Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Explosions and fires reported in centre of Belgorod due to mistake of Russian air defence (www.pravda.com.ua)
Explosions were heard in Belgorod, Russia, on 30 December, and wreckage fell in the city centre after the work of Russian air defence....
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Israel's FM calls on countries to email if they want Gaza refugees (www.haaretz.com)
Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen called on Wednesday on countries who are interested in taking in refugees from the Gaza Strip to send his office an email, adding that they should not forget "to write the address of the country" in their email
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Russia's egg crisis is spiraling out of control (www.newsweek.com)
China to curb excess spending on video games in blow for world’s biggest market (www.scmp.com)
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Colombia will try to raise objects from a 1708 shipwreck believed to have a cargo worth billions (abcnews.go.com)
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United Nations adopts resolution towards eliminating the use of unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries (press.un.org)
Dutch school phone ban to come into force next month (www.euronews.com)
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Rishi Sunak warns of migrant threat 'overwhelming' European countries as UK and Italy agree to fund Tunisia plan (www.lbc.co.uk)
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Beijing and Shanghai cut down payments as part of stimulus aimed at reviving housing markets (www.scmp.com)
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Putin unveils new Russian nuclear submarines to flex naval muscle beyond Ukraine (www.france24.com)
Israel's open rejection of a 'two-state solution' undermines US Middle East policy (news.sky.com)
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Wrongfully jailed for 20 years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation (www.theguardian.com)
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Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews (www.haaretz.com)
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The United Nations approves a cease-fire resolution despite U.S. opposition (www.npr.org)
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Hong Kong leader praises election turnout as voter numbers hit record low (apnews.com)
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UK’s Sunak wins parliament vote on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda (www.aljazeera.com)
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Saudi Arabia is trying to block a global deal to end fossil fuels, negotiators say (www.carbonbrief.org)
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Maduro’s land grab in Guyana is a cynical ploy to hang on to power in Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)
It also seems clear that the dispute, which centres on control of the Essequibo region in western Guyana, a sparsely populated area the size of Greece that constitutes about two-thirds of Guyanese territory, is mostly about oil. In 2015, the US oil giant, ExxonMobil, discovered a big field off Guyana’s coast, largely within...
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Menu signed by Mao Zedong brings a quarter million dollars at auction (apnews.com)
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Kenya follows Malawi in sending farm workers to Israel amid Hamas war (www.bbc.com)
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Kremlin Says Hopes US Congress Will Block Future Ukraine Aid (www.barrons.com)
The Kremlin said Thursday it hoped US lawmakers would continue to block White House requests for emergency aid for Ukraine amid an internal feud in Washington over immigration reforms....
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Scholars Who Study the Middle East Are Afraid to Speak Out (www.chronicle.com)
China’s Xi goes full Stalin with purge (www.politico.eu)
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