China’s Tech Sector May Rival Property as Growth Driver, BE Says (www.bloomberg.com)
Baltimore bridge collapse sends vehicles tumbling into water (www.reuters.com)
Puerto Ricans take to the streets against Kamala Harris’s visit (peoplesdispatch.org)
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (www.ohchr.org)
After five months of military operations, Israel has destroyed Gaza. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 13,000 children. Over 12,000 are presumed dead and 71,000 injured, many with life-changing mutilations. Seventy percent of residential areas have been destroyed. Eighty percent of the whole...
America has no Ukraine Plan B except more war (asiatimes.com)
West acting out of self-interest in Ukraine: Borrell (english.almayadeen.net)
British High Court rules Julian Assange won’t be immediately extradited; next appeal hearing will be May 20 (www.aljazeera.com)
The court’s ruling today is here: www.judiciary.uk/…/Assange-Order-6.pdf
Biden knew Israel was bombing indiscriminately – WaPo (www.globalvillagespace.com)
On October 27, three weeks into Israel’s war with Hamas, Biden’s top foreign policy officials told a small group at the White House that “Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets,” the newspaper wrote, citing three sources familiar with the meeting....
Israeli Soldier’s Video Undercuts Medic’s Account of Sexual Assault (www.nytimes.com)
Australia chose AUKUS and now it faces the prospect of having no submarine capability for at least a decade (www.theguardian.com)
CCTV exposes 8 million RMB solar farm built on prime farmland, leads to plummeting rice yields (news.cctv.com)
Gaza war: Gate 96, the new crossing where aid struggles to get in | BBC (www.bbc.com)
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Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront (www.bbc.com)
Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war....
Palestinian testimonies of Israeli ‘executions’ at al-Shifa Hospital (www.aljazeera.com)
The US must stop facilitating mass killing in Gaza | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (www.theguardian.com)
It is against US law to provide weapons to forces who block United States humanitarian assistance. And that is exactly what is happening right now
Calls Mount for IOC to Kick Out Israel from Paris Olympics (popularresistance.org)
In a detailed letter to FIFA, backed by six other member associations, Palestine Football Association called for a ban on the Israeli football federation and all clubs associated with it, citing “unprecedented violations of human rights and humanitarian law.”...
UN Security Council Passes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, US Abstains (news.antiwar.com)
‘A criminal economy’: How US arms fuel deadly gang violence in Haiti (www.aljazeera.com)
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