Four children among seven injured in Pakistan blast near Peshawar school (www.aljazeera.com)
Oil CEO says blaming the energy industry for the climate crisis ‘like blaming farmers for obesity’ (www.cnbc.com)
Maduro orders the 'immediate' exploitation of oil, gas and mines in Guyana's Essequibo (apnews.com)
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday directed the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own....
Swiss bank Banque Pictet admits hiding $5.6 billion of Americans' money from IRS (www.cnbc.com)
Tokyo taxi driver arrested for allegedly running into and killing pigeon (www3.nhk.or.jp)
Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says (www.nature.com)
Venezuela orders state companies to exploit oil and gas mines in Guyana territory (www.theguardian.com)
Nepal urges Russia not to recruit its citizens into army; says six killed (www.reuters.com)
Olive oil price skyrockets as Spanish drought bites (www.bbc.com)
Israeli Strikes Kill World-Renowned Researcher Sofyan Taya, Journalist Montaser Al-Sawaf (www.democracynow.org)
Among the dead is Sofyan Taya, president of the Islamic University of Gaza and a renowned researcher in physics and applied mathematics. Taya was killed along with his family in an Israeli airstrike Saturday in Jabaliya, just north of Gaza City....
Japan's frontier islanders decry lack of plan to aid Taiwanese fleeing attack (www.reuters.com)
Sudan crisis: Mass displacement and death (www.dw.com)
US announces visa bans after warning Israel on West Bank settler violence (www.aljazeera.com)
In Gaza, wounded children with no surviving family - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas (apnews.com)
'Huge risk' of Christmas attacks, warns EU (www.bbc.com)
There is a “huge risk of terrorist attacks in the European Union” over the coming holiday season, a senior EU official has said....
World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation (apnews.com)
The world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India, a team of scientists reported....
Israel,UAE to establish land bridge between ports: Israeli media (english.almayadeen.net)
Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Charged with Secretly Acting as an Agent of the Cuban Government (www.justice.gov)
Federal prosecutors have charged Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, Florida, a former U.S. Department of State employee who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 and ultimately as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, with committing multiple federal crimes by secretly acting for decades as an agent...
Australian EV sales have increased by 185% since 2022 (www.theguardian.com)
Israel arrests almost as many Palestinians as it has released during truce (www.aljazeera.com)
Global journalist group says Israel-Hamas conflict is a war beyond compare for media deaths (apnews.com)
Israel investigates claims investors made millions short-selling before Hamas attacks (www.theguardian.com)
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Revealed: Sellafield nuclear site [UK] has leak that could pose risk to public (www.theguardian.com)
Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from a huge silo of radioactive waste that could pose a risk to the public, the Guardian can reveal....
Moody’s cuts China credit outlook to negative as economy slows (www.theguardian.com)
