Funding cuts to UN aid agency threaten new crisis in Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)
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The US privately told Israel the kind of Rafah campaign it could support (www.politico.com)
Senior U.S. officials have told their Israeli counterparts the Biden administration would support Israel going after high-value Hamas targets in and underneath Rafah — as long as Israel avoids a large-scale invasion that could fracture the alliance....
Not just the UNRWA report: Countless accounts of Israeli torture in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Practices recorded by UNRWA include the use of a nail gun on prisoners’ knees, sexual abuse against both men and women and the insertion of what appears to be an electrified metal stick into prisoners’ rectums.
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In Haiti, a police officer-turned-gangster is trying to seize control of the country (www.nbcnews.com)
Jimmy “Barbeque” Chérizier’s forces have laid siege to Haiti’s main international airport, traded fire with troops at government sites and sparked a mass jailbreak....
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Russian election: Alexei Navalny’s final plan to cause Vladimir Putin ‘maximum damage’ (www.politico.eu)
Before his death, the opposition leader laid out a strategy to challenge the Russian president....
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Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide (apnews.com)
Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a devious imagination to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters....
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Denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a Japanese high court says (apnews.com)
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Flooding inundates Semarang's Old Town, railway station - Archipelago - The Jakarta Post (www.thejakartapost.com)
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China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than experts expected: report (www.scmp.com)
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India’s Economic Surge Fuels Modi’s Bid for Re-election (www.riotimesonline.com)
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Japanese firms offer biggest pay rise since 2013, largest industrial union says (www.businesstimes.com.sg)
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Nigeria ends land, air blockade of Niger Republic (apanews.net)
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The global epidemic of dengue and the rebound of Zika hang over Easter trips (elpais.com)
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Hyundai, Kia to recall 170,000 EVs over software glitch (www.chosun.com)
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Japan same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional again by courts, remains the only G7 country not to recognize (www.bbc.com)
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Argentina inflation slows for a second month as President Milei keeps pushing austerity measures (apnews.com)
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Malaysia’s anti-graft agency turns up the heat on Singaporean businessman over decades-old multi-million dollar transactions (www.channelnewsasia.com)
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Eliminates Means Testing, Provides Free High School & University Education for Residents (open.substack.com)
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Zelensky’s phone call to Macron to inform him that the invasion started (vimeo.com)
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‘Deluded’ Hamas made a ‘catastrophic miscalculation’, say Palestinian analysts (www.thejc.com)
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YouTube blocks access to Fifth Estate story on killing of B.C. Sikh activist at India's demand (www.cbc.ca)
68 orphans were evacuated from Gaza to the West Bank, enraging Israel's far right (www.npr.org)
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Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest blocking Swedish parliament (www.independent.co.uk)
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