Headlines for February 20, 2024

U.S. for the First Time Calls for “Temporary Ceasefire” in Draft U.N. Security Council Resolution, UNICEF Warns of “Explosion in Preventable Child Deaths” in Gaza, U.N. Experts Report Sexual Assault, Executions and Other Abuses Against Palestinian Women and Girls, ICJ Continues Hearing on Israel’s Occupation of Palestine, 50+ Countries to Testify, Israeli Knesset Fails to Oust Liberal Lawmaker Ofer Cassif; Brazil and Israel Deepen Diplomatic Rift, British High Court Hears Appeal in Julian Assange’s Likely Last Chance to Avoid Extradition, Haiti Judge Indicts Former First Lady in 2021 Assassination of Her Husband, Pres. Jovenel Moïse, Indian Farmers Resume March Toward New Delhi After Rejecting Gov’t Proposal on Crop Prices, Wisconsin Enacts New Congressional Maps After More Than a Decade of GOP-Gerrymandered Districts, Capital One Announces $35B Merger with Discovery; Colorado Sues over Kroger-Albertsons Merger, Immigrants Rights Activists Demand Closure of Tacoma ICE Center, Camp Amache, Former Japanese American Internment Camp, Opens as New National Park in Colorado