Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are ‘designed to fail’, say insiders (www.theguardian.com)
Russia is defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the UN's top human rights body (apnews.com)
Italy's Birth Rate: Meloni Likely Focus on Tax Cuts over Families (stoppopulationdecline.org)
'It smells of death here': Surveying the scenes of atrocities in Kfar Aza (www.i24news.tv)
No one could expect the horrors seen by the Israeli first responders, of about at least 40 babies being taken out on gurneys, some with heads chopped off
Tech firms struggle as Israel-Gaza falsehoods explode (www.channelnewsasia.com)
UK gas prices soar as Finland makes worrying claim about pipeline leak (www.independent.co.uk)
Finnish and Swedish publications cited sources claiming that the pipeline was not damaged naturally....
Israel Bombs Egypt Border Crossing It Had Touted as an Escape Route for Besieged Palestinians (www.msn.com)
Israeli planes bombed the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Tuesday, even as an Israeli military spokesman encouraged Palestinians to use the border post to flee to safety....
Why the death of remote work isn’t making suburbs cheap again (creditnews.com)
Work-from-home made living in the suburbs a lot more expensive, and that’s unlikely to change even as more people return to the office.
Shani Louk is still alive, mother reveals (www.newsweek.com)
The mother of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old German national believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas fighters during the militant group’s surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, said on Tuesday that her daughter is alive....
‘Murdered in cold blood’: stories emerge of Israelis killed at Gaza border (www.theguardian.com)
Friends and relatives say Hamas killed a grandmother, parents protecting their children, and an entire family during raids...
Philippine diplomat witnessed Chinese ships' aggressive actions in disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)
A senior Filipino diplomat known for his past expletive-laced tirade against China joined a coast guard trip to the disputed South China Sea last week and saw Beijing’s ships block and nearly collide with Philippine vessels, including one he was on....
Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits neighboring Romania to discuss security and boost ties (apnews.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his counterpart in Romania Tuesday for talks on regional security and to strengthen bilateral ties against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of his country....
What is the Israeli settler movement? (www.msn.com)
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Japanese PM: intl AI regs will be here by year's end (www.theregister.com)
Israel and the West reckon with a high-tech failure (www.politico.com)
The Hamas onslaught wasn’t supposed to be possible: A massive, deadly 2G attack on a 5G security state. The consequences are still reverberating....
Israel says 1,500 Hamas militants dead after battles near Gaza (www.news.com.au)
Israel said it had largely secured the Gaza border and was evacuating nearby towns where the bodies of 1,500 Hamas militants had been recovered by Tuesday after days of gruelling battles outside the Palestinian enclave....
Do not get involved in Israel crisis, top U.S. general warns Iran (www.reuters.com)
The United States’ top general on Monday warned Iran not to get involved in the crisis in Israel and said he did not want the conflict to the broaden, as Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets onto northern Israel...
‘Plastic air pollution’: Microplastics in clouds could be exacerbating climate change, study says (www.euronews.com)
The presence of tiny plastics in clouds risks the contamination of ‘everything we eat and drink’, researchers say....
UN airs concerns for civilians as Israel steps up military response in Gaza to deadly Hamas attacks (apnews.com)
The United Nations, aid groups and public health experts expressed growing concerns Monday about humanitarian needs in Palestinian areas as Israel ratchets up a muscular military riposte and a lockdown of Gaza, after the weekend attack by Hamas militants who killed and kidnapped hundreds of civilians in Israel....
Finnish officials tight-lipped on possible cause of pipeline damage (yle.fi)
EU U-turns after halting Palestinian funding following Hamas attack (www.politico.eu)
Over 100 Bodies Uncovered in Single Israeli Village After Hamas Massacre (themessenger.com)
The death toll means around ten percent of the kibbutz’s population was wiped out...
Anti-Israel Protestors Shout ‘Gas the Jews’ Outside Sydney Opera House (themessenger.com)
The protesters also lit off flares, according to Sky News Australia...
Russia claims `neo-Nazis’ were at wake for Ukrainian soldier in village café where missile killed 52 (apnews.com)
Russia’s U.N. ambassador alleged Monday that “neo-Nazis” and military-age men were at the wake for a Ukrainian soldier in a village café where a missile last week killed 52 people, even as Security Council members retorted that Russia was responsible for starting the war and committing crimes....