‘I have no idea how I’ll survive’: Myanmar villagers who fled airstrikes face food shortage (www.theguardian.com)
El Niño-worsened flooding has Somalia in a state of emergency. Residents of one town are desperate (apnews.com)
‘Alive with rats’: north Queensland town of Karumba overrun by plague of swimming rodents (www.theguardian.com)
Secret Intelligence Documents Show Global Reach of India’s Death Squads (theintercept.com)
Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets (www.theguardian.com)
‘There are no crops to celebrate’: climate crisis wipes out a way of life in Taiwan’s mountains (www.theguardian.com)
European Parliament scraps pesticides bill in latest setback for green legislation (www.reuters.com)
Far-right party set to win most seats in Dutch elections, exit polls show (www.theguardian.com)
Unions are the strongest in decades. Nearly a million Americans got double-digit raises as a result (www.cnn.com)
Nearly 900,000 Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this week will have unions – and the double-digit pay increases they won – to thank....
China is expanding its crackdown on mosques to regions outside Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says (apnews.com)
Israel, Hamas agree on four-day truce, hostage release and aid into Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Note that this isn’t ALL the hostages – just 50 in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. archive.org link...
Spotify to phase out service in Uruguay following new copyright bill requiring ‘fair and equitable remuneration’ (www.theguardian.com)
CEO of Chinese online game streaming firm arrested amid executive crackdown: "no reason has been given for arrest," company says (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5922505...
Gaza crisis: aid agencies warn of ‘tragic, avoidable surge’ in child deaths as 160 children are already being killed every day (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5906446...
Myanmar hands over to China thousands of telecom fraud suspects (www.reuters.com)
Polish border protests lead to LPG shortage, price hikes in Ukraine - analyst (www.reuters.com)
World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 (www.theguardian.com)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels seize cargo ship in Red Sea and call Israeli vessels ‘legitimate targets’ (www.theguardian.com)
Activist calls for a stronger international response to ongoing human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, ahead of the anniversary of a deadly fire in the provincial capital Urumqi - Feddit (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5900301...
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)
Dutch party leaders clash in TV debate as election nears (www.theguardian.com)
Albania opposition starts fire in parliament during anti-government protest (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes (www.theguardian.com)
Anti-Mobilization Protests By Russian Soldiers' Wives and Mothers Quashed (libranet.de)
themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/20/…
One-Year Anniversary: Human Rights Watch Urges China to Allow Commemorations of "White Paper" Protests, Calls for Release of People detained for Peacefully Protesting Against the Government (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5854842...
