Fifty people treated after ‘technical problem’ caused ‘strong movement’ on Latam flight from Sydney (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats...
Iran Wants $2.5 Billion For Dual National Hostage (www.iranintl.com)
India says it uncovers trafficking racket duping people into fighting for Russia in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Israeli human rights groups accuse country of failing to abide by ICJ’s Gaza aid ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
Foreign media report destruction of two Ukrainian Patriot systems (www.pravda.com.ua)
Ukraine war film 20 Days in Mariupol wins Oscar for best documentary (www.theguardian.com)
Eyewitness documentary shot by war reporter Mstyslav Chernov during the Russian siege of the Ukrainian city takes Academy Award – the country’s first...
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
Aaron Bushnell, who died last month, ‘sacrificed everything’ for Palestinians, says mayor of Jericho...
3 Palestinians arrested in Italy on terrorist plot suspicion (www.i24news.tv)
What is CAA? How it fast tracks Indian citizenship of religious minorities from South Asian nations (www.wionews.com)
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ on Rafah (www.politico.eu)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with an invasion of the city of Rafah on the southern border of the Gaza Strip in defiance of United States President Joe Biden, who has warned such an offensive would be a “red line.”...
Saudi oil giant Aramco announces $121 billion profit last year, down from 2022 record (apnews.com)
Israel starving thousands of Palestinian detainees in its prisons: NGO (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Russia to hold joint naval drills with Iran and China in Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea (english.alarabiya.net)
France is world's second biggest arms exporter, just ahead of Russia: report (www.rfi.fr)
Weapons imports to Europe nearly doubled over the past five years, partly due to the war in Ukraine, while exports from Russia halved, researchers said on Monday. Ukraine has become the world’s fourth largest arms importer, while France has replaced Russia as the world’s second largest exporter behind the United States....
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages (www.theguardian.com)
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no future...
Netanyahu denies Palestinians are starving (www.politico.eu)
France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists and vets are urging the president to afford the world’s most traded species better protections...
9 dead, 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar’s Pemba Island (www.nbcnews.com)
9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar's Pemba Island (apnews.com)
Children in Haiti describe harrowing stories of survival as gangs rampage | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Italians forced to cut back on Mediterranean cooking staple as prices skyrocket (www.independent.co.uk)
Greece and Spain have both seen olive oil sales plummet...
Plane veered off flight path after both pilots fell asleep, Indonesian authorities say (www.cnn.com)
Indonesia’s transport ministry will launch an investigation after two Batik Air pilots fell asleep during a recent flight, according to state news agency Antara, citing the ministry’s civil aviation director-general M Kristi Endah Murni....