Our daily stroll around the world

🇧🇷 A record drought in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest has revealed ancient human face carvings. The Amazon River has fallen as much as 50 feet since July, revealing an array of 1,000- to 2,000-year-old rock carvings last seen during a similar drought in 2010. In addition to anthropomorphic faces and depictions of water, some rocks display grooves that suggest the site was also used to produce stone tools.

💥 Israel-Hamas war update: Israel’s military continued to launch airstrikes targeting Gaza, with Hamas officials saying such attacks killed at least 704 people over the 24-hour period ending yesterday afternoon (which couldn’t be independently verified). A UN agency that represents the largest provider of humanitarian support in the Gaza Strip said it would be forced to shut down operations by tonight if more aid, including fuel, doesn’t arrive before then. On the US side, President Biden held a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman yesterday, in which the two leaders agreed to pursue efforts aimed at preventing the war from spreading to other countries in the Middle East.

🇮🇸 Iceland experienced its first full-day women’s strike since 1975. At least 25,000 women and nonbinary people, including Iceland’s female prime minister and other women in her Cabinet, went on strike yesterday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. While Iceland has been considered the most gender-equal country in the world by the WEF for 14 years running, the country’s collective gender pay gap between women and men stands at 10.2%, and over 40% of Icelandic women have experienced gender-based or sexual violence.