Myanmar Military Bows to Powerful Ethnic Army, Gives it More Towns Near China Border (www.irrawaddy.com)
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Air in central Male’ unusually polluted - The Edition (edition.mv)
Nationalism to be taught in schools in new academic year (psmnews.mv)
Maldives supports all efforts made by China to achieve national reunification (psmnews.mv)
Gov't initiates creation of company dedicated to transshipment business (avas.mv)
Revisiting Dresden and parallels to Gaza (www.mindingthecampus.org)
There is a longstanding myth from the Second World War that the Allies killed hundreds of thousands of civilians by the sudden and shameless aerial bombing of Dresden, a beautiful city remarkable for its history and culture. That the bombing was a shameful war crime against innocent civilian German non-combatants was told by...
Terror attack leaves wounded and dead in israel, Hamas claims responsibility (www.jpost.com)
Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea (apnews.com)
Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza....
US delegation praises Taiwan's democracy after pro-independence presidential candidate wins election (apnews.com)
Retired U.S. officials met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday and praised the island’s democratic processes under which it elected a new president and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force....
UK Home Office to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as terror group (www.bbc.co.uk)
Exclusive: Hamas, Islamic Jihad accused of using child soldiers in war against Israel (www.foxnews.com)
Hamas runs summer camps, in which the children learn to shoot weapons, attack from a tunnel, fight against tanks and kidnap soldiers. The camps are early stages for military training in Hamas and integration into the military wing. According to the United Nations website for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General...
Russia Threatens 'Imminent Retaliation' for Latvia’s Seizure of 'Moscow House' (www.themoscowtimes.com)
He Warned of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine. Then He Was Thrown in a Russian Jail and Tortured (www.wsj.com)
Now in exile in Boston and working for MIT, Andriy Tuz wonders if he will ever be able to go home again...
Missile fire strikes a ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, UK military says (abcnews.go.com)
A missile fired from Yemen struck a U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, private security firms told The Associated Press....
Boeing opens warehousing facility in Uttar Pradesh for parts supply (www.zeebiz.com)
Israel-Gaza live updates: 1 dead, 13 injured in car-ramming attacks near Tel Aviv (abcnews.go.com)
World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer (www.theguardian.com)
Northern Group Rejects Call For Suspension Of Security Chiefs - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
NUPRC Boss Seeks Collaboration With Police To Combat Oil Theft - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
FG Expresses Commitment To Reposition Minerals, Metals Sector For Development - News Agency Of Nigeria (nannews.ng)
Former chairman of state-owned bank China Everbright Group arrested over suspected corruption (apnews.com)
HONG KONG (AP) — The former chairman of state-owned Chinese bank China Everbright Group has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery, prosecutors said in a statement Monday, amid an intensified campaign against corruption.
With carmakers in a ‘state of shock’ over Tesla-beating BYD’s prices, EU investigators will visit China’s EV giants as part of an anti-subsidy probe (fortune.com)
China might have problems with its economy, but as an exporter of affordable electric vehicles, it’s on a tear. Now, investigators from the European Commission will visit Chinese EV makers as part of a probe into whether they have an unfair advantage thanks to government subsidies....
Hamas releases video of three Israeli hostages saying they'll learn 'fate' on Monday (www.standard.co.uk)
The undated 37-second video of Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, released on Sunday night showed them speaking presumably under duress, pleading with Israel’s government to end the war and get them home....
Zelenskyy heads to Davos to regain the spotlight for Ukraine (www.politico.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his stated quest to preserve his country, was once the darling of the global elite. Now he’s trying to avoid being just another bystander at their party....
Taiwan loses diplomatic ally to China days after presidential election (www.cnn.com)
Taiwan has lost another diplomatic ally to China just days after its presidential election in what Taipei said was both sudden and designed by Beijing to suppress the island’s “democratic achievements.”...
