Another visitor has been arrested in Turks and Caicos for ammunition possession (www.nbcboston.com)
Monthly inflation slows to single-digit: 8.8% in April | Buenos Aires Times (www.batimes.com.ar)
BSE: 'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland (www.bbc.com)
A case of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been identified on a farm in Ayrshire....
Slovakia PM shooting live: Robert Fico in hospital after being shot - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Climate change: Last summer hottest in 2,000 years, trees reveal (www.bbc.com)
Clues hidden deep in the trunks of ancient trees have revealed that last summer was the northern hemisphere’s hottest in 2,000 years....
‘We can be on the path to the EU or to Belarus’: Political thug culture grips Georgia (www.politico.eu)
Intimidation is becoming a feature of daily life, even before a controversial new Kremlin-style law takes effect....
David Cameron urges BBC to describe Hamas as terrorist organisation (www.theguardian.com)
Foreign secretary’s call comes after group releases video of British-Israeli hostage it says died after being wounded in Israeli airstrike...
Netanyahu ministers join Israeli far-right 'march to Gaza,' demand Palestinians' expulsion (www.haaretz.com)
Thousands of Israelis joined a far-right Independence Day march on Tuesday in the south, led by Jewish activists advocating for resettling Gaza and forcing Palestinians to leave the enclave....
'I saw one terrorist standing by a bed pleading 'no, no,' I killed him with four bullets' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Just to be clear, this was an elderly Palestinian man cowering under a bed who came out with his hands up and was murdered by an Israeli soldier who brags about it after.
Brazil’s Lula government ousts Petrobras chief after dispute over dividends (www.ft.com)
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UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down (www.theguardian.com)
The UN has denied that the estimated death toll of women and children in the war in Gaza has been revised downward, pointing towards a confusion between the total numbers of dead bodies recorded, and the number of those who have so far been fully identified....
Protests at French prisons as search continues for gunmen who killed officers (www.theguardian.com)
Prison officers complain of overcrowding and violence after two guards killed and inmate freed from van...
US warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west (www.theguardian.com)
Georgia has been warned by the US not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow, as its parliament defied mass street protests to pass a “Kremlin-inspired” law....
Barcelona is parched — and angry at quenched tourists (www.politico.eu)
The yawning gap between locals’ and visitors’ consumption is stoking long-standing resentments ahead of an election....
Africa Requires $277B Annually to Achieve 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Says Invest in African Energy (IAE) 2024 Panel (townflex.com)
Molly Gbodimowo, Strategy Director at Africa50 Infrastructure Investment Platform, underscored Africa's vast renewable energy resources, particularly its high
A Ukrainian recon commander in Kharkiv said its first line of defense was missing, in a 'betrayal' that allowed Russian troops to just walk in (www.yahoo.com)
Palestinian truckers fear for safety after aid convoy for Gaza wrecked (www.reuters.com)
HEBRON, West Bank, May 14 (Reuters) - Palestinian hauliers said on Tuesday they feared for the security of aid convoys to Gaza, a day after Israeli protesters wrecked trucks carrying humanitarian supplies bound for the enclave, which is facing a severe hunger crisis....
Belgium university to quit project with Israeli institutions (www.newarab.com)
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel said it would pull out of an AI project it was working on in collaboration with Israeli institutions, amid the Gaza war....
I have worked in the world’s most dangerous combat zones. Never have I felt as unsafe as I did in Gaza | Amy Neilson (www.theguardian.com)
I have worked in medical humanitarian aid in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, South Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya and Jordan throughout the last decade. Some of these jobs have been imbued with serious, tangible risk to life and limb, or of kidnap, but never have I felt as unsafe as I did in Gaza....
Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar (www.theguardian.com)
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, in the latest in a series of similar incidents involving the animals....
2 French prison officers killed, 3 injured in attack on prison van (www.voanews.com)
Italy: Police arrest over 100 mafia members in mass raid (www.dw.com)
The Calabrian 'Ndrangeta is known to be one of the most powerful crime organizations in the world. But now Italian authorities are trying to loosen its grip....
White House Worries Russia’s Momentum Is Changing Trajectory of Ukraine War (www.nytimes.com)
After months of slow Russian ground advances and technological leaps in countering American-provided arms, the Biden administration is increasingly concerned that President Vladimir V. Putin is gathering enough momentum to change the trajectory of the war, and perhaps reverse his once-bleak prospects....
Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies (townflex.com)
Richard "Rick" Slayman: Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies, his death came just two weeks after his surgery. latest news on townflex