Seychelles and Israel sign visa-free accord, islanders now have one of strongest passports in the world - Seychelles News Agency (m.seychellesnewsagency.com)
‘He disappeared for a year’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures (theguardian.com)
Since 2014, millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been locked up in China and subjected to torture and forced labour. Some of those freed talk about trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Kazakhstan
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4 Ukrainian citizens were among those captured when a helicopter went down in Somalia this week (apnews.com)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign affairs ministry says that four of its citizens were among those captured by al-Qaida-linked extremists in Somalia after their helicopter that was contracted by the United Nations made an emergency landing in territory controlled by the militants earlier this week....
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French foreign minister visits Kyiv and pledges solidarity as Russia launches attacks (apnews.com)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — France’s new foreign minister arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Saturday to meet with his counterpart in a sign of support for Ukraine as Russia’s full-scale invasion nears its second anniversary....
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Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria after 9 soldiers were killed (apnews.com)
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. This comes a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq killed nine Turkish soldiers....
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Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.
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67% of Arab world: October 7 was 'legitimate resistance' against Israel (www.jpost.com)
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Huge fire rips through Russian online retailer's warehouse in St. Petersburg (www.reuters.com)
Three armed Palestinians trying to break into settlement killed (www.reuters.com)
Blackout in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital as fuel runs out, babies at high risk (www.aljazeera.com)
“We’re trying to work with what we have. But we will have to stop working completely, because we don’t have any electricity,” one doctor at the hospital told Al Jazeera. “There’s a complete outage so how can we treat the patients?”...
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Taiwan ruling party’s Lai wins presidential election (www.msn.com)
William Lai Ching-te from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won Taiwan’s presidential election.
Ruling-party candidate emerges victorious in Taiwan's presidential election (apnews.com)
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Austrian heiress giving away $36.6M because the government won't tax her inheritance (www.cbc.ca)
Marlene Engelhorn says that when she inherited her grandmother’s multimillion-dollar fortune in 2022, she “wanted to be happy about it.”...
‘This used to be a calm place’: killing continues in Ecuador’s week of chaos (www.theguardian.com)
As cartels and crime syndicates flock to Ecuador for cocaine trade profits, its murder rate has soared, with a TV station assault the crescendo of a week of bloodshed...
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A refugee bear from a bombed-out Ukraine zoo finds a new home in Scotland (apnews.com)
An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine — a rare Asiatic black bear — arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon....
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US explores options to seize Russian assets and funnel them to Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
Top Biden administration officials have spent the last year quietly trying to figure out how to divert billions of dollars in frozen Russian money to cash-starved Ukraine....
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US military strikes another Houthi-controlled site after warning ships to avoid parts of Red Sea (www.kcrg.com)
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U.S. carries out new strike in Yemen after Biden vows to keep pressure on (www.reuters.com)
U.S. suspends military aid to Ukraine - White House (news.google.com)
Russian election candidate calls Ukraine war a ‘big mistake’ by Putin (www.nbcnews.com)
Boris Nadezhdin told the wives of Russia’s mobilized soldiers the war was “a big mistake by Putin, of course, and the consequences will be very grave.”...
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Germany Rejects UN 'Genocide' Charge Against Israel (www.barrons.com)
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Cape Verde becomes fourth African country to eliminate malaria (www.theguardian.com)
With no recorded cases since 2017, the archipelago has had a long journey to become free of the disease, which killed 608,000 people globally in 2022...
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Chinese PLA-linked vessels map the Indian Ocean for submarine warfare (www.washingtonpost.com)
Beijing’s growing research activities in international waters are designed to expand undersea military operations, analysts say...
At The Hague, Israel Mounted a Defense Based in an Alternate Reality (theintercept.com)
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