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Non-stop Rocket Barrage on Israel: Woman killed, terrorist infiltration from Gaza, strike on Tel Aviv (www.haaretz.com)

Commander of Russian Air Defence Forces which protect Moscow arrested for bribery (www.yahoo.com)

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch, space agency says (www.reuters.com)

‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests (www.theguardian.com)

India, Manipur genocide : 18-year-old gang-raped in Manipur, India after women vigilantes hand her over to armed men (www.thehindu.com)

FIR says Meira Paibis women’s group handed her over to four armed men; after a brutal assault, gangrape, murder threats, she arrived at Bishnupur police station but did not trust Meitei police to take her home

South Korea fights off unprecedented bedbug infestation (abcnews.go.com)

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean authorities have been desperately detecting and exterminating bedbugs for the last two weeks, as a major disinfection of transportation and public facilities is on the way.

Nobel peace laureate Bialiatski has been put in solitary confinement in Belarus, his wife says (apnews.com)

Hamas vows 'full force' after Israel steps up Gaza ground operations (www.reuters.com)

About 300 protesters pleading for a cease-fire were arrested on Capitol Hill, organizers say. (web.archive.org)

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SAS troops ‘executed Afghan males of fighting age’, inquiry hears (www.theguardian.com)

World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days (www.bbc.com)

The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found....

US officials say Travis King, who crossed into North Korea, is in American custody (apnews.com)

Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened? (apnews.com)

For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the rest of the world that half the economy ran on exports....

China Evergrande shares sink 25% after wealth unit staff detained (www.reuters.com)

Ukraine attacks Russian air defences in western Crimea - military (www.reuters.com)

Ukraine struck Russian air defence systems near the town of Yevpatoriya in the west of occupied Crimea in a long-range overnight attack on Thursday, the Ukrainian military said....

Powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Morocco, with five believed dead (www.aljazeera.com)

China developer's (Soho China) profit falls 93% in fresh blow to property market (asia.nikkei.com)

Israeli rabbis work around the clock -- even on the Sabbath -- to count the dead from Hamas attack (apnews.com)

New Zealand shifts right as voters punish ruling party (www.cnn.com)

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has conceded his Labour party lost Saturday’s election, as voters punished the government and took the country rightwards nine months after his predecessor Jacinda Ardern suddenly resigned....

A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail (www.theguardian.com)

Ukraine media say Kyiv saboteurs were behind drone attacks on air bases deep inside Russia (apnews.com)

Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv’s military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at air bases deep inside Russia, Ukraine media claimed Tuesday....

Seized Russian weapons strengthen Ukraine's fight (www.dw.com)

“Russia is competing with Western countries to supply weapons to Ukraine,” joked Colonel Oleksandr Saruba, of the center within the Ukrainian armed forces that investigates the weapons captured during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine since February 2022....

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