Education Ministry Withdraws Funding of Jewish Event Over Arab Israeli Host (www.haaretz.com)
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China population decline accelerates as birthrate hits record low (www.theguardian.com)
Chaotic wave of attacks, reprisals in Middle East fuel worries of a broader regional war (apnews.com)
Italy's regulations on charities keep migrant rescue ships from the Mediterranean (apnews.com)
Qatar and France send medicine for hostages in Gaza as war rages on and regional tensions spike (apnews.com)
Deal reached on aid to Gaza, including to hostages - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Tax our wealth, super-rich tell politicians at Davos (www.theguardian.com)
Pakistan says Iran violated airspace, killing two children (www.reuters.com)
Iran is attacking civilians, accusations of Israeli 'spy HQ' are baseless, Kurdish prime minister says (www.reuters.com)
Israel not only prevents entry of aid into Gaza, but also kills those who try to receive it (euromedmonitor.org)
Euro-Med Monitor has documented shocking testimonies of the Israeli army killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians on Thursday 11 January 2024 on Al-Rashid Street, in the west of Gaza City, who were trying to receive humanitarian aid. The human rights organization demanded that the involved United Nations agencies be held...
Dominican Republic to launch pilot program offering a 4-day workweek to public and private workers (apnews.com)
In Gaza, Israel has turned water into a weapon of mass destruction (www.972mag.com)
Denying water to Gaza has been a key tactic of the war from the very beginning, with Israel shutting off the pipes supplying the enclave on October 7. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that Israel was “imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are...
Palestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza while deal emerges to deliver medicine to hostages (apnews.com)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday in a show of force more than 100 days into Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against the tiny coastal enclave.
Putin says past U.S. elections were rigged (www.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, said on Tuesday that past U.S. elections had been rigged by postal voting....
Two planes collide in second Japan airport crash in weeks (www.yahoo.com)
Two planes collided on a runway in Japan, in the second airport crash in the country within weeks....
US attacks Houthi anti-ship missiles, vessel hit in Red Sea (www.reuters.com)
15-year-old killed, 9-year-old wounded in USA shooting (www.google.com)
$9 million stolen by corrupt Nigerian officials (jerseyeveningpost.com)
Germans take to streets after AfD meeting on mass deportation plan (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of people across Germany have taken to the streets for a fourth consecutive day to voice their opposition to the far-right populist AfD party after politicians from the party met neo-Nazis to discuss a “master plan” for the mass deportation of asylum seekers and German citizens of foreign origin....
Shell 'pauses Red Sea shipments indefinitely due to safety risk' (news.sky.com)
There are growing fears that an extended period of disruption to supplies of imported goods will raise costs for customers in the weeks and months ahead....
Shell to sell big piece of its Nigeria oil business, but activists want pollution cleaned up first (apnews.com)
Shell said Tuesday it agreed to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta to a consortium of companies in a deal worth $2.4 billion, the latest move by the energy company to limit its exposure in the West African nation amid long-running complaints of environmental pollution caused by the oil industry....
Putin says Ukraine's statehood at risk if pattern of war continues (www.reuters.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s statehood could suffer an “irreparable blow” if the pattern of the war continued, and Russia would never be forced to abandon the gains it had made. Putin made his televised comments a day after Switzerland agreed to host a global summit at the request of...