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Thailand's Cabinet approves a marriage equality bill to grant same-sex couples equal rights (apnews.com)

Thailand’s Cabinet has approved an amendment to its civil code to allow same-sex marriage, with an expectation for the draft to be proposed to Parliament next month.

Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions (www.aljazeera.com)

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Powerful Lords committee damns Bank of England over inflation forecasts (www.theguardian.com)

Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence

Israel, Hamas raise concerns over lists of people due to be freed, says official (www.reuters.com)

Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas have raised concerns over the lists of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners due to be released on Monday, the final day of an agreed four-day pause in the fighting, an official briefed on the matter said.

Trial Opens for Beheading of French Teacher Samuel Paty (www.wsj.com)

Six teenagers are accused of helping the man who killed Paty after he showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a class on free speech.

Israel-Lebanon border: The Irish troops watching Israel’s hidden conflict (www.bbc.com)

As one of the region's most dangerous borders hots up, peacekeepers have an ever more perilous job.

Home affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo sacked for breaching government code of conduct (www.theguardian.com)

Termination comes days after salary umpire quietly revokes requirement that secretaries receive payout if they’re sacked for breaching rules

‘Devastating’: the final hours at Gaza’s besieged Indonesian Hospital (www.aljazeera.com)

Older single women face growing risk of poverty in Japan (asia.nikkei.com)

Over 30% of those 65 or older fall below poverty line after death of spouses

Another 45 people released due to high court ruling on indefinite immigration detention (www.theguardian.com)

Australian Border Force alleges four people previously released have breached their visa conditions

Delhi pollution: Indian Supreme Court's 40-year quest to clean foul air (www.bbc.com)

The Supreme Court has a mixed record in cleaning up pollution in India's capital.

‘One minute to say goodbye’ to a father, son, husband: Hussein Abu Jamei (www.aljazeera.com)

Huge pro-Palestinian London march calls for permanent ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)

Amazon hit by strikes, protests across Europe during Black Friday (www.reuters.com)

Why You Should Be Able to Sell Your Kidney (www.wsj.com)

Archived link: archive.is/…/human-kidney-organs-selling-ae22a73d

Israelis brag about stealing from houses that they bombarded and ethnically cleansed their owners. (nitter.net)

The genocide is literally being streamed live, and people in the west continue to look the other way while western regimes keep fuelling it.

France Has Opted to Invest €11.7 billion in Dassault Rafael Because the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Would Not Be Operational Until 2040-45 (www.geopolitize.com)

When Western European powers were working on the Eurofighter Typhoon, France was working on its own aircraft, and their involvement in building aircraft since the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War gave them the capability to build the 4.5 generation Dassault Rafale....

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