What Palestinian Children Face in Israeli Prisons ( time.com )
Israel still holding bodies of 17 dead Palestinian detainees, says prisoners group ( www.newarab.com )
Russians accused of carving swastikas on captured Ukrainians ( www.firstpost.com )
A Ukrainian soldier named Serhiy, returning from Russian captivity, has reportedly been found mutilated with swastikas carved into his forehead, as disclosed by Dr. Olexandr Turkevich, who is treating him....
South Korea: Students sue after teacher ends exam 90 seconds early ( www.bbc.com )
'The Wedding': Iranian spy plot to kill two news presenters in London uncovered by double agent ( www.itv.com )
Iranian spies offered a people-smuggler $200,000 (around £158,290) to assassinate two news presenters codenamed “the bride and the groom” outside their London studio, to show critics of the regime they “could do harm to them at any time”....
Journalist who broke story on decomposing babies in Gaza is shot, injured ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Archived link: https://archive.is/20231218080340/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/18/israel-gaza-journalist-shot-mohammed-balousha/
Modi's opposition furious as India suspends 141 parliamentary members ( www.nbcnews.com )
The suspended lawmakers were protesting a security breach in the parliament earlier this month which saw a man storm the lower house and released a gas canister....
Ukraine military seeks extra 500,000 soldiers - President Zelensky ( www.bbc.com )
Ukraine's military wants to mobilise up to 500,000 extra people, President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed, as the war with Russia nears a two-year mark....
Iceland volcano erupts on Reykjanes Peninsula ( www.ruv.is )
Ukraine aid will run out at the end of the month, White House warns ( www.cnn.com )
An aid package scheduled for Ukraine later this month will be the final one unless Congress approves additional help, the White House warned Monday....
EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation ( www.bbc.com )
“It is Terrorism”: Pope Francis Denounces Killing of Two Christian Women in Gaza ( www.vanityfair.com )
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Jewish and Arab volunteers help Arab Israeli farmers suffering from labor shortage amid war in Gaza ( www.timesofisrael.com )
China’s youth compete for stable gov’t jobs in unstable economic times ( www.aljazeera.com )
The number of candidates taking China’s civil service exam reaches a record high as graduates seek secure jobs.
Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos ( www.theguardian.com )
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, government says ( www.cnn.com )
South Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall even further in the next two years while its overall population is expected to plummet to levels not seen since the 1970s....
Quebec to raise university fees and mandate French for out-of-province students ( www.bbc.com )
India tries to discredit anti-modi news since 2020 using state intelligence agents ( archive.today )
NEW DELHI — Since 2020, an opaque organization calling itself the Disinfo Lab has published lengthy dossiers and social media posts claiming to reveal the personal relationships and funding sources behind U.S.-based critics of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
Ukraine starts mass production of 750 km range “kamikaze” drones ( euromaidanpress.com )
IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says ( edition.cnn.com )
Cardinal convicted of embezzlement in Vatican financial trial sentenced to 5 1/2 years ( www.nbcnews.com )
More young people in South Korea consider marriage, childbirths as nonessential ( www.koreatimes.co.kr )
Videos show Israeli soldiers in Gaza burning food, vandalizing a shop and ransacking private homes | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )
Finland to reseal entire border with Russia as temporary reopening sees new influx in migrants | Euronews ( www.euronews.com )
Israeli troops kill 12 Palestinians, desecrate West Bank mosque ( www.reuters.com )
Israeli troops killed a youth at a hospital and read out Jewish prayers at a mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin during raids that Palestinian authorities said on Thursday killed 12 and that Israel said helped capture dozens of militants....