Hamas and Iran celebrate anti-Gaza war protests taking US colleges by storm (www.usatoday.com)
Facility seen polluting Malaysian river part of anti-pollution program promoted by US plastics industry (abcnews.go.com)
Kyiv evacuates children hospital due to attack threat (kyivindependent.com)
Kyiv authorities announced on April 26 an urgent evacuation of two hospitals, including a children’s one, saying that they were at a risk of being targeted in an air attack....
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Exclusive: U.S. pier attacked during construction work off Gaza coast - I24NEWS (www.i24news.tv)
Ariel Henry resigns as prime minister of Haiti, paving the way for a new government to take power (apnews.com)
🇨🇩 DR Congo Tells Apple to Cease & Desist using "Blood Minerals" in iPhones (youtu.be)
Vatican eyes closer ties with communist Vietnam (www.dw.com)
Closer relations between the Vatican and Vietnam have raised eyebrows over why the Catholic Church is making friends with a state where religious organizations are tightly under the thumb of the communist authorities....
American boys say they were beaten and starved at Jamaican school for troubled teens (www.nbcnews.com)
China is not afraid of competition, Xi tells Blinken as two spar over Beijing’s backing to Russia’s Ukraine war (www.deccanherald.com)
Spain: PM Sanchez suspends public duties as wife probed (www.dw.com)
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will suspend public duties until next week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a probe of his wife....
‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third (www.theguardian.com)
Fossil fuel and petrochemical campaigners at Ottawa summit outnumber scientists, EU and Indigenous delegates...
US preparing to announce $6B in weapons contracts for Ukraine (www.politico.com)
With Hope of Kickstarting Floundering Ceasefire Negotiations, Egypt Sends Delagation to Israel- Republic World (www.republicworld.com)
UK man with alleged Wagner ties charged with spying for Russia (kyivindependent.com)
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean (apnews.com)
‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter (www.theguardian.com)
Day-trippers will have to pay €5 to visit Italian city under scheme designed to protect it from excess tourism...
Quebec separation re-enters political debate thanks to TikTok-friendly leader (www.theguardian.com)
Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon speaking loudly and often after party win over Coalition Avenir Québec...
Ukraine pressures military age men abroad by suspending their consular services | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Oligarch sanction setbacks are no big deal, Brussels says (www.euronews.com)
A string of EU court judgements overruling asset freezes on Russian businessmen doesn’t upend the overall strategy....
Pessimistic young Germans turning to far right, says study (www.dw.com)
German teenagers and young adults find themselves increasingly unsatisfied and likely to vote for the far right, according to a survey. Fears about prosperity are highlighted as a possible cause....
Venice becomes first city in the world to charge day trippers a tourist fee to enter (www.cbsnews.com)
As Biden, Sunak pledge more cruise missiles for Ukraine, Germany’s Scholz adamant on Taurus refusal (www.politico.eu)
The German chancellor and his defense minister have doubled down on their decision not to send long-range missiles to Ukraine....
‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system (www.theguardian.com)
Condemned as dangerous and abusive, the kafala labour system not only disregards migrant workers’ rights but depends on exploitation. But 10 years after Qatar was advised by the UN to abolish kafala (“sponsorship”) entirely and replace it with a regulated labour network, the system is thriving across Lebanon, Jordan and...