In setback to Turkey’s Erdogan, opposition makes huge gains in local election (apnews.com)
IOF leave behind trail of terror at Gaza's al-Shifa hospital (english.almayadeen.net)
In a harrowing revelation, Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, disclosed that around 300 decomposing bodies with signs of torture were scattered in the vicinity of al-Shifa Medical Complex and its surrounding areas following the withdrawal of occupation forces after a two-week siege....
Netanyahu up against a wall as domestic pressure grows for a hostage deal (peoplesdispatch.org)
Israel Ends Siege on Al-Shifa Hospital After Killing More Than 400 Palestinians (www.democracynow.org)
Israel Created 'Kill Zones' in Gaza. Anyone Who Crosses Into Them Is Shot (www.haaretz.com)
Former Spokane Valley teacher gets no jail time for sex with student (www.spokesman.com)
A former Central Valley High school teacher’s “predatory actions” stripped a student of his dreams and significantly harmed him and his family after the teacher had sex with the 17-year-old, the student’s mother told a judge Thursday....
Why Russia’s glide bomb assault is changing the war in Ukraine (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Israel lodges proposal with UN for dismantling of Palestinian relief agency (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has given the UN a proposal to dismantle Unrwa, its relief agency in the Palestinian territories, and transfer its staff to a replacement agency to make large-scale food deliveries into Gaza, according to UN sources....
‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime? (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable
USA is pushing for a nuclear war with China (www.youtube.com)
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ExxonMobil accused of ‘greenwashing’ over carbon capture plan it failed to invest in (www.theguardian.com)
Doug Parr, chief scientist for Greenpeace UK, said carbon capture and storage was hailed by the oil industry as a “miraculous silver bullet”, but had failed to deliver. “Carbon capture and storage does not appear to be much closer to reducing carbon emissions, or being affordable, than it did 20 years ago,” he said....
Canada to make contraceptives free (cultmtl.com)
Contraceptives will soon become free for women in Canada as part of first phase of the National Pharmacare Program.
US approved sale of the Link 16 communications system to Taiwan. This is the final link of what the US military calls a “transnational coalition kill chain” against China. (geopoliticaleconomy.com)
China March 2024 Official Manufacturing PMI 50.8 (expected 50.1) Services 53.0 (exp 51.5) (www.forexlive.com)
China’s factory activity hits 1-year high, adding to signs economic recovery is picking up pace (www.scmp.com)
Official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rebounds to 50.8 in March, crossing into expansion territory after five months of contraction ⠀...
UK government lawyers say Israel is breaking international law, claims top Tory in leaked recording (www.theguardian.com)
From Iraq to Moscow Attacks: How ISIS and US Foreign Policy Always Feed Off Each Other (www.youtube.com)
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China’s new rules for finance pull the brakes on gravy train, bringing ‘greed is good’ era to a halt (www.scmp.com)
US universities secretly turned their back on Chinese professors under DOJ’s China Initiative (news.umich.edu)
Argentine Diplomats Expelled from Colombia Following Explosive Comments by Milei (peoplesdispatch.org)
Terror orgs sustained stinging blow in Shifa Hospital battle (www.jns.org)
In what appears to be most successful single operation of the war, the IDF has captured hundreds of terrorists and gathered valuable intel.
UN observers wounded in explosion while on patrol in southern Lebanon (www.aljazeera.com)
The targeting of peacekeepers is “unacceptable”, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), a peacekeeping force that helps monitor the Israel-Lebanon border, said in a statement on Saturday, adding that it was still investigating the origin of the blast. ⠀...
Putin is Forcing Indian Workers to Fight His War — Why is PM Modi Silent? (www.thequint.com)
How Netanyahu will Use the U.N. Ceasefire Resolution to Prolong Gaza’s Genocide (mondoweiss.net)
U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians....