Vietnam says homosexuality ‘not a disease’ in win for gay rights (www.aljazeera.com)
China's ageing population threatens switch to new economic growth model, state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences sees the pension system running out of money by 2035 (www.reuters.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/11191188...
Germans protest nationwide after far-right meeting on deportation plan (www.reuters.com)
Taiwan’s vote is a crack in the new axis of autocracy - (Opinion) (www.afr.com)
Unpaywalled link: web.archive.org/…/taiwan-s-vote-is-a-crack-in-the…...
Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
"For the first time that we can remember, the explicit calls to commit atrocious crimes, as stated, against millions of civilians have turned into a legitimate and regular part of Israeli discourse,” they write. “Today, calls of these types are an everyday matter in Israel.”...
The Nigerian teens clueless on computers but aiming to reboot (www.bbc.com)
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force (www.theguardian.com)
‘Why are they forgetting about us?’: Sudan watches allies turn from war to aid Ukraine and Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli settler violence brings destruction and fear to West Bank as war rages (www.bbc.com)
Major climate tipping points could be triggered within a decade (www.newscientist.com)
A new McCarthyism is being enforced around the Israel-Hamas conflict (inews.co.uk)
Archive link: archive.is/0q4t3
All 41 workers rescued from collapsed Indian tunnel after 17 days (www.aljazeera.com)
South Korean true crime fanatic murdered stranger ‘out of curiosity’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Military lawyer David McBride pleads guilty to unlawfully sharing secret allegations of Australian war crimes (www.abc.net.au)
Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns (www.theguardian.com)
Which islands will become uninhabitable due to climate change first? (www.livescience.com)
BP and Spotify bought carbon credits at risk of link to forced Uyghur labour in China (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5618686...
The online hate and conspiracies driving a new wave of antisemitism | Ben Judah (www.independent.co.uk)
There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah
Over 1,500 Israelis Call for ICC action to Stop the Genocide in Gaza - Feddit (feddit.de)
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Dozens of cancer patients could die as Gaza’s main cancer treatment hospital forced to stop most activities over fuel shortage, UN says (news.un.org)
The UN human rights office OHCHR noted that given the high number of civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza “and the scale of the destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, there are “serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.”
Why Is Pakistan Expelling 1.7 Million Afghans? (foreignpolicy.com)
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated (www.memri.org)
Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”
Marathoners in Beijing go maskless, unfazed by smog (www.reuters.com)
Gaza, babies in incubators at risk as hospitals run out of fuel, UN says (news.un.org)
Two in three hospitals in the enclave are “partially functional” as the aid is a “drop in the ocean”, says Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, UN health agency (WHO) representative in the occupied Palestinian territory....