UN Envoy Urges Medical Boycott of Israel After Gaza Hospital Raid, Detention of Director – Haaretz

  1. UN Envoy Urges Medical Boycott of Israel After Gaza Hospital Raid, Detention of Director  Haaretz
  2. Updates: Kamal Adwan detainees beaten, humiliated by Israeli army  Al Jazeera English
  3. Even 'Good Israelis' Are Part of the Broad Circle of Tacit Consent to War Crimes  Haaretz
  4. Israel raid empties northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital of all patients and detains its director  CNN
  5. U.N. body accuses Israel of destroying Gaza healthcare  Reuters
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Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry

Nazir Afzal and police whistleblower Maggie Oliver say previous lengthy inquiries were not acted upon

A former chief prosecutor and a police whistleblower who uncovered a notorious paedophile gang have hit back at demands from senior Conservatives and the billionaire Elon Musk for a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation.

Nazir Afzal, the ex-chief prosecutor who was central to successful prosecution of the Rochdale grooming gang, said lengthy and expensive inquiries were not acted upon by the previous Conservative government.

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Starved of Russian gas, industry shuts down in breakaway Moldovan region – Reuters

  1. Starved of Russian gas, industry shuts down in breakaway Moldovan region  Reuters
  2. Breakaway Moldovan region cuts heating and hot water after Russia stops gas flow  CNN
  3. Russia cuts off gas to Moldovan separatists, risking humanitarian crisis  POLITICO Europe
  4. Transnistria faces industrial collapse after Russian gas suspension, senior official says.  Kyiv Independent
  5. Moldova braces for energy crisis after Russia halts gas supply amid winter freeze  New York Post
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Meta’s Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican – Axios

  1. Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican  Axios
  2. Just before Trump takes office, Meta is replacing its top policy exec with a prominent Republican  CNN
  3. Nick Clegg, former UK deputy prime minister, leaves Meta  The Guardian
  4. Meta replaces policy chief Nick Clegg with former Republican staffer Joel Kaplan ahead of Trump inauguration  CNBC
  5. Meta Appoints Joel Kaplan to Lead Global Policy, Replacing Nick Clegg  The New York Times
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‘Dinosaur highway’ dating back 166 million years discovered in England – PBS NewsHour

  1. ‘Dinosaur highway’ dating back 166 million years discovered in England  PBS NewsHour
  2. Biggest dinosaur footprint site in the U.K. discovered by researchers: "So surreal"  CBS News
  3. Biggest trackway of dinosaur footprints found in Oxfordshire quarry  The Guardian
  4. Hundreds of Dinosaur Footprints Unearthed in Record UK Discovery  ScienceAlert
  5. Jurassic highway: Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in UK quarry  Reuters.com
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Slovakia will discuss retaliation after Ukraine’s gas transit ‘sabotage’, says Fico – Reuters

  1. Slovakia will discuss retaliation after Ukraine's gas transit 'sabotage', says Fico  Reuters
  2. Ukraine just stopped Russian gas flows to Europe. Here's who's most at risk  CNBC
  3. Russia Just Lost a Multibillion-Dollar Income Stream  Business Insider
  4. European Gas Gains as Norway Outage Adds to Loss of Russian Flow  Bloomberg
  5. Why Did Ukraine Halt the Flow of Russia’s Natural Gas to Europe?  The New York Times
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Netherlands: 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators’ names published – BBC.com

  1. Netherlands: 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators' names published  BBC.com
  2. Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration  The Guardian
  3. War archive flooded with requests to see files of collaborators  DutchNews.nl
  4. Dutch archives to unmask thousands of Nazi collaborators after 80 years  Israel Hayom
  5. Names of potential German collaborators during WW2 to be published today  NL Times
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Hostage talks ‘advancing slowly,’ Israeli delegation to head to Qatar – exclusive – The Jerusalem Post

  1. Hostage talks 'advancing slowly,' Israeli delegation to head to Qatar - exclusive  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Hamas wants Gaza ceasefire deal as soon as possible, senior official says  The Jerusalem Post
  3. Israeli delegation expected to arrive in Qatar to resume Gaza deal talks  CNN
  4. Israeli negotiators head to Qatar amid some reported progress in hostage talks  The Times of Israel
  5. Israel says it will send intelligence, military delegation to Hamas ceasefire talks in Qatar  Euronews
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Embankment of 18th-century canal in Cheshire collapses after flooding

Engineers assess damage as heavy rains cause first major breach of Bridgewater canal since 1970s

Engineers are assessing the scale of damage to a canal built more than 250 years ago after flood waters caused a dramatic collapse of part of its elevated embankment in Cheshire.

The Bridgewater canal, which was previously used to transport coal but is now a leisure waterway, caved in near Dunham Massey, in the first major breach of the waterway for 54 years.

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Chinese Underwater Sea Glider Drone Caught By Fisherman In The Philippines – The War Zone

  1. Chinese Underwater Sea Glider Drone Caught By Fisherman In The Philippines  The War Zone
  2. Philippines recovers suspected Chinese submarine drone from sea  South China Morning Post
  3. ‘Chinese submarine drone’ in Philippine sea raises security fears  The Times
  4. Submarine drone found in Masbate  The Manila Times
  5. Barbers appeals again for Edca site in Surigao del Norte  Inquirer.net
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Huge metallic ring fell from sky and crashed into Kenyan village – Boing Boing

  1. Huge metallic ring fell from sky and crashed into Kenyan village  Boing Boing
  2. A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya  The New York Times
  3. Massive ‘space object’ fragment crashes into remote village in Kenya  Yahoo! Voices
  4. Space debris crash in Kenya village believed to be from leftover rocket hardware  Space.com
  5. 500-kilogram metallic object falls from the sky in Kenya  Al Jazeera English
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Frontline report: Two Ukrainian HIMARS strikes cripple Russian reinforcements rushed to Kursk front – Euromaidan Press

  1. Frontline report: Two Ukrainian HIMARS strikes cripple Russian reinforcements rushed to Kursk front  Euromaidan Press
  2. Ukraine war latest: Kyiv strikes Russian command post in Kursk Oblast, General Staff claims.  Kyiv Independent
  3. Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,044  Al Jazeera English
  4. Ukraine's military says it struck command post in Russia's Kursk region  Yahoo! Voices
  5. As Russian Troops Head For Kursk, Ukraine’s HIMARS Rockets Meet Them Halfway  Forbes
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