest city, senior U.N. humanitarian officials said Wednesday.

General strike in Argentina puts Javier Milei’s government to the test (english.elpais.com)

Javier Milei is facing his first big challenge on the streets. The general strike called by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) to protest the Argentine president’s economic policies has swelled into a mass anti-government protest. In addition to the CGT — the largest labor union in the country —, social movements and...

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