Putin Says Russia Shouldn’t Be Ruled By ‘Weirdos Who Show Their Backsides’ (www.kyivpost.com)
Is Kim Jong Un Preparing for War? - 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea (www.38north.org)
UK intelligence attributes rise in attacks on military draft offices in Russia to expectations of new mobilisation (www.yahoo.com)
UK Defence Intelligence believes that the upsurge in attacks on military enlistment offices and similar institutions in Russia may indicate a lack of confidence in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s promise not to conduct a new wave of mobilisation.
Sky News Makes On-Air Apology After Presenter Compared Israel’s War In Gaza To The Holocaust (deadline.com)
Gazans call for Hamas overthrow, flee through IDF humanitarian corridor (www.jpost.com)
Israeli settlers have found a new way to abuse Palestinian shepherds: Bankrupting them (www.haaretz.com)
This week police impounded 700 sheep, claiming they had passed through a forbidden zone. To retrieve the animals the shepherds paid 150,000 shekels ($40,000) to the settlers' regional council
US planning to station nuclear weapons in UK amid threat from Russia – report (www.theguardian.com)
Missiles could be placed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk in case of potential war between Nato and Russia...
US sees signs of progress on deal to release hostages, bring temporary pause to Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement under which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages who were captured in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to two senior administration officials....
UNRWA claims: UN agency condemns aid halt over alleged help for Hamas attacks (www.bbc.com)
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How Israel controls $188 million of Palestinian money every month (www.aljazeera.com)
On Sunday, Israel approved a plan to send taxes earmarked for Gaza to Norway instead of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Revealed: UK granted asylum to Rwandan refugees while arguing country was safe (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine Says It Uncovers Mass Fraud in Weapons Procurement (www.usnews.com)
(Reuters) - Ukraine’s SBU security service said on Saturday it had uncovered a corruption scheme in the purchase of arms by the country’s military totalling the equivalent of about $40 million.
Amazon's record drought driven by climate change (www.bbc.com)
Beijing intensifies military pressure on Taiwan as U.S.-China talks resume (www.cnbc.com)
China sent dozens of military aircrafts and naval ships toward Taiwan, some of which crossed over the Taiwan Strait....
Russia-Ukraine war: attacks on Russian enlistment offices signal dissatisfaction with war, says UK (www.theguardian.com)
Guterres: UN to punish staffers involved in 'terror,' urges UNRWA funding (www.cnbc.com)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres vowed on Sunday to hold to account “any U.N. employee involved in acts of terror” after allegations that some refugee agency staffers were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel....
Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day (abcnews.go.com)
Jade mask discovered in pyramid tomb of Maya King (www.heritagedaily.com)
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Spain drought: Ebro Delta workers are searching for ‘equilibrium’ as water runs out (www.euronews.com)
Putin repeats Ukraine Nazi claims at Leningrad siege memorial (www.yahoo.com)
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Ukraine “glorifies” Adolf Hitler’s SS killing squads and vowed to “eradicate Nazism,” as he opened a memorial marking 80 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad....
Pakistan seeks $2 billion financial assistance from China for a year: Report (www.livemint.com)
Hindu group toughens stance on India's mosque-temple disputes (www.reuters.com)
How Taiwan preserved election integrity by fighting back against disinformation (www.pbs.org)
The rumors about vote fraud started swirling as the ballots in Taiwan’s closely watched presidential election were tallied on Jan. 13. There were baseless claims that people had fabricated votes and that officials had miscounted and skewed the results....