Ecuador declares ‘internal armed conflict’ as gunmen take over live TV broadcast | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Gabriel Attal is France's youngest-ever and first openly gay prime minister (apnews.com)
Gabriel Attal was named Tuesday as France’s youngest-ever prime minister, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the rest of his term amid growing political pressure from the far right....
US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army (www.bloomberg.com)
China missiles filled with water, not fuel: US intelligence. Xi seeking to root out corruption, prepare military for combat.
MI6 spy detained in China, authorities claim (www.bbc.com)
Chinese authorities say they have detained an individual alleged to be spying for Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6....
Netanyahu reportedly slams cabinet meeting leaks, seeks polygraphs for attendees (www.timesofisrael.com)
Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees (www.972mag.com)
In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were...
42 survivors of the Nova rave massacre sue defense establishment for negligence (www.timesofisrael.com)
NIS 200 million suit says party should not have been approved so close to border and should have been dispersed immediately, when military discovered threat of potential attack...
Strong quake prompts tsunami warning for Japan's western coast (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Exclusive: US to bring back aircraft carrier from eastern Mediterranean (abcnews.go.com)
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it was sent just after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, in the “coming days,” two U.S. officials tell ABC News....
Children eat rotten food, adults hunt cats: famine is coming for Gaza (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Archived link: archive.is/…/israel-gaza-war-famine-news-update-c…
Queen of Denmark Margarethe II announces abdication live on TV (www.bbc.com)
Right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy (m.timesofindia.com)
The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy (english.elpais.com)
Best way for US to constrain Israel is through public pressure: Analyst (www.aljazeera.com)
Netanyahu pushes for 'voluntary migration' for Palestinians in Gaza: Israeli media (www.aa.com.tr)
Ukraine strikes Russian naval landing warship in Crimea (www.nbcnews.com)
Although a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made few battlefield gains, Ukraine has been able to launch a series of attacks on Crimea, the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet....
Doctors accuse Israeli troops of desecrating bodies and shooting civilians at hospital Israel says was Hamas ‘command center’ (www.cnn.com)
Israeli soldiers raiding a hospital in northern Gaza desecrated the bodies of dead patients with bulldozers, let a military dog maul a man in a wheelchair, and shot multiple doctors even after vetting them for terror links, according to allegations by staff and patients....
Pope decries ‘appalling harvest’ of civilian deaths in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
U.S. Increasingly Isolated Over Israel and Gaza After Leading on Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
Peace On Earth Begins in Palestine (peoplesworld.org)
[photo above] A woman puts her hand prints in green paint on a mural of the Palestinian flag during an event showing solidarity with the Palestinian people and calling for peace in Gaza in Havana, Cuba, Oct. 23, 2023. | Ramon Espinosa / AP
Cuba quietly authorizes euthanasia (www.reuters.com)
HAVANA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Cuba on Friday became the second country in Latin America and the Caribbean to authorize euthanasia, following Colombia....
Ukraine ‘shoots down three Russian bombers’ as Putin’s war supplies ‘slowing’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Hamas Rejection Sours Israeli Bid to Revive Hostage Talks (www.wsj.com)
Palestinian group rejected an Israeli offer to stop fighting for one week in exchange for dozens of hostages, saying it wouldn’t discuss releasing their Israeli captives until a cease-fire goes into effect first.
Security Council searching for Gaza resolution that U.S. won't veto (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived link: archive.is/…/israel-gaza-united-nations-ceasefire…