'Every single day, I've watched small children die': American nurse shares heartbreaking work in Gaza (abcnews.go.com)
"Every single day, I've watched small children die."...
Israel tells U.S. it will punish Palestinian Authority if ICC issues warrants (www.axios.com)
Gaza: Israel deliberately militarizes civilian objects, turns schools into military bases (euromedmonitor.org)
Palestinian Territory - As part of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, ongoing for the seventh month now, the Israeli army has militarized civilian objects, including schools and educational facilities. Israel’s turning of these facilities into military bases is in flagrant violation of international law and the rules of war....
Israel hampers Gaza field hospitals by providing insufficient sites (www.middleeasteye.net)
In November, Italy announced that it would establish a field hospital in Gaza and dispatched a fact-finding mission to Rafah to evaluate the situation on the ground, a regional source said....
Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report (www.theguardian.com)
President Petro Says Colombia to Cut Diplomatic Ties With Israel (www.bloomberg.com)
‘Where Is the Palestinian Gandhi?’ (www.nytimes.com)
On Oct. 7, as the Israeli military deployed across the country to combat Hamas, a group of soldiers waited on an ancient hill called Tel Rumeida in Hebron, a city in the West Bank. Their target was a burly Palestinian man, then 43, named Issa Amro. As Amro approached the soldiers through an olive grove, they moved in and struck...
PHOTOS: May Day protests mark turbulent times (www.pbs.org)
Colombia President Petro says will break diplomatic relations with Israel (www.reuters.com)
At least 10,000 Gazans trapped under neighborhood ruins (thecradle.co)
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Highway collapse in China's southern Guangdong province leaves at least 24 dead (apnews.com)
The ground beneath the highway appeared to have caved in, along with the section of the road that had broken off....
Russia’s Rosatom Fuels Putin’s War Machine (foreignpolicy.com)
Moscow clearly believes that Rosatom will continue to get a free pass and is now using the company as a Trojan horse to circumvent Western sanctions. According to Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachev, the company’s military contracting has grown significantly. In January 2023, the Washington Post published information...
Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack....
The Latest | Israeli airstrikes on Rafah kill at least 22 people (apnews.com)
Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old....
Workers and activists across Asia hold May Day rallies to call for greater labor rights (apnews.com)
Workers, activists and others in Asian capitals took to the streets on Wednesday to mark May Day with protests over rising prices and governments’ labor polices and calls for greater labor rights....
State Secrets Law tightens grip on China social media giants (www.bbc.com)
New rules that tighten Chinese government restrictions on the country’s internet companies have come into effect today, raising concerns about how they will be applied....
South Korea mulls participation in AUKUS: defense minister (www.dw.com)
South Korea has held talks about joining a landmark defense technology pact between Australia, the United States and Britain....
Nineteen dead after highway collapses in southern China (www.dw.com)
Nineteen people have died after part of a highway collapsed in China’s southern Guangdong province, according to state media...
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution (www.theguardian.com)
German far right’s eastern stronghold has clear view on spy allegation: ‘It’s a witch hunt’ (www.politico.eu)
Alternative for Germany’s core supporters are sticking with the party despite allegations of dodgy links to Russia and China....
Massive pro-Palestinian student protests hit universities in the US, Europe and Australia (morningstaronline.co.uk)
Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive month in February (english.hani.co.kr)
Fewer than 20,000 babies were born in Korea in February, a record low for the month...
Catholic priest allegedly spends $40K of parish money on Candy Crush, slot machine apps (local12.com)
A Catholic priest allegedly spent $40,000 of church money on Candy Crush and slot machine apps....
Putin’s fuel problem: How Ukraine is sapping Russia’s diesel and gasoline (www.politico.eu)
Ukraine is taking out oil refineries inside Russia, cratering Moscow’s supplies and sending local prices soaring....
