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Russia’s thwarted attempt to cross the Siverskyi Donets River in northeastern Ukraine last week “is emerging as among the deadliest engagements of the war, with estimates based on publicly available evidence now suggesting that well over 400 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded,” The New York Times reports. “And as the scale of what happened …

Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire to end bloody 11-day war  Associated Press Israel, Netanyahu continue to defy Biden with airstrikes amid more Hamas rocket fire  Fox News ‘I can’t deal with this anymore’: Video of 10-year-old in Gaza goes viral  CNN Why Is This Geopolitical Fight Different From All Other Fights?  New York Magazine Groundhog Day in Gaza | …

The two sides fought with fists, stones, and nailed-studded bamboo poles, in what was the deadliest border clash between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in more than 40 years. New Delhi previously said at least 20 Indian soldiers died during the brawl in the Galwan Valley area. On Friday, China’s official army newspaper, PLA Daily, said …

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters remained in Baghdad’s central Tahrir square on Sunday, defying a bloody crackdown that killed scores and an overnight raid by security forces seeking to disperse them. Young men had erected barricades on a bridge leading to the capital’s fortified Green Zone between them and security forces who continued to lob tear …

The headline said it all.  Stats NZ has released 2018 census data on New Zealanders’ commuting habits and, guess what, we love a motorised polluter. “Car streets ahead for travel to work and education” was the heading. It should have been “cars rule, all other options drool”. New cycleways are under construction across Auckland and …

The rising rate of rheumatic heart disease in the Northern Territory is a “bloody health emergency”, the head of the top end’s biggest Aboriginal health service says. The number and rate of diagnoses of acute rheumatic heart fever doubled inthe four years to 2017, according to a study released on Friday by the Australian Institute …