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Renforcement des liens universitaires entre Djibouti et Istanbul : Signature d'un accord majeur sur la cyber sécurité (www.adi.dj)

Ships Advertise Chinese Links to Avoid Houthi Attack in Red Sea (www.bloomberg.com)

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Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist with Targets, Document Suggests (theintercept.com)

Targeting intelligence — the information used to conduct airstrikes and fire long-range artillery weapons — has played a central role in Israel’s siege of Gaza. A document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggests that the U.S. Air Force sent officers specializing in this exact form of intelligence to Israel...

EU mulls sending warships to protect Red Sea vessels from Houthis (www.euronews.com)

Brussels wants to launch a bespoke EU mission to protect commercial vessels in the Red Sea from attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels....

Changes Made to Personal Income Tax Regime - St. Lucia News From The Voice (thevoiceslu.com)

World Bank Funding for Exploratory Drillings in Saint Lucia - St. Lucia News From The Voice (thevoiceslu.com)

Seychelles in consultation phase for proposed law on regulating virtual assets and VASPs - Seychelles News Agency (m.seychellesnewsagency.com)

Seychelles' Supreme Court reopens: “Learn from the past to build tomorrow,” says Chief Justice - Seychelles News Agency (m.seychellesnewsagency.com)

UAE sends 50 tonnes of food supplies to Seychelles following Dec.7 disasters - Seychelles News Agency (m.seychellesnewsagency.com)

Seychelles Trading Company CEO resigns, citing health issues - Seychelles News Agency (m.seychellesnewsagency.com)

Investigations into CCCL disaster going well, answers possibly available by February, says Seychelles’ President - Seychelles News Agency (m.seychellesnewsagency.com)

Seychelles and Israel sign visa-free accord, islanders now have one of strongest passports in the world - Seychelles News Agency (m.seychellesnewsagency.com)

‘He disappeared for a year’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures (theguardian.com)

Since 2014, millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been locked up in China and subjected to torture and forced labour. Some of those freed talk about trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Kazakhstan

Ruling-party candidate emerges victorious in Taiwan's presidential election (apnews.com)

Huge fire rips through Russian online retailer's warehouse in St. Petersburg (www.reuters.com)

Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer. (www.vice.com)

Some 330,000 years ago, giant apes the size of elephants roamed the forests of southern China. Their massive teeth—once sold as a “dragon tooth” by a Hong Kong apothecary—gnawed tough leaves and devoured fruit. Then suddenly, while other primates were thriving, these supersized orangutan-like creatures vanished with...

Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords (www.theguardian.com)

After a 15-year dispute, the private company Nordic Mining has been given the go-ahead to dispose of 170m tons of mining waste at the bottom of the Førde fjord, which critics say will threaten marine life and put biodiversity at risk....

Africa's Catholic hierarchy refuses same-sex blessings, says such unions are contrary to God's will (apnews.com)

In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement Thursday refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples and asserting that such unions are “contrary to the will of God.”...

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