Azerbaijani president on track for 94 percent landslide in tainted election (www.politico.eu)
The vote comes just months after Ilham Aliyev declared victory in the decades-old Nagorno-Karabakh conflict....
Kenyan doomsday cult leader charged with murder of 191 children (www.reuters.com)
NAIROBI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that number buried in a forest....
Iran's Food Prices Rising Ahead Of Ramadan And Nowruz (www.iranintl.com)
The rise in food prices in Iran have been accelerating in recent weeks with two big factors driving food price inflation higher, Ramadan and Nowruz, set to begin in March....
‘Our last stop is Rafah’: trapped Palestinians await Israeli onslaught (www.theguardian.com)
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into the small southern Gaza border city of Rafah are being forced to contemplate being displaced once more as an Israeli offensive looms....
Will Cristiano Ronaldo Play in the Epic Al Hilal vs Al Nassr Clash? (theforkball.com)
Russia launches large-scale missile, drone attack against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Russia launched another large-scale attack against Ukrainian cities early in the morning on Feb. 7. Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv oblasts were targeted....
Blasts near Pakistan candidates' offices kill 26 on election eve (www.reuters.com)
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Two explosions near electoral candidates’ offices in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday, officials said, raising concerns over security on the eve of a general election....
Netanyahu dismisses Hamas ceasefire proposal, insists on total victory (www.reuters.com)
DOHA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday total victory in Gaza was within reach, rejecting the latest offer from Hamas for a ceasefire to ensure the return of hostages still held in the besieged enclave....
Russia's GDP boost from military spending belies wider economic woes (www.reuters.com)
Feb 7 (Reuters) - Russia’s economy rebounded sharply from a slump in 2022, annual data showed on Wednesday, but the growth relies heavily on state-funded arms and ammunition production and masks problems that are hampering an improvement in Russians’ living standards.
Shooting war: Gaza’s visual storytellers under ‘blatant’ attack (www.aljazeera.com)
Netanyahu meets Argentina’s new leader Milei, ‘a great friend’ of Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses (www.reuters.com)
How Imran Khan is campaigning from jail in Pakistan: AI and covert canvassing (www.reuters.com)
‘Symbol of polarisation’: EU scraps plans to halve use of pesticides (www.theguardian.com)
‘Symbol of polarisation’: EU scraps plans to halve use of pesticides...
Hamas proposes 135-day Gaza truce with complete Israeli withdrawal (www.reuters.com)
Hamas has proposed a ceasefire plan that would quiet the guns in Gaza for four-and-a-half months, during which all hostages would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip and an agreement would be reached on an end to the war....
Deadly blasts in Pakistan on eve of vote (www.dw.com)
At least 22 dead in 2 explosions
Executions and public floggings rise in Yemen under Houthis’ reign of terror (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Beijing refuses to admit its economy has broken down — and that's one reason officials are failing at fixing it, researchers say (www.businessinsider.com)
Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist (www.businessinsider.com)
Pod of orcas trapped by thick sea ice off northern Japan, drone footage shows (www.cbsnews.com)
Chile's former president Sebastian Pinera dies in helicopter crash (www.reuters.com)
The helicopter carrying Pinera, 74, and three others plunged into a lake in southern Chile. The former president was pronounced dead shortly after rescue personnel arrived at the scene. The other three passengers survived. Two sources told Reuters Pinera was the pilot, although officials have not confirmed that, nor the...
German firm BASF urged to quit Xinjiang over ‘gross abuses’ of Uyghurs (www.theguardian.com)
Tucker Carlson interviews Putin and asks Zelenskyy for conversation (www.pravda.com.ua)
Notorious former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has conducted an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin – the reason for his visit to Moscow – and said he has requested an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy....
Russia buys bananas from India after Ecuador military hardware spat (www.reuters.com)
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Russia has begun buying bananas from India and will boost such imports, its food safety watchdog said on Tuesday, after a spat with its biggest supplier Ecuador over the latter’s decision to swap Russian-made military hardware with the United States....
‘They Come in Waves’: Ukraine Goes on Defense Against a Relentless Foe (www.nytimes.com)
His unit decimated by Ukrainian fire, the last surviving soldier in a Russian assault took cover in a shallow crater while Ukrainians shouted at him to surrender. As he lifted two grenades in the air, a Ukrainian drone swept in from above and exploded....
