Audit Giants Advise Executives to Use Burner Phones in Hong Kong Amid Data Security Fears - BNN Breaking (bnn.network)
Upskirting and cyber-flashing laws come into effect in Northern Ireland (www.bbc.com)
Sunak cancels Greek PM meeting in Elgin Marbles row - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer' (www.reuters.com)
Gynaecologist charged in Poland with helping patients obtain abortions | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)
South Korean city turns to matchmaking to boost low birth rates (www.channelnewsasia.com)
North Korea cites rare dissent in elections even as 99% back candidates (www.reuters.com)
North Korea on Tuesday made a rare mention of dissenting votes in recent elections, although analysts dismissed it as an attempt to portray an image of a normal society rather than signalling any meaningful increase of rights in the authoritarian state....
Myanmar Junta Continues to Suffer Defeats a Month Into Operation 1027 (www.irrawaddy.com)
Exodus: Tens of Thousands Flee as Myanmar Junta Troops Face Last Stand in Kokang (www.irrawaddy.com)
Britain detects first human case of flu strain similar to pig virus (www.reuters.com)
Israelis Hijack Hamas.com, Turning It Into a Display of October 7 Atrocities (www.haaretz.com)
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Paris mayor quits X, calling social media site a ‘gigantic global sewer’ (www.theguardian.com)
Anne Hidalgo, whose opponents have used the platform to criticise her, citied disinformation and antisemitism as reasons for leaving...
Britain's Sunak cancels meeting with Greek PM in row over Parthenon sculptures (www.reuters.com)
3M, DuPont defeat massive class action over forever chemicals (www.reuters.com)
Winter isn't coming: climate change hits Greek olive crop (phys.org)
Tobacco firm calls for tougher rules on vapes (www.bbc.com)
European and Arab ministers meet in Barcelona to discuss the future of Gaza and Palestine (english.elpais.com)
Saudi Prince Faisal bin Farhan will present the positions of Islamic countries in the absence of Israel, which has declined to attend the summit
UK spends more financing inequality in favour of rich than rest of Europe, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
South Korea: Man gets 14-month jail term for praising North in poem (www.bbc.com)
US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker (www.cnn.com)
Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday....
Bild: US, Germany quietly seek to prod Ukraine to negotiate (kyivindependent.com)
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Portugal just ran on 100 percent renewables for six days in a row (grist.org)
For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels....
State of emergency: Once-in-a-century drought in Amazon (www.weatherandradar.com)
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)