Australian police offer to help Laos investigation into suspected methanol deaths as Melbourne teenagers mourned

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Prime minister pays tribute to Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles while families vow to turn tragedy into ‘mission for change’

Australian federal police have offered to help the Laos investigation into multiple deaths linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning event.

Melburnians Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, both 19, were among six foreign tourists to die.

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Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival’

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Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwide

Palestinian artists in Gaza plan to stage a “biennale” exhibition as an act of defiance against Israel’s military onslaught and to focus attention on the plight of the territory’s 2.3 million people under more than 13 months of bombardment.

About 50 artists from Gaza will exhibit their work within the besieged coastal strip, and are looking for art galleries to host exhibitions overseas. But in order to hold their work to the eyes of the rest of the world, the artists are facing a unique challenge: how to get their art across Israeli siege lines.

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Turkish woman convicted under anti-terror laws for sharing Guardian article

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Peri Pamir given suspended sentence after posting article about UK woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria

A Turkish woman who shared a Guardian article on social media about a British woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria has described how she was twice convicted of “sharing terrorist propaganda” in an Istanbul court.

“I am basically just an ordinary citizen, there is no reason why I should attract any special attention. This is the disturbing part,” said Peri Pamir, a 71-year-old retired researcher.

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Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate becomes country’s new president – NPR

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  1. Uruguay's leftist opposition candidate becomes country's new president  NPR
  2. Uruguay’s Center Left Reclaims Power in Presidential Election  The New York Times
  3. Who is Yamandu Orsi, Uruguay’s next president?  Al Jazeera English
  4. Is Uruguay too stable for its own good?  The Economist
  5. Uruguay ousts conservative government, elects leftist opposition candidate as turnout hits 90 percent  Fox News
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Hezbollah fires barrage of rockets into Israel after strikes on Beirut

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Heavy attack launched in wake of deadly strikes on Beirut, and comes as talks for a ceasefire and hostage release deal have stalled

Hezbollah has fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, wounding seven people in one of the militant group’s heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with ceasefire efforts to halt the all-out war.

Some of the rockets fired on Sunday reached the Tel Aviv area in the heart of Israel.

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Revealed: Israel used US weapons in strike that killed journalists

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Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be war crime, legal experts say after Guardian investigation

A Guardian investigation has found that Israel used a US munition to target and kill three journalists and wound three more in a 25 October attack in south Lebanon which legal experts have called a potential war crime.

On 25 October at 3.19am, an Israeli jet shot two bombs at a chalet hosting three journalists – cameraman Ghassan Najjar and technician Mohammad Reda from pro-Hezbollah outlet al-Mayadeen, as well as cameraman Wissam Qassem from the Hezbollah-affiliated outlet al-Manar.

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Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten by security camera – The Associated Press

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  1. Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten by security camera  The Associated Press
  2. The weasel took my shoe, and other adventures in parenting  Deseret News
  3. Police track down unlikely shoe thief from Japanese kindergarten  The Guardian
  4. Paws up! Police find shoe thief at a kindergarten is actually a weasel.  The Washington Post
  5. Cameras installed at Japan day care after shoe thefts uncover unexpected culprit - The Mainichi  The Mainichi
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Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday

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Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis

Thousands of Amazon workers are expected to protest or strike in more than 20 countries during Black Friday to press for better workers’ rights and climate action from the US retailer..

Workers and representatives from unions and workers’ groups intend to join protests against the Seattle-based company’s practices between Black Friday and Cyber Monday (29 November and 2 December), one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year.

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Uruguay election: opposition centre-left figure Yamandu Orsi wins presidential runoff

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Former history teacher says the ‘horizon is brightening’ as all political rivals pledged to work together to move the country forward

Centre-left opposition candidate Yamandu Orsi secured victory in Uruguay’s presidential election, official results showed on Sunday, with 97% of votes tallied, ousting the conservative governing coalition and making the South American nation the latest to rebuke the incumbent party in a year of landmark elections.

Yamandu Orsi, the pre-election favourite by a few points, secured 49.77% of the vote to conservative Alvaro Delgado’s 45.94%, official results showed.

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Live briefing: Director of one of last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza is injured – The Washington Post

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  1. Live briefing: Director of one of last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza is injured  The Washington Post
  2. Israel Has Killed Over 1,000 Doctors and Nurses in Gaza  Common Dreams
  3. During offensive, IDF transfers patients from north Gaza hospital to safer areas  The Times of Israel
  4. Director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital injured in attack  Al Jazeera English
  5. Israeli Strikes Kill More Than 120 Palestinians in Gaza in Past 48 Hours, Damage Hospital  Haaretz
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Beijing orders investigations into local disputes after spate of deadly attacks

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Mass stabbings and car rammings have prompted soul-searching about the state of society

Beijing is ramping up scrutiny of “common” disputes such as those involving marriages and property, the justice ministry said, as the public reels from a recent string of deadly attacks.

China has witnessed a spate of violent incidents in recent months – from mass stabbings to car rammings – a rare development for a country with a proud reputation for public security.

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Israel and Lebanon on cusp of ceasefire deal, officials say – Axios

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  1. Israel and Lebanon on cusp of ceasefire deal, officials say  Axios
  2. Ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah is ‘very close,’ regional source says, as Lebanon death toll climbs  CNN
  3. Report: Israel agreed in principle to Hezbollah truce, Netanyahu now working on how to present it to the public  The Times of Israel
  4. Israel moving towards deal with Lebanon  The Jerusalem Post
  5. The US says it wants a ceasefire in Lebanon, so what’s the hold-up?  Al Jazeera English
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Republicans push back against Democrats’ claims that Trump intelligence pick Gabbard is compromised – The Associated Press

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  1. Republicans push back against Democrats' claims that Trump intelligence pick Gabbard is compromised  The Associated Press
  2. GOP Sen. Mullin: 'Outright dangerous' for Dem senator to call Trump's intel chief pick 'compromised'  CNN
  3. Republican senator: ‘We’ll have lots of questions’ for Trump’s controversial picks  The Guardian US
  4. Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks  The Economist
  5. Schmitt says it’s a ‘slur’ to call Gabbard a ‘Russian asset’  The Hill
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