UN chief says region on 'brink': calls on members not to further escalate tensions with reprisals against Iran — The Guardian UK ● — 14 April 2024 (LINK)

Man shot and 6 dead after multiple stabbings at Sydney mall — ground.news: 249 media reports — 14 April 2024 (LINK)

Sydney stabbing: seven people dead, including attacker shot by police at Bondi Junction shopping centre — The Guardian UK ● — (LINK)

Ukraine: Safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine remains precarious but the shift to a cold shutdown of all six reactor units, completed on Saturday, is positive, the UN nuclear watchdog chief said in a statement — The Guardian UK ● — 14 April 2024 (LINK)

Biden says US forces helped Israel down 'nearly all' drones and missiles from Iran, will convene G7 leaders on response — ground.news: 81 media reports — 13 April 2024 (LINK)

Ukraine air defences overwhelmed as Russia pounds power stations — The Guardian UK ● — 13 April 2024 (LINK)

Cryptocurrency traders lost nearly $1 billion in 24 hours amid market crash — finbold.com — 13 April 2024 (LINK)

UBS expansion plans ruined by new SWISS bank capital regulations — cryptopolitan.com — 13 April 2024 (LINK)

— In an interview, the country's finance minister threw down the gauntlet, saying that UBS, along with other big banks, will need to beef up their capital if they want to keep doing business big time.

US sends reinforcements to Middle East amid fears of Iran attack: Official — ground.news: 37 media reports — 12 April 2024 (LINK)

US restricts travel for employees in Israel — BBC — 12 April 2024 (LINK)

Iran-backed Hezbollah fires dozens of missiles towards Northern Israel — ground.news: 32 media reports — 12 April 2024 (LINK)

Israeli settlers rampage through a West Bank village, killing 1 Palestinian and wounding 25 — ground.news: 34 media reports — 12 April 2024 (LINK)

Kyiv electricity plant destroyed by Russian missiles and drones Ukraine parliament passes controversial mobilisation bill to boost troop numbers; Japan's prime minister calls on US to continue supporting Ukraine. What we know on day 779 — The Guardian UK ● — 12 April 2024 (LINK)

US judge tosses out lawsuits against Libyan commander accused of war crimes — ground.news: 18 media reports — 12 April 2024 (LINK)

Russian military trainers arrive in Niger as relations deteriorate with the US — ground.news: 82 media reports — 11 April 2024 (LINK)

Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more air defence supplies after Russia used more than 40 missiles and 40 drones to deal damage to the country's critical infrastructure, including substations and power-generating facilities, in five regions — The Guardian UK ● — 11 April 2024 (LINK)

South Korea's prime minister and top presidential officials offer to resign after election defeat — ground.news: 75 media reports — 11 April 2024 (LINK)

Vietnamese real estate billionaire Truong My Lan, 67, sentenced to death in $12 billion fraud case — ground.news: 183 media reports — 11 April 2024 (LINK)

— She was sentenced along with 85 others, including former central bankers and ex-government officials.

Biden administration announces plans to expand background checks to close "gun show loophole" — CBS — 11 April 2024 (LINK)

Seventy-six (76) percent of the Myanmar population lives below or perilously close to a subsistence existence and poverty rates have almost doubled from 24.8 percent in 2017 to 49.7 percent in 2023, while foreign direct investments have plummeted — UNDP — 12 April 2024 (LINK)

Hamas says 3 of leader Ismail Haniyeh's sons and 4 grandchildren were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza — ground.news: 261 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

Hamas tells negotiators it doesn't have 40 Israeli hostages needed for first round of ceasefire — ground.news: 30 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

Russian strikes kill seven people in Kharkiv and Odesa regions Ukrainian drones kill three people in Russia; top US general warns that Kyiv will be outgunned 10 to one 'in a matter of weeks'. What we know on day 778 — The Guardian UK ● — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

Ukraine updates: Switzerland to host 'peace summit' in June without Russia — Deutsche Welle — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

US 'considering' dropping Julian Assange prosecution, Joe Biden says — ground.news main source: AP, 112 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

Dow closes 1.35% lower after a surprisingly bad inflation report — ground.news main source: CNN, 7 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

US inflation up again in March in latest sign that price pressures remain elevated — ground.news: 67 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

iPhone users in 92 countries receive spyware attack warning from Apple — ground.news: 36 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

There appears to be a huge problem with Spacex's Starlink — futurism.com — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

— CEO Elon Musk celebrated that the company's Starlink broadband service had "achieved breakeven cash flow." But according to a damning new report by Bloomberg, Musk may have been greatly underplaying the costs involved in launching the satellites, when in reality the company is losing "hundreds of dollars on each of the millions of ground terminals it ships."

As of now, SpaceX has launched 5,600 satellites into low-Earth orbit and is planning to launch tens of thousands more.

Appeals Court denies another attempt of former US President Trump to delay trial — ground.news: 170 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

— Barring yet another appeal, the first of Trump's four criminal trials will start as scheduled on Monday. Trump's lawyers asked the state's mid-level appeals court to halt the case indefinitely while they fight to remove the trial judge and challenge several of his pretrial rulings, which they argue have seriously hindered the former president's defense.

UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left 'to save the world' — ground.news: 32 media reports — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

Thai doctor offered bribe to drop lawsuit in Swiss scandal — thethaiger.com — 10 April 2024 (LINK)

IOM says 38 dead, including children, as migrant boat sinks off Djibouti — ground.news main source: AP, 24 media reports — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

'Historic' European Court of Human Rights ruling backs Swiss women in climate change case: "climate change violates the right to respect for one's private and family life" — euronews.com — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

The ILO's new 'living wage' definition: What it is and how it could change lives — weforum.org — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

— ILO 15 March 2024: "The wage level that is necessary to afford a decent standard of living for workers and their families, taking into account the country circumstances and calculated for the work performed during the normal hours of work".

The agreement says that the estimation of living wages should follow a number of principles, including the usage of evidence-based methodologies and robust data, consultations with workers' and employers' organizations, transparency, public availability, and the consideration of regional and local contexts and socio-economic and cultural realities.

Ecuador: Ex-vice president hospitalized after embassy raid — ground.news: 49 media reports — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to delay hush money trial over gag order — ground.news: 126 media reports — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

American teen killed in avalanche near Zermatt — thedailybeast — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists: Another month, another global heat record that has left climate scientists scratching their heads and hoping this is an El Niño-related hangover rather than a symptom of worse-than-expected planetary health. — The Guardian UK ● — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

The financial sector has suffered more than 20,000 cyberattacks, causing $12bn in losses, over the past 20 years — IMF — 9 April 2024 (LINK)

UN Security Council refers Palestinian application to become full UN member to committee — ground.news: 32 media reports — 8 April 2024 (LINK)

President Biden To Cancel Student Debt For Millions More Americans Together with past actions, the administration estimates it will provide relief to 30 million Americans. — huffpost — 8 April 2024 (LINK)

UNCTAD rebrands to 'UN Trade and Development' — unctad.org — 8 April 2024 (LINK)

Press conference: Rebeca Grynspan: 9 April 2024: 34min — webtv.un.orgs — (LINK)

Mary Lawlor report on child and youth human rights defenders: defenders, especially girls and gender-nonconforming children, and including child climate activists, have been facing growing repression in many countries. PDF — documents.un.org — 8 April 2024 (LINK)