Australia: Teenager charged with terrorism in church attack (www.dw.com)
Australian police have charged a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a bishop and a priest with a terrorism offense. If convicted, he could face life imprisonment....
Iran and Israel playing with fire as old rules of confrontation are torn up (www.theguardian.com)
Reported Israeli drone strike on Isfahan may signal that this widening conflict has become more dynamic...
It's been called Israel's 'Guantanamo'. A doctor who worked in the secretive facility is now speaking out (www.abc.net.au)
Ukraine says downs Russian bomber as 8 die in missile attack (www.dw.com)
Ukraine’s military says its forces have destroyed a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber used to attack Ukrainian cities. This comes as Russian missile strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk region are reported to have killed eight people....
Attack on Myanmar Junta's Arms Factory in Magway Region NUG Claims (www.narinjara.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/19654099...
India delivers first batch of BrahMos missiles to Philippines (www.deccanherald.com)
Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president (www.theguardian.com)
‘Hidden in plain sight’: the European city tours of slavery and colonialism (www.theguardian.com)
From Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid to the Tuileries Garden in Paris, guides reshape stories continent tells about itself...
Iran consulate in Paris cordoned off following report someone entered with an explosive (www.lemonde.fr)
A man was arrested as a large security perimeter was deployed around the consulate of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Paris, at mid-day on Friday, April 19. Security services were alerted to the presence of a person suspected of carrying an explosive device. Paris police officials told Agence France-Presse the man was arrested....
Israeli army broadcasts intimidating sounds to lure, kill, and forcibly displace civilians in the Nuseirat camp (euromedmonitor.org)
Testimonies from camp residents, which were provided to the Euro-Med Monitor team, confirm that the sound of women screaming and babies crying was heard late at night on both Sunday and Monday. When some of the residents went out to investigate and tried to help, they were shot at by Israeli quadcopter drones. The sounds they...
Water extraction and weight of buildings see half of China's cities sink (www.bbc.com)
Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say....
Tunde Onakoya: Nigerian attempts to break chess marathon record (www.bbc.com)
Under the beaming lights of New York’s iconic Times Square, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya is attempting an ambitious challenge to break the record for the longest chess marathon....
United States blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership (www.cbc.ca)
‘Russia doesn’t care’: Sweden sounds alarm over unsafe oil fleet (www.theguardian.com)
Foreign minister warns of environmental catastrophe in Baltic Sea as he accuses Moscow of using unseaworthy vessels...
Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft (www.bloomberg.com)
Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft. Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war
Why Donald Trump ‘hates Ukraine’: The once and possibly future U.S. president blames the country for his political woes (www.politico.eu)
Donald Trump doesn’t easily forgive or forget....
Russia, Iran turning Israel and Ukraine into ‘battlefield laboratories,’ experts say (thehill.com)
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday....
Europe wants two things from China. It may not get far on either of them (apnews.com)
Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream, thanks to Modi's decade in power (apnews.com)
Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream. Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most beloved and polarizing political leaders....
Paedophiles could be stripped of parental rights under new law (www.bbc.com)
Paedophiles convicted of serious sexual offences could lose parental rights over their children under a new law....
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem wins 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award (www.reuters.com)
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip....
They Graduated Into Gaza’s War. What Happened to Them? (www.nytimes.com)
A class of freshly minted dentistry graduates in Gaza had big plans. Now they are counting the dead and trying not to join them.
UNRWA details harrowing torture of Gazans detained by Israel (www.newarab.com)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) published a report on Tuesday saying it had documented the release of 1,506 Palestinian detainees via the Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing on 4 April, many of whom had suffered torture, ill-treatment, and sexual violence at the hands of Israeli...
AIPAC-endorsed Democrat calls for Israeli leadership change (www.politico.com)
Argentina Monthly Inflation Slowed More Than Expected in March (www.bloomberg.com)
Argentina keeps dropping the inflation numbers, good news for the country!
