U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage (www.cbsnews.com)
Australia bans Nazi salute, swastika, other hate symbols in public as antisemitism spikes (www.cbsnews.com)
Australian lawmakers have banned the performance of the Nazi salute in public and outlawed the display or sale of Nazi hate symbols such as the swastika in landmark legislation that went into effect in the country Monday. The new laws also make the act of glorifying OR praising acts of terrorism a criminal offense....
Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation finds (www.cbsnews.com)
Houthis, defying U.S. strikes, attempt another attack on U.S.-owned commercial ship (www.cbsnews.com)
The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes....
Moment Israeli airstrike hits Gaza tower block after Hamas attack – video (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli airstrikes destroyed a tower block in Gaza City after Hamas militants launched a rocket and air attack on Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning....
More than 300 Egyptians die from heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, diplomats say (www.cbsnews.com)
Biden says he hopes for Israel-Hamas cease-fire by next Monday (www.cbsnews.com)
Wonder if this will be another vaporware cease-fire like the one that was in place last October 6th that Hamas decided to ignore on the morning of October 7th.
More than 1 million gallons of oil leaks into Gulf of Mexico, potentially putting endangered species at risk (www.cbsnews.com)
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UK and US airstrikes will not stop Red Sea attacks, Houthis warn (www.standard.co.uk)
Barkly regional mayor sits on young Indigenous boy while another man threatens to kill him – video [Australia] (www.theguardian.com)
Russia court sentences Alexey Navalny, jailed opposition leader and Putin critic, to 19 more years in prison (www.cbsnews.com)
A Russian " " court " " on Friday issued its verdict in a new case against jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, convicting the politician of promoting “extremism” and extending his time in prison by 19 years, according to Russian state media and his own team.
"They've left me behind," American Paul Whelan says from Russian prison after failed bid to secure release (www.cbsnews.com)
Missing mother found dead inside 16-foot-long python after it swallowed her whole in Indonesia (www.cbsnews.com)
A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017....
Footage shows moments before and after Israeli airstrike hits civilian convoy fleeing Gaza – The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Video is censored by blurring, but still disturbing.
U.S.-made bomb used in Israeli strike on Rafah that killed dozens, munitions experts say (www.cbsnews.com)
Yulia Navalnaya will continue lifework of Alexey Navalny (youtu.be)
“I didn’t have to be in this place, I didn’t have to record this video. In my place should have been another person. But this person was killed by Putin.”
[Interview with Israeli] Ex-PM: First 'get rid of' Hamas, then Netanyahu (www.youtube.com)
26m video interview. Blurb:...
Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport as thousands escape prisons: "Massacring people indiscriminately" (www.cbsnews.com)
U.S. teen fatally shot in West Bank by Israeli forces, Palestinian officials say (www.cbsnews.com)
The State Department confirmed that it has reached out to Israeli officials "for further information."
"Historic flooding event" in Greece dumps more than 2 feet of rain in just a few hours (www.cbsnews.com)
U.K. police find $568 million of cocaine hidden in bananas, shattering drug-seizure record (www.cbsnews.com)
British authorities on Friday said they had found more than 12,500 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas, shattering the record for the biggest single seizure of hard drugs in the country....
Doctor who treated freed Hamas hostages describes physical, sexual and psychological abuse (www.cbsnews.com)
Maritime corridor for aid to Gaza will take two months to build and 1,000 U.S. forces, Pentagon says (www.cbsnews.com)
New aid pledges for Ukraine fall to lowest levels since the start of the war, report says (www.cbsnews.com)
Ukraine’s allies have dramatically scaled back their pledges of new aid to the country, which have fallen to their lowest level since the start of the war, the German-based Kiel Institute’s Ukraine aid tracker showed Thursday....
Britain's "loneliest sheep" rescued by group of farmers after being stuck on foot of cliff for at least 2 years (www.cbsnews.com)
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