(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-12-08 Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. As usual, we leave aside the more covered stories this week. There is plenty of coverage of Israel/Hamas, Ukraine/Russia, and (although we did cover it last week) the rapidly growing concern/conflict between Guyana and Venezuela. If I do have a story on these, it is because it covers an aspect that has been less prominently featured on these pages and broader media. We begin with the one relatively cheerful story of the week. The more serious ones are beneath the fold. This comes from the Washington Post: Traffic reporter responds to body shaming email on live TV ‘I’m not pregnant, I actually lost my uterus to cancer last year,’ Leslie Horton told her viewers after reading the insulting email on the air By Sydney Page While at work on a recent morning, Leslie Horton, an on-air traffic reporter, received an email from a viewer during a commercial break that criticized her body. Less than five minutes later, Horton, 59, was back on the air. , said on live TV. “No, I’m not pregnant, I actually lost my uterus to cancer last year. And this is what women of my age look like. So, if it is offensive to you, that is unfortunate.” “I’m just going to respond to an email that I just got, saying ‘congratulations on your pregnancy; if you’re going to wear old bus driver pants, you have to expect emails like this,” Horton, a Canadian broadcaster for Global News Calgary , said on live TV. “No, I’m not pregnant, I actually lost my uterus to cancer last year. And this is what women of my age look like. So, if it is offensive to you, that is unfortunate.” From Al Jazeera: Asylum seekers left in limbo under UK-Rwanda treaty | The Take Thousands of asylum seekers in the UK may soon find themselves expelled to Rwanda. It’s a plan that has been tied up in court since June 2022, but Rishi Sunak’s government has signed a new treaty with Rwanda and is pursuing legislation in the UK to make the deportations happen. What are the chances this latest move will materialize? x YouTube Video From NBC News (AP): Court upholds U.K. decision to block Scotland’s landmark gender-recognition bill The Scottish bill would have allowed anyone 16 or older to change the gender designation on their identity documents by self-declaration, removing the need for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. LONDON — Scotland’s highest civil court on Friday upheld the British government’s move to block a landmark gender-recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament, underscoring the growing divide over local control of legislation in the nations of the United Kingdom. The ruling by the Court of Session in Edinburgh is a setback for Scotland’s semi-autonomous government, which overwhelmingly approved a bill allowing anyone 16 or older to change the gender designation on their identity documents by self-declaration, removing the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria. From Deutsche Welle: France: Six teenagers convicted in teacher murder trial A French juvenile court convicted six teenagers on Friday over the 2020 killing of teacher Samuel Paty. An extremist beheaded him after he showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his class for a debate on freedom of expression.The court found five of the defendants — who were mostly between 14 and 15 at the time — guilty of staking out the teacher and identifying him to the attacker. They were charged with criminal conspiracy with the aim of preparing aggravated violence. x YouTube Video From euronews (Reuters): How EU countries could cut off the remaining Russian gas imports By Doloresz Katanich A new proposal would make it easier for EU member states to phase out Russian gas completely. A new EU proposal would give member states the power to stop companies in Russia and Belarus from accessing European pipelines and LNG terminals, partially or completely, the Financial Times reported citing a draft legal text proposed by Brussels. If adopted, EU energy companies could have a legal basis to get out of contracts with Russian gas providers without having to pay compensation, writes the report citing a senior official of the EU. From the BBC: Armenia and Azerbaijan to work towards peace deal By Barbara Tasch Armenia and Azerbaijan say they will move towards normalising relations, and will exchange prisoners captured during recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. The two neighbours have been involved in a decades-long conflict over the disputed territory. In a joint statement released on Thursday night, the two countries said they saw a "historical chance" for "long-awaited peace". From the Washington Post: Azerbaijan poised to host next year’s global climate talks A standstill over the next host shows signs of ending after warring neighbors Azerbaijan and Armenia struck a deal By Maxine Joselow DUBAI — Azerbaijan appears poised to host next year’s global climate summit after longtime adversary Armenia on Friday agreed to stop blocking its bid. The development means another oil-producing country could host the world’s most important gathering on global warming, a problem caused in large part by fossil fuels. The United Arab Emirates, the world’s seventh-largest producer, is currently hosting the U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, in Dubai. From Reuters: For years, the world has been steadily warming alongside rising greenhouse gas emissions, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. 2023 was no exception. Things started out slow. January 2023 was warmer than usual, but still only the seventh warmest January on record. From CBS News: Pakistan zoo shut down after man mauled to death by tigers, shoe found in animal's mouth A zoo in Pakistan has been shut down after a man was mauled to death by tigers in an attack discovered during routine cleaning, officials said Thursday. The body was found on Wednesday morning in Bahawalpur's Sherbagh Zoo in the eastern province of Punjab after staff spotted one of the three tigers with a shoe in its mouth. "The zoo is closed right now as we determine how the man got in," Ali Usman Bukhari, a senior officer of the province's wildlife department, which operates the zoo, told AFP. 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