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Gold bars, cash-stuffed envelopes: New indictment of Sen. Menendez alleges vast corruption (apnews.com)

UK leader Rishi Sunak delays ban on new gas and diesel cars by 5 years (abcnews.go.com)

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Wednesday that he’s delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel cars that had been due to take effect in 2030, watering down climate goals that he said imposed “unacceptable costs” on ordinary people....

Turkey could part ways with EU if necessary, Erdogan says (www.reuters.com)

Man loads 12 kilos of dynamite into friend's cars, tells police it was a prank. (yle.fi)

A bomb squad from Seinäjoki removed the explosives from the vehicles in the Ostrobothnian village.

France to start Niger evacuations, ‘special’ Italian flight too (www.scmp.com)

France will begin evacuating its nationals from Niger on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, after a coup there last week toppled the country’s pro-Western leader....

Ukraine aims to sap Russia’s defenses, as U.S. urges a decisive breakthrough (archive.li)

Ukraine is making limited advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces but has yet to employ the kind of larger-scale operations that American officials believe could enable a breakthrough, officials and analysts say, deepening questions among some of Ukraine’s chief backers about whether Kyiv can move fast enough...

Tupac Shakur: Police search house over 1996 killing (www.bbc.co.uk)

A Hong Kong court upholds a ruling in favor of equal inheritance rights for same-sex couples (apnews.com)

A Hong Kong court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that favored the granting of equal inheritance rights to same-sex couples, in the latest victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community....

Three ISIS-supporting teens were arrested on suspicion of planning to attack the Israeli embassy in Paris (www.i24news.tv)

Japan gov't set to seek court order to dissolve Unification Church - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize (abcnews.go.com)

Mohammadi has been imprisoned 13 times and convicted five times....

A man in Sweden found guilty of storing his partner’s dead body in a freezer to cash in her pension (apnews.com)

A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a 57-year-old Norwegian man for fraud and falsifying records for putting his dead partner in a freezer and cashing in her pension. He was given a 3.5-year prison term....

Japan foreign minister and business leaders meet Ukrainian leader and vow support for reconstruction (apnews.com)

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday during his visit in Kyiv, promising Tokyo’s backing and agreeing to start negotiations on security cooperation between the two countries....

UN experts challenge Saudi Aramco over climate change (www.digitaljournal.com)

Taiwan will not back down in face of threats, William Lai says on US trip (www.aljazeera.com)

Taiwan’s vice president has declared that the self-governed island will not back down in the face of authoritarian threats after China pledged to take “forceful and resolute measures” following his stopover in the United States....

Niger's ousted president is said to be running low on food under house arrest 2 weeks after coup (apnews.com)

Denmark to seek legal means to prevent Quran burnings (www.aljazeera.com)

The Danish government will try to find legal means that will enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Quran in front of other countries’ embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has said....

Mexico will soon elect its first female president – but that landmark masks an uneven march toward women’s rights (theconversation.com)

Israel demands UN chief resign over Hamas attack comments (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Russian forces simulate nuclear strike as upper house rescinds ratification of test ban treaty (apnews.com)

Russia’s military conducted a simulated nuclear strike in a drill Wednesday overseen by President Vladimir Putin, hours after the upper house of parliament voted to rescind the country’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban....

'I went through hell:' Newly released Hamas hostage describes kidnapping from kibbutz and captivity (www.cnn.com)

Yocheved Lifshitz, one of two hostages recently freed by Hamas, has described her ordeal after being kidnapped by the Palestinian militant group in the brazen October 7 attack, saying she “went through hell.”...

Iran sentences 2 journalists for allegedly collaborating with US. Both covered Mahsa Amini’s death (apnews.com)

A court in Iran sentenced two journalists to up to seven years in prison for collaborating with the U.S. government and other charges, local reports said Sunday. Both women have been imprisoned for over a year following their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody in September 2022....

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