President Biden holds country supplying weapons responsible for casualties inflicted by those weapons (www.whitehouse.gov)
‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Japan’s former PM, 83-year-old Aso, piles insults on female foreign minister (www.theguardian.com)
Taro Aso, vice-president of ruling LDP, said Yoko Kamikawa ‘not that good looking’, got her name wrong, used ageist jibe and mixed up her place in history
UN top court rejects most of Ukraine’s ‘terror financing’ case against Russia (www.france24.com)
Korean President Yoon sits idly by as Japan tears down memorial to Korean forced laborers (english.hani.co.kr)
Death and donations: Did the volunteer group handling the October 7 dead exploit its role? (www.haaretz.com)
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China's Xi receives Taliban administration's 1st ambassadors to Beijing (www.aa.com.tr)
‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show (www.theguardian.com)
Palestinian says Israeli soldiers used him as human shield in West Bank (www.reuters.com)
Why Defense Contractors Are Saying No to Their Biggest Customer: The Pentagon (www.wsj.com)
Iran has told the US via intermediaries that if it strikes Iranian soil directly, Tehran will itself hit back at American assets in the Middle East, drawing the two sides into a direct conflict. (www.theguardian.com)
China takes firm action on invisible overtime (www.globaltimes.cn)
ICJ rejects most of Ukraine’s ‘terrorism’ case against Russia (www.aljazeera.com)
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt confirmed they are joining BRICS (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
South Africa says Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates confirm they are joining BRICS (www.reuters.com)
Use of Coal-Fired Power Plants Increases amid Transition to Green Energy (hungarytoday.hu)
It is necessary to find cost-effective ways to replace coal with renewables or to be able to use coal and lignite in a climate-friendly way (clean coal technologies, methanol economy, carbon capture, storage, and recycling) to make decarbonization not only an alternative for rich countries, but a truly global option.
China is ‘world’s sole manufacturing superpower’, with 35% of global output (geopoliticaleconomy.com)
How the enemy drone that killed 3 US soldiers in Jordan evaded detection (www.politico.com)
Burkina Faso thanks Russia for 'priceless gift' of wheat (www.bbc.com)
S. Korea suffers record tax revenue shortfall in 2023 amid economic slowdown (m-en.yna.co.kr)
Three years after coup, Myanmar junta chief under unprecedented pressure (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk can't keep Tesla's landmark pay package worth more than $55 billion (apnews.com)
Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart (apnews.com)
UN Warns of Possible Aid System Collapse in Gaza if Funding for UNRWA is Withheld by Israel (newshint.in)
Bi-2 band members freed from Thai jail, en rout to Israel (www.ynetnews.com)
Eventually all members of the band, even the non Israeli ones will be transferred to Israel instead of deported to Russia....
