‘This is for Gaza’: UK politician wins by-election in blow to Labour Party (www.aljazeera.com)
A left-wing United Kingdom politician has registered a landslide win in a parliamentary by-election on a platform promising to advocate for Gaza....
Tensions grow as 160 tonnes of Ukrainian grain sabotaged in Poland (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Nato chief says Trump remarks may put US and EU lives at risk (www.theguardian.com)
A White House spokesperson put it the best, I think:...
Russian election candidate calls Ukraine war a ‘big mistake’ by Putin (www.nbcnews.com)
Boris Nadezhdin told the wives of Russia’s mobilized soldiers the war was “a big mistake by Putin, of course, and the consequences will be very grave.”...
Geert Wilders' victory in Netherlands election spooks Europe (www.bbc.com)
The unexpectedly meaty win for controversial, hard-right politician Geert Wilders in Wednesday’s general election in the Netherlands set international headlines on fire....
Israeli Rabbis call on Netanyahu to bomb Gaza hospital (www.newsweek.com)
The letter posted on Israeli journalist Amit Segal channel to 184,000 followers says that "the nation of Israel will stand up bravery to strike at its enemies," according to a translation of the Hebrew. It goes on to justify targeting sites even "when the enemy hides behind a human shield."
Boris Johnson Suggested He Thought Covid Was ‘Nature’s Way of Dealing With Old People’ (www.bloomberg.com)
Near-total internet blackout hits Gaza as Israel ramps up strikes (www.nbcnews.com)
Turkey's Erdogan calls on Israel to stop attacks on Gaza 'amounting to genocide' (www.reuters.com)
ANKARA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, which he said amounted to genocide, and urged the international community to work for a humanitarian ceasefire in the region....
Anti-Israel Protestors Shout ‘Gas the Jews’ Outside Sydney Opera House (themessenger.com)
The protesters also lit off flares, according to Sky News Australia...
Russia pardoned a murderer who put his girlfriend through a meat grinder because he agreed to fight in Ukraine, his mom says (www.businessinsider.com)
A Russian convicted murderer who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder has been pardoned after fighting against Ukraine, his mother said....
South Korean teachers stage walkout over harassment by parents and students (www.theguardian.com)
Thailand is set to roll out a controversial $13.8 billion handout plan in digital money to citizens (apnews.com)
Thailand’s prime minister said Monday that eligible businesses and individuals can register from August for digital cash handouts, a controversial program that will cost billions of dollars and is meant to boost the lagging economy....
How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed scores of Palestinians in Gaza (apnews.com)
Four more Israeli hostages have died in Hamas custody (www.nbcnews.com)
American arrested in Turks and Caicos over ammo found in bag gets suspended sentence of 52 weeks* (www.cbsnews.com)
A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developer (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Kasparov On Terrorist Charges (www.chess.com)
For anyone unaware of who Kasparov is, he’s a very famous chess World Champion from Russia who held the title for 15 years.
Attacks on Ukraine's nuclear plant put world at risk, IAEA warns (www.euronews.com)
“We’re getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said following multiple attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine....
Russian lawmakers seek to nullify Soviet transfer of Crimea to Ukraine (uk.news.yahoo.com)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to the State Duma that would rewrite a chapter of history by nullifying the Soviet decision in 1954 to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine....
Saudi Arabia Joins Afghanistan And Iran As One of World's Leading Executioners (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
After years of avoiding extradition, Julian Assange’s appeal is likely his last chance. Here’s how it might unfold (and how we got here) (theconversation.com)
MFBC...
Hamas’ philosophy: All civilians, all children are tools of war (nypost.com)
Major Y [an American who went to Israel to fight] and other people on the ground I have spoken with say that they estimate about one in every two or three [civilian] homes in Gaza they go into has military weaponry, including AK47s, grenades and rocket launchers. And they routinely find entrances to Hamas’s terror tunnels...
Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby' (www.bbc.co.uk)
IDF: We supplied 300 liters of fuel to Shifa, Hamas barred hospital from getting it (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it....