Yulia Navalnaya to receive DW Freedom of Speech Award 2024 (www.dw.com)
The widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation are the 10th DW Freedom of Speech Award laureates....
West Bank: Israel Defense Forces accused of possible war crime (www.bbc.com)
In the early afternoon of 29 November last year, several Palestinian boys descended on to their street in the occupied West Bank, where they often played together....
Israeli airstrike on Rafah refugee camp in Gaza kills boy, 4, and his sister, 2 (www.cnn.com)
An Israeli airstrike on Al-Shaboura refugee camp in southern Gaza’s Rafah city late Tuesday killed two young children and injured several other people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza and the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah....
Gazprom slumps to first annual loss in 22 years as trade with Europe hit (www.theguardian.com)
The company made a net loss of 629bn roubles (£5.5bn) in 2023 amid dwindling gas trade with Europe, once Gazprom’s main sales market, as a result of sanctions and the throttling of pipelines to the continent.
Activists press for EU-wide abortion right (www.politico.eu)
Climbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reach (theconversation.com)
Biden calls U.S. ally Japan 'xenophobic,' along with China and Russia (www.nbcnews.com)
Israeli forces detain wife of Middle East Eye correspondent at Gaza checkpoint (www.middleeasteye.net)
Defending the Camp (crimethinc.com)
Israel tells U.S. it will punish Palestinian Authority if ICC issues warrants (www.axios.com)
The fight for full press freedom in Ukraine: ‘We can write what we want, but bad actors try to intimidate us’ (www.theguardian.com)
Kyiv Independent’s Olga Rudenko is set on telling the truth in wartime, despite clumsy instances of state harassment...
EU unveils €1-billion aid package for Lebanon to curb refugee flows (www.euronews.com)
The European Union will provide €1 billion in financial aid to Lebanon over three years to prop up the country’s economy and help prevent a surge in refugees leaving for Europe....
Argentina’s Monthly CPI to Fall Below 10% in April, Milei Says (www.bloomberg.com)
China continues to export its digital authoritarianism playbook across the Indo-Pacific, a new report reveals (www.article19.org)
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Myanmar junta bans conscription-age men from leaving country for work (myanmar-now.org)
India starts deporting Myanmar refugees (www.bangkokpost.com)
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Highway collapse in China's southern Guangdong province leaves at least 24 dead (apnews.com)
The ground beneath the highway appeared to have caved in, along with the section of the road that had broken off....
Death toll rises to 48 in China highway collapse (www.nbcnews.com)
Soviet-era attitudes to disability hinder Ukrainian fighters’ recovery (www.politico.eu)
Injured soldiers face social stigma … and their numbers have soared....
South Africa's apartheid victims demand reparations (www.dw.com)
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, dozens of South Africans have set up a protest camp outside the Constitutional Court. They are demanding reparations for human rights abuses suffered under white minority rule....
President Petro Says Colombia to Cut Diplomatic Ties With Israel (www.bloomberg.com)
Philippines summons Chinese envoy over water cannon attack (www.dw.com)
The Philippines summoned a Chinese Embassy official to protest the “harassment of Philippine vessels” as tensions flare up in the South China Sea....
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution (www.theguardian.com)
Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report (www.theguardian.com)
‘Where Is the Palestinian Gandhi?’ (www.nytimes.com)
On Oct. 7, as the Israeli military deployed across the country to combat Hamas, a group of soldiers waited on an ancient hill called Tel Rumeida in Hebron, a city in the West Bank. Their target was a burly Palestinian man, then 43, named Issa Amro. As Amro approached the soldiers through an olive grove, they moved in and struck...
