Myanmar Junta Scrambling to Hang on to Pearl of Economic Partnership With China (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/18632014...
Seven children, ages 12 to 17, wounded in Indianapolis mass shooting, police say (www.google.com)
The salary Americans need to buy a starter home has nearly doubled since the pandemic (fortune.com)
Philippines to boost diplomacy and defence capability as South China Sea 'countermeasures' (www.yahoo.com)
MANILA (Reuters) - Countermeasures by the Philippines to China’s conduct in the South China Sea will entail strengthening its defence capabilities with allies and exhausting all diplomatic measures to resolve disputes, a security official said on Monday....
On Zionism (thespouter.substack.com)
What people don’t understand is that Zionism itself is antisemetic.
Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on Americans, at home and abroad (theins.press)
Israel lodges proposal with UN for dismantling of Palestinian relief agency (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has given the UN a proposal to dismantle Unrwa, its relief agency in the Palestinian territories, and transfer its staff to a replacement agency to make large-scale food deliveries into Gaza, according to UN sources....
Israel and the Puritans: A dangerous historical romance (www.salon.com)
Ukraine's critical infrastructure targeted in Russian overnight attack (kyivindependent.com)
Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight on March 31, damaging infrastructure facilities and killing at least one person....
U.S. eyes change to military command in Japan as China threat looms: Reuters (www.cnbc.com)
U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will agree next month to tighter military cooperation, including talks on the biggest potential change to Washington’s East Asia command structure in decades, two sources said....
France to send old armoured vehicles, new missiles to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine says Russia fired 16 missiles, 11 drones overnight (www.reuters.com)
Russian journalist who covered Navalny trials jailed on extremism charges (www.theguardian.com)
Moscow court ordered Antonina Favorskaya to remain in custody pending an investigation...
Dutch nightclub hostage drama ends peacefully with arrest of suspect (www.reuters.com)
“Several people, including employees, had been taken hostage at the Cafe Petticoat in the town of Ede early on Saturday morning. The motive was unclear....
Ukraine war latest: Russian assault on Kharkiv can't be ruled out, chief commander says (kyivindependent.com)
Russia’s attempt to take the city of Kharkiv can’t be ruled out, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said on March 29....
A record surge in dengue cases in Latin America spurs a warning for proactive measures (www.nbcnews.com)
As of March, more than 3.5 million cases of the mosquito-transmitted dengue and more than 1,000 deaths have been reported in the region, according to the Pan American Health Organization....
Indian politics roiled as huge donations are linked to investigated firms (www.washingtonpost.com)
Mahendra Kumar Jalan was an Indian millionaire with a diversified portfolio of food processing plants, dairy farms and commercial real estate. As he faced scrutiny from the Indian government’s financial crimes investigators in 2019, he began to put money in something else....
Russian network that 'paid European politicians' busted, authorities claim (www.bbc.com)
A Russian-backed “propaganda” network has been broken up for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians, according to authorities in several countries....
Israel looking to assault Rafah 'after Eid': Egyptian source (www.newarab.com)
Israeli settlers call for UN agency’s closure in Jerusalem protest (www.theguardian.com)
Burnings and beheadings: Myanmar junta escalates terror tactics against its own people | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
US urges allies to bar firms from servicing key chipmaking tools for China (www.reuters.com)
Watch: Cocaine haul found after high-speed boat chase off Colombia (www.bbc.com)
Footage released by Colombian armed forces show them chasing a boat laden with tonnes of cocaine off the coast of San Andres island....
Smoking pit oven leads to discovery of "bones, skin and burnt human flesh," relatives of missing Mexicans say (www.cbsnews.com)
A group of relatives searching for some of Mexico’s roughly 100,000 missing persons said it had discovered around two dozen bags containing human remains in a clandestine cemetery....
Russia aims to knock out Ukraine's power grid in new wave of attacks (kyivindependent.com)
Russia launched a fresh wave of missile and drone attacks against Ukraine between March 21-25, hitting the country’s critical infrastructure heavier than ever before....
