Israeli Settlers Take Advantage of Gaza Chaos to Attack Palestinians in West Bank ( lemmy.world )
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/13/israel-settlers-gaza-palestinians-west-bank/...
Israel-Palestine war: Bodies piling up in the streets as Gaza onslaught escalates ( www.middleeasteye.net )
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Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza 'De-Escalation' Talk ( www.huffpost.com )
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”...
West urges Israel to show restraint amid escalation fears ( www.politico.eu )
Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel ( www.reuters.com )
Rescuers recover more than 260 bodies at music festival attacked by Hamas ( www.independent.co.uk )
The Israeli rescue service Zaka says its paramedics removed more than 260 bodies from a music festival that came under attack by Hamas militants....
Finland has no private schools – and its pupils perform better than British children ( inews.co.uk )
Finland ranked seventh in the world in OECD's student assessment chart in 2018, well above the UK and the United States, where there is a mix of private and state education
US fears Canada-India row over Sikh activist's killing could upend strategy for countering China ( apnews.com )
The Biden administration is nervously watching a dispute between Canada and India, with some officials concerned it could upend the U.S. strategy toward the Indo-Pacific that is directed at blunting China’s influence there and elsewhere....
Pope Francis suggests gay couples could be blessed in Vatican reversal ( www.theguardian.com )
Conservative cardinals had challenged the pope to confirm teachings on LGBTQ+ issues...
Russia's gas production collapses to late-stage USSR levels ( www.newsweek.com )
Suicide bomber detonates explosive device in Turkish capital ( www.aljazeera.com )
Turkey’s interior minister says a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in front of the ministry building in the Turkish capital, wounding two police officers....
British police arrest second suspect accused of cutting down 300-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall ( www.foxnews.com )
Russia pardoned a murderer who put his girlfriend through a meat grinder because he agreed to fight in Ukraine, his mom says ( www.businessinsider.com )
A Russian convicted murderer who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder has been pardoned after fighting against Ukraine, his mother said....
With Kremlin apologist leading the polls, Slovakia vote threatens country’s support for Ukraine ( www.cnn.com )
Slovaks are voting in a parliamentary election on Saturday, a knife-edge vote that could radically reshape Slovakia’s approach to Ukraine and create deep rifts within NATO and the European Union....
Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone ( www.theguardian.com )
Mohamad al-Bared used technology at Coventry home to make drone designed to deliver a warhead or chemical weapon for IS...
Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall ( www.theguardian.com )
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the felling of the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England....
A hard-right party gathers strength in Poland, pushing a new, less friendly course on Ukraine ( apnews.com )
Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India ( www.washingtonpost.com )
India’s BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have perfected using social media to spread of inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders.
Even China's 1.4 billion population can't fill all its vacant homes, former official says ( www.reuters.com )
Even China's population of 1.4 billion would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former official said on Saturday, in a rare public critique of the country's crisis-hit property market....
Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5 °C of warming ( www.nature.com )
Crown Prince: Saudi Arabia 'will continue doing sportswashing' for money ( www.nbcsports.com )
Never 'insult Poles again,' Poland's prime minister tells Ukraine's Zelensky | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened? ( apnews.com )
For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the rest of the world that half the economy ran on exports....
Saudi energy minister says oil supply cuts are not about 'jacking up prices,' as Brent hovers at $95 a barrel ( www.cnbc.com )
Russian soldiers say they dream of conquering Ukrainian cities and moving their families there in haunting recruitment ad ( www.yahoo.com )
