Amsterdam sex workers and residents march together against controversial erotic center ( nltimes.nl )
Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution ( www.theguardian.com )
US Sends Hostage Rescue Experts to Israel and Puts Special Ops ‘Door Kickers’ on Alert ( themessenger.com )
Temperatures in Spain shatter records as October kicks off ( www.reuters.com )
China Accuses US of Hacking Huawei Servers as Far Back as 2009 ( beehaw.org )
China accused the US of infiltrating Huawei Technologies Co. servers beginning in 2009, part of a broad-based effort to steal data that culminated in tens of thousands of cyber-attacks against Chinese targets last year....
Arundhati Roy: ‘Biden, Macron know what’s going on in India but won’t talk’ ( www.aljazeera.com )
We have a situation where we are talking about one nation, one language, one election. But actually we are in a situation where you have one dictator, one corporation....
Russia Says Ukrainian Drone Attacks Not Possible Without Help from the West ( news.antiwar.com )
Japan may take China to WTO over Fukushima-driven seafood import ban ( www.reuters.com )
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"Wave of murder, rape and domestic violence": Russian women living in fear as Wagner’s convicted murderers return home as free men ( www.theguardian.com )
5 things to know about the latest charges against Donald Trump ( www.npr.org )
Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges he participated in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results — an effort that reached a bloody crescendo as his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021....
War coming to Russia - Zelensky after Moscow drone attack - BBC News ( www.bbc.com )
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned war is coming back to Russia after a drone attack on the capital Moscow....
“He rang the doorbell and started threatening me with murder in Chinese”: How Chinese authorities go after dissidents abroad ( theins.ru )
Following the release of a report by the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders in September 2022, probes were launched by several countries into the activities of the “overseas police stations” established by China worldwide. These investigations uncovered that the Chinese government had been utilizing these stations...
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says ( www.theguardian.com )
Swathes of Siberia freeze in temperatures below -58 Celsius ( www.reuters.com )
Separated From Their Families, Hidden From The World: China’s Colonial Boarding Schools In Tibet Come Under UN Scrutiny ( feddit.de )
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India and Pakistan choked by heavy smog, leaving thousands sick ( www.abc.net.au )
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund: Israel Is Threatening to Bomb Gaza’s Only Pediatric Cancer Unit --- [video, 33 min + transcript] ( www.democracynow.org )
As the U.N. secretary-general repeats his call for an immediate ceasefire, the death toll in Gaza has topped 10,000, including 4,000 children. We speak to an American doctor who just left Gaza and the founder of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which runs the only pediatric cancer unit in Gaza....
Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians ( www.theguardian.com )
Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’
Microfinance was meant to help the world’s poor, but in Cambodia, it’s plunging people deeper into debt ( theworld.org )
Israel Closes Al Jazeera Facilities ( www.telesurenglish.net )
The ban comes after Al Jazeera presented a well-documented report suggesting that Israel was responsible for the attack on Al-Ahli Hospital....
Microsoft Copilot Is Coming: Why It’s Both Exciting and a Bit Sad ( www.technewsworld.com )
ChatGPT's mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech ( www.theguardian.com )
Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews ( www.nbcnews.com )
U.S., Florida Gov. DeSantis says shorter lifespans should protect people from losing Social Security and Medicare protection ( web.archive.org )
"I think it started before COVID and I think it’s continued even here afterwards. I think it’s more than, more than just COVID. I mean, I think that there’s deaths of despair. I think you have (drugs),” DeSantis said. Life expectancy in the U.S. has decreased to 76.4 years in 2023 from 77.28 in 2020, according to Centers...