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Zelenskiy secures $325m in new US aid even as Republican support wanes (www.theguardian.com)

Ukraine president delivers upbeat message on war progress during second White House visit since Russian invasion...

One Year On, Iranian Women Are Still Fighting (time.com)

The Islamic Republic of Iran was built upon bricks of patriarchal misogyny. One of the first acts of the revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, when he took power in 1979, was to reverse women’s rights in marriage, child custody and divorce. This included lowering the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 9, and girls...

'No Possibility' of Gaza Cease-Fire, Biden Says as 500+ Former Staffers Demand One (www.commondreams.org)

“As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now,” the staffers wrote.

Polish opposition leader Tusk declares win after exit poll shows ruling conservatives lose majority (apnews.com)

Australians vote No in referendum that promised change for First Nations people but couldn’t deliver (www.cnn.com)

With a two-letter word, Australians have struck down the first attempt at constitutional change in 24 years, major media outlets reported, a move experts say will inflict lasting damage on First Nations people and suspend any hopes of modernizing the nation’s founding document....

Gaza aid stuck as Egypt says Israel not cooperating - Reuters (www.reuters.com)

In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (english.elpais.com)

Researcher builds anti-Russia AI disinformation machine for $400 (arstechnica.com)

The logical end of the ‘Solution to bad speech is better speech’ has arrived in the age of state-sponsored social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back

Ukrainian Bombers Firing Western Cruise Missiles Have Knocked Out A Russian Submarine (www.forbes.com)

Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)

Scores killed in Israeli air strikes on families fleeing northern Gaza (www.middleeasteye.net)

Shani Louk, whose naked body was paraded by Hamas fighters, was also possibly robbed. Her credit card was used in Gaza, report says. (www.businessinsider.com)

A video showed Shani Louk’s naked body being paraded through Gaza on the back of a Hamas truck....

Putin has signed his name on the wrong piece of paper this time (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Get ready for the flood of kompromat...

Far-right minister: Nuking Gaza is an option, population should ‘go to Ireland or deserts’ (www.timesofisrael.com)

Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction (abcnews.go.com)

Blinken denounces civilian toll in Gaza, says ‘far too many Palestinians have been killed’ (www.cnn.com)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday gave one of his most direct condemnations of the civilian death toll in Gaza and said more needs to be done to “minimize harm to Palestinian civilians.”...

Ukraine defenders kill 480 Russian soldiers, hit 6 tanks and destroy 40 artillery systems in one day (www.pravda.com.ua)

Anti-corruption presidential candidate assassinated at campaign event in Ecuador's capital (apnews.com)

On average, 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day. (www.who.int)

As of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.

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