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US reportedly considering plea deal offer for Julian Assange (www.theguardian.com)
Israel government spokesman Eylon Levy suspended after comments about Gaza aid (www.haaretz.com)
Levy’s suspension follows a tweet, in response to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, that ‘there are NO limits on the entry of food, water, medicine, or shelter equipment into Gaza, and in fact the crossings have EXCESS capacity’
No bidders present at Myanmar auction for $90 million sale of Suu Kyi's home (www.reuters.com)
How did Canada end up with worse air quality than the US? (www.theguardian.com)
Year of devastating wildfires meant Canadians were breathing worse air than southern neighbours for first time ever...
Campaigners warn over failure to curb Europe’s ‘runaway’ transport emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Greenhouse gases from sector could make up 44% of continent’s total output by 2030, says transport group...
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he's quitting as head of his party and the country (apnews.com)
Finland ranked world's happiest country for seventh year (www.dw.com)
The annual World Happiness Report has again ranked Finland and other Scandinavian countries the most cheerful nations on Earth. Costa Rica and Kuwait entered the top 20 in place of the United States and Germany....
North Korea claims progress in developing a hypersonic missile designed to strike distant U.S. targets (www.nbcnews.com)
A hypersonic missile is among the high-tech weapons systems that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to introduce to cope with what he called deepening U.S. hostility....
Kenyan leader signs affordable housing bill into law (apanews.net)
Bob Marley’s band The Wailers to play in Hong Kong for the first time (www.scmp.com)
Pakistan and IMF reach preliminary deal to release $1.1 billion from bailout fund, IMF says (www.asahi.com)
US and UK doctors in Washington to warn of IDF’s ‘appalling atrocities’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
A delegation of American and British doctors is in Washington DC to tell the Biden administration the Israeli military is systematically destroying Gaza’s health infrastructure in order to drive Palestinians out of their homes....
Evergrande: China property giant and its founder accused of $78bn fraud (www.bbc.com)
Gaza: Increasing numbers of newborns on brink of death, agencies warn (news.un.org)
“What doctors and medical staff are telling us is more and more they are seeing the effects of starvation; they’re seeing newborn babies simply dying because they (are) too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO)....
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)
South Korea Sees Marriage Bump for First Time in Over a Decade (open.substack.com)
In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms (www.reuters.com)
Reuters saw 10 badly malnourished children during a visit last week to the al-Awda health centre in Rafah, arranged with nursing staff who gave the news agency unimpeded access to the ward.
Czech Republic to deliver thousands of extra artillery shells to Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
The Czech Republic says it is on the verge of delivering thousands of extra artillery shells to Ukraine, just weeks after it announced an initiative to source the much-needed supplies from outside the EU....
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX (www.politico.eu)
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX...
Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages (www.nbcnews.com)
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (www.nytimes.com)
The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros a month, is a steal....
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (www.theguardian.com)
How Biden became embroiled in a Gaza conflict with no end in sight (www.washingtonpost.com)
On Oct. 27, three weeks into Israel’s punishing counterattack in Gaza, top Biden officials privately told a small group assembled at the White House what they would not say in public: Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets....