Chinese land ownership in US down 2 per cent in 2022 amid heightened national security concerns (www.scmp.com)
Hongkongers gather at Victoria Harbour as mainland China’s home-grown C919 passenger jet soars above city (www.scmp.com)
China’s private firms stuck between a rock and a hard place with Beijing’s support measures ‘mere lip service’ (www.scmp.com)
Is China understating its own export success? (www.economist.com)
Child molestation plea nets US soldier 3 years in a South Korea prison (www.stripes.com)
Israeli military says its troops shot and killed three hostages by mistake (www.theguardian.com)
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France says it is working to get AFP journalists out of Gaza (www.straitstimes.com)
Israeli military opens probe after videos show Israeli forces killing 2 Palestinians at close range (apnews.com)
Ukraine Is so Desperate for Troops It's Taking Passports, Tried to Recruit Mentally Disabled Man (www.businessinsider.com)
Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust (www.newyorker.com)
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today....
Putin wants a US president who is ‘more constructive,’ Kremlin says (www.politico.eu)
Vladimir Putin would prefer an American leader who understands the ‘importance of dialogue,’ Kremlin spokesman says....
Ukraine’s European allies are letting it down (www.cnn.com)
Before the war between Israel and Hamas took over virtually all of the international community’s attention, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the most pressing crisis diplomats were seeking to solve....
Maersk to pause all container ship traffic through the Red Sea (www.cnbc.com)
Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk will pause all container shipments through the Red Sea until further notice, a spokesperson for the company told Reuters on Friday....
Israeli military says its actions mistakenly killed 3 Israeli hostages (www.cbc.ca)
Finland to reseal entire border with Russia as temporary reopening sees new influx in migrants | Euronews (www.euronews.com)
Shipping giants suspend all journeys through Red Sea following attacks on vessels (news.sky.com)
EU can’t keep COP28 promises under austerity 2.0 (www.etuc.org)
Videos show Israeli soldiers in Gaza burning food, vandalizing a shop and ransacking private homes | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
One killed, another 26 injured as Ukrainian MP detonates a grenade at a meeting in Ukraine (en.apa.az)
Woman charged with stealing truck filled with 10,000 Krispy Kreme doughnuts after 2 weeks on the run in Australia (www.cbsnews.com)
Radioactivity detected in Fukushima worker's nose (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Shocking moment Ukrainian deputy Serhiy Batryn blows up meeting with grenades in ‘act of terrorism’: officials (nypost.com)
Arrest warrant issued for ex-Samsung Elec official over chip tech leak -Yonhap (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Widespread hunger in the Gaza Strip, and families are becoming increasingly desperate in their search for food - occupied Palestinian territory (reliefweb.int)
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan and Al-Haq warn of a real and unprecedented famine in the Gaza Strip, which began in northern Gaza and Gaza City as a result of the 69-day Israeli military offensive coupled with a tight siege preventing food and water supplies from reaching most people in Gaza.
