Amazon deforestation falls more than 20% to its lowest levels in 5 years (edition.cnn.com)
Germany approves global minimum corporate tax (www.reuters.com)
UN warns violence against civilians in Sudan ‘verging on pure evil’ (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza’s largest hospital being bombarded, WHO says (www.theguardian.com)
One month’s death toll in the Israel-Hamas war, in charts | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Israel revises Hamas attack death toll to 'around 1,200' (www.reuters.com)
Haunting Animation Shows All The Fires Burning in Northern Australia The Past 2 Months (www.sciencealert.com)
Nearly half of Gaza home have been destroyed, damaged by Israel-Hamas conflict: UN (thehill.com)
Iceland declares state of emergency over volcanic eruption threat (www.theguardian.com)
Icelandic authorities have declared a state of emergency after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the country’s southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, signalling the increased likelihood of a volcanic eruption in the region....
Inside a Gaza bedroom, soldiers searching for tunnels find how low Hamas can go (www.timesofisrael.com)
'2 jobs a necessity': In hyper-competitive South Korea, youths hustle but hope for a better way (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Edinburgh to be first Scottish city to ban pavement parking (www.bbc.com)
Bulgaria’s Russian gas games rile Europe (www.politico.eu)
Critics accuse Bulgaria of punishing Russia to curry favor with Brussels, while quietly helping Moscow regain its grip on Europe’s energy supplies.
‘There are hundreds of mothers like me’ An interview with Oksana Pekhteleva, whose daughter’s killer won a presidential pardon for fighting in Ukraine (meduza.io)
On the night of January 13, 2020, a Kemerovo man named Vladislav Kanyus brutally murdered his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend, Vera Pekhteleva. For hours, neighbors listened to Pekhteleva scream in agony and repeatedly called the police, but by the time officers arrived, she was dead. Kanyus was sentenced to 17 years in prison, while...
'No Possibility' of Gaza Cease-Fire, Biden Says as 500+ Former Staffers Demand One (www.commondreams.org)
“As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now,” the staffers wrote.
Israel-Hamas War: Israel Lowers Oct. 7 Death Toll Estimate to 1,200 (www.nytimes.com)
No ‘export of workers’ to Israel, say trade unions in India (www.nationalheraldindia.com)
All major Indian trade unions have called upon the govt to scrap agreement with Israel to export Indian workers & appealed to workers to boycott Israeli products & refuse to handle Israeli cargo.
Kim Jong-un closes slate of North Korea’s embassies as sanctions bite (www.theguardian.com)
Once-in-a-century flooding swamps Somalia after historic drought -UN (www.reuters.com)
Palestinian Red Crescent says one killed, many wounded by Israeli gunfire at Gaza hospital (www.reuters.com)
Macron calls on Israel to stop killing Gaza's women and babies (www.bbc.com)
Media watchdog says it was just 'raising questions' with insinuations about photographers and Hamas (apnews.com)
The head of an Israeli media watchdog, HonestReporting, says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened