Namibia criticises German support for Israel over ICJ genocide case - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Hamas releases video of three Israeli hostages saying they'll learn 'fate' on Monday (www.standard.co.uk)
The undated 37-second video of Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, released on Sunday night showed them speaking presumably under duress, pleading with Israel’s government to end the war and get them home....
Yemeni gov't blames Houthis for "dragging country into confrontation" (english.news.cn)
White House says ‘it’s the right time’ for Israel to scale back Gaza war as fighting hits 100 days (apnews.com)
The White House said Sunday that “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli leaders again vowed to press ahead with their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group....
London: 200,000 Protesters March Against Israel's War on Gaza (unicornriot.ninja)
Egypt's Suez Canal revenues down 40% due to Houthi attacks (www.reuters.com)
Dollar revenues from Egypt’s Suez Canal are down 40% from the beginning of the year compared to 2023, canal authority head Osama Rabie said on Thursday, after attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthis caused major shippers to divert away from the route....
Scientists crack mystery of how MS gene spread (www.bbc.com)
Why are diseases more common in some parts of Europe than others, and why are northern Europeans taller than their southern counterparts?...
Exclusive: Hamas, Islamic Jihad accused of using child soldiers in war against Israel (www.foxnews.com)
Hamas runs summer camps, in which the children learn to shoot weapons, attack from a tunnel, fight against tanks and kidnap soldiers. The camps are early stages for military training in Hamas and integration into the military wing. According to the United Nations website for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General...
With carmakers in a ‘state of shock’ over Tesla-beating BYD’s prices, EU investigators will visit China’s EV giants as part of an anti-subsidy probe (fortune.com)
China might have problems with its economy, but as an exporter of affordable electric vehicles, it’s on a tear. Now, investigators from the European Commission will visit Chinese EV makers as part of a probe into whether they have an unfair advantage thanks to government subsidies....
Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea (apnews.com)
Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza....
Explosions reported near US Consulate in Iraq; Iran claims responsibility (abcnews.go.com)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed it was targeting “the headquarters of spies.”...
Tearful Russian billionaire who spent $2 billion on art tells jurors Sotheby's cheated him (abcnews.go.com)
Houthi rebels fire cruise missile at American destroyer in Red Sea (www.euronews.com)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a US fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said....
Israel-Gaza live updates: 1 dead, 13 injured in car-ramming attacks near Tel Aviv (abcnews.go.com)
Ukrainian Sources: We Just Shot Down Two Of Russia’s Best Command Planes (www.forbes.com)
Ukrainian air-defenses reportedly shot down two of the Russian air force’s rarest and most valuable command aircraft on Sunday: a Beriev A-50 radar early-warning plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post....
Terror attack leaves wounded and dead in israel, Hamas claims responsibility (www.jpost.com)
He Warned of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine. Then He Was Thrown in a Russian Jail and Tortured (www.wsj.com)
Now in exile in Boston and working for MIT, Andriy Tuz wonders if he will ever be able to go home again...
Tories facing 1997-style general election wipeout (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Pope encourages Marxists and Christians to fight corruption, uphold rule-of-law - Vatican News (www.vaticannews.va)
People who are poor, unemployed, homeless, immigrants, or exploited, as well as all those killed by past dictatorships and turned into rubbish by the “throwaway culture” of the present: the level of a society’s civilisation is measured by the way they are treated, the Pope said....
North Korea says it tested solid-fuel missile tipped with hypersonic weapon (apnews.com)
North Korea on Monday said it flight-tested a new solid-fuel intermediate-range missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead as it pursues more powerful, harder-to-detect weapons designed to strike remote U.S. targets in the region....
Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria with the aim of reducing need for imports (apnews.com)
The $19 billion facility, which has a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day, has started to produce diesel and aviation fuel, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery company reported Saturday. As Nigeria’s first privately owned oil refinery, the project “is a game-changer for our country,” it added.
Boeing opens warehousing facility in Uttar Pradesh for parts supply (www.zeebiz.com)
Arakan Army resistance force says it has taken control of a strategic township in western Myanmar (apnews.com)
Zelenskyy heads to Davos to regain the spotlight for Ukraine (www.politico.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his stated quest to preserve his country, was once the darling of the global elite. Now he’s trying to avoid being just another bystander at their party....