Hamas Police Officer Fatally Shoots Boy Approaching Humanitarian Aid Truck to Keep Others Away: (themessenger.com)
Israeli bulldozers run over pregnant women in Gaza (www.siasat.com)
WSJ: Biden pressured Netanyahu to abandon plans for preemptive strike on Hezbollah (www.ynetnews.com)
Israel planned to launch a preemptive strike against Hezbollah on October 11 which was narrowly averted due to intervention from U.S. President Joe Biden, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday....
Thousands protest in Belgrade to demand annulment of elections (www.reuters.com)
Iran’s navy adds sophisticated cruise missiles to armory (www.politico.com)
State TV said both Talaeieh and Nasir cruise missiles have arrived at a naval base near the Indian Ocean....
China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests (www.nytimes.com)
In the remote desert where China detonated its first atom bomb nearly 60 years ago, a drilling rig recently bored a deep vertical shaft that is estimated to plunge down at least a third of a mile. It is the strongest evidence yet that Beijing is weighing whether to test a new generation of nuclear arms that could increase the...
Israeli strikes kill UN staff, more than 70 of his extended family in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Issam Al Mughrabi, 56, who worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for three decades was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air strike on Friday....
Liquidation of Wikimedia RU [Wikipedia Signpost] (en.wikipedia.org)
Briefly: Stanislav Kozlovsky, the director of Russian Wikimedia project (which supports the Russian Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.), has been declared a “foreign agent” by Russia. He has been forced to resign from his job at the Moscow State University. Following the event, Russian Wikimedia has decided to dissolve...
Japan-owned tanker attacked by drone fired from Iran in Indian Ocean (english.kyodonews.net)
Egypt proposes 14-day ceasefire in Gaza, Hamas to release 40 hostages - report (m.jpost.com)
Egypt proposed a new outline for a hostage release deal on Sunday that would see Hamas release 40 Israelis taken into the Gaza Strip in exchange for a 14-day truce, Israeli and foreign media reported....
Putin could attack Baltics and Moldova next, says Belgian army chief (www.politico.eu)
After Ukraine, the Kremlin’s next targets could be Moldova and the Baltic countries, Belgian army chief Michel Hofman has warned....
2 women killed in Israeli attack on Holy Family parish in Gaza (www.vaticannews.va)
The Israeli military on Saturday entered the compound of the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza, shooting at anyone leaving the church....
Brazilian girl commits suicide due to Fake News on big Instagram Gossip Page (g1.globo.com)
They basically posted that she had an affair with Whindersson Nunes. When she posted that it was fake, the owner of the page responded: oh come on, you can’t fool anyone with those acting skills. She ended up committing suicide due to all the harassment from the fake news. There’s a Xwitter thread explaining everything...
Uttar Pradesh: Cop held for ‘raping’ woman (indianexpress.com)
Ukraine celebrates first Christmas on 25 December (www.bbc.com)
Many Ukrainian Orthodox Christians are preparing to celebrate Christmas on 25 December for the first time this year....
U.S. Increasingly Isolated Over Israel and Gaza After Leading on Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
Seventy-one per cent of Gaza’s population experiences extreme hunger, Euro-Med Monitor study says (euromedmonitor.org)
Exclusive: Israeli Military Censor Bans Reporting on these 8 Subjects (theintercept.com)
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On Christmas Eve, Bethlehem resembles a ghost town. Celebrations are halted due to Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday, as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war....
Salt can’t halt China’s food security push as saline soils yield vast harvests (www.scmp.com)
Argentine government to bill protesters for security costs at anti-Milei march (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Blacklisted Chinese chipmaker SMIC is working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions that limit access to advanced tools (www.tomshardware.com)
Shipping giant Maersk prepares to resume operations in Red Sea (www.reuters.com)
Moldova's pro-European president Sandu says she will seek second term By Reuters (www.investing.com)
Beijing Records Most Hours of Sub-Zero Temperatures in December Since 1951 (www.voanews.com)
BEIJING — China’s capital Beijing has broken its record for hours of sub-zero temperatures in December dating back to 1951, after a cold wave swept swathes of the country and brought blizzards in its wake, sending temperatures towards historic lows....
