Sydney police plan to use ‘extraordinary’ powers to search pro-Palestinian protesters and demand ID (www.theguardian.com)
Israel at war: an explosive moment in the Middle East (archive.ph)
BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police (www.bbc.co.uk)
Scores killed in Israeli air strikes on families fleeing northern Gaza (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel-Palestine war: Bodies piling up in the streets as Gaza onslaught escalates (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza 'De-Escalation' Talk (www.huffpost.com)
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”...
Sri Lanka crisis: Colombo reaches debt deal with China (www.bbc.com)
Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza ‘death sentence’ for patients, WHO says (www.aljazeera.com)
Military briefing: the shape of a Gaza invasion (archive.ph)
Police raid 50-room brothel in Taipei's Wanhua, 44 arrested | Taiwan News | 2023-10-13 12:00:00 (www.taiwannews.com.tw)
Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
Get out of Gaza City, Israel's military tells Palestinians (www.cbc.ca)
US defense secretary is in Israel to meet with its leaders and see America’s security assistance (apnews.com)
S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Israel on Friday for meetings with senior government leaders and to see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group....
Argentina central bank hikes key rate to 133% as inflation worsens (www.reuters.com)
Hamas tells Gaza City residents to stay put after Israel orders evacuation (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas has called on Palestinians to stay in their homes after Israel issued sweeping evacuation orders for almost half of Gaza’s more than 2.3 million people ahead of an expected ground offensive....
Ferdinand Marcos Jr drops Philippines holiday marking toppling of father (www.theguardian.com)
Israel Gaza: UK to deploy Royal Navy ships to eastern Mediterranean to 'bolster security' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours (www.axios.com)
The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the IDF notified the UN just before midnight local time that Palestinians living north of Wadi Gaza should evacuate to the southern part of the Gaza Strip in the next 24 hours, according to UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric and another source with direct knowledge....
Council of Europe votes to recognize Holodomor as genocide (www.dw.com)
Former Stasi officer charged with 1974 Berlin Wall murder (www.bbc.com)
‘Most cherished friend’: UK unearths messages from (Barclays') Staley to Epstein (archive.ph)
The U.N. says the Israeli military told it that all of northern Gaza has 24 hours to move south. (www.nytimes.com)
Israel’s military has informed the United Nations that the entire population of northern Gaza should relocate to the southern half of the territory within 24 hours, the U.N. spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said late on Thursday night, adding that such a movement — involving over one million people — would lead to...
Philip Morris lobbying to stop WHO ‘attack’ on vapes and similar products (www.theguardian.com)
French police are probing possible poisoning of Russian journalist who denounced Ukraine war (www.pbs.org)
French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning Thursday of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV....
EU Announces Formal Investigation Into X Just Hours After Linda Yaccarino Details Response To Israel-Hamas Conflict Disinformation Surge (deadline.com)
The European Commission has sent a formal notice to Elon Musk’s X requesting information on the social media platform’s provisions to deal with illegal content, disinformation and abusive material posted on the site in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict....
