Deepfake Video Call Scams Finance Bro Out of $25 Million (gizmodo.com)
Israel-Gaza war: Unknown fate of six-year-old Hind Rajab trapped under fire (www.bbc.com)
Blinken pursues Gaza truce as Israel presses onslaught (www.reuters.com)
State Department Declares “Ethnic Cleansing” in Sudan but Won't Say the Same About Israel's War in Gaza (theintercept.com)
Far-right ministers slam IDF over drill simulating settlers kidnapping Palestinians (www.timesofisrael.com)
King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says (www.bbc.com)
'Israel' hands over bodies of 100 martyrs after stealing their organs (english.almayadeen.net)
Israel 'stealing organs' from bodies in Gaza, alleges rights group (www.euronews.com)
Why the Middle East Is So Aggravating (yet so difficult to leave) || Peter Zeihan (www.youtube.com)
Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria (www.theguardian.com)
Iraqi, 24, rescued with her children from al-Hawl camp after being abducted then raped and forced into marriage...
Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong is acquitted of financial crimes related to 2015 merger (abcnews.go.com)
A South Korean court has acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes related to a contentious merger in 2015 that tightened his grip over South Korea’s biggest company...
LGBTQ+ Palestinians can request asylum in Israel, court rules (www.jpost.com)
WHO chief warns 'future generations may not forgive us' if pandemic treaty not agreed upon: 'There will be a next time' (fortune.com)
Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit, calling the agreement “mission critical for humanity.”...
Nayib Bukele re-elected as El Salvador president in landslide win (www.theguardian.com)
Voters reward Bukele for gang crackdown that has transformed security in central American country...
Netherlands pledges six extra F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
The Dutch government today said it would send Ukraine six additional F-16 fighter jets after cancelling the planned sale of the aircraft to a private contractor, said Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren.
UN envoy cannot sleep: 'Things happened here that I have never seen before' (www.ynetnews.com)
According to Pramila Patten, the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Envoy for Sexual Violence in Conflicts, she has been unable to sleep for a week since viewing the 47-minute video compiled by the IDF of the atrocities committed on October 7. The scenes continue to haunt her. “Only after I saw the video...
Ukrainian troops near Bakhmut expect to fight until war ends (www.reuters.com)
Rebound in Australia, China ties threatened by suspended death sentence for Aus writer - Reuters (news.yahoo.com)
SYDNEY (Reuters) -A Beijing court on Monday handed Australian writer Yang Hengjun a suspended death sentence, threatening a recent rebound in bilateral ties that followed several years of strained relations between Beijing and Canberra....
Thai workers return to Nahal Oz: 'We worked with the Gazans, and they came to kill us' (www.ynetnews.com)
China is merging hundreds of small banks to fend off financial stress (www.businessinsider.com)
Gaza: Unprecedented destruction will take tens of billions of dollars and decades to reverse (unctad.org)
Palestinians hope Blinken visit can deliver Gaza truce before Rafah assault (www.reuters.com)
The top U.S. diplomat met Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler on Monday during a Middle East visit Palestinians hope will clinch a truce before a threatened Israeli assault on Rafah, a border city where about half the Gaza Strip population is sheltering.
Overnight Israeli airstrikes kill scores in Gaza as fears grow of push into Rafah (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed scores of people overnight, as fears grow of the military campaign intensifying in the southern city of Rafah, a tiny pocket of the territory where more than a million people are sheltering....
Comments on Weibo giraffe post bemoan state of Chinese economy (www.theguardian.com)
Houthis may sabotage western internet cables in Red Sea, Yemen telecoms firms warn (www.theguardian.com)
Telecom firms linked to the UN-recognised Yemen government said on Sunday they fear Houthi rebels are planning to sabotage a network of submarine cables in the Red Sea critical to the functioning of the western internet, and to the transmission of financial data....
