Outrage as traditional Ghanaian priest, 63, marries 12-year-old girl (www.bbc.com)
An influential traditional priest aged 63 has sparked an outrage in Ghana by marrying a 12-year-old girl....
Israel government spokesman Eylon Levy suspended after comments about Gaza aid (www.haaretz.com)
Levy’s suspension follows a tweet, in response to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, that ‘there are NO limits on the entry of food, water, medicine, or shelter equipment into Gaza, and in fact the crossings have EXCESS capacity’
Uber to pay Australian taxi operators $272 million in class action settlement (www.abc.net.au)
Egypt sentences top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood to death | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
American Media Keep Citing Zaka — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited in Israel (theintercept.com)
Zaka stories have been essential to justifying Israel’s all-out war against Gaza, which has killed around 30,000 Palestinians in less than five months. Speaking at the United Nations in December, Zaka deputy commander Simcha Greiniman broke down while describing alleged atrocities. He later told the same stories to a meeting...
Russia has lost over 400,000 soldiers in Ukraine (news.yahoo.com)
China sides with Russia at UN, urges end to weapons for Ukraine (www.newsweek.com)
China has sided with Russia on the Ukraine issue at the United Nations while telling the U.S. to stop sending weapons to Kyiv....
Sea drones are being used to smash Russia's navy, and now they're being used to threaten a US carrier strike group too (www.businessinsider.com)
Houthi rebels are threatening US warships and shipping using naval drones, a new report said....
Uttarakhand UCC: Indian state wants to govern live-in relationships (www.bbc.com)
Unmarried couples in a live-in relationship must register it with the government within 30 days of moving in together. The registrar reviews the application and may ask for additional information during an investigation. If approved, the relationship is recorded in a register and a certificate issued. Refusal to register may...
US begins strikes on militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack, officials tell AP (apnews.com)
The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend, according the the U.S. military and officials....
China population decline accelerates as birthrate hits record low (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza: Hundreds of thousands are starving as famine arrives at ‘incredible speed,’ UN aid chief warns | CNN (www.cnn.com)
North Korea launches a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile that can reach distant US bases (apnews.com)
North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, two months after the North claimed to have tested engines for a new harder-to-detect missile capable of striking distant U.S. targets in the region....
Berlin says EU should prepare for war by end of decade (www.euractiv.com)
US Claims Huge Chunk of Seabed Amid Strategic Push for Resources (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Viktor Orbán: The EU is blackmailing Hungary (www.politico.eu)
Hungarian PM lashes out at Brussels for holding back billions of euros....
Radioactivity detected in Fukushima worker's nose (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Dutch far right struggles to find allies for power (www.lemonde.fr)
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
Paris aims to drive out large SUVs by increasing parking fees (www.reuters.com)
IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ (www.theguardian.com)
Footage to date fails to prove Gaza complex was nerve centre for attacks on Israel, as military had claimed
Edinburgh to be first Scottish city to ban pavement parking (www.bbc.com)
Spanish clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
Nigeria: 76 people arrested for organising a "gay wedding (www.africanews.com)
'I went through hell:' Newly released Hamas hostage describes kidnapping from kibbutz and captivity (www.cnn.com)
Yocheved Lifshitz, one of two hostages recently freed by Hamas, has described her ordeal after being kidnapped by the Palestinian militant group in the brazen October 7 attack, saying she “went through hell.”...
