ChatGPT's mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft Copilot Is Coming: Why It’s Both Exciting and a Bit Sad (www.technewsworld.com)
Threads is rolling out an edit button, and it's not locked behind a paywall | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages (www.reuters.com)
What an empty offer. You have no value compared to the hostages. Hamas hates the hostages. They might hate this man too, but not in their blood the way they hate the people who have been killing them and their families. There’s no shot at this being accepted....
Danish dockworkers join Swedish strike action against Tesla (www.reuters.com)
Armenia joins Russia's list of 25 countries where foreigners will be able to open accounts in Russian banks (www.armbanks.am)
The news of Russian Western isolation
Two mothers killed each hour in Gaza conflict, UN says (news.un.org)
"We have seen evidenced once more that women and children are the first victims of conflict and that our duty to seek peace is a duty to them. We are failing them,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous said in a statement issued alongside the report....
Meet New Zealand's youngest MP whose parliamentary war cry went viral (www.sbs.com.au)
The 21-year-old New Zealand MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, her country’s youngest MP since 1853, honoured the Indigenous people of New Zealand by performing a traditional haka, or war cry, as part of her maiden speech in December. In the resurfaced video, the chant reverberates around the parliamentary chamber as other Māori...
The Great China Unwind: Foreign Investors Pull $29B Out Of Chinese Equity Markets In 2023 despite the People’s Bank's efforts at making China an attractive opportunity for foreign investment (markets.businessinsider.com)
Nearly 90% of the foreign investment inflows into Chinese equity markets in 2023 has been withdrawn as sentiment crumbles and investors losing confidence in major Chinese institutions....
Outraged family buries hostage killed by IDF, vows to 'shake the country' (www.usatoday.com)
China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No. (archive.ph)
A Louisiana teen traveled to the West Bank to learn about his roots. He was shot dead. (www.nbcnews.com)
40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far (www.insider.com)
Israel-Gaza live news: IDF resumes strikes as ceasefire with Hamas ends - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Israel resumed bombing the Gaza Strip, as the truce ended this morning after failed negotiations....
China's Xi warns top EU officials not to engage in 'confrontation' (www.reuters.com)
How international law applies to war, and why Hamas and Israel are both alleged to have broken it (english.elpais.com)
The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group’s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel’s relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza.
‘I can’t sing any more’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures (www.theguardian.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10619587...
UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless (www.reuters.com)
Unguided ‘dumb bombs’ used in almost half of Israeli strikes on Gaza (Gifted article - no pay wall) (wapo.st)
3 children and woman killed in Israeli strike on car in south Lebanon (www.naharnet.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/world@lemmy.world/t/600595...
EU data regulator bans personalised advetising on Facebook and Instagram (dig.watch)
Meta will introduce a pay or get tracked option.
Israel-Palestine, lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip (www.unicef.org)
The Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital was damaged again yesterday in an attack, including lifesaving equipment, according to reports. Another children’s hospital in the north has stopped operating due to damage and a lack of fuel, and a specialist maternity hospital is in desperate need of fuel to keep functioning....
Japan investigates foreign YouTubers accused of dodging train fares and stealing food (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas denies refusing fuel from Israel for Al-Shifa Hospital (www.reuters.com)
Category 5 Hurricane Otis makes landfall near Acapulco, Mexico (edition.cnn.com)
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