NOTE: ENTRIES MAY BE SHORTER TODAY AND TOMORROW.

For today, links to reports from National Public Radio, the Associated Press, Reuters and, via Consortium News, Common Dreams; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below.. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM

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NEWER  U.S. declines to vote on UN resolution to send aid to Gaza. Ayesha Rascoe of NPR speaks with Matt Duss, vice president at the Center for International Policy, about the latest UN resolution on aid to Gaza. Click HERE later to listen and, still later, read.

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NEWER  A weekend of combat in Gaza kills 14 Israeli soldiers in a sign of Hamas’ entrenchment, by Tina Goldberg, Wadaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP  TEL AVIV — Fourteen Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israeli military said today, in some of the bloodiest days of battle since the start of the ground offensive and a sign that Hamas is still putting up a fight despite weeks of brutal war. The mounting . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 24  Fighting rages in northern Gaza; Biden speaks with Netanyahu, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose | Reuters  CAIRO /JERUSALEM — Israel battled Hamas militants Saturday in pursuit of its elusive goal of full control of northern Gaza after the U.N. Security Council appealed for more aid for the Palestinian enclave but stopped shory of demanding a ceasefire. Thick . . . READ MORE . . .

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NEWER  Israeli commanders reported to ICC, by Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams / Consortium News  A U.S.-based advocacy group last week published a list of 40 Israeli military commanders it says are “prime suspects” for international war crimes investigation. Democracy for the Arab World Now, founded by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi before his 2018 assassination, said it submitted . . . READ MORE . . .