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Better to die in Israel than of hunger here, say job seekers in Haryana (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

End Gaza war to stop Houthi attacks - Qatari PM at Davos (www.reuters.com)

Terror attack leaves wounded and dead in israel, Hamas claims responsibility (www.jpost.com)

Zelenskyy heads to Davos to regain the spotlight for Ukraine (www.politico.com)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his stated quest to preserve his country, was once the darling of the global elite. Now he’s trying to avoid being just another bystander at their party....

North Korea says it tested solid-fuel missile tipped with hypersonic weapon (apnews.com)

North Korea on Monday said it flight-tested a new solid-fuel intermediate-range missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead as it pursues more powerful, harder-to-detect weapons designed to strike remote U.S. targets in the region....

Taiwan election: global leaders draw Beijing’s ire for congratulating new president (www.theguardian.com)

Global leaders have congratulated Lai Ching-te for winning Taiwan’s presidential election, praising the high turnout and democratic process – and drawing ire from Beijing, which had hoped to see Taiwan’s ruling party ousted.

Cape Verde becomes fourth African country to eliminate malaria (www.theguardian.com)

With no recorded cases since 2017, the archipelago has had a long journey to become free of the disease, which killed 608,000 people globally in 2022...

Valley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in Amazon (www.theguardian.com)

UK, US expected to launch strikes against Houthis 'within hours' (www.reuters.com)

Palestinian viewers are captivated and moved by case at UN's top court accusing Israel of genocide (apnews.com)

Televisions typically filled with images of bloodshed and destruction in Gaza instead broadcast foreign lawyers and judges holding forth in lofty halls. In at least one cafe in the West Bank city of Ramallah, some cheered as they watched South Africa’s justice minister expound on the decades-long “systematic oppression and...

ICJ hears South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)

South Africa accuses Israel of violating the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention, established in the wake of the Holocaust.

A surge of Russian demand has made China the world's biggest car exporter (www.businessinsider.com)

Over 50 countries go to the polls in 2024. The year will test even the most robust democracies (apnews.com)

More than 50 countries that are home to half the planet’s population are due to hold national elections in 2024, but the number of citizens exercising the right to vote is not unalloyed good news. The year looks set to test even the most robust democracies and to strengthen the hands of leaders with authoritarian leanings....

Gabriel Attal becomes France’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister (www.cnn.com)

Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens (www.972mag.com)

In the shadow of the Hamas-led October 7 attack and Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian citizens of Israel have been facing a wave of persecution. Hundreds have been arrested or interrogated, usually on the basis of social media activity; dozens more have been suspended or dismissed from Israeli...

Senior Vatican official makes case for a married priesthood (www.bangkokpost.com)

Location of 600 Al-Aqsa Hospital patients, staff ‘unknown’, says WHO (www.aljazeera.com)

Location of 600 patients, health workers from Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital “unknown”, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after hospital director says they were forced to leave.

Al Jazeera bureau chief's son Hamza al-Dahdouh among journalists killed in Gaza (www.bbc.co.uk)

The eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza....

Hidden panels, counterfeit bottles, fentanyl: A year of buying drugs in Mexican pharmacies (www.latimes.com)

The tag on her white lab coat read “professional pharmacist,” and the framed health and safety certificates lining the walls behind her gave the drugstore an air of legitimacy....

IDF kills Hamas Nukhba commander who helped lead October 7 massacre (m.jpost.com)

Israeli forces killed Adil Mismah, a commander in Hamas’s Nukhba force who helped lead and direct the October 7 massacre of southern Israeli communities, the IDF said Monday morning....

Xi Jinping says Chinese business having ‘tough time’ in new year message (www.theguardian.com)

China’s president, Xi Jinping, acknowledged in his new year’s message that “some enterprises had a tough time” in 2023 as data showed a weakening of factory production deepened this month, but he vowed to step up the pace of the economy’s recovery....

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