South Africa Says Palestinians Endure ‘More Extreme Form of Apartheid’ (www.nytimes.com)
More than half the world faces high measles risk, WHO says (www.reuters.com)
More than half the world’s countries will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are taken, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday....
Turkey detains six suspected of spying on Uyghurs for China (www.reuters.com)
Turkish authorities have detained six people suspected of spying on Uyghurs in Turkey for China’s intelligence service, and another suspect was being sought by police, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday....
Gaza's Al-Amal Hospital running out of water under Israeli siege (thecradle.co)
Taiwan drives away Chinese coast guard boat as frontline island tensions rise (www.reuters.com)
US again vetoes UN action in Israel-Hamas war, blocks ceasefire call (www.reuters.com)
Great Nicobar: Indian president visits island as fears grow for tribe (www.bbc.co.uk)
India’s president has made a whistle stop tour of an island earmarked for multi-billion dollar development that experts warn could wipe out the indigenous tribe which calls it home.
North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
Indian union refuses to load Israel-bound weapons shipments (thecradle.co)
An Indian trade union that operates at multiple ports across the nation has refused to load or offload ships carrying weapons to Israel, days after the announcement of New Delhi sending Hermes 900 “killer” drones to Tel Aviv.
Yulia Navalnaya urges West not to recognise Russia's March election (www.reuters.com)
“Do not recognise these elections,” Navalnaya told European Union foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on Monday, according to a transcript supplied on Tuesday by a spokeswoman....
Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards (www.theregister.com)
Julian Assange UK court hearing 20-21 February 2024 (live, by WikiLeaks) (twitter.com)
UN Experts Demand Investigation Into IDF Abuse of Women and Girls in Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
A group of United Nations experts on Monday demanded an immediate and thorough investigation into reports that Israeli forces have arbitrarily detained, sexually abused, and executed Palestinian women and girls in the Gaza Strip....
Putin gifts car to Kim Jong Un in sign of ‘special personal relations,’ North Korean state media reports | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Israel holds female Palestinian rights lawyer without trial or charge (www.aljazeera.com)
3 Myanmar brigadier-generals sentenced to death for surrendering town: Military sources | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
Chinese fishing vessels are going scorched earth and pumping cyanide into contested waters, Philippine fishing authority says (www.businessinsider.com)
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - BBC Worklife (www.bbc.com)
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants...
Arabs put to vote a UN resolution demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire, knowing US will veto it (apnews.com)
Gaza Health Ministry says over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
A ship carrying 19,000 cattle caused a big stink in the South African city of Cape Town (apnews.com)
What stinks?...
Canada sending more than 800 drones to Ukraine to support its fight against Russia (abcnews.go.com)
Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term as head of the EU's powerful Commission (apnews.com)
Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen will seek a second term as head of the European Union’s powerful Commission in a move that could make her the most significant politician representing the bloc’s 450 million citizens in over a generation....
El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count (apnews.com)
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday....