BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri apologizes after flipping the middle finger live on air (www.cbsnews.com)
A new palace for Ethiopia’s prime minister brings evictions and dissent in a country beset by hunger and war (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Video shows stripped Palestinian men detained in Gaza (www.bbc.com)
With fighting raging around Khan Younis and in the north of Gaza, a video has emerged on social media showing dozens of Palestinian men detained by Israel.
On Friday 8 December, the speed limit on most roads in Amsterdam will be lowered to a maximum of 30 kilometres per hour (km/h) (www.amsterdam.nl)
Pakistan zoo shut down after man mauled to death by tigers, shoe found in animal's mouth (www.cbsnews.com)
Heatwave, fire, flood and cyclone: Sydney temperatures peak at 43C amid wild weather across Australia (www.theguardian.com)
Students gather to mourn civilians killed in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tigray (dailycollegian.com)
Kenya follows Malawi in sending farm workers to Israel amid Hamas war (www.bbc.com)
Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues (www.politico.com)
US, South Korea and Japan to step up actions on North Korean cyberthreats (www.reuters.com)
The United States, South Korea and Japan have agreed on new initiatives to respond to North Korea’s threats in cyberspace, including satellite launches and cryptocurrency abuses, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Saturday.
China rejects EU’s trade deficit complaint (www.politico.eu)
Geopolitical-Economy-History-Editorials in Space (qr.ae)
Geopolitical-Economy-History-Editorials in Space
China, Singapore to let each other’s tourists pay with digital yuan as Beijing seeks to globalise its e-CNY currency (www.scmp.com)
Inside a southern Gaza hospital: Screaming orphaned children, amputee toddlers and the stench of rotting flesh (www.independent.co.uk)
As Israel expands its ground assault into Khan Younis, a surgeon at the European Hospital in the city describes desperately trying to treat a relentless stream of wounded children as critical supplies run out
Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules (apnews.com)
2023: Where Americans Are Moving Abroad (blog.hireahelper.com)
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U.S. announces military drills with Guyana amid dispute over oil-rich region with Venezuela (www.cbsnews.com)
The United States announced joint military flight drills in Guyana on Thursday as tensions over a contested oil-rich region with neighbor Venezuela prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an urgent meeting....
“If I Must Die”: IDF Strike Kills Gaza Scholar Refaat Alareer; Friend Pays Tribute & Reads His Poem (www.democracynow.org)
Scholar and policy analyst Jehad Abusalim remembers his friend Refaat Alareer, the acclaimed Palestinian academic and activist who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City earlier this week....