Chinese warships in Cambodia fuel fresh concerns as Wang visits (www.bangkokpost.com)
Thais make peace broker offer to Myanmar junta, rebels in Myawaddy (www.bangkokpost.com)
‘Discomfort may increase’: Asia’s heat wave scorches hundreds of millions (www.nytimes.com)
April is typically hot in South and Southeast Asia, but temperatures this month have been unusually high....
Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average global rate, report says (apnews.com)
Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity....
UN labor agency report warns of rising threat of excess heat, climate change on world's workers (apnews.com)
The U.N. labor organization warned Monday that over 70% of the world’s workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers, citing increased concern about exposure to sunlight. It also warned of air pollution, pesticides and other hazards that could lead to health problems including cancer....
Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said....
Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous (apnews.com)
The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months....
‘Where can you hide from pollution?’: cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city (www.theguardian.com)
Lebanon’s economy and electricity system are broken and much power is now generated locally, with devastating effects on air quality and health...
Germany's industrial production expected to sink further (www.dw.com)
German industrial production is expected to fall further behind this year, after a dip in 2023. The usually strong manufacturing sector had already taken a hit because of higher energy prices....
What $61bn US aid boost could mean for Ukraine (www.bbc.com)
A $61bn package of military aid for Ukraine could be signed off within days. So what weapons might it receive and what difference could they make in trying to stem Russian advances?...
US, Philippines kick off combat drills amid China tension (www.dw.com)
The joint drills include simulations of US and Filipino troops recapturing islands as Manila and Beijing contest maritime territory in the South China Sea....
Global military spending soars to new record highs (www.dw.com)
The global defense budget saw its largest yearly increase in 14 years in 2023, according to the think tank SIPRI. Russia’s war in Ukraine, the China-Taiwan crisis and other global conflicts played a significant role....
Nearly 200 bodies found in mass grave at hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis (www.aljazeera.com)
Palestinian civil defence crews have uncovered a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis, with 180 bodies recovered so far, Al Jazeera has learned, as Israel has continued bombardment of the devastated coastal enclave for more than six months....
Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as U.S. advances aid package (www.nbcnews.com)
German politician ‘filmed taking Russian money’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
A German politician has been filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, Czech intelligence has claimed....
High Court In India Rules That Viewing, Downloading Child Porn Is Not A Crime - The Publica (www.thepublica.com)
Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn (www.theguardian.com)
The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history...
Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died (apnews.com)
Russia says US support for Ukraine will end as ‘humiliating fiasco’ like ‘Vietnam and Afghanistan’ (thehill.com)
Anti-Abortion Campaigns Are Gaining Traction in the UK – With Help From US Cash (truthout.org)
Netanyahu Resists U.S. Plan to Cut Off Aid to Israeli Military Unit (www.propublica.org)
Brazil's Bolsonaro rallies supporters in Rio (www.reuters.com)
Five rockets fired from Iraq towards U.S. military base in Syria (www.reuters.com)
Canada contacts Israel after aid agency says water truck bombed in 'targeted' attack (www.cbc.ca)
A Canadian humanitarian organization says its key water-aid truck was bombed in Gaza this week, and the federal government now says it has contacted the Israeli government for “more information” on the incident....
Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University (theintercept.com)
Hafez would seem like an unlikely target for a smear campaign. A well-respected academic researcher in Austria, his work focused on documenting and combating anti-Muslim racism in Europe. He was a co-author of the European Islamophobia Report, a scholarly annual analysis of anti-Muslim discrimination on the continent, and was...
