How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered killings, arrests: Reuters (www.reuters.com)
A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found. Reuters interviewed more than 30 federal and local officials, judges, lawyers and victims of abuses by...
Valencia fire: Ten bodies found as Spanish police search gutted flats (www.bbc.com)
Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy (www.bbc.com)
The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis....
Putin Fears Navalny Funeral Could Trigger Mass Demonstrations, Khodorkovsky Says (www.rferl.org)
The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely refusing to release the body of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who died suspiciously in prison on February 16, because it fears a massive outpouring of grief and support just ahead of the March presidential election, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a leading Russian...
Incredibly, The Russian Air Force Has Lost Another Rare A-50 Radar Plane (www.forbes.com)
Incredibly, the Russian air force has lost another one of its rare Beriev A-50M/U Mainstay radar early-warning planes. Video that circulated online on Friday reportedly depicts the A-50’s burning wreckage in Krasnodar Krai, in Russia just east of the Sea of Azov....
Germany legalizes recreational cannabis use (www.cnn.com)
Government threat report warns about attacks in Canada inspired by Hamas-Israel conflict | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
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Germany joins legal cannabis club (www.reuters.com)
Germany passes law to legalize cannabis - the ninth country to do so (www.msn.com)
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Israel plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it's a response to a Palestinian attack (www.independent.co.uk)
White House scrambles for legal loopholes in Yemen war (thecradle.co)
Netanyahu seeks open-ended control over security and civilian affairs in Gaza in new postwar plan (apnews.com)
Israel's PM Netanyahu lays out Gaza plan for after the war - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Valencia fire latest: Death toll rises after fire in Valencia apartment blocks - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
How Liberals misled the public about weapons exports to Israel ⋆ The Breach (breachmedia.ca)
Government to issue notice to Google over ‘illegal’ response to question on Prime Minister by its AI (indianexpress.com)
Moscow bans more EU officials and politicians from Russia in response to sanctions (www.reuters.com)
Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday it had significantly expanded a list of European Union officials and politicians banned from entering Russia in response to the latest round of sanctions by the bloc....
U.K. police find $568 million of cocaine hidden in bananas, shattering drug-seizure record (www.cbsnews.com)
British authorities on Friday said they had found more than 12,500 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas, shattering the record for the biggest single seizure of hard drugs in the country....
Hungary and Sweden agree on defense deal ahead of final vote on Sweden's NATO accession (apnews.com)
The prime ministers of Hungary and Sweden concluded a defense industry agreement on Friday that will expand Budapest’s fleet of Swedish-built fighter jets, paving the way for Hungary’s likely ratification of Sweden’s long-delayed NATO bid....
Amazon says repays $1.9 mn to workers in Saudi over unlawful fees (www.france24.com)
Nova partygoer was misidentified as Hamas terrorist on Oct. 7, killed by Israeli forces (www.haaretz.com)
Ofek Atun escaped the outdoor Nova rave with his girlfriend. They survived the assault on the bomb shelter in which they took refuge, before fleeing to nearby Kibbutz Alumim. The kibbutz’s volunteer security squad mistook them for Hamas terrorists – and opened fire
India farmers' protest: X admits to taking down posts and accounts (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Panda diplomacy? China to send pandas to the San Diego Zoo for the first time in years (www.latimes.com)
China could soon be sending giant pandas to the U.S. for the first time in years, reigniting “panda diplomacy” between the two countries....
Why relations between DR Congo and Rwanda are deteriorating (www.semafor.com)
Tensions are escalating between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following the advance of M23 rebel forces in recent weeks towards the city of Goma in eastern DRC....
