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....
Macron’s defence of Depardieu: conspiracy theories and masculinism (www.mediapart.fr)
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Don't let Ukraine be destroyed: Biden hurries Congress on aid after furious Russian attack (www.pravda.com.ua)
Speaking about Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine on 29 December, US President Joe Biden has emphasised that Congress must act quickly to approve more aid for Kyiv....
China cracks down on negativity over economy in bid to boost confidence (www.theguardian.com)
Russia is drastically underplaying the toll of its warship exploding, report suggests (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Russia confirmed a Ukrainian missile attack damaged one of its Black Sea Fleet warships....
Russia confirms Ukraine destroyed its warship in Crimea attack (www.aljazeera.com)
We lost the war against Hamas: Former Israeli chief of staff (www.aljazeera.com)
The case of al-Shifa: Investigating the assault on Gaza’s largest hospital (www.washingtonpost.com)
The evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center, according to a Washington Post analysis of open-source visuals, satellite imagery and all of the publicly released IDF materials....
Moldova Plans to Fully Withdraw From Moscow-led Bloc by 2024 (www.kyivpost.com)
Moldova plans to withdraw from all agreements – totaling around 330 – signed within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by the end of 2024....
Travellers crossing Channel at Dover face long queues during Christmas getaway (www.theguardian.com)
United States weighs hike in tariffs on Chinese EVs (www.reuters.com)
More than 100 container ships rerouted from Suez canal to avoid Houthi attacks (www.theguardian.com)
Cape of Good Hope diversion adds 6,000 nautical miles and three or four weeks to delivery times and has driven up oil prices...
China rights activist goes on trial for ‘inciting subversion of state power’ (www.theguardian.com)
Li Qiaochu, a human rights activist detained for nearly three years in China, has gone on trial in Shandong province charged with “inciting subversion of state power”....