U.S. Increasingly Isolated Over Israel and Gaza After Leading on Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
Presidents of Iran and Egypt vow to move towards détente (www.tehrantimes.com)
China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests (www.nytimes.com)
In the remote desert where China detonated its first atom bomb nearly 60 years ago, a drilling rig recently bored a deep vertical shaft that is estimated to plunge down at least a third of a mile. It is the strongest evidence yet that Beijing is weighing whether to test a new generation of nuclear arms that could increase the...
Putin could attack Baltics and Moldova next, says Belgian army chief (www.politico.eu)
After Ukraine, the Kremlin’s next targets could be Moldova and the Baltic countries, Belgian army chief Michel Hofman has warned....
Polish farmers end blockade of Ukraine border crossing (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine says movement of lorries restored after suspension of protest, but truckers’ blockades of three other crossings continue...
Britain to send patrol ship to Guyana amid Venezuela border dispute (www.theguardian.com)
Iran’s navy adds sophisticated cruise missiles to armory (www.politico.com)
State TV said both Talaeieh and Nasir cruise missiles have arrived at a naval base near the Indian Ocean....
‘They can kill us’: Fear and Sikh resilience in Canada city amid India spat (www.aljazeera.com)
That need for the community to defend itself no longer feels like a hypothetical scenario in this fast-paced suburban city, which has the slogan: “The future lives here”. Not since the assassination of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey in June....
Highway service zone construction suspended after fossil discovery in China | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
Ukraine's Defence Ministry says it may send call-up notices electronically, including to men living abroad (www.pravda.com.ua)
Yemen warring parties agree to ceasefire, UN-led peace process (gulfnews.com)
Israeli strikes kill UN staff, more than 70 of his extended family in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Issam Al Mughrabi, 56, who worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for three decades was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air strike on Friday....
Houthi attack: Indian Navy denies US claim, says MV SAIBABA tanker not India-flagged; adds all 25 Indian crew members safe (aljazeera.co.in)
Israel is losing the war against Hamas – but Netanyahu and his government will never admit it (www.theguardian.com)
Liquidation of Wikimedia RU [Wikipedia Signpost] (en.wikipedia.org)
Briefly: Stanislav Kozlovsky, the director of Russian Wikimedia project (which supports the Russian Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.), has been declared a “foreign agent” by Russia. He has been forced to resign from his job at the Moscow State University. Following the event, Russian Wikimedia has decided to dissolve...
Japan-owned tanker attacked by drone fired from Iran in Indian Ocean (english.kyodonews.net)
2 women killed in Israeli attack on Holy Family parish in Gaza (www.vaticannews.va)
The Israeli military on Saturday entered the compound of the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza, shooting at anyone leaving the church....
On Christmas Eve, Bethlehem resembles a ghost town. Celebrations are halted due to Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday, as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war....
Zhu Ling: Woman dies decades after unsolved China poisoning - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Peace On Earth Begins in Palestine (peoplesworld.org)
[photo above] A woman puts her hand prints in green paint on a mural of the Palestinian flag during an event showing solidarity with the Palestinian people and calling for peace in Gaza in Havana, Cuba, Oct. 23, 2023. | Ramon Espinosa / AP
Argentine government to bill protesters for security costs at anti-Milei march (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Furnace explosion at Chinese-owned nickel plant in Indonesia kills 13 (apnews.com)
Blacklisted Chinese chipmaker SMIC is working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions that limit access to advanced tools (www.tomshardware.com)
Polish president vows to veto spending bill in massive clash with new government (www.politico.eu)
On Wednesday, Poland’s new government moved to seize control of the country’s publicly owned television, radio and news agency from loyalists to the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost power following the October 15 parliamentary election. Duda was a PiS member and is still loyal to the party.
Exclusive: Israeli Military Censor Bans Reporting on these 8 Subjects (theintercept.com)
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