Israel says no exceptions to Gaza siege unless hostages freed (www.reuters.com)
Dalit woman raped, filmed, forced to eat beef by two Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh, after being lured by friend (www.indiatoday.in)
Part of China's economic miracle was a mirage. Reality check is next (www.reuters.com)
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first major reform plans a decade ago were also his boldest, envisaging a transition to a Western-style free market economy driven by services and consumption by 2020....
Festivalgoers, children, soldiers: What we know about the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas (edition.cnn.com)
Shani Louk, a German-Israeli national, was among festivalgoers who had gathered in farmland near the Gaza-Israel border for what was supposed to be an all-night dance party celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot....
After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot (www.abc.net.au)
Brazil launches biggest ever operation against illegal cattle farms in Amazon (www.theguardian.com)
The Brazilian government has launched its biggest ever operation to remove thousands of cows owned by illegal land grabbers from indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest....
BBC News - Luis Rubiales: Spanish FA will take legal action over Jennifer Hermoso 'lies' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Quebec judge gives go-ahead for lawsuit over sterilisation of Indigenous women (www.theguardian.com)
Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach (BBC News) (www.bbc.com)
Tourist who allegedly carved names into Rome’s Colosseum says he didn’t know the ‘antiquity of the monument’ | CNN (www.cnn.com)
The tourist who was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum late last month has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office, his defense lawyer told CNN on Thursday....
Sydney police plan to use ‘extraordinary’ powers to search pro-Palestinian protesters and demand ID (www.theguardian.com)
Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists (www.cnn.com)
A top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation, rekindling a heated debate about the role of the world’s lingua franca in the country’s education system after years of rising nationalist sentiment under leader Xi Jinping....
French reporter arrested over leaked secrets (www.bbc.com)
Israeli airstrike hits ambulance convoy in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza health ministry says Israel strikes ambulance convoy (www.reuters.com)
Palestinian health authorities in Hamas-controlled Gaza said Israel struck a convoy of ambulances on Friday that was to leave al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and head to the south of the enclave to evacuate injured people.
World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says (www.bbc.co.uk)
'We will fight imperialism together', North Korea's Kim tells Putin (www.euronews.com)
Russia’s president and Kim Jong Un are set to explore a range of “sensitive topics” during talks on Wednesday....
Stolen van Gogh painting worth millions recovered by Dutch art detective (abcnews.go.com)
Kim Jong Un’s Train Appears Bound for Russia for Putin Talks (www.bloomberg.com)
‘Huge’ coral bleaching unfolding across the Americas prompts fears of global tragedy (www.theguardian.com)
Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection (www.reuters.com)
The amount of plastic that reaches the sea is ten times less than previously thought, but that is not good news (english.elpais.com)
The good news is that, according to a new study, some 500,000 tons of plastic — over ten times less than previous estimates — reach the sea every year, according to a new study. The bad news is that this plastic lasts longer than it was believed to, sometimes decades longer.
No climate crisis agreement at G20 environment meeting (phys.org)
Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have 'partners for peace' (apnews.com)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning Israel that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas.
Gazans break into aid centres, taking flour and supplies, UN says (www.reuters.com)
Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and “basic survival items”, the organisation said on Sunday....
