- Benjamin Netanyahu gambles on ending Gaza war and Israeli isolation The Jerusalem Post
- Who were the Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza? BBC
- Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Plan to Take Control of Gaza City The New York Times
- The ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza That Netanyahu Doesn’t Want to Talk About Politico
- Does anyone in Israel support the plan to escalate its offensive in Gaza? Al Jazeera
Why a landmark ruling from the world’s top court puts financial markets on notice – CNBC
- Why a landmark ruling from the world’s top court puts financial markets on notice CNBC
- Columnist Russ Vernon-Jones: International Court: Nations are liable for fossil fuel harms Daily Hampshire Gazette
- Disaster Passing as Miracle? A Critical Take on the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion EJIL: Talk!
- Climate Vanuatu World Court WV News
- Vanuatu's Victory – International Law Requires States to Act Against Climate Change Bird & Bird
South Korea to restore pact halting military activity on North Korea border
South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung said he will restore a military agreement to rebuild trust with North Korea.
Blackwater founder to deploy nearly 200 personnel to Haiti as gang violence soars – NPR
- Blackwater founder to deploy nearly 200 personnel to Haiti as gang violence soars NPR
- Blackwater founder Erik Prince to send hundreds of fighters to strife-torn Haiti The Guardian
- Blackwater founder Erik Prince to send forces to Haiti to fight gangs Al Jazeera
- Haiti wants to hire private firm to collect border taxes. Not everyone is on board Miami Herald
- Exclusive: Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes Reuters
Putin hails ‘heroic’ North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine in letter to Kim Jong-un
Letter marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese rule a sign of increasingly close ties between Russia and North Korea
Russian president Vladimir Putin hailed North Korean troops sent to fight in Ukraine as “heroic” in a letter to Kim Jong-un, North Korean state media reported on Friday.
In a letter marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese rule, Putin recalled how Soviet Red Army units and North Korean forces fought together to end Japan’s colonial occupation.
Continue reading...Putin hails ‘heroic’ North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine in letter to Kim Jong-un – The Guardian
- Putin hails ‘heroic’ North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine in letter to Kim Jong-un The Guardian
- North Korean and Russian leaders in call reaffirm their alignment over Ukraine AP News
- Russian Duma speaker Volodin meets North Korea's Kim in Pyongyang Reuters
- Putin reaffirms friendship with North Korea ahead of Trump talks BBC
- Putin lauds ‘heroism’ of North Koreans in liberating Kursk, Pyongyang says Al Jazeera
Mali’s military arrests generals, suspected French agent in overthrow plot
Malian minister says situation under control after plot foiled to 'destabilising the institutions of the republic'.
‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia
Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia
The city of Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a “land swap for peace” deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Since Russian troops began rolling into Ukraine in February 2022, Zaporizhzhia, with its broad avenues and Stalin-era apartment blocks, has been a 30-minute drive from the frontline. It has been under near-constant attack from missiles and drones. On Sunday, a Russian guided air bomb hit a bus station, wounding 24 people – just another day of suffering in a city that has known many of them.
Continue reading...In the Battle for Aqraba, Israeli Settlers Spare Neither Palestinian Land nor Lives – Haaretz
- In the Battle for Aqraba, Israeli Settlers Spare Neither Palestinian Land nor Lives Haaretz
- With Arson and Land Grabs, Israeli Settler Attacks in West Bank Hit Record High The New York Times
- Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened The Guardian
- With the world’s attention on Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank are carrying out one of the most violent campaigns against Palestinian villages since the UN began keeping records. “Before the war they harassed us, but not like this,” said the owner of a jun Facebook
- The West Bank is seeing a creeping Nakba | Editorial Haaretz
Australia finds record meth, cocaine, heroin use in wastewater analysis
Australians consumed drugs with a street value of about $7.5bn, representing a 34 percent rise in annual consumption.
Rain warning delays landmark trial of Hong Kong’s rebel mogul Jimmy Lai
Lai is accused of colluding with foreign forces under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Trump promises to ‘save’ jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai
Closing arguments are due to begin in the national security trial of Jimmy Lai, 77, a critic of China's Communist Party.
As Trump splits from India, is the US abandoning its pivot to Asia?
US partners in Asia, such as India, might consider their own shifts in response to Trump's moves. But it won't be easy.
Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon’s national security trial adjourned over health issues – BBC
- Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon’s national security trial adjourned over health issues BBC
- Who is Jimmy Lai, the HK media tycoon on trial for national security crimes? BBC
- Jimmy Lai trial enters final stretch, Trump says he hopes to 'save' Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon NBC News
- Hong Kong court delays media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial over health concerns CNN
- Trump Says He Raised Ex-Media Mogul Jimmy Lai’s Case With China Bloomberg.com
China’s aircraft carriers in Pacific signals ability to ‘contest’ US power
Expert says ‘gaps’ in naval capabilities are closing between China and the United States.
Why did Russia sell Alaska to the United States?
For Trump-Putin summit about possible land swaps, Alaska is an appropriate venue, 158 years after it exchanged hands.
Hundreds hit with food poisoning in Indonesia after eating free meals from president’s flagship program
Since its launch in January, Prabowo Subianto’s signature policy has been marred by mass food poisoning cases affecting over 1,000 people
More than 360 people fell ill in the Indonesian town of Sragen in Central Java after consuming school lunches, according to officials, in the largest food poisoning case to hit President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme to date.
Since its launch in January, the free school meals programme has been marred by mass food poisoning cases across the archipelago, affecting more than 1,000 people.
Continue reading...Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,268
Here are the key events on day 1,268 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Mali’s military rulers arrest 2 generals, a suspected French agent and others in alleged coup plot – AP News
- Mali's military rulers arrest 2 generals, a suspected French agent and others in alleged coup plot AP News
- Mali’s junta arrests generals and French national over alleged coup plot The Guardian
- Mali’s military arrests generals, suspected French agent in overthrow plot Al Jazeera
- Mali coup plot: French man arrested over spying allegation BBC
- Mali junta accuses 'foreign states' of attempted destabilisation plot France 24
‘It’s coming home’ – the undignified row over the body of Zambia’s ex-president
Edgar Lungu, who died in June, is yet to be buried - the debate over what next exposes deep divisions.