Europe working with Arab states on alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan – Financial Times

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  1. Europe working with Arab states on alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan  Financial Times
  2. Arab States Wake Up to Fact That Trump Means What He Says on Gaza  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Trump's Palestinian Plan Has Triggered a New, United and Angry Arab Front  Haaretz
  4. How much longer will Arab leaders let Trump and Netanyahu run amok?  Middle East Eye
  5. Insight: Saudi Arabia spearheads Arab scramble for alternative to Trump's Gaza plan  Reuters
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Palestinian booksellers decry detention by Israeli police over ‘public disorder’

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Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna remain under house arrest until Sunday, despite lack of evidence against them

Two Jerusalem booksellers detained this week on charges their books were causing “public disorder” have said the experience reflected an intensifying campaign by the Israeli government against Palestinian culture and free speech.

Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed, whose family has owned the Educational Bookshop for more than 40 years, spent two days in detention and will remain under house arrest until Sunday, despite the absence of evidence to support the vague accusations against them.

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260 foreigners rescued from virtual slavery in Myanmar’s online scam centers are being repatriated – The Associated Press

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  1. 260 foreigners rescued from virtual slavery in Myanmar's online scam centers are being repatriated  The Associated Press
  2. 261 trafficking victims rescued from Myanmar scam center  Voice of America
  3. Chinese-led scam gangs leave Payathonzu  Bangkok Post
  4. Thailand Promises Further Measures Against Scam Operations in Myanmar  The Diplomat
  5. About 260 human trafficking victims rescued from telecom scam operations in Myanmar  ABC News
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Whale swallows kayaker in Chile then spits him out – DW (English)

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  1. Whale swallows kayaker in Chile then spits him out  DW (English)
  2. A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera  The Associated Press
  3. Watch: Humpback whale swallows kayaker in viral video  cleveland.com
  4. Watch: Kayaker swallowed by whale  Yahoo
  5. 'I thought I was dead': Kayaker gets swallowed by humpback whale in dramatic moment caught on camera  Fox News
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Sweet romance: Japanese boys start buying into gift giving on Valentine’s Day

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Women are traditionally expected to buy chocolates for male colleagues on Valentine’s Day but teenage boys are shunning the one-sided custom

It has been several years since Japanese women first signalled their contempt for the long tradition of showering male colleagues with chocolates on Valentine’s Day. Now the country’s young people are slaying another sacred cow associated with Friday’s orgy of commercialised romance: one-sided gift giving.

Traditionally, women are expected to buy gift-wrapped chocolates for the men in their working lives, usually senior colleagues and others to whom they feel indebted – a tradition called giri choco, literally “obligation chocolates”.

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Trump tells CNN reporter ‘nobody watches’ her network because it has ‘no credibility’ – Yahoo

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  1. Trump tells CNN reporter 'nobody watches' her network because it has 'no credibility'  Yahoo
  2. Trump brutally slams CNN's Kaitlan Collins, says ‘nobody watches’ her network  Hindustan Times
  3. Donald Trump schools Kaitlan Collins and reminds viewers why Americans don't trust the media anymore  New York Post
  4. Trump slaps down CNN darling Kaitlan Collins in Oval Office showdown  Daily Mail
  5. Trump Blasts CNN, Biden Again During Press Conference  iHeartRadio
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Ukraine war briefing: Stray Russian drones ‘hit Moldova and Romania’ – The Guardian

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  1. Ukraine war briefing: Stray Russian drones ‘hit Moldova and Romania’  The Guardian
  2. Moldovans to Russia: Say, Are These Drone Parts Yours, Comrade?  National Review
  3. Two Russian drones crash in Moldova after violating its airspace, authorities say  Euronews
  4. Moldova's Sandu says two Russian drones exploded on Moldovan soil  Reuters
  5. Moldova Summons Russian Ambassador After Drones Explode on Its Territory  The Moscow Times
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2,000-year-old Roman basilica found in London office basement – The Washington Post

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  1. 2,000-year-old Roman basilica found in London office basement  The Washington Post
  2. Archaeologists unearth ruins of nearly 2,000-year-old Roman basilica in London  Fox News
  3. London’s first Roman basilica found under office block  The Guardian
  4. Archaeologists Unearth London’s First Roman Basilica in ‘Amazing’ Discovery  artnet News
  5. Archaeologists unearth the remains of a Roman basilica on the site of a new London skyscraper  The Associated Press
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Australia news live: ‘we have got your back’, Albanese tells steel workers amid speculation over Trump tariffs

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Dutton calls for more details on interaction between Australia and China in South China Sea

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has also weighed in on that interaction between Australian and Chinese aircraft in the South China Sea on Tuesday.

And then Richard Marles did a press conference to provide details. So we haven’t had a briefing on it as yet, but on what the deputy prime minister says it is deeply concerning because it puts that safety at risk, the safety of our personnel. And that is not something that Australia can tolerate.

[It] needs to be transparent in terms of what’s happened, and I just don’t think we’ve seen all of the detail yet from Richard Marles.

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Hundreds of Sydney trains cancelled as negotiation between NSW government and rail workers come to a halt

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Unions chief says ‘no one can predict the level of disruption that this is going to cause’

Sydney commuters have been warned to avoid non-urgent rail travel on Friday amid delays and hundreds of service cancellations, as a pay negotiations between the train unions and state government grinds to a halt.

The state transport minister, John Graham, said the network was in the midst of a major disruption. “We’ve had more than 350 services cancelled this morning and that is having a big impact across the network,” he told Sydney radio 2GB on Friday.

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