‘Children were carrying other injured children.’ Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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A hurricane gutted a city of one million, leaving no food or water and the dead to rot. (www.dailykos.com)
Gaza: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019, Save the Children International says (web.archive.org)
Children make up more than 40% of the 7,703 people killed in Gaza, and more than a third of all fatalities across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel. With a further 1,000 children reported missing in Gaza assumed buried under the rubble, the death toll is likely much higher....
Nations overwhelmingly vote for humanitarian truce at the UN, as Gazans say they have been ‘left in the dark’ (edition.cnn.com)
Spain's report on Catholic Church sex abuse estimates victims could number in hundreds of thousands (apnews.com)
Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in Israeli air raid (www.aljazeera.com)
Threats against rape victim, 10, lay bare Bolivia’s culture of sexual violence (www.theguardian.com)
The US supports Israel because of 'Jewish wealth', claims BBC presenter (www.msn.com)
It’s very difficult to characterize this as an isolated incident of anti-semitism by the BBC considering it’s far from their first incident, and considering further that the BBC has spend 20 years and well over £300,000 keeping the 20,000 word Balen Report into their perceived anti-Israel bias buried....
Guinea-Bissau’s capital has power cut off after government fails to pay electricity bill (www.theguardian.com)
a massive raid of Geraniums has begun on Ukraine (t.me)
Now, apparently, a massive raid of Geraniums has begun. The strike is expected both in Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kharkiv oblasts and, for example, in Kiev and Kiev oblast...
Council of Europe votes to recognize Holodomor as genocide (www.dw.com)
Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government (www.timesofisrael.com)
Trump’s niece denounces her ‘maniac’ uncle for ‘likely’ leaking Israeli intel to the Russians (www.the-independent.com)
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UN Security Council approves sending a Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight violent gangs (apnews.com)
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat (www.economist.com)
Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)
China is perpetrating human rights abuses on a massive and intensive scale in the Uyghur Region, researcher says (globallabourcolumn.org)
Abuses include arbitrary mass detention of an estimated 1 million to 1.8 million people, and a program to ‘cleanse’ ethnic groups of their ‘extremist’ thoughts through re-education and forced labour. This involves multiple forms of involuntary labour at workplaces across the region and even in other parts of China,...
EU's Borrell outlines 10-point peace plan to end Israel-Palestine conflict (www.euractiv.com)
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Iceland erupts again (1-14-24) (livefromiceland.is)
Iceland erupted again this morning at 7:57am Grindavik Time. The eruption was captured in real time. It again is a northwest linear fissure and is located west of Hagafell and a bit south of the prior eruption site in December....
‘She cries all the time’: Gaza children grapple with a mental health crisis (scroll.in)
The harsh winter, lack of adequate medical care, shortage of water and poor sanitation have exposed newborns and children in Gaza to infections in refugee camps....
US and UK launch strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
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Hamza, son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh, killed in Israeli attack in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
These are the most liveable cities in Europe
I'm really proud of my city for reaching the top. Next year there will be a fresh round of elections. Fingers crossed for the current mayor to get another term....
China warns ‘military fans’ they could face prison of up to seven years for posting photos online (edition.cnn.com)
New York court: Spanish company and the CIA found guilty of violating rights of Julian Assange’s visitors (english.elpais.com)
A court in New York has ruled that UC Global and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) violated the constitutional rights and privacy of U.S. citizens when they met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London....
