U.S. Lifts Broad Sanctions Against Venezuela for Six Months (www.wsj.com)
The shift comes after the Venezuelan regime and the opposition reach a deal that could lead to presidential elections in 2024.
South Africans denounce ‘Apartheid Israel’, demand expulsion of Israeli ambassador (peoplesdispatch.org)
Debian Resumes Merged /usr Transition By Repealing Moratorium (www.phoronix.com)
Debian 12 had aimed to have a merged “/usr” file-system layout similar to other Linux distributions, but The Debian Technical Committee earlier this year decided to impose a merged-/usr file movement moratorium. But now with Debian 12 having been out for a few months, that moratorium has been repealed....
France to identify foreigners arrested for radicalism for possible expulsion (www.euronews.com)
Wine-GE-Proton8-18 Released (github.com)
fixed issue with wine reporting invalid ‘–version’, resulting in winetricks dotnet* not installing...
Amid fears Iran-backed Hezbollah might attack Israel from the north, Antony Blinken urges China to use its influence in the Middle East (fortune.com)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called his Chinese counterpart and urged Beijing to use its influence in the Middle East to prevent other state or non-state actors from attacking Israel and widening its war with Hamas, the State Department said....
Israeli airstrike kills Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon, wounds 6 others. (www.cnn.com)
OpenZFS 2.2 Released with Linux 6.5 Support, Block Cloning, and More (9to5linux.com)
‘Other fronts’ may open with Israel over Gaza attacks: Iran FM (www.aljazeera.com)
Niger military rulers order UN official out within 72 hours (www.africanews.com)
US and allies warn militant group Hezbollah against escalating Hamas-Israel conflict (www.cnn.com)
The US and its allies are warning the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah against escalating the conflict in Israel as the US prepositions military assets to deter a potential widening of the war, multiple US officials and people briefed on the discussions tell CNN....
How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing (www.nature.com)
A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.
EU freezes aid payments for Palestinians after Hamas attack on Israel (news.yahoo.com)
The European Commission said on Monday it was putting all its development aid to Palestinians, worth 691 million euros ($729 million), under review and immediately suspending all payments following Hamas’ attack on Israel....
The latest maps of the world's eighth continent (www.bbc.com)
Biden may seek $100 billion aid package for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Iran praises Hamas as attack reverberates around Middle East (www.politico.com)
High-level Iranian officials were also reported to have met with members of Hamas leadership in Lebanon last month....
Philippines puts 42 airports on alert after bomb warnings (www.bangkokpost.com)
Gates Foundation Wants Help to Create Digital ID and Payments System (reclaimthenet.org)
UK passport database to be used to identify suspects from CCTV footage...
The Toilet Paper (archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/1746485...
Researchers Link DragonEgg Android Spyware to LightSpy iOS Surveillanceware (thehackernews.com)
Temperatures in Spain shatter records as October kicks off (www.reuters.com)
Dutch regulator rejects Apple’s objections to fines (www.reuters.com)
Russia has proved resilient to western sanctions, says Oleg Deripaska | Financial Times (www.ft.com)
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