JPR Williams: Wales and British and Irish Lions legend dies aged 74 (www.bbc.co.uk)
The full back was synonymous with Wales and Lions’ glories of the ‘70s
Spain considers nationwide hospital mask rule, as flu, COVID hit Europe (www.reuters.com)
India’s Top Court Reverses Early Release of 11 Men Convicted of Gang Rape (www.nytimes.com)
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French PM Borne resigns, Macron to name new government (www.reuters.com)
India orders drug-makers to clean up act as overseas deaths threaten reputation (www.independent.co.uk)
India has ordered its pharmaceutical companies to meet new manufacturing standards this year after a string of deaths reported overseas linked to Indian-made drugs since 2022....
US fighter jets to fly over Bosnia in a sign of support to the country as Serbs call for secession (www.independent.co.uk)
Two U.S. fighter jets will fly over Bosnia in a demonstration of support for the Balkan country’s integrity in the face of increasingly secessionist policies of the Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik...
Australia bans Nazi salute, swastika, other hate symbols in public as antisemitism spikes (www.cbsnews.com)
Australian lawmakers have banned the performance of the Nazi salute in public and outlawed the display or sale of Nazi hate symbols such as the swastika in landmark legislation that went into effect in the country Monday. The new laws also make the act of glorifying OR praising acts of terrorism a criminal offense....
Spain considers nationwide hospital mask rule, as flu, COVID hit Europe (www.reuters.com)
Spain’s government proposed a nationwide mandate for people to wear masks in hospitals and health clinics on Monday, and Italy said respiratory illness infection rates had hit a record, as flu and COVID spread across Europe....
MI6 spy detained in China, authorities claim (www.bbc.com)
Chinese authorities say they have detained an individual alleged to be spying for Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6....
Woman in her 90s pulled alive from rubble 124 hours after Japan quake (www.cnn.com)
An elderly woman in her 90s has been rescued from under the rubble of a two-story house more than five days after a powerful earthquake struck Japan....
For the second time in recorded history, global sea surface temperatures hit six standard deviations above 1982-2011, on January 6 2024 (lemmy.world)
Pope calls for universal ban on surrogacy in global roundup of threats to peace and human dignity (apnews.com)
Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity....
Russian soldier describes being "sent to slaughter" after minimal training (www.newsweek.com)
Hamas Fighting With Top-Grade Chinese Weapons in Gaza, Says Israel (www.businessinsider.com)
Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters....
Senior Vatican official makes case for a married priesthood (www.bangkokpost.com)
A heavy wave of Russian missile attacks pounds areas across Ukraine, killing at least 4 civilians (www.seattletimes.com)
Ukraine came under strong Russian missile attacks that struck near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country.
Bangladesh's Hasina wins three-quarters of seats in election boycotted by opposition (www.france24.com)
The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), whose ranks have been decimated by mass arrests, called a general strike and, along with dozens of others, refused to participate in a “sham election”.
As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in (apnews.com)
Spanish woman with right to work in UK deported after holiday (www.euronews.com)
Location of 600 Al-Aqsa Hospital patients, staff ‘unknown’, says WHO (www.aljazeera.com)
Location of 600 patients, health workers from Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital “unknown”, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after hospital director says they were forced to leave.
Israel-Gaza war: The huge challenges facing Israel's 'day after' plan (www.bbc.com)
An air attack in Myanmar kills 17, including children, but the military has denied responsibility (apnews.com)
BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.
CBC says killing of 22,600 Palestinians doesn’t merit terms ‘murderous,’ ‘brutal’ (breachmedia.ca)
Thank you Biden! (lemmus.org)
