Centuries-old mosque torn down in New Delhi (www.dhakatribune.com)
The Masjid Akhonji in New Delhi, which its caretakers say is around 600 years old...
Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters (www.techdirt.com)
Ukraine 'terror' case against Russia largely rejected by ICJ (www.dw.com)
Ukraine says it can't fire more than 2,000 shells a day as Western allies fail to meet pledges: report (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukraine is able to fire just 2,000 shells a day, its defense minister said....
Behind Pakistan’s civilian government, army tightens its grip on journalists (rsf.org)
Lebanon's Legislator Slams Israel for Attacking Civilians (www.telesurenglish.net)
Published 2 February 2024 (4 hours 57 minutes ago)...
Agreement on “military Schengen” easing troop movement signed by Poland, Germany and Netherlands (notesfrompoland.com)
Poland, Germany and the Netherlands have signed an agreement on plans to create a “military transport corridor” that would allow troops and equipment to be moved more easily through their territories to bolster NATO’s eastern flank....
Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy (www.bbc.com)
More than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war could amount to “grave violations of international law”....
Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy (www.msn.com)
"What's really different here is we're not failing to prevent something, we're actively complicit. That is fundamentally different from any other situation I can recall,"
US Approves $4B Sale of MQ-9B Drones, Hellfire Missiles to India (www.thedefensepost.com)
The US State Department has approved the potential sale of 31 MQ-9B Sky Guardian drones to India....
Macron calls for farming reform as food producers hurl eggs at European parliament (www.theguardian.com)
Europe’s farming sector is facing a big crisis and must “profoundly” change its rules, Emmanuel Macron has said after a European Union leaders’ summit in Brussels was overshadowed by protesting farmers hurling eggs, dumping manure and lighting fires....
The damning truth about the UK’s 2% inflation target: it’s completely made up | Louis-Philippe Rochon (www.theguardian.com)
But let’s focus on the choice of a 2% target. After the high inflation of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when it reached over 20% in the UK, central banks were left scrambling to find some new theoretical model to deal with rising prices. The first central bank to propose an inflation target of 2% was in New Zealand. But...
The far-right Bundestag aide and his rapping FSB case officer (theins.ru)
Vladimir Sergienko, 52, is the Ukrainian-born adviser to Eugen Schmidt, a Bundestag deputy with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The Insider and Der Spiegel reported in August that Sergienko had fallen under suspicion in Germany after his email and text message correspondence with a suspected FSB operative known only as...
Israel Held 82-year-old Gaza Woman With Alzheimer's for Two Months as an 'Unlawful Combatant' (www.haaretz.com)
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Psychiatric wards in Korea filled up with depressed teens and 20-somethings (www.chosun.com)
Shin (14), a middle school student in Daegu has been addicted to gaming for years. He stayed up all night in his room playing games. He was always late for school, and his friends teased him, calling a “game otaku(maniac)”. Shin blamed himself for being “someone unnecessary.” Late last year, he was diagnosed with severe...
US moves to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela after opposition candidate barred from presidential election (www.cnn.com)
The US has reimposed economic sanctions against a Venezuelan state-owned mining company and says it could go on to reimpose further sanctions on the country’s oil and gas sector after Venezuela’s Supreme Court barred main opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado from running for president last week....
Video shows Israeli soldier forcing detained Palestinians to say 'we want to be slaves' (www.middleeasteye.net)
A video has been shared on social media appearing to show an Israeli soldier coercing detained Palestinians to describe themselves as slaves....
[S Korea] Defense ministry says is not considering female conscription (en.yna.co.kr)
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) – The defense ministry said Tuesday it is not considering conscripting women for the country’s mandatory military service after the issue received renewed attention in a campaign pledge ahead of the April general elections....
Netanyahu tells UN envoys UNRWA is totally infiltrated by Hamas, must be replaced PM says a humanitarian agency is needed in Gaza, but UNRWA cant play role, after employees accused of involved in oct7 (www.timesofisrael.com)
Defence Intelligence unit sinks Russian corvette Ivanovets in Crimea – video (www.pravda.com.ua)
European Union agrees on a new 50 billion-euro aid package for Ukraine despite Hungary's veto threat (apnews.com)
The leaders of the 27 European Union countries sealed a deal Thursday to provide Ukraine with a new 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) support package despite Hungary’s weeks of threats to veto the move....
US Pushes for Defence Pact Ahead of Presidential Election - and Asks for an End to the War in Gaza (www.straitstimes.com)
I appended the end of the title because I actually found the contents of the article much more impactful than the original title.
Russia’s New Threats to Exiles: Seized Assets and Forced Returns (www.nytimes.com)
In Bangkok this week, members of an antiwar Russian-language rock group were fighting deportation to Russia, detained in what supporters described as a cramped, hot, 80-person immigration holding cell....
Israel's road to recovery starts with relinquishing Netanyahu's lies (www.haaretz.com)
As fate would have it, in order to halt the discussion over the justification for Israel's right to exist, Israel has to approach the dustbin of history and pull out the "occupation," the "two-state solution," "peace in exchange for territories" – all those terms his royal genius threw away in his megalomaniac hubris. We need...