EU faces cliffhanger vote on major bill protecting nature and fighting climate change - AP News (apnews.com)
Two dead, output impacted after fire engulfs Mexican oil platform (www.reuters.com)
Rishi Sunak says the UK discourages use of cluster bombs in Ukraine (www.bbc.co.uk)
Israeli officer who killed autistic Palestinian in 2020 acquitted (web.archive.org)
Saudi Arabia says it silenced oil 'cynics' with Russia's help (www.middleeasteye.net)
UN rights council to hold emergency session to discuss Quran burning in Sweden (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
U.N. atomic watchdog clears Japan’s plan to release Fukushima wastewater (www.upi.com)
China Restricts Export of Chipmaking Metals in Clash With US (www.bloomberg.com)
EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway (www.euractiv.com)
A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilizers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 100 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.
Gideon Levy: Palestinians are prohibited from defending their families from violent aggression (israelpalestinenews.org)
Dutch slap new restrictions on chips exports to China (www.politico.eu)
Israeli settlers uproot trees, destroy crops in Bethlehem (alray.ps)
Five Palestinians killed as Israel launches air attacks on Jenin - Developing story (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel’s military has launched air raids on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, carrying out an ongoing large-scale attack that involved a missile and the killing of at least four Palestinians, according to residents and officials.
Two of the biggest Reddit communities reopened in the funniest way possible (www.theverge.com)
All posts on r/pics and r/gifs must now be about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver after users voted.
A new terror has entered the Gaza war: that it is ushering in an age of total immorality (www.theguardian.com)
On Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu received a standing ovation after his speech to US Congress. It was a moment that seemed to usher in a new phase of the war in Gaza – one in which it is not only tolerated as an unfortunate necessity, but is seen as something for which unquestionable support will continue without limits,...
UK Southport stabbing latest: Two children dead and nine injured in knife attack at dance class (www.bbc.com)
Gaza: Israeli Strike on School Kills 30 Palestinians, Injures Over 100 (www.democracynow.org)
Kai McKenzie: Australian loses leg but promises surfing return (www.bbc.com)
Kai McKenzie, was surfing near Port Macquarie in New South Wales (NSW) last Tuesday, when what he describes as “the biggest shark I’ve ever seen” attacked him....
Bangladesh student protests turn into ‘mass movement against a dictator’ (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian witnessed the Rapid Action Battalion, the elite unit of Bangladesh’s police forces, fire teargas from a helicopter on crowds below and army forces fire at protesters with what appeared to be light machine guns, leaving about 200 people dead and thousands injured. Analysis of footage from protest scenes by Amnesty...
‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war (www.theguardian.com)
Passports recovered from battlefields in Sudan suggest the United Arab Emirates is covertly putting boots on the ground in the country’s devastating civil war, according to leaked documents....
Israeli Snipers Firing at 'Anyone Who Is Moving' in Khan Younis (www.commondreams.org)
Brazil's Severe Food Insecurity Drops 85% in 2023: UN (www.miragenews.com)
Curb your snooping, Commission tells EU governments (www.politico.eu)
The EU executive tells member countries national security isn’t a blank check to justify spyware use....