Hostage families protest outside Netanyahu's home, ramping up pressure for a truce-for-hostages deal (abcnews.go.com)
European orbiter may have discovered huge water deposits on Mars (www.euronews.com)
The French government will temporarily ban almost all commercial fishing in the Bay of Biscay to protect dolphins, much to the dismay of the industry (www.france24.com)
Navy officer sentenced to 20 years for spying for Russia (www.ansa.it)
German lawmakers pass bill seeking faster deportations (www.dw.com)
Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study (www.theguardian.com)
Ancient sword with possible Viking origins and a mysterious inscription found in Polish river (www.cbsnews.com)
Research is underway to learn more about the origins of medieval sword found earlier this month at the bottom of a Polish river, which some experts believe may have belonged to the Vikings....
'Silent majority' marches against Germany's far-right AfD (news.yahoo.com)
Revelations that members of Germany’s far-right AfD discussed mass deportation plans have pushed tens of thousands of people to protest and sparked debate on whether the anti-immigrant party should be banned....
Panama Hits Activists With Terrorism Charges Over Successful Anti-Mining Protests. (truthout.org)
Several Investigative Journalists Under Pressure in Ukraine. (text.hrw.org)
S. Korea experiences the worst case of overdue wages (www.donga.com)
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the amount of overdue wages in the U.S. last year was 156.15 million dollars, and the number of victims was 135,067 last year. Meanwhile, South Korea would reach 1.7 trillion won in amount and over 300,000 victims last year. The country’s economic size based on GDP is 1/15 of the...
Tragedy Strikes as Dormitory Blaze Claims Lives of 13 Students in China (businesswisehub.com)
Gangs in Haiti have attacked a community for 4 days and residents fear the violence could spread (apnews.com)
‘We cannot operate, we have no drugs’: Gaza’s indirect casualties mount as health service decimated (www.theguardian.com)
Health services in Gaza are “decimated”, with medical staff exhausted after three months of war forced to extract shrapnel without adequate pain relief, conduct amputations without anaesthetics and watch children die of cancers because of a lack of facilities and medicine....
Ministers admit losing track of 5,600 asylum claimants - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Eisenkot: Key Israeli war leader challenges Netanyahu over Gaza strategy (www.bbc.com)
A key member of Israel’s war cabinet has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not telling the truth about the military goals in Gaza....
$900 fine for a delivery rider’s death: Do couriers have any rights? (www.aljazeera.com)
Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead - UN report (www.reuters.com)
Putin Orders Hunt for Property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union (www.bloomberg.com)
Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union....
Ukraine to continue operations in Crimea to degrade Russian logistics – Budanov (news.yahoo.com)
Ukraine will continue to conduct special operations in occupied Crimea to sabotage Russian logistics, Ukrainian Defense Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told the Financial Times on Jan. 19....
Israeli drones attack hospital in southern Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent says (www.reuters.com)
EU’s top diplomat accuses Israel of funding Hamas (www.politico.eu)
Women and children are main victims of Gaza war, with 16,000 killed, UN says (abcnews.go.com)
North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama (www.bbc.com)
'Banker of the Climate Crisis': Lawsuit Targets ING in the Netherlands. (www.commondreams.org)
