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Israel-Gaza conflict rages as US envoy visits
BBC News 15 May 2021
A US envoy has arrived in Tel Aviv for de-escalation talks as unrest between Israel and the Palestinians continues. Hady Amr will take part in talks with Israeli, Palestinian and UN officials and reinforce what US diplomats said was the need for a "sustainable calm" ... .
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Japan, US, France hold military drill eyeing China presence
Yahoo Daily News 15 May 2021
KIRISHIMA TRAINING AREA, Japan (AP) — Dozens of Japanese, American and French troops landed amid pouring rain from a CH-47 transport helicopter onto a grassy field at a training area in southern Japan, part of Saturday's joint scenario of defending a remote island from an enemy invasion ... Around 200 troops took part in Saturday's exercises ... Col ... U.S ... .
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China completes historic Mars spacecraft landing
Dawn 15 May 2021
An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia, ... China is pursuing an ambitious space programme ... .
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Where did COVID-19 come from? Top infectious disease experts call for a ‘proper investigation’
WPTV 15 May 2021
Almost 18 months after SARS-CoV-2, commonly called the coronavirus, was identified, the origin of the virus remains shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theories. An open letter published recently in the journal Science by 18 infectious disease experts, immunologists and epidemiologists is the latest in growing calls for answers ... .
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Colonial Pipeline hackers may have been hacked themselves
CNBC 15 May 2021photo: AP / Matt Dunham, pool
Patel accused of ‘flagrant beach’ of ministerial code over PPE lobbying
AOL 15 May 2021
Priti Patel has been accused of a “flagrant breach” of the ministerial code by lobbying a fellow minister in an attempt to secure a healthcare firm access to a personal protective equipment (PPE) deal said to be worth £20 million ... Jolyon Maugham, director of the campaign, said ... Mr Jassal and PDL have been contacted for comment. .
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Israeli strike destroys Gaza building with AP, other media
Moosejaw Today 15 May 2021
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on Saturday targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets. AP’s president said the agency was “shocked and horrified” at the strike ... Three heavy missiles struck the 12-story building, collapsing it in a giant cloud of dust.
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US calls reports of migrant children in buses 'unacceptable'
Yahoo Daily News 15 May 2021
Reports of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center are “completely unacceptable” if true, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday. Dr ... It is unclear how many children were kept on buses overnight. “This is completely unacceptable," Becerra said ... ___ ... News18.
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Putin says Ukraine is becoming an ‘anti-Russia’, pledges response
Metro USA 14 May 2021
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that neighbouring Ukraine was becoming ‘anti-Russia’ and that Moscow would be ready to react to what he said were threats to its own security ... “For the first time in many years the number of oligarchs has not increased, but decreased ... .
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Updated terror advisory warns of ‘complex and volatile’ threats from domestic and ‘grievance-based’ groups
The Independent 15 May 2021photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Climate change threatens one-third of global food production
Phys Dot Org 14 May 2021
Climate change is known to negatively affect agriculture and livestock, but there has been little scientific knowledge on which regions of the planet would be touched or what the biggest risks may be ... The study is published in the prestigious journal One Earth on Friday 14 May ... Arctic tundra would be even worse off ... the world needs urgent action ... DOI.
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Palestinians in Gaza recount ‘ruthless’ horrors of Israeli raids
Al Jazeera 14 May 2021
Hasan al-Attar stood quietly inside the morgue, staring at the bodies of his daughter, Lamya, and three other children belonging to the same family. Wearing his fireman’s vest, he bent over to kiss his daughter, before the refrigeration unit door was closed. “Pray for her,” a colleague said, clasping his hand on Hasan’s shoulder ... #شاهد ... Translation ... .
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Escort who snorted cocaine with Matt Gaetz had ‘no show’ government job: report
Raw Story 15 May 2021
New salacious details in the Matt Gaetz scandal were revealed in a bombshell new report by The Daily Beast. "When Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a 2019 GOP fundraiser in Orlando, his date that night was someone he knew well. a paid escort and amateur Instagram model who led a cocaine-fueled party after the event, according to two witnesses ... On Oct.
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The Russian Bounty Story Is a Deadly Example of Fake News
Antiwar 15 May 2021
A New York Times report about Russia paying Taliban militants to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan turned many heads in the summer of 2020 when it was first published. It solidified many Democrats’ views that Russia is a dangerous enemy that is consistently acting to not only undermine the U.S., but actually murder its citizens ... Maj ... RS ... DS ... RS ... DS ... .
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Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza as conflict enters fifth day
BBC News 14 May 2021
The Israeli military has intensified its assault on Gaza, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel on the fifth day of hostilities. Israel's army said air and ground forces were involved in attacks on Friday but had not entered Gaza ... He said Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, would pay a heavy price ... Related Topics. .
