At least 39 Thai migrant workers were killed in the Hamas attacks on Israel (www.npr.org)
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"Did you kill a Palestinian?": Anti-West boycott seeps Mideast (www.dawn.com)
“We do not want our money to contribute to more fighting,” says 14-year-old Jana Abdullah.
Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri (www.reuters.com)
Survivors recount their life-and-death struggle at Be’eri, a main target in the Hamas assault on Oct. 7 that has set off a major war.
US and Israel Weigh Peacekeepers for the Gaza Strip After Hamas (www.bloomberg.com)
Rapist who dragged woman to forested area in Kranji gets jail, caning for brutal attack (www.straitstimes.com)
Relatives of Texans, Jewish and Muslim, remain trapped in Gaza (www.texastribune.org)
Two Texans — a Jewish man, a Muslim woman — want more support from the federal government to bring their loved ones home. Their families are stuck in a war zone, along with hundreds of other Americans.
In photos: "Nightmare scenario" Hurricane Otis mars Acapulco, Mexico (www.axios.com)
Hurricane Otis made landfall directly on Acapulco, Mexico, as a violent Category 5 storm on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people and causing extensive damage to the beach resort city.
Going All-In for Israel May Make Biden Complicit in Genocide (theintercept.com)
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Hurricane Norma makes landfall near Mexico's Los Cabos and Tammy hits tiny Barbuda in the Caribbean (news.yahoo.com)
Hurricane Norma came ashore near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday afternoon, and hours later Hurricane Tammy made landfall on the Caribbean island of Barbuda....
Myanmar's military is accused of bombing a displacement camp in a northern state, killing about 30 (apnews.com)
Italian financial corps crack down on Chinese money laundering (decode39.com)
Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants following deadly Ankara blast (www.cnn.com)
Turkey’s military carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Sunday, just hours after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in the capital in the latest attack of its nearly four-decade long insurgency....
Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India (www.washingtonpost.com)
India’s BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have perfected using social media to spread of inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders.
Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians will leave for Armenia, adviser to leader says (www.reuters.com)
The 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will leave for Armenia as they do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan and fear ethnic cleansing, the leadership of the breakaway region told Reuters on Sunday....
UN warns disease outbreak in Libya's flooded east could spark 'second crisis' (abcnews.go.com)
Officials warned Monday that a disease outbreak in Libya’s northeast, where floods have killed thousands, could create “a second devastating crisis” as adults and children fell ill from contaminated water....
How Russia drafts migrants to fight in Ukraine (www.dw.com)
Russia needs soldiers, and its authorities are increasingly turning to migrants to fill the military’s ranks. Guest workers from Central Asian countries are often rounded up on the street, taken to recruitment offices and pressured into signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry. This process can involve threats and...
Romania: Consternation at state's response to Russian drone – DW – 09/08/2023 (www.dw.com)
Russia has been bombarding Ukraine's Danube River ports close to the Romanian border since late July. Why did Romania first deny and later confirm that a Russian drone had landed on its territory earlier this week?...
UN 'concerned' by the continued harassment and detention of human rights defenders in Bangladesh, including Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus and leaders of prominent rights organisation Odhikar. (www.aljazeera.com)
British arms maker BAE Systems sets up in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Institute for the Study of War: Russian Campaign Assessment August 24, 2023 (www.understandingwar.org)
I’ve seen a lot of people wondering how Prigozhin could make such a terrible mistake. I think that ISW has got the right of it in their analysis from today....
Modi says India's economy will be among the top three in the world within five years (apnews.com)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s economy will be among the top three in the world within five years, as he marked 76 years of independence from British rule on Tuesday.
Iran's oil shipments to China triple in 3 years despite sanctions (www.al-monitor.com)
In March, China brokered the agreement that resumed diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. China has been Iran’s top trading partner for 10 straight years.
Italy's Meloni says Biden never raised issue of Belt and Road membership (www.reuters.com)
ROME, July 23 (Reuters) - Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who will visit the White House on Thursday, said that U.S. President Joe Biden had never challenged her on the issue of Rome being part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)....
In a refugee camp in Kenya, food shortages left kids hungry even before Russia ended grain deal (apnews.com)
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — Abdikadir Omar was trapped in an extremist-controlled town in Somalia for years until May, when he slipped out to make a 12-day journey with his wife and seven children to neighboring Kenya in search of food and safety....
Bangladeshi garment workers fighting for pay face increasing violence and threats. (www.theguardian.com)
Masuma Akhtar arrived at the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expecting a normal shift. Instead, she was met with brute violence. “The moment I walked through the factory gates, a group of armed men began beating me with wooden sticks,” says Akhtar. “I fell down on to the...
