Police beatings of pro-Palestinian schoolchildren spark outrage in Italy (www.deccanherald.com)
Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise (apnews.com)
Bengal famine: Tracking down the last survivors of WW2's forgotten tragedy (www.bbc.com)
Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.
Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy (www.bbc.com)
The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis....
Incredibly, The Russian Air Force Has Lost Another Rare A-50 Radar Plane (www.forbes.com)
Incredibly, the Russian air force has lost another one of its rare Beriev A-50M/U Mainstay radar early-warning planes. Video that circulated online on Friday reportedly depicts the A-50’s burning wreckage in Krasnodar Krai, in Russia just east of the Sea of Azov....
The Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza Can Only Get Worse (www.newyorker.com)
On the run from Russia: the defector to Ukraine shot dead on the Costa Blanca (www.theguardian.com)
Maksim Kuzminov flew a Russian miltary helicopter to Ukraine. Armed with a new identity, he moved to a Spanish resort. Then he was killed in an underground car park...
The politics behind a new Auschwitz exhibition for a country that no longer exists (www.haaretz.com)
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Germany passes law to legalize cannabis - the ninth country to do so (www.msn.com)
Gemini summary:...
Israel's PM Netanyahu lays out Gaza plan for after the war - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Angry French farmers storm into Paris agriculture fair (www.theguardian.com)
Protesters clash with police before planned visit by French president Emmanuel Macron...
‘House of horrors’ rabbi takes cushy deal after pleading guilty to enslaving 30 women: reports (www.msn.com)
U.K. police find $568 million of cocaine hidden in bananas, shattering drug-seizure record (www.cbsnews.com)
British authorities on Friday said they had found more than 12,500 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas, shattering the record for the biggest single seizure of hard drugs in the country....
Russian Olympic Committee loses appeal against suspension by the IOC (apnews.com)
Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts (www.ohchr.org)
Israel plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it's a response to a Palestinian attack (www.independent.co.uk)
Germany legalizes recreational cannabis use (www.cnn.com)
White House scrambles for legal loopholes in Yemen war (thecradle.co)
Putin Fears Navalny Funeral Could Trigger Mass Demonstrations, Khodorkovsky Says (www.rferl.org)
The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely refusing to release the body of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who died suspiciously in prison on February 16, because it fears a massive outpouring of grief and support just ahead of the March presidential election, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a leading Russian...
Stroking the ego: Hungary’s Orbán gives his nod to Sweden’s NATO bid (www.politico.eu)
Also helping was a deal to sell more Swedish jet fighters to Hungary....
With army in charge, no more jacuzzis and clubs in Ecuador jail (www.france24.com)
Valencia fire: Ten bodies found as Spanish police search gutted flats (www.bbc.com)
US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says | Israel-Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Hungary and Sweden agree on defense deal ahead of final vote on Sweden's NATO accession (apnews.com)
The prime ministers of Hungary and Sweden concluded a defense industry agreement on Friday that will expand Budapest’s fleet of Swedish-built fighter jets, paving the way for Hungary’s likely ratification of Sweden’s long-delayed NATO bid....
How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered killings, arrests: Reuters (www.reuters.com)
A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found. Reuters interviewed more than 30 federal and local officials, judges, lawyers and victims of abuses by...
