Andrew Tate and brother Tristan to be tried in Romania on rape and trafficking charges (www.bbc.com)
Nineteen dead after highway collapses in southern China (www.dw.com)
Nineteen people have died after part of a highway collapsed in China’s southern Guangdong province, according to state media...
Tensions grow as China ramps up global mining for green tech (www.bbc.com)
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Russia has forked Wikipedia, featuring "better truths" (www.404media.co)
From real Wikipedia:...
Russia’s Rosatom Fuels Putin’s War Machine (foreignpolicy.com)
Moscow clearly believes that Rosatom will continue to get a free pass and is now using the company as a Trojan horse to circumvent Western sanctions. According to Rosatom Director-General Alexey Likhachev, the company’s military contracting has grown significantly. In January 2023, the Washington Post published information...
US lawmakers threaten retaliation against UN court over potential Israel arrest warrants (www.timesofisrael.com)
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Rwanda plan: Irish government wants to send asylum seekers back to UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
Zelenskyy thanks US after House passes aid bill (www.euronews.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders have applauded the US for passing a vital €89 billion aid bill which has been struggling to make it through the House of Representatives for months....
Russian missile slams educational institute in Ukraine's Odesa, kills four (uk.news.yahoo.com)
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Macron invites Xi to favourite Pyrenees holiday destination (www.telegraph.co.uk)
State Secrets Law tightens grip on China social media giants (www.bbc.com)
New rules that tighten Chinese government restrictions on the country’s internet companies have come into effect today, raising concerns about how they will be applied....
Philippines accuses China Coast Guard of damaging its ship (www.dw.com)
Authorities say water cannons “directly hit the starboard astern of the BFAR vessel,” in the Scarborough Shoal, which China seized in 2012....
Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash (www.theguardian.com)
What they learned is, to me, much less interesting than how they learned it.
Some in State Department don’t believe Israel is using US weapons in accordance with international law, source says | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
The State Department is divided over whether Israel is using American-provided weapons in accordance with international law ahead of a fast-approaching deadline next week for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make a determination to Congress....
South Korea radical Christians warn of “homosexual dictatorship” after opposition wins (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Onboard the Filipino coast guard ship attacked by China (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Deputy PM says no plan to forcibly bring back Ukrainian men from EU (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine is not planning to forcibly bring back military-aged men who are in the EU, said Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna in an interview with Deutsche Welle published on April 30....
Poland launches “Refugeebook” app to help asylum seekers | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)
First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’ (www.theguardian.com)
German army captain admits spying for Russia (www.dw.com)
The officer, with ties to the far-right AfD party, said he provided information to a Russian intelligence service out of fear of a nuclear escalation in Moscow’s war in Ukraine....
An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India [gift article] (wapo.st)
Two Ukrainian servicemen stabbed to death in Germany, Russian national arrested (www.cnn.com)
Two Ukrainian servicemen were stabbed to death at a shopping center in southern Germany Saturday evening, by a suspected Russian national, German and Ukrainian authorities say....
Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab (apnews.com)
ICJ rejects request to order Germany to stop selling arms to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
The International court of justice has rejected a request by Nicaragua to issue Germany emergency orders to desist selling arms to Israel, by 15 votes to one....
US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
The US has purchased 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, the Kyiv Post reports....
