China's Xi offers to help Sri Lanka; buy more of its exports (www.reuters.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....
Atomic Arms Fears Grow After US Test, Russia Spurns Treaty (www.newsweek.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1216504...
Israel Closes Al Jazeera Facilities (www.telesurenglish.net)
The ban comes after Al Jazeera presented a well-documented report suggesting that Israel was responsible for the attack on Al-Ahli Hospital....
Amsterdam sex workers and residents march together against controversial erotic center (nltimes.nl)
Philips Kept Warnings About Dangerous CPAP Machines Secret While Profits Soared. (www.propublica.org)
Exhibit #482,683 on why capitalism and medicine are inevitably a horrible combination.
U.S. journalist detained in Russia after visiting for family emergency (www.cbc.ca)
First on CNN: US Navy warship near Yemen intercepts multiple missiles, US officials say (www.cnn.com)
Guinea-Bissau’s capital has power cut off after government fails to pay electricity bill (www.theguardian.com)
Spain’s leader mulls granting amnesty to thousands of Catalan separatists in order to stay in power (apnews.com)
Russian sources disappeared after Trump declassified ex-spy’s evidence, UK court told (www.theguardian.com)
Israel-Hamas war live updates: Biden visits Israel and suggests Gaza hospital explosion 'done by the other team' (news.yahoo.com)
President Biden suggested on Wednesday that Hamas was responsible for the Gaza hospital explosion that killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians....
Many frustrated Argentines pinning hopes on firebrand populist Javier Milei in presidential race (apnews.com)
YouTube is Autogenerating Videos for Songs Advocating the Expulsion of Muslims from India - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Romania seeking to postpone shutdown of lignite power plants (www.reuters.com) Romanian
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Polish opposition braces for coalition talks after ruling party loses majority (www.reuters.com) Romanian
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Greenpeace activists scale tower of Bulgarian coal-fired plant, demanding its closure (www.reuters.com) Romanian
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Israel Readying Emergency Regulations Allowing Arrest of Journalists for Factual Reporting (www.commondreams.org)
France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1165004...
Two Swedes shot dead in Brussels, Belgium raises terror alert to top level (www.reuters.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....
American leftists are celebrating Hamas? (www.youtube.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...