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Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’ (www.theguardian.com)
An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top prizes at the Berlin film festival has said German officials’ description of the awards ceremony as “antisemitic” has led to death threats and the physical intimidation of family members, causing him to hold off plans to return to Israel....
South Korea’s fertility rate sinks to record low despite $270bn in incentives (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas and Israel pour cold water on Biden’s hopes of imminent ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)
Alabama is using the notion that embryos are people to surveil and harass women (www.theguardian.com)
Even before the court ruled in favor of this vulgar fiction, state authorities relied on the concept to intimidate and jail women...
‘Why are you asleep?’ Rahul Gandhi pleads with India’s low castes to vote out Modi (www.theguardian.com)
‘It will be the end of democracy’: Bernie Sanders on what happens if Trump wins – and how to stop him (www.theguardian.com)
Senior Republican who called Trump ‘inexcusable’ endorses him for president (www.theguardian.com)
Senator John Thune previously denounced Trump for role in Capitol attack in 2021 but now vows to back him in 2024 election...
UN warns Rafah attack would be ‘nail in coffin’ of Gaza aid as deliveries halve (www.theguardian.com)
Portugal’s far right on rise as election campaign begins (www.theguardian.com)
Multiple corruption scandals fuel support for populist Chega party led by André Ventura...
Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays (www.theguardian.com)
Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000 people...
Woman loses £650,000 injury claim after being seen tossing Christmas tree (www.theguardian.com)
Michigan governor says not voting for Biden over Gaza war ‘supports second Trump term’ (www.theguardian.com)
Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday...
Man set himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in Washington DC, police said (www.theguardian.com)
Authorities said the man, with serious burn injuries and under critical condition, is being treated at the hospital...
Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row (www.theguardian.com)
The extent of ice floating around the continent has contracted to below 2m sq km for three years in a row, indicating an ‘abrupt critical transition’...
Trump ‘would’ve lost mind completely’ if Putin admitted interference, Fiona Hill says (www.theguardian.com)
Former White House Russia specialist spoke at the Principles First meeting, where she said ex-president ‘idolises’ Russian leader...
‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda (www.theguardian.com)
‘Putin must lose everything’: defiant Zelenskiy hosts western leaders in Kyiv to mark two years of war (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine’s president met the prime ministers of Italy, Canada and Belgium in a show of unity after recent battlefield defeats...
‘It was an execution’: family mourns boy shot dead by Israeli forces (www.theguardian.com)
Nihal Abu Ayash, 16, was reportedly the 100th Palestinian child to be killed in the West Bank since Hamas’s 7 October attack...
Angry French farmers storm into Paris agriculture fair (www.theguardian.com)
Protesters clash with police before planned visit by French president Emmanuel Macron...
The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy (www.theguardian.com)
Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism...
On the run from Russia: the defector to Ukraine shot dead on the Costa Blanca (www.theguardian.com)
Maksim Kuzminov flew a Russian miltary helicopter to Ukraine. Armed with a new identity, he moved to a Spanish resort. Then he was killed in an underground car park...
US returns to lunar surface for first time in over 50 years: ‘Welcome to the moon’ (www.theguardian.com)
South Korea doctors’ strike: ‘severe’ public health alert issued for first time (www.theguardian.com)
US to impose sanctions on 500 Russia-linked targets to mark Ukraine war anniversary (www.theguardian.com)
Military industrial complex and companies aiding Moscow in third countries will be targeted, treasury says...
