Philippine vice president impeached over suspected wealth and threats – PBS

  1. Philippine vice president impeached over suspected wealth and threats  PBS
  2. Philippine presidential hopeful Sara Duterte impeached for second time  The Guardian
  3. Philippines presidential hopeful Sara Duterte impeached, awaits Senate trial  Reuters
  4. Philippine VP Sara Duterte impeached for a second time  BBC
  5. Sara Duterte, Philippine Vice President, Is Impeached, Again  The New York Times
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Foreign Leader Scolds Crowd at Summit in Awkward Video – The Daily Beast

  1. Foreign Leader Scolds Crowd at Summit in Awkward Video  The Daily Beast
  2. Macron takes the stage uninvited at Africa summit to scold crowd for 'total lack of respect'  Fox News
  3. 'Total lack of respect': Macron interrupts speaker to ask for silence  BBC
  4. African leaders push for risk pricing rethink, fresh investment at France Africa summit  Reuters
  5. Macron at Africa summit seeking allies and a foreign policy less tied to France’s colonial past  The Guardian
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Newly elected Reform councillor resigns after social media claims

Stuart Prior quits as scrutiny grows of new councillors accused of racist, antisemitic or anti-Muslim remarks

A Reform UK councillor has resigned days after being elected, after he allegedly celebrated on social media the rape of a Sikh woman in the Midlands, declared white people the “master race” and called Muslim people “rats”.

Stuart Prior was elected as a councillor for Essex county council last Thursday, winning 2,404 votes, the highest total of any candidate in the ward.

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Russia paid North Korea up to $13.8B for help fighting Ukraine, South Korean intelligence says – The Kyiv Independent

  1. Russia paid North Korea up to $13.8B for help fighting Ukraine, South Korean intelligence says  The Kyiv Independent
  2. North Korea Has Reaped $13Bln From Military Aid to Russia, South Korean Intelligence Says  The Moscow Times
  3. North Korea reaps huge economic boost from Ukraine war  Nikkei Asia
  4. North Korea’s battlefield dividend  Lowy Institute
  5. Russia Needs North Korea More Than It Wants to Admit  Korea Economic Institute of America -
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China’s Tianzhou 10 freighter delivers 7 tons of cargo to Tiangong space station – Space

  1. China's Tianzhou 10 freighter delivers 7 tons of cargo to Tiangong space station  Space
  2. Tianzhou-10 successfully docks with China Space Station, delivers spacecraft series’ 10th consecutive supply run with innovations  Global Times
  3. China's Tianzhou-10 carries 41 science experiments to space station  news.cgtn.com
  4. Update: China launches Tianzhou-10 cargo craft to send space station supplies  Xinhua
  5. First local payload to support nation's carbon targets reaches Tiangong  chinadailyasia.com
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EU sanctions Russian individuals over forced deportation of Ukrainian children – Euronews.com

  1. EU sanctions Russian individuals over forced deportation of Ukrainian children  Euronews.com
  2. Teen bedroom art installation shines spotlight on Ukraine’s stolen children  The Guardian
  3. EU targets Russians with sanctions over the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children  AP News
  4. Ukrainian children unlawfully deported and forcibly transferred to Russia: EU sanctions 16 individuals and seven entities  consilium.europa.eu
  5. EU, UK sanction Russians over deportations of Ukrainian children  Al Jazeera
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European Union Hits Israeli Settlers With Sanctions – The New York Times

  1. European Union Hits Israeli Settlers With Sanctions  The New York Times
  2. EU agrees sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlers, Hamas leaders  Al Jazeera
  3. EU announces sanctions against violent Israel settlers  The Guardian
  4. EU’s top diplomat ‘hopeful’ bloc will vote to sanction violent West Bank settlers  The Times of Israel
  5. EU agrees sanctions on Israeli settlers over West Bank violence  BBC
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Israeli troops jailed for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon

IDF says two soldiers will spend weeks in military prison over incident it said was viewed with great severity

Two Israeli soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for the desecration of a Christian object after one stuck a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon and the other photographed it.

The photo of the soldier, a cigarette dangling from his own mouth, went viral and sparked widespread outrage. It was the latest act by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon to be denounced as anti-Christian.

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