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A man who claimed to be selling Queen Elizabeth II's walking stick is sentenced for fraud ( apnews.com )

Ecuador declares ‘internal armed conflict’ as gunmen take over live TV broadcast | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )

Extreme heat is pushing India to the brink of ‘survivability.’ One obvious solution is also a big part of the problem | CNN ( www.cnn.com )

Over 50 countries go to the polls in 2024. The year will test even the most robust democracies ( apnews.com )

More than 50 countries that are home to half the planet’s population are due to hold national elections in 2024, but the number of citizens exercising the right to vote is not unalloyed good news. The year looks set to test even the most robust democracies and to strengthen the hands of leaders with authoritarian leanings....

Zelenskyy, Blinken, Israeli president and more will come to Davos to talk about global challenges ( apnews.com )

More than 60 heads of state and government and hundreds of business leaders are coming to Switzerland to discuss the biggest global challenges during the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering next week, ranging from Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy....

'Largest Houthi attack to date' in Red Sea repelled by HMS Diamond and US warships, Grant Shapps says ( news.sky.com )

[UK] Architect of postal scandal demands immunity ( www.telegraph.co.uk )

Geheimplan gegen Deutschland - secret plot against germany ( correctiv.org )

Secret plan against Germany...

Gabriel Attal becomes France’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister ( www.cnn.com )

Pope calls for universal ban on surrogacy in global roundup of threats to peace and human dignity ( apnews.com )

Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity....

US Navy shoots down barrage of Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen over Red Sea, US Central Command says ( www.cnn.com )

The US Navy shot down 21 Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen, according to a statement from US Central Command, in one of the largest Houthi attacks to take place in the Red Sea in recent months....

Spain makes face masks mandatory in hospitals and clinics after a spike in respiratory illnesses ( apnews.com )

Face masks will be mandatory in hospitals and healthcare centers in Spain starting Wednesday due to a surge in respiratory illnesses, the Health Ministry said....

Families of Israelis killed in Be'eri home hit by tank fire on October 7 demand probe ( www.haaretz.com )

Family members of Israelis who were killed on October 7 after a standoff between Hamas terrorists and the Israeli army led to the army firing a tank at a house where the civilians were held hostage are demanding that the military probe its actions that day....

North Korea's Kim Jong Un believed to have turned 40 - BBC News ( www.bbc.com )

Clone cards going crazy fam u sleeping if u not doubling your cash 💰 ( lemmy.world )

Polish police arrest MPs in presidential palace as rule-of-law battle heats up ( www.politico.eu )

In a dramatic escalation of Poland’s battle to restore rule of law, the police entered the country’s presidential palace on Tuesday evening and took two MPs into custody who had been hiding under the protection of President Andrzej Duda after being sentenced to prison terms for abuse of power....

German FM: Suffering of Palestinians ‘cannot go on’ ( www.politico.eu )

The suffering of Palestinian civilians “cannot go on,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned Tuesday during a visit to Cairo, urging more concrete measures to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip....

Norway to approve controversial deep-sea mining ( www.bbc.com )

Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining....

Israeli lawmakers say it out loud: Mass Migration from Gaza and Jewish resettlement ( www.haaretz.com )

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South Korea passes law banning dog meat trade ( www.bbc.com )

Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees ( www.972mag.com )

In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were...

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