Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere ( www.theguardian.com )
Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan ( www.theguardian.com )
83% of supply chains fail 24-hour disruption response ( www.manilatimes.net )
Suffering worst drought in decades, Costa Rica orders electricity rationing ( www.reuters.com )
Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter of the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem ( twitter.com )
Chinese PR boss says sorry after glorifying work-till-you-drop culture ( www.theguardian.com )
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Xi Jinping blasts US/NATO for bombing China's embassy in Serbia ( www.youtube.com )
Dutch Police Smash Pro-Palestine Protest Camp ( scheerpost.com )
Boeing supplier regularly shipped parts with defects, whistleblower alleges ( www.theguardian.com )
David Cameron says UK will not follow US in withholding arms sales to Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
David Cameron says UK will not follow US in withholding arms sales to Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
David Cameron has said the UK will not be following the US in withholding arms sales to Israel, saying the positions are not comparable since the UK is not a large state-to-state arms supplier to Israel....
Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest ( www.theguardian.com )
Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal ( www.bbc.com )
Yoon rejects South Korean opposition's calls for special investigation of his wife and top officials ( apnews.com )
Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city ( www.bbc.com )
An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.
Chinese reunification with Taiwan to devastate US, Commerce Sec. says ( english.almayadeen.net )
Austria plans to deport convicts to Kosovo ( www.politico.eu )
Ukraine parliament passes bill for prisoners to join army ( www.aljazeera.com )
The move on Wednesday marks a U-turn in Ukraine’s approach on the matter. Kyiv had long opposed the measure and had repeatedly criticised Moscow for mobilising prisoners to fill its ranks....
'Lost' spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say ( phys.org )
Full text: China-France Joint Statement on the Situation in the Middle East ( www.chinadaily.com.cn )
At the invitation of H.E. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, paid a state visit to France from May 5 to 7, 2024. The two heads of state had an in-depth exchange of views on the situation in the Middle East:...
Chainsaw Democracy - Argentina in Crisis Faces an Authoritarian President ( unicornriot.ninja )
Front of Boeing 767 scrapes along Istanbul runway after front landing gear failure ( www.independent.co.uk )
Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah ( abcnews.go.com )
US won’t guarantee Australia will have complete control of Aukus submarines ( www.theguardian.com )
US revokes Intel, Qualcomm's export licenses to sell to China's Huawei, sources say ( www.reuters.com )
