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Bank of America-led "Debt-For-Nature" swap for Gabon moves ahead with $500 Million bond (www.bloomberg.com)

Gabon’s debt-for-nature swap is edging closer to reality as the African nation tests international markets with a $500 million bond deal....

Hangzhou Zoo: Our sun bears are real, not humans in disguise (www.bbc.com)

Hangzhou Zoo denies its sun bears are people, after a video of one standing like a human went viral.

China Removes Outspoken Foreign Minister Qin Gang; Replaces Him with Predecessor Wang Yi (www.voanews.com)

The move comes amid a foreign backlash against China's increasingly aggressive foreign policy, of which Qin was a chief proponent

Yuan exceeds dollar in China's bilateral trade for first time (asia.nikkei.com)

US expected to beat China’s export controls on gallium needed for radars (www.scmp.com)

Police confirm search warrant in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing (www.cbc.ca)

Nato appears to shelve plans to open Japan liaison office in Tokyo (www.theguardian.com)

USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group Enters Red Sea Amidst Israel-Hamas Conflict (bnn.network)

Israeli Attacks on Journalists Stifle Reporting on Gaza Horrors (fair.org)

‘Hard to breathe’: Myanmar communities forced to live among world’s trash (www.frontiermyanmar.net)

Britain has ‘run out of arms to send to Ukraine’. We’ve given away all we can afford and other countries should step in, says senior military chief. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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'Huge' fire breaks out at police facility in Egypt (www.bbc.com)

Videos are being shared across social media of the blaze which local media says has injured more than 20 people.

Death and disappearance of British volunteers in Ukraine exposes rivalry in foreign legion. Comrades fear two men may have been killed not by Russians but by fellow foreign soldiers. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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China touts economic gains for Taiwan in co-development plan with Fujian (www.reuters.com)

Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)

Historically, the disaster restoration industry was made up of smaller, independent businesses handling local projects. But after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, private equity firms saw an opportunity to consolidate the market by buying up smaller companies, and some estimates value the US restoration industry as high as $200bn.

Amid anticorruption purge, Ukraine set to appoint Muslim defence chief (www.aljazeera.com)

Rustem Umerov is from the Muslim Tatar community in Crimea that largely resisted Russia’s 2014 annexation.

Demolitions as Tools of 'Collective Punishment': Examining Instances in India and Israel (thewire.in)

When a house is demolished due to the illegal activities of one of its inhabitants, all the other residents bear the repercussions of those actions. This practice is referred to as 'collective punishment'.

Is conservative Islam gaining ground in secular Kosovo? (www.dw.com)

There have been a number of attacks on journalists in Kosovo in recent years. Now, conservative Muslims in the southern Kosovar city of Prizren are agitating against a news portal and a journalist.

More than 2,400 killed in Haiti gang violence since January 1, says UN (www.france24.com)

More than 2,400 people have been killed in Haiti since the start of 2023 amid rampant gang violence, including hundreds killed in lynchings by vigilante mobs, the UN said Friday....

Russia hikes interest rates after rouble slides (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Niger Accuses France of Destabilization. Peoples’ Movements Urge Against Imperialist Intervention (peoplesdispatch.org)

Cutting the Ties Between Higher Education and the Military (wagingnonviolence.org)

NATO announces $1B fund to back startups supporting ‘safety, freedom and human empowerment’ (techcrunch.com)

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