Telegram founder's arrest part of larger investigation into alleged child exploitation and drug trafficking 'complicity' (www.nbcnews.com)
Morning attack on Ukraine cost Russia almost US$1.3 billion (www.pravda.com.ua)
More than 60 reported killed in northeast Sudan dam collapse (www.aljazeera.com)
Israeli military says it has rescued a hostage abducted in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack (apnews.com)
The 52-year-old is from Israel’s Arab Bedouin minority and was working as a guard at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen, one of several farming communities that were attacked on Oct. 7.
Ukraine tests its first ballistic missile, Zelensky says (kyivindependent.com)
Malaysian ex-PM charged with sedition over royal remark (www.bangkokpost.com)
US military open to escorting Philippine ships in the South China Sea, senior admiral says (apnews.com)
Zuckerberg expressed regret for not being more vocal about "government pressure" to censor COVID-19-related content (thehill.com)
Zuckerberg said senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to “censor” content in 2021. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken,” he wrote to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). “Like I...
Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency (www.wired.com)
‘A crisis entirely of humanity’s making’: UN chief issues climate SOS on trip to Pacific (www.theguardian.com)
Pacific island nations are in “grave danger” from rising sea levels and the world must “answer the SOS before it is too late”, the UN chief has warned during a visit to Tonga....
India surpasses China to become Russia's top oil buyer in July (www.reuters.com)
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Seven killed in 'most massive' Russian air attack, Ukraine says (www.bbc.com)
Chaos in France after Macron refuses to name prime minister from leftwing coalition (www.theguardian.com)
How US military planning has shifted away from fighting terrorism to readying for tensions and conflict with China and Russia (theconversation.com)
Australia sees hottest winter temperature on record, a brutal 107 degrees (www.washingtonpost.com)
Israel/OPT: Israeli attacks targeting Hamas and other armed group fighters that killed scores of displaced civilians in Rafah should be investigated as war crimes (www.amnesty.org)
A new investigation by Amnesty International reveals Israeli forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimise harm to civilians sheltering at camps for internally displaced people while carrying out two attacks targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders and fighters in the south of the occupied Gaza Strip in...
Yemen weapons dealers selling machine guns on X (www.bbc.com)
Biden Says Civilians Being Killed on Both Sides in Gaza. The Ratio Is 45 to 1. (truthout.org)
Australia is the latest country to give workers the 'right to disconnect' after hours (www.npr.org)
The law doesn’t strictly prohibit employers from calling or messaging their workers after hours. But it does protect employees who “refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact or attempted contact outside their working hours, unless their refusal is unreasonable,” according to the Fair Work Commission, Australia’s...
Harris Promises “Most Lethal” Military on Earth (www.kenklippenstein.com)
Israel Is Forcing One of the Last Remaining Hospitals in Gaza to Evacuate (truthout.org)
In recent days, Palestinians have been fleeing al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as Israel ordered evacuations in nearby neighborhoods of Deir el-Balah previously labeled as part of the “safe zone” last week and on Sunday....
Netanyahu faces Israeli calls for broader strikes against Hezbollah (www.theguardian.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a political backlash in Israel for the limited nature of Sunday’s airstrikes against Hezbollah, amid calls for a broader offensive in Lebanon....
‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public (www.theguardian.com)
New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups....
“Colonial Process”: How U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Latest Erasure of Roots of Arab-Israeli Conflict (www.democracynow.org)
Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri responds to the latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the drawn-out ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, which Khouri calls a “fictitious political dynamic” that is primarily used as diplomatic cover for Israel’s warfare....
