Namibia president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies. He pushed for Africa on world stage (apnews.com)
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia’s president and founding prime minister Hage Geingob died Sunday at age 82 while receiving treatment for cancer, and the southern African nation quickly swore in his deputy to complete the term in office....
‘Incredibly rare’ discovery reveals bedbugs came to Britain with the Romans (www.theguardian.com)
Archaeologists find remains of insects that ‘hitchhiked’ here nearly 2,000 years ago...
Queer-friendly Nepal aims to promote ‘pink economy’, ‘rainbow marriages’ for tourists seen as growing segment (www.scmp.com)
Nepal has introduced measures ranging from regulatory changes to ‘rainbow tourism’ guidelines as it targets the multi-billion-dollar LGBTQ market...
‘Everything beautiful has been destroyed’: Palestinians mourn a city in tatters (www.theguardian.com)
Its walls collapsed and its minaret cut short, Gaza’s Omari mosque remains standing but vastly diminished. Around it, the historic old city is also in tatters. The 7th-century mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, was Gaza’s most famous and its surroundings a focal point of the Palestinian enclave’s history and...
16-year-old killers of transgender teenager in England sentenced for 'sadistic' murder (apnews.com)
Justice Amanda Yip lifted the reporting restrictions on naming the killers of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. They were identified at Manchester Crown Court as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe....
India Sends Newly Assembled MALE UAVs To Israel (www.indiandefensenews.in)
Nigerian traditional monarch shot dead and wife kidnapped from palace (www.theguardian.com)
Police launch investigation after attack on home of Oba Aremu Olusegun Cole in south-western Kwara state...
'You are responsible for the Oct 7 holocaust': Thousands protest against Netanyahu's gov't (www.haaretz.com)
Thousands took to the streets across Israel Saturday night to call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster and new elections, in demonstrations spanning from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Haifa and Caesarea in the north and Be’er Sheva in the south....
About 200,000 people protest across Germany against far-right AfD party (www.theguardian.com)
About 200,000 people have taken to the streets of Germany in further protests against the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD)....
What the collapse of a company owing $300 billion means for the world (www.businessinsider.com)
A Hong Kong court ordered the liquidation of China Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer....
India snow leopards: First-ever survey puts population at 718 (www.bbc.com)
Dying man tells police he was on Japan’s most wanted list for 50 years (www.theguardian.com)
Now deceased man said he was Satoshi Kirishima who was allegedly member of radical group in 1970s that bombed Japanese firms...
Russia finds ‘errors’ in paperwork of candidate hoping to stand against Putin (www.theguardian.com)
Russia’s elections commission has said it found “dead souls” among the more than 100,000 signatures of support submitted by Boris Nadezhdin, the sole anti-war candidate in next month’s presidential election, in a sign that he could be disqualified from a carefully managed ballot meant to deliver victory for Vladimir...
We need to be ready for war with Putin, Romania’s top general says (www.politico.eu)
Gheorghiță Vlad issued a stark warning about the state of the nation’s army, calling for immediate action....
How did a raccoon knock out power for large swaths of downtown Toronto last night? (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
A raccoon was behind the massive power outage that knocked out electricity to some 7,000 customers in downtown Toronto for hours Thursday night.
EU agrees new law granting consumers a ‘right to repair’ products (www.euractiv.com)
European consumers will have the right to have common household appliances, including mobile phones, repaired, while EU countries will have to produce schemes to boost repair rates according to a new law adopted on Friday (2 February)....
Mass Grave in Gaza Points to “Execution-Style” Killings by Israeli Forces (www.democracynow.org)
More video and eyewitness info on Al Jazeera so far...
Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters (www.techdirt.com)
European Union agrees on a new 50 billion-euro aid package for Ukraine despite Hungary's veto threat (apnews.com)
The leaders of the 27 European Union countries sealed a deal Thursday to provide Ukraine with a new 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) support package despite Hungary’s weeks of threats to veto the move....
Israeli army occupies Gaza homes – then burns them down (www.haaretz.com)
Israeli soldiers have begun in recent weeks to set fire to homes in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, without the necessary legal permission to do so, according to information obtained by Haaretz....
Armenia formally joins international criminal court in snub to Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Armenia has formally joined the international criminal court (ICC), officials said, a move which traditional ally Moscow has denounced as unfriendly....
‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Japan’s former PM, 83-year-old Aso, piles insults on female foreign minister (www.theguardian.com)
Taro Aso, vice-president of ruling LDP, said Yoko Kamikawa ‘not that good looking’, got her name wrong, used ageist jibe and mixed up her place in history...
French move to make abortion a ‘guaranteed freedom’ gains big win in lower house (www.theguardian.com)
Constitutional change could face fight in Senate after national assembly approves measure by 493 votes to 30...