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China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No. (archive.ph)

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Nearly 90% of the foreign investment inflows into Chinese equity markets in 2023 has been withdrawn as sentiment crumbles and investors losing confidence in major Chinese institutions....

‘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...

Outraged family buries hostage killed by IDF, vows to 'shake the country' (www.usatoday.com)

Unguided ‘dumb bombs’ used in almost half of Israeli strikes on Gaza (Gifted article - no pay wall) (wapo.st)

China's Xi warns top EU officials not to engage in 'confrontation' (www.reuters.com)

Danish dockworkers join Swedish strike action against Tesla (www.reuters.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....

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)

Hamas denies refusing fuel from Israel for Al-Shifa Hospital (www.reuters.com)

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....

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...

UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless (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.

EU data regulator bans personalised advetising on Facebook and Instagram (dig.watch)

Meta will introduce a pay or get tracked option.

Japan investigates foreign YouTubers accused of dodging train fares and stealing food (www.theguardian.com)

Category 5 Hurricane Otis makes landfall near Acapulco, Mexico (edition.cnn.com)

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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

Many frustrated Argentines pinning hopes on firebrand populist Javier Milei in presidential race (apnews.com)

After COVID killed off a flu strain, annual flu shots are in for a redesign (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/22390...

What it was like inside the last living room caucus (ghostarchive.org)

ghostarchive.org/…/15iowa-caucuses-living-room-01…Sharon McNutt spent much of Caucus Day on Monday baking fresh cherry-chip cookies, cleaning bathroom sinks and taking her coffee pot out of storage....

Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza (nitter.unixfox.eu)

cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/7496184...

Iran, 33-year old women received 74 lashes for “not wearing the hijab" (www.niacouncil.org)

Roya Heshmati likened her punishment to a medieval torture chamber. She revealed her quiet act of rebellion during the actual lashing, where she whispered a song symbolic of women’s struggle for freedom....

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