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Colombia’s Right Is Trying to “Soft Coup” Gustavo Petro (jacobin.com)

Britain's Labour Party deals double blow to PM Sunak's Conservatives (www.reuters.com)

Britain’s opposition Labour Party won contests for two new lawmakers on Friday, dealing a crushing blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives before a national election later this year....

BRICS: Nigeria Plans To Sell Oil in Local Currency, Not US Dollar (watcher.guru)

France imposes sanctions on violent Israeli settlers (thecradle.co)

The ruling by Paris follows similar moves by London and Washington against West Bank settlers...

ICC chief prosecutor says probe underway into Israeli war crimes in Gaza (thecradle.co)

Tel Aviv withdrew its signature from the Rome Statute that founded the ICC and has maintained since 2022 that it does not recognize the court’s authority

Ireland and Spain seek ‘urgent review’ of Israel trade over EU deal’s human rights obligations (www.irishtimes.com)

IDF Sent in Handcuffed Prisoner to Evacuate Hospital, Then Killed Him When He Left (theintercept.com)

The young man, bound by zip-tie cuffs, delivered his Israeli captors’ message but was shot as he tried to walk out of the hospital gate....

"Centuria", one of the most powerful neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine, has an offshoot in Germany (www.jungewelt.de)

The leader of the “National Militia” of the “Azov” movement swore his comrades to the final “clash of civilizations” on August 1, 2020 at the edge of a forest near Kiev. “The age of absolute darkness lies before us,” predicted Igor “Tcherkas” Mikhailenko and demanded that the hundreds of mostly masked...

"Go back to Hong Kong": Anger breaks out over Canadian supervised consumption site (dailyhive.com)

Israel/OPT: New evidence of unlawful Israeli attacks in Rafah causing mass civilian casualties (www.amnesty.org)

At least 95 civilians – nearly half of them children killed in four unlawful strikes in Rafah...

Poland's PM says authorities in the previous government widely and illegally used Pegasus spyware (apnews.com)

India locks down capital as farmers mass over crop prices (www.scmp.com)

Police Use Tear Gas on Protesting Farmers at Punjab-Haryana Border (thewire.in)

Jalandhar: Chaos prevailed at the Punjab-Haryana Shambu border on Tuesday (February 13) afternoon, after the Haryana police fired tear gas at protesting farmers. The farmers are trying to reach the national capital for their ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest, and were breaking and removing barricades at the border when the police fired...