China's Xi urges military to prepare for maritime conflicts (www.bangkokpost.com)
Silent march in Warsaw for woman who died after being raped in street | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)
Breaking: At least 2 people Dead As Russian drone hit Cars in Kharkiv, Ukraine (bit.ly)
The attack with the drones was at about 15 pm. According to preliminary data, a 58-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman …
BREAKING: Russian Forces Attack Ukraine As Multiple Explosions Hits Sumy Oblast with aerial bombs (bit.ly)
Russian forces have carried out two launches of guided aerial bombs on Sumy Oblast, with explosions heard in the city of Sumy. An air-raid warning has been…
How China Came to Dominate the World in Solar Energy (www.nytimes.com)
India deports first group of Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine War: UK Prepares to supply more than 10,000 drones to Ukraine (tinyurl.com)
The Tel Aviv torture trail: Israel's role in the Abu Ghraib scandal (thecradle.co)
Israel’s documented torture and abuse of Palestinians may evoke comparisons to US tactics employed during the Iraqi occupation, but a closer look reveals their distinct origins rooted in the Zionist entity.
Gunmen snatch nearly 300 Nigerian schoolchildren from morning assembly (www.thetimes.co.uk)
More than 350,000 civilians have been killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists; 2 million displaced, say the UN....
An Israeli responder's work on Oct. 7 shows the challenges of investigating atrocities (www.npr.org)
US uses loophole to keep 100 arms sales to Israel under the radar amid Gaza war – report (www.theguardian.com)
The US is reported to have made more than 100 weapons sales to Israel, including thousands of bombs, since the start of the war in Gaza, but the deliveries escaped congressional oversight because each transaction was under the dollar amount requiring approval....
Ukraine war latest: Allies collect funding to purchase 800,000 shells for Ukraine, Czech PM says (kyivindependent.com)
Protests in New Zealand denounce government’s complicity in genocide in Gaza (www.wsws.org)
Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming (www.cbc.ca)
Six people killed in Canadian capital in rare case of mass murder (www.reuters.com)
Mass grave with 1,000 skeletons found in Germany (www.cnn.com)
‘In a way, stigma is the leading cause of death’: the radical plan to tackle British Columbia’s overdose epidemic (www.theguardian.com)
Russia seems to be OK with sacrificing its planes over Ukraine to achieve a bigger prize, experts say (www.businessinsider.com)
Gaza war: both sides are reporting sexual violence committed by their enemy – but these crimes are hard to investigate (theconversation.com)
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Ceasefire Talks “Precarious” as Israel’s Assault on Gaza Kills 80+ in 24 Hours (truthout.org)
As Israel continues its relentless bombardment and siege of Gaza, where hunger and dehydration have reached deadly levels, Hamas has accused Israel of “thwarting” efforts to reach a ceasefire deal. A Hamas delegation in Cairo said that Israel has insisted on rejecting elements of a deal for a phased process that would...
China steps up grey-zone warfare to exhaust Taiwan, defence report says (www.reuters.com)
Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China (www.reuters.com)
“Today we are seriously considering a project - somewhere at the turn of 2033-2035 - to deliver and install a power unit on the lunar surface together with our Chinese colleagues,” Borisov said....
Houthi attack kills two sailors in group’s first fatal strike on shipping (www.aljazeera.com)
The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday, which set the Greek-owned, Barbados-flagged ship True Confidence ablaze approximately 50 nautical miles (93km) off the coast of Yemen’s port of Aden....
Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China (www.reuters.com)
I guess we’ve gotten bored of destroying this planet…...