NAACP asks Biden to halt weapons to Israel as he seeks to shore up Black voter support (www.reuters.com)
U.N. Chief António Guterres Calls for End to Advertising for Fossil Fuels (www.democracynow.org)
Russia is expected to begin naval, air exercises in Caribbean, U.S. official says (www.cbsnews.com)
Peace Activists Assaulted and Forcibly Removed From Jimmy Kimmel Live Taping With Vice President Kamala Harris (www.commondreams.org)
Japan's real wages fall for record 25th straight month in April (japantoday.com)
Russia overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world in PPP terms (www.intellinews.com)
Third farm under quarantine after confirmed cases of avian influenza 'bird flu' virus weeks after first human case ever recorded in Australia discovered in Victoria (www.skynews.com.au)
Kremlin welcomes Turkey's reported desire to join BRICS (www.reuters.com)
Ruling party loses absolute majority in elections to the Indian Parliament, but likely to form government with support of allies (www.thehindu.com)
Preliminary results for the 2024 Indian General election suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to lose its absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament. However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is projected to cross the halfway mark. The opposition INDIA alliance is projected to more than double...
Pakistan former PM Imran Khan acquitted in state secrets case (www.bbc.com)
China doesn’t need to invade to achieve Taiwanese unification (thehill.com)
Majority for EU chat control possible – Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Without Western armaments, Ukraine may only have months left (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Rippling out: Biden’s tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and their impact on Europe (www.bruegel.org)
Ukrainian M1 Abrams Tanks Get Elaborate 'Cope Cages,' Soviet Explosive Reactive Armor (www.twz.com)
Russian jamming leaves some high-tech U.S. weapons ineffective in Ukraine (www.washingtonpost.com)
How the IDF extorts Gazans: 'Contact us or we'll say you reported your neighbors to Hamas' (www.haaretz.com)
The Israeli army has started to publish identifying details about Gazans it says spied on civilians for Hamas’ General Security apparatus; a military source to Haaretz: the army has received legal permission for the operation Send in e-mailSend in e-mail...
Aboriginal Clapback To White Australian Goes Viral (youtu.be)
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China has a point about Taiwan’s new leader (www.ft.com)
Two sets of earthquake swarms have hit California. What's going on along the Mexico border? (www.latimes.com)
Ukraine war: what we know about the secret deal that could have ended the conflict in April 2022 (www.leparisien.fr)
“It was the best deal we could have had.” Two years later, a Ukrainian negotiator is still bitter: unveiled by the German daily Die Welt, in an article spotted by Le Figaro on Monday, the deal could have ended the war just weeks after the Russian invasion.
Egypt has destroyed more than 2,000 Gaza tunnels, secret files reveal (www.middleeasteye.net)
'Massive' French police deployment arrives to fight liberation forces in the colony in New Caledonia (www.euractiv.com)
Putin and Xi vow to deepen 'no limits' partnership as Russia advances in Ukraine (www.nbcnews.com)
