Italy's regulations on charities keep migrant rescue ships from the Mediterranean (apnews.com)
Qatar and France send medicine for hostages in Gaza as war rages on and regional tensions spike (apnews.com)
Pakistan says Iran violated airspace, killing two children (www.reuters.com)
Palestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza while deal emerges to deliver medicine to hostages (apnews.com)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday in a show of force more than 100 days into Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against the tiny coastal enclave.
US military says it seized Iranian weapons bound for Houthis (www.theguardian.com)
US Navy Seals seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week in which two of its commandos went missing, the US military said on Tuesday....
U.S. forces recovered Iranian warheads in Navy SEAL mission gone awry (www.washingtonpost.com)
The U.S. military said the arms shipment, intercepted off the coast of Somalia, was destined for militants in Yemen blamed for attacks in the Red Sea...
Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria with the aim of reducing need for imports (apnews.com)
The $19 billion facility, which has a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day, has started to produce diesel and aviation fuel, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery company reported Saturday. As Nigeria’s first privately owned oil refinery, the project “is a game-changer for our country,” it added.
Arakan Army resistance force says it has taken control of a strategic township in western Myanmar (apnews.com)
Air in central Male’ unusually polluted - The Edition (edition.mv)
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
UK Home Office to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as terror group (www.bbc.co.uk)
Missile fire strikes a ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, UK military says (abcnews.go.com)
A missile fired from Yemen struck a U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, private security firms told The Associated Press....
Northern Group Rejects Call For Suspension Of Security Chiefs - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
NUPRC Boss Seeks Collaboration With Police To Combat Oil Theft - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
FG Expresses Commitment To Reposition Minerals, Metals Sector For Development - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
Former chairman of state-owned bank China Everbright Group arrested over suspected corruption (apnews.com)
HONG KONG (AP) — The former chairman of state-owned Chinese bank China Everbright Group has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery, prosecutors said in a statement Monday, amid an intensified campaign against corruption.
‘You don’t feel alive’: Ukraine veterans struggling with the trauma of war (www.theguardian.com)
Serhii Dovbysh was defending his home in Chernihiv when something inside him snapped. The Russians were a few kilometres away. Enemy planes bombed the city. Shells landed among its gold-domed cathedrals. And young soldiers under his command were dying in battle. Dovbysh, a major in Ukraine’s armed forces and a deputy...
Carnival takes precedence over covid and dengue Newsroom Panama (www.newsroompanama.com)
As Davos crowd gathers, governments urged to rein in 'billionaire class' (www.reuters.com)
The combined fortunes of the world’s five richest men have more than doubled to $869 billion since 2020 while five billion people have been made poorer, anti-poverty group Oxfam said....
Ex-Shin Bet head says Israel should negotiate with jailed intifada leader (www.theguardian.com)
A former leader of the Shin Bet domestic security force has said Israel will not have security until Palestinians have their own state, and Israeli authorities should release Marwan Barghouti, jailed leader of the second intifada, to direct negotiations to create one....
India-Maldives row: Muizzu says Maldives won't be bullied (www.dw.com)
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu asserted his country’s independence amid fraying relations with India, as the island nation seeks closer ties with Beijing.
‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public
Women encouraged to run for political office :: Mmegi Online (www.mmegi.bw)
Newly appointed Ministers express commitment to serve the Grenadian people (www.thenewtodaygrenada.com)
