Mexico, Cuba and Colombia formalize regional medicines agency (+Photos) (www.plenglish.com)
Climate change: Spain breaks record temperature for April (www.bbc.com)
Argentina to pay for China imports in yuan, ditching US dollar (www.trtworld.com)
Yuan Overtakes Dollar as China’s Most Used Cross-Border Currency (archive.ph)
Russia Conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation in the North Sea (www.politico.eu)
Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists (www.bbc.co.uk)
BRICS Draws Membership Requests From 19 Nations Before Summit (archive.ph)
US bans are good for Chinese chipmakers, says MediaTek exec (www.theregister.com)
Leave Russia? A Year Later Many Companies Can’t, or Won’t. (www.nytimes.com)
Indonesia Continues 'De-dollarization' (archive.ph)
9 people killed as U.S. army helicopters crash during training in Kentucky (www.cbc.ca)
Rapidly forming El Niño to boost global warming, lead to widespread extreme events (www.axios.com)
Russia now controls American nuclear technology at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. US is whinging, but not clear what they can do about it/ (www.cnn.com)
Macron 'working on secret plan' with China to end Ukraine war (www.brusselstimes.com)
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu "The Whole World Hates America" (archive.is)
Japan signals an attitude shift to the growing power of the Global South (peoplesdispatch.org)
'I shot a 5-year-old': Ex-Wagner soldiers admit to killing children in Ukraine (www.euronews.com)
Two former fighters gave interviews to an exiled human rights activist who runs the website Gulagu.net, which reports on corruption and torture in Russia. Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev describe their actions in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, including executing 60 wounded prisoners, some of whom were Russian...