Israel’s Brutality Is Increasing—and So Is Its Denialism (www.thenation.com)
A human rights monitor documented the sniping of at least 13 children in and around Shifa Hospital, all between the ages of 4 and 16.
Torah scroll of solidarity between Israel and Ukraine completed (www.ynetnews.com)
Families pay tribute to British aid worker ‘heroes’ killed in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza (www.972mag.com)
Luis Rubiales arrested in corruption investigation (www.bbc.com)
Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF), was arrested on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation....
Catholic bishops meet with Mexico’s cartel bosses to plead for peace (www.washingtonpost.com)
Citing a “profound crisis of violence and social disintegration,” Mexico’s Catholic bishops are staking out an aggressive new role in national security, going so far as to sit down with feuding drug traffickers in one blood-soaked state to hammer out a truce....
The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. has found bird flu in chickens at a Texas plant on Tuesday (www.nbcnews.com)
Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation (www.theguardian.com)
How to ‘Trump proof’ the transatlantic relationship? (www.politico.eu)
In this medieval city just east of Brussels, American and European officials have one question on their minds: What to do about Donald Trump?...
‘Headaches, organ damage and even death’: how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk (www.theguardian.com)
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit (www.washingtonpost.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14006087...
New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza (mondoweiss.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14006090...
The ‘NYTimes’ is ignoring Israel’s crackdown in the West Bank (mondoweiss.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13941336...
Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected. (www.science.org)
Taiwan earthquake updates: 9 dead, hundreds injured in 7.4 magnitude quake (abcnews.go.com)
The Palestinian doctors found dead in the ruins of al-Shifa hospital (www.middleeasteye.net)
The bodies of two of Gaza’s most respected doctors, a mother and son, have been found among the dead after the Israeli army’s withdrawal from al-Shifa hospital, following its two-week siege of the medical complex....
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13828038...
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13828038...
U.S. Intelligence Warning to Moscow Named Specific Target of Attack (www.nytimes.com)
The U.S. warning to Russia ahead of a terrorist attack near Moscow was highly specific: Crocus City Hall was a potential target of the Islamic State, according to U.S. officials....
Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to plug a shortfall in troop numbers fighting Russia (apnews.com)
Ukraine on Wednesday lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion....
Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in 25 years kills at least nine (www.cnn.com)
Rescuers in Taiwan scrambled to free dozens of people trapped in highway tunnels after the island was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years Wednesday, killing at least nine and injuring more than 800 others....
Ukraine packed a Cessna-style plane with explosives, added remote controls and kamikaze’d it into a Russian drone factory 600 miles away (www.forbes.com)
In a sharp escalation of its drone campaign targeting strategic industries deep inside Russia, Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style light planes with remote controls, packed them with explosives and flown at least one of them more than 600 miles to strike a Russian factory in Yelabuga, 550 miles east of Moscow....
Japan FM announces to deliver $35m aid to Gaza as UNRWA funding resumes (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Japanese Foreign Minister, Yoko Kamikawa, announced on Tuesday the resumption of funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), with $35 million to be released, Reuters reports....
China's ageing population: A demographic crisis is unfolding for Xi (www.bbc.com)
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