Sri Lanka crisis: Colombo reaches debt deal with China (www.bbc.com)
Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza ‘death sentence’ for patients, WHO says (www.aljazeera.com)
Military briefing: the shape of a Gaza invasion (archive.ph)
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Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
Get out of Gaza City, Israel's military tells Palestinians (www.cbc.ca)
US defense secretary is in Israel to meet with its leaders and see America’s security assistance (apnews.com)
S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Israel on Friday for meetings with senior government leaders and to see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group....
Argentina central bank hikes key rate to 133% as inflation worsens (www.reuters.com)
Hamas tells Gaza City residents to stay put after Israel orders evacuation (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas has called on Palestinians to stay in their homes after Israel issued sweeping evacuation orders for almost half of Gaza’s more than 2.3 million people ahead of an expected ground offensive....
Ferdinand Marcos Jr drops Philippines holiday marking toppling of father (www.theguardian.com)
Israel Gaza: UK to deploy Royal Navy ships to eastern Mediterranean to 'bolster security' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours (www.axios.com)
The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the IDF notified the UN just before midnight local time that Palestinians living north of Wadi Gaza should evacuate to the southern part of the Gaza Strip in the next 24 hours, according to UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric and another source with direct knowledge....
Council of Europe votes to recognize Holodomor as genocide (www.dw.com)
Former Stasi officer charged with 1974 Berlin Wall murder (www.bbc.com)
‘Most cherished friend’: UK unearths messages from (Barclays') Staley to Epstein (archive.ph)
The U.N. says the Israeli military told it that all of northern Gaza has 24 hours to move south. (www.nytimes.com)
Israel’s military has informed the United Nations that the entire population of northern Gaza should relocate to the southern half of the territory within 24 hours, the U.N. spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said late on Thursday night, adding that such a movement — involving over one million people — would lead to...
Philip Morris lobbying to stop WHO ‘attack’ on vapes and similar products (www.theguardian.com)
French police are probing possible poisoning of Russian journalist who denounced Ukraine war (www.pbs.org)
French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning Thursday of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV....
EU Announces Formal Investigation Into X Just Hours After Linda Yaccarino Details Response To Israel-Hamas Conflict Disinformation Surge (deadline.com)
The European Commission has sent a formal notice to Elon Musk’s X requesting information on the social media platform’s provisions to deal with illegal content, disinformation and abusive material posted on the site in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict....
Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorous in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
West urges Israel to show restraint amid escalation fears (www.politico.eu)
UK to send navy ships and spy planes to support Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Britain will send surveillance aircraft, two Royal Navy support ships and about 100 Royal Marines to the eastern Mediterranean from Friday to support Israel and help prevent any sudden escalation of fighting in the Middle East....
France orders ban on all pro-Palestinian protests (www.politico.eu)
U.S. and Qatar agree to not release Iran's $6B (www.nbcnews.com)
The U.S. and Qatari governments have agreed to block Iran from accessing any of the $6 billion it gained access to as part of a prisoner swap deal between the Biden administration and Tehran last month, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told House Democrats on Thursday, according to three sources familiar with his remarks,...
Europe gives TikTok CEO 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation (www.cnbc.com)
European regulator Thierry Breton shared a stern letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, claiming his office has “indications” that the platform is being used to distribute disinformation and illegal content around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war....
