UK halts trade negotiations with Canada over hormones in beef ban (www.bbc.com)
The UK has stopped its trade talks with Canada, after nearly two years of negotiations on a post-Brexit agreement....
Germany to supply Ukraine with 80 tanks in 2024 (news.yahoo.com)
Berlin plans to provide Ukraine with additional IRIS-T air defense systems and more than 80 Leopard-1A5 main battle tanks in 2024, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Jan. 24....
How a Hindu temple built on the remains of an ancient mosque at Ayodhya could help Narendra Modi win this year's election (www.abc.net.au)
Decades after a sacred mosque was violently demolished by Hindu nationalists, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a brand new temple on the site, which has been at the centre of a centuries-long religious rift.
Stripped, Beaten or Vanished: Israel’s Treatment of Gaza Detainees Raises Alarm (www.nytimes.com)
Palestinian detainees from Gaza have been stripped, beaten, interrogated and held incommunicado over the past three months, according to accounts by nearly a dozen of the detainees or their relatives interviewed by The New York Times. Organizations representing Palestinian prisoners and detainees gave similar accounts in a...
S. Korea continues natural fall in population amid record low births (m-en.yna.co.kr)
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) – South Korea continued to experience a natural decline in it population in November as deaths continued to outnumber births, data showed Wednesday....
Australia: 'Golden visa' scheme for wealthy investors axed (www.bbc.com)
Filipino fisherman to Chinese coast guard in disputed shoal: `This is not your territory. Go away.' (apnews.com)
A Filipino fishing boat captain protested on Tuesday the Chinese coast guard’s aggression in the disputed South China Sea, where he asserted that Chinese officers drove him and his men away from a disputed shoal and ordered them to dump their catch in the sea....
Russia clashes with US and Ukraine supporters, ruling out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West (apnews.com)
Russia’s foreign minister clashed with the United States and Ukraine’s supporters at a U.N. meeting Monday where Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West, and China warned that further global chaos could impact the slowing global economy....
An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal species. Humans could be next
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Man jailed for record 50 years for criticising Thai monarchy (www.theguardian.com)
NATO to hold biggest drills since Cold War with 90,000 troops (www.reuters.com)
NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War, rehearsing how U.S. troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia and on the alliance’s eastern flank if a conflict were to flare up with a “near-peer” adversary....
Poll: US Public Support for Israel Wanes as 68 Percent Call for Ceasefire (theblankpageofficial.blogspot.com)
Japan signs agreement to purchase 400 Tomahawk missiles as US envoy lauds its defense buildup (abcnews.go.com)
Japan signed a deal with the United States on Thursday to purchase up to 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of its ongoing military buildup in response to increased regional threats....
Beheaded on Oct 7 then put up for sale in Gaza: Father finally finds ‘missing part’ of son (www.i24news.tv)
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...