U.S. Finds Some Israeli Claims on U.N. Staff Likely, Others Not (www.wsj.com)
Exclusive: Israeli forces fired on food convoy in Gaza, UN documents and satellite analysis reveals (edition.cnn.com)
Colombia, Bolivia back Brazil’s Lula in Israel row over Gaza war comments (www.aljazeera.com)
Russia sets up observation points in Syria near Golan Heights (www.al-monitor.com)
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Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil fires back at ‘outrageous’ Israeli response to Lula comments (thecradle.co)
Israeli officials have accused Brazil’s president of antisemitism following his comparison of Israeli violence to that of the Nazis...
Leaked files from Chinese firm show vast international hacking effort (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ex-FBI source charged with Biden lies is tied to Russian intelligence, prosecutors say (www.npr.org)
Rebels linked to the Islamic State group kill at least two dozen civilians in eastern Congo (apnews.com)
Gaza: Israeli forces attack MSF shelter in Al-Mawasi (www.doctorswithoutborders.org)
Polish, Ukrainian governments should meet at border, Zelensky says (kyivindependent.com)
The Polish government, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, should come to the border with Ukraine to meet its Ukrainian counterparts and solve the ongoing blockade led by Polish farmers, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Feb. 21....
Report: North Korean missile fired by Russia against Ukraine contained US and European components (www.cnn.com)
A North Korean ballistic missile fired last month by the Russian military in Ukraine contained hundreds of components that trace back to companies in the US and Europe, according to a new report....
China condemns US veto of call for immediate ceasefire at UN (www.bbc.com)
Russian soldiers loot apartments damaged by shelling and abandoned by civilians in Sievierodonetsk. (streamable.com)
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Israeli soldiers are looting Gaza homes en masse (www.972mag.com)
Soldiers describe how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza war, with minimal pushback from commanders.
Mexico talks with Canada about high number of asylum requests (www.reuters.com)
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Syria says an Israeli strike that hit a Damascus residential area killed 2 people (abcnews.go.com)
SANA, the state news agency, quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the missiles were fired from the direction of Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and hit a building, killing two civilians and wounding another....
Kremlin rejects call for independent postmortem on opposition leader Alexei Navalny (abcnews.go.com)
Kremlin officials rejected on Tuesday a call for an independent postmortem examination on the remains of opposition leader Alexei Navalny....
China's childcare costs among highest in world, think tank says (www.reuters.com)
China is one of the world’s most expensive places to raise a child, relative to its GDP per capita, a prominent Chinese think tank said on Wednesday as it detailed the time and opportunity costs for women who opt to have children in the country....
Poland starts process of exiting EU’s "Article 7" rule-of-law procedure (notesfrompoland.com)
China’s coast guard has triggered ‘panic’ in Taiwan. That’s only part of Beijing’s plan (www.cnn.com)
King Xia, a Taiwanese tourist boat, was taking 23 passengers on a journey around Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Islands just miles from China’s southeastern coast when it was intercepted by two Chinese coast guard vessels....
Israel orders evacuations in Gaza City, as U.N. suspends food deliveries to the north because of looting. (www.nytimes.com)
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Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Six Russian Jets Downed In Three Days (www.twz.com)
Police called to investigate alleged LGBTQ propaganda at Russian ‘My Little Pony’ convention (www.nbcnews.com)
The Russian Supreme Court banned what the government called the LGBTQ “movement” in Russia in November, labeling it an extremist organization....