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Is it too late to keep global warmingbelow 1.5 °C? The challenge in 7 charts (www.nature.com)

US to Deploy Previously Banned Missiles to Aim Them at China (news.antiwar.com)

Argentina's black market currency traders brace for uncertainty (www.reuters.com)

UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge (english.elpais.com)

On Friday, the globe hit 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees) above pre-industrial levels for the first time in recorded history

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says (www.theguardian.com)

The American Book Award winner was said to be heading south for the Rafah crossing when he was picked up at a checkpoint

Israel's jobless rate spikes to 9.6% in Oct due to Hamas war (www.reuters.com)

Where do we flee? Japan’s outlying islands brace themselves for war in Taiwan Strait (www.straitstimes.com)

Australian retail lobby groups refuse to disclose amount of funding from tobacco and vaping industries (www.theguardian.com)

Scholz pledges greater investment in Africa's green energy sector (www.reuters.com)

Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage (apnews.com)

[Spain] Sira Rego, born in Valencia and raised in Palestine, to lead the Ministry of Children (valenciaplaza.com)

Sira Rego leaves her position as a member of the European Parliament to join the newly formed coalition government of Pedro Sanchez, to be appointed Minister of Youth and Childhood, as part of the party Sumar’s cuota....

321 trans people murdered this year, new report finds (www.thepinknews.com)

Following Israeli rebuke, Palestinian Authority foreign ministry deletes claim from social media that the Oct. 7 rave massacre was committed by the IDF (www.timesofisrael.com)

The Palestinian Authority falsely claimed Sunday that a preliminary investigation by the Israel Police has revealed that the Israel Defense Forces was responsible for the death of all 364 partygoers near Kibbutz Re’im during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, drawing fierce denunciation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

Trump and Bolsonaro salute Javier Milei as far right rejoice around the world (www.theguardian.com)

Luminaries of the global far right are in raptures over Javier Milei’s thumping election victory in Argentina which experts predict will turn Buenos Aires into a new stomping ground for the populist radical right....

Israel's lack of a strategy is the strategy (www.npr.org)

The late Ariel Sharon, a longtime Israeli soldier and political leader, confided his thoughts to his close friend Uri Dan, an Israeli journalist. Their beliefs can be found in This Burning Land, by Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin....

UK white paper raises concerns over China’s growing foreign aid role (www.theguardian.com)

Government paper says Britain must act robustly if interests challenged by the Chinese development model

Nicaragua leaves Organization of American States in 'step away from democracy,' U.S. says (www.latimes.com)

The U.S. State Department called Nicaragua’s formal withdrawal from the Organization of American States on Sunday “another step away from democracy.”...

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 (www.theguardian.com)

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Premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt; 12 reported killed at Indonesian Hospital (www.reuters.com)

Marine heatwaves hit Mediterranean as eastern US braces for storms (www.theguardian.com)

After seven months of war, Sudan faces risk of collapse (www.africanews.com)

Sex-crazed prison guards held jacuzzi orgies; 1 refused to work before intercourse: report (www.foxnews.com)

Jimmy Failla joins “The Ingraham Angle” to give his take on a new report that says California spent more than $4 million of taxpayer money on gender-affirming enhancements for more than 100 inmates....

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