Bangladesh raises monthly minimum wage for garment workers to $113 following weeks of protests (apnews.com)
More than 500 people 'being held hostage' in South Africa gold mine (news.sky.com)
Canada removes 41 diplomats from India as dispute over Sikh activist’s assassination deepens (www.cnn.com)
Canada has withdrawn 41 diplomats and their families from India after New Delhi threatened to revoke their diplomatic immunity amid a deepening dispute over the assassination of a Sikh activist....
Mozambique burns 45,000 hens as bird flu spreads from South Africa (www.bbc.co.uk)
By Jose Tembe & Gloria Aradi BBC News, Maputo & Nairobi...
Americans owe Uncle Sam $688 billion in unpaid taxes on their 2021 returns, according to the IRS. It’s the largest shortfall ever recorded. (creditnews.com)
Israel festival revelers shot at point-blank range, video shows (www.cnn.com)
Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings, new car dashcam video verified by CNN reveals....
Archaeologists unearth the largest cemetery ever discovered in Gaza and find rare lead sarcophogi (apnews.com)
Palestinian workers in the Gaza Strip have found dozens of ancient graves, including two sarcophagi made of lead, in a Roman-era cemetery — a site dating back some 2,000 years that archaeologists describe as the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza....
Gold bars, cash-stuffed envelopes: New indictment of Sen. Menendez alleges vast corruption (apnews.com)
UK leader Rishi Sunak delays ban on new gas and diesel cars by 5 years (abcnews.go.com)
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Wednesday that he’s delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel cars that had been due to take effect in 2030, watering down climate goals that he said imposed “unacceptable costs” on ordinary people....
Turkey could part ways with EU if necessary, Erdogan says (www.reuters.com)
Man loads 12 kilos of dynamite into friend's cars, tells police it was a prank. (yle.fi)
A bomb squad from Seinäjoki removed the explosives from the vehicles in the Ostrobothnian village.
France to start Niger evacuations, ‘special’ Italian flight too (www.scmp.com)
France will begin evacuating its nationals from Niger on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, after a coup there last week toppled the country’s pro-Western leader....
Ukraine aims to sap Russia’s defenses, as U.S. urges a decisive breakthrough (archive.li)
Ukraine is making limited advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces but has yet to employ the kind of larger-scale operations that American officials believe could enable a breakthrough, officials and analysts say, deepening questions among some of Ukraine’s chief backers about whether Kyiv can move fast enough...
Tupac Shakur: Police search house over 1996 killing (www.bbc.co.uk)
A Hong Kong court upholds a ruling in favor of equal inheritance rights for same-sex couples (apnews.com)
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that favored the granting of equal inheritance rights to same-sex couples, in the latest victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community....
Three ISIS-supporting teens were arrested on suspicion of planning to attack the Israeli embassy in Paris (www.i24news.tv)
Japan gov't set to seek court order to dissolve Unification Church - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize (abcnews.go.com)
Mohammadi has been imprisoned 13 times and convicted five times....
A man in Sweden found guilty of storing his partner’s dead body in a freezer to cash in her pension (apnews.com)
A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a 57-year-old Norwegian man for fraud and falsifying records for putting his dead partner in a freezer and cashing in her pension. He was given a 3.5-year prison term....
Japan foreign minister and business leaders meet Ukrainian leader and vow support for reconstruction (apnews.com)
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday during his visit in Kyiv, promising Tokyo’s backing and agreeing to start negotiations on security cooperation between the two countries....
UN experts challenge Saudi Aramco over climate change (www.digitaljournal.com)
Taiwan will not back down in face of threats, William Lai says on US trip (www.aljazeera.com)
Taiwan’s vice president has declared that the self-governed island will not back down in the face of authoritarian threats after China pledged to take “forceful and resolute measures” following his stopover in the United States....
Niger's ousted president is said to be running low on food under house arrest 2 weeks after coup (apnews.com)
Denmark to seek legal means to prevent Quran burnings (www.aljazeera.com)
The Danish government will try to find legal means that will enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Quran in front of other countries’ embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has said....
Robots say they have no plans to steal jobs or rebel against humans (www.theguardian.com)
