Israel, Hamas agree on four-day truce, hostage release and aid into Gaza ( www.reuters.com )
Note that this isn’t ALL the hostages – just 50 in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. archive.org link...
El Niño-worsened flooding has Somalia in a state of emergency. Residents of one town are desperate ( apnews.com )
‘Alive with rats’: north Queensland town of Karumba overrun by plague of swimming rodents ( www.theguardian.com )
Secret Intelligence Documents Show Global Reach of India’s Death Squads ( theintercept.com )
Unions are the strongest in decades. Nearly a million Americans got double-digit raises as a result ( www.cnn.com )
Nearly 900,000 Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this week will have unions – and the double-digit pay increases they won – to thank....
‘There are no crops to celebrate’: climate crisis wipes out a way of life in Taiwan’s mountains ( www.theguardian.com )
‘2 jobs a necessity’: In hyper-competitive South Korea, youths hustle but hope for a better way ( www.channelnewsasia.com )
European Parliament scraps pesticides bill in latest setback for green legislation ( www.reuters.com )
Spotify to phase out service in Uruguay following new copyright bill requiring ‘fair and equitable remuneration’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Argentina presidential election: far-right libertarian Javier Milei wins after rival concedes ( www.theguardian.com )
CEO of Chinese online game streaming firm arrested amid executive crackdown: "no reason has been given for arrest," company says ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5922505...
China is expanding its crackdown on mosques to regions outside Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says ( apnews.com )
Polish border protests lead to LPG shortage, price hikes in Ukraine - analyst ( www.reuters.com )
Gaza crisis: aid agencies warn of ‘tragic, avoidable surge’ in child deaths as 160 children are already being killed every day ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5906446...
Myanmar hands over to China thousands of telecom fraud suspects ( www.reuters.com )
World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 ( www.theguardian.com )
40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far ( www.insider.com )
Activist calls for a stronger international response to ongoing human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, ahead of the anniversary of a deadly fire in the provincial capital Urumqi - Feddit ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5900301...
Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes ( www.theguardian.com )
Yemen’s Houthi rebels seize cargo ship in Red Sea and call Israeli vessels ‘legitimate targets’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Dutch party leaders clash in TV debate as election nears ( www.theguardian.com )
Albania opposition starts fire in parliament during anti-government protest ( www.theguardian.com )
IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ ( www.theguardian.com )
Russian Airlines Invited to Launch Flights to North Korea – Reports ( www.themoscowtimes.com )
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