Gaza: Increasing numbers of newborns on brink of death, agencies warn (news.un.org)
“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO)....
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (www.nytimes.com)
The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros a month, is a steal....
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (www.theguardian.com)
US and UK doctors in Washington to warn of IDF’s ‘appalling atrocities’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
A delegation of American and British doctors is in Washington DC to tell the Biden administration the Israeli military is systematically destroying Gaza’s health infrastructure in order to drive Palestinians out of their homes....
Bob Marley’s band The Wailers to play in Hong Kong for the first time (www.scmp.com)
Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case (www.bangkokpost.com)
US and Japan push for ban on nuclear weapons in space with UN security council resolution (www.theguardian.com)
Campaigners warn over failure to curb Europe’s ‘runaway’ transport emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Greenhouse gases from sector could make up 44% of continent’s total output by 2030, says transport group...
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX (www.politico.eu)
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX...
In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms (www.reuters.com)
Reuters saw 10 badly malnourished children during a visit last week to the al-Awda health centre in Rafah, arranged with nursing staff who gave the news agency unimpeded access to the ward.
Democracies under threat around the globe (www.dw.com)
The hard facts are sobering: According to a new study, the quality of democracy has deteriorated over the past 20 years in 137 countries that are considered developing or emerging economies. According to the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Transformation Index,” there are now 63 democracies compared to 74 autocracies. In other...
Kenyan leader signs affordable housing bill into law (apanews.net)
Pakistan and IMF reach preliminary deal to release $1.1 billion from bailout fund, IMF says (www.asahi.com)
Putin Pals Celebrate Re-Election With Photos of Mass Hanging (www.thedailybeast.com)
South Korea Sees Marriage Bump for First Time in Over a Decade (open.substack.com)
Scoop: Biden privately told Bibi he's not trying to push him out (www.axios.com)
Behind the scenes: During the call with Biden on Monday, Netanyahu complained about Schumer’s speech and Biden’s endorsement of it. He also claimed the public political attacks against him in the U.S. are interference in Israeli politics, the sources said....
Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages (www.nbcnews.com)
‘Red alert’: last year was hottest on record by clear margin, says UN report (www.theguardian.com)
The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country (www.cnn.com)
All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide....
Blinken says all of Gaza facing unprecedented food insecurity (www.timesofisrael.com)
“According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified,” Blinken told a press conference in the Philippines, where he is on an official visit.
Czech Republic to deliver thousands of extra artillery shells to Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
The Czech Republic says it is on the verge of delivering thousands of extra artillery shells to Ukraine, just weeks after it announced an initiative to source the much-needed supplies from outside the EU....
How Biden became embroiled in a Gaza conflict with no end in sight (www.washingtonpost.com)
On Oct. 27, three weeks into Israel’s punishing counterattack in Gaza, top Biden officials privately told a small group assembled at the White House what they would not say in public: Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets....
Government's endorsement of amended Palestinian statehood motion wins praise, draws outrage (www.cbc.ca)
(Canada’s) Liberal government’s last-minute endorsement of an amended NDP motion on Palestinian statehood is being welcomed by the country’s Muslim advocacy group and derided by Jewish voices who say Ottawa has sub-contracted its foreign policy to “anti-Israel radicals.”...