Philippines' Marcos, China's Xi to discuss tensions, way forward in South China Sea (www.reuters.com)
Indian rescuers still 40 metres away from workers trapped in collapsed tunnel (www.reuters.com)
Philippines rejects China's call for prior notice on resupply missions in disputed waters (www.reuters.com)
France calls West Bank Israeli settler violence 'policy of terror' (www.reuters.com)
US, Philippines sign landmark nuclear deal (www.reuters.com)
Dining with US firms at APEC, Xi says China is ready to be a partner (www.reuters.com)
With mapping robots and blast gel, Israel wages war on Hamas tunnels (www.reuters.com)
Vatican confirms ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons (www.reuters.com)
US House Speaker Johnson's 'honeymoon' ends as hardline Republicans rebel (www.reuters.com)
At APEC, Biden touts workers' rights, stable Chinese relations (www.reuters.com)
Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says (www.reuters.com)
TikTok to prohibit videos promoting bin Laden's 'Letter to America' (www.reuters.com)
China, Japan reaffirm strategic relations in rare leader talks (www.reuters.com)
US will not share intel on Hamas and Al Shifa hospital -White House (www.reuters.com)
Biden calls Xi a dictator after carefully planned summit (www.reuters.com)
Hamas tunnel found at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, says Israel; UN aid halted (www.reuters.com)
Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus -Yale research (www.reuters.com)
More than 2,400 children from Ukraine aged between six and 17 years old have been taken to 13 facilities across Belarus since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, research published by Yale University said on Thursday....
Happy Children's Day 2023 (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Amid blowback over Clarence Thomas travel, Supreme Court says it will honor a code of conduct for the first time (www.usatoday.com)
It is the first time in its 234-year history the Supreme Court will honor a code of conduct....
More than 180,000 people across France march against soaring antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
More than 180,000 people across France, including 100,000 in Paris, have marched peacefully to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli Media 'Watchdog' Says It Was Just 'Raising Questions' With Insinuations About Photographers, Hamas (www.haaretz.com)
The executive director of an Israeli media watchdog organization, HonestReporting, says it was simply “raising questions” by publicly wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel — and sent some of the first images of its aftermath to a watching world — had been tipped...
On average, 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day. (www.who.int)
As of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.
South American countries recall ambassadors and cut ties with Israel over war with Hamas (www.theguardian.com)
Bolivia’s leftwing government cuts diplomatic ties with Israel, alleging crimes and human rights abuses in Gaza, as Chile and Colombia recall ambassadors...
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.