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Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)

West urges Israel to show restraint amid escalation fears (www.politico.eu)

Europe gives TikTok CEO 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation (www.cnbc.com)

European regulator Thierry Breton shared a stern letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, claiming his office has “indications” that the platform is being used to distribute disinformation and illegal content around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war....

Australian woman convicted after pretending to be doctor on social media (www.stuff.co.nz)

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Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson (www.bbc.co.uk)

I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion....

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....

Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks (www.politico.eu)

Elon Musk has until the end of Wednesday to respond to demands from Brussels to remove graphic images and disinformation linked to the violence in Israel from his social network X — or face the full force of Europe’s new social media rules....

2 women say they were threatened with murder and sexual assault following Israeli vigil in Vancouver (bc.ctvnews.ca)

Two Metro Vancouver women say they were threatened by two men who were seen carrying Palestinian flags on Monday night....

Israel and the West reckon with a high-tech failure (www.politico.com)

The Hamas onslaught wasn’t supposed to be possible: A massive, deadly 2G attack on a 5G security state. The consequences are still reverberating....

Israel festival revelers shot at point-blank range, video shows (www.cnn.com)

Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings, new car dashcam video verified by CNN reveals....

Hamas official says group is open to discussions over truce with Israel (www.reuters.com)

Israel announces 'total' blockade on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)

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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

Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation (news.sky.com)

Ukraine hit Russia's most treasured air-defense system on its own soil, reports say (www.businessinsider.com)

Ukraine damaged one of Russia’s most treasured air-defense system in a drone attack, according to multiple reports....

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...

Pope suggests blessings for same-sex unions possible in response to 5 conservative cardinals (apnews.com)

More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit (www.cnn.com)

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit [38.8 °C]....

Panama Canal reduces the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day (apnews.com)

The Panama Canal announced Saturday it will reduce the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day, from 32 in August, due to a drought that has reduced the supply of fresh water needed to operate the locks....

Elon Musk angers German government with post backing far-right party (www.upi.com)

Canadian police won't investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman (abcnews.go.com)

The Canadian government says it is urgently trying to end the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, describing the practice as a human rights violation and a prosecutable offense. Yet police say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor apologized for his “unprofessional conduct”...

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....

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