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
UN says total number of deaths in Gaza remains unchanged after controversy over revised data (www.cnn.com)
The total number of dead also does not include the approximately 10,000 people who are still missing and trapped under the rubble, the officials added....
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years (www.theguardian.com)
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authorities...
Berlin museum pokes fun at German bureaucracy (www.dw.com)
The capital’s Bureaucracy Museum takes a wry look at one of Germany’s most serious challenges.
Europe eyes car chips as next battleground with China (www.politico.eu)
Commission will start questioning its industry about competition with China and others on older-generation microchips....
Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate (www.npr.org)
France imposes curfew in New Caledonia after unrest by people who have long sought independence (apnews.com)
Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia announced a two-day curfew and banned gatherings on Tuesday after violent unrest on the archipelago with decades of tensions between indigenous Kanaks seeking independence and colonizers’ descendants who want to remain part of France.
India's Hindu nationalist regime is a threat to Muslims — and bad news for the U.S. (www.salon.com)
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families (www.theguardian.com)
A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children...
'Like the war's first days': Israel unleashes heaviest Gaza bombing in months (www.middleeasteye.net)
The Israeli military has launched a new wave of attacks across the Gaza Strip, similar in intensity to the peak of its seven-month war on the besieged Palestinian enclave....
UN says Gaza death toll still over 35,000 but not all bodies identified (www.reuters.com)
UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-Hamas war is still more than 35,000, but the enclave’s Ministry of Health has updated its breakdown of the fatalities, the United Nations said on Monday after Israel questioned a sudden change in numbers....
Hungary teases veto over new EU Russian gas sanctions (www.politico.eu)
Budapest opposes measures “that might have a negative impact on EU gas market” — a stance that could kill the EU’s effort to squeeze Moscow’s gas revenue....
CIA Chief officer ready to share Intel of Hamas top leaders to mossad (www.arktrek.shop)
Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong (www.telegraph.co.uk)
When the water runs dry: Why France is freaking out over a tiny Swiss dam (www.politico.eu)
Water-rich Switzerland controls Western Europe’s taps — and wants it to stay that way. Its drought-ridden neighbors are getting nervous....
Georgia defies EU and backs law targeting ‘foreign agents’ (www.politico.eu)
Brussels warns new curbs on civil society flout “European values” as protests grow in Tbilisi....
Cybercriminals claim hack of EU police agency, posting data online (www.politico.eu)
Sensitive data from the EU’s police agency appeared for sale on a cybercrime forum....
American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life (theintercept.com)
Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions....
Israel-Gaza war: UN says staff member killed in Gaza (www.bbc.com)
The United Nations says one of its staff members was killed and another injured as they travelled to a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday....
Far-right EU election gains could boost nationalist parties on home turf (www.theguardian.com)
Polls indicate a surge for the right across the continent in next month’s ballots but the centrists are still likely to hold sway in parliament...
Israel’s ‘total victory’ in Gaza is unlikely, top US official says (www.politico.com)
David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents (www.bbc.com)
David McBride pleaded guilty to stealing and sharing military secrets on the eve of his trial last year, after legal rulings sunk his defence....
