Israel eyes longshot plan of exile for some Hamas leaders | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
China sees two 'bowls of poison' in Biden and Trump and ponders who is the lesser of two evils (apnews.com)
How Chinese mafia run a scam factory in Myanmar – DW - Lemmy.ca (lemmy.ca)
Injured, hungry and alone - the Gazan children orphaned by war (www.bbc.com)
In the chaos caused by the ongoing fighting and with entire families almost wiped out, medics and rescuers often struggle to find carers for bereaved children....
'There are mistakes, it is war': Israeli commander indicates IDF were behind white flag shooting (www.itv.com)
China seized Japan's crown for vehicle exports in 2023, data shows (www.japantimes.co.jp)
China comes just shy of Japan as the world's largest car exporter (www.cnbc.com)
Japanese customs data showed the country exported 5.97 million vehicles last year, more than the 5.22 million vehicle exports that China customs data reported....
Saudi Arabia carries out first death penalty of year as man executed on terrorism charge (web.archive.org)
Saudi Arabia Eyes Reviving Multibillion Dollar Aramco Share Sale (www.bloomberg.com)
UN Warns of Possible Aid System Collapse in Gaza if Funding for UNRWA is Withheld by Israel (newshint.in)
Biden says he's decided on response to Iran over deadly drone attack (abcnews.go.com)
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he’s decided how the U.S. is going to respond to the drone attack on a U.S. base in Jordan by Iran-backed militants that killed three American soldiers....
Chinese Telecom Fraud Suspects in Myanmar Discover Even Amid an Insurgency They Can Still Get Caught by Chinese Officials (chinaglobalsouth.com)
Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants (apnews.com)
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Iran on high alert as Biden mulls response to killing of US servicemen (www.theguardian.com)
Tehran warns Washington but regime unsure of degree of support for interventionist foreign policy...
EU Seeks Ammunition Boost for Ukraine in Bid to Near Goal (www.bloomberg.com)
The European Union will aim to boost ammunition deliveries to Ukraine as it tries to make up for delays in meeting an ambitious target of sending 1 million artillery rounds by March, Estonia’s defense minister said....
Israel ‘hit squad’ kills three in West Bank hospital operation (www.aljazeera.com)
Israeli Military Confirms It Has Begun Flooding Hamas Tunnels (www.nytimes.com)
The Israeli military said Tuesday that it had begun pumping water into the vast network of tunnels beneath Gaza, which Hamas has used to launch attacks, store weapons and imprison Israeli hostages....
Israel-Gaza war: aid agencies ‘outraged’ by ‘reckless’ decision to cut UNRWA funding (www.theguardian.com)
International aid agencies have said they are “deeply concerned and outraged” at the “reckless” decision by major donors to cut funding to a UN Palestinian aid agency after Israel accused some of its workers of taking part in Hamas’ 7 October attack....
Powerful Iran-backed militia in Iraq to suspend military ops against US forces in region (www.cnn.com)
In a surprise move, the most powerful Iran-backed militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, announced on Tuesday the suspension of its military operations against US forces in the region two days after a drone attack killed three US service members and wounded dozens of others....
At least half of Gaza's buildings damaged or destroyed, new analysis shows (www.bbc.com)
Across Gaza, residential areas have been left ruined, previously busy shopping streets reduced to rubble, universities destroyed and farmlands churned up, with tent cities springing up on the southern border to house many thousands of people left homeless....
How fast does TikTok send users down the antisemitic rabbit hole? (forward.com)
Video-based content is already difficult to effectively moderate, because problematic content might be showcased visually, without keywords an automated AI might be able to check. And TikTok users are known for inventing shorthand and coded language specifically to evade censorship. There’s corn — or even just a corn emoji...
(LEAD) U.S. F-16 fighter crashes off Gunsan; pilot rescued (en.yna.co.kr)
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Yonhap) – A U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed in waters off South Korea’s west coast on Wednesday and the pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft, the U.S. Air Force said....
Brazil, confronting calls for reparations, grapples with slavery's painful legacy (www.nbcnews.com)
RIO DE JANEIRO — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state bank took the microphone before roughly 150 people at a forum on slavery’s legacy in his country, which kidnapped more Africans for forced labor than any other nation....
Italy lodges protest after citizen led in chains into Budapest court (www.theguardian.com)
Israel Raids West Bank Hospital as Clashes Erupt With Hamas in Northern Gaza - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
