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About 5,000 Moroccans storm illegally into Spain's Ceuta enclave
Middle East Online 18 May 2021
MADRID - An unusually large group of about 5,000 Moroccans, many of them minors or families, illegally swam into Spain's northern African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, a spokesman for the Spanish government's delegation there said. One person died in the attempt, the spokesman said ... "Spain has been very clear and detailed about the case ... .
photo: US DoS / NATO
Blinken Slams Russia's 'Unlawful Maritime Claims', Says US Will Have to Respond
Urdu Point 18 May 2021
If Russia "chooses to take reckless or aggressive actions" targeting the interests of the US or its allies, Washington will respond, Blinken went on to say ... education, oil spill response, search and rescue, pollution ....
photo: AP / Adel Hana
Understanding Israel’s Latest Attack on Gaza, and Who Benefits
The Palestine Chronicle 18 May 2021
“Both sides need to de-escalate.”. “No one benefits from this. ”. You’ll hear a lot of statements like that from pundits, elected officials, government spokespeople, and mainstream media anytime there’s violence in Israel-Palestine ... Thirty-one of them were children. Rocket fire from Gaza left eight Israelis, including one child dead ... But it’s not true ... .
photo: AP / Ariel Schalit
Israeli military fires shells at southern Lebanon
Press TV 18 May 2021
Israel has fired artillery shells at Lebanon, after rockets were fired from the country toward the occupied Palestinian territories. The Israeli military said it had launched artillery at what it said were “the sources of” six shells that were fired from Lebanon toward the northern part of the occupied territories on Monday ... www.presstv.ir ... .
photo: White House / Lawrence Jackson
US set to approve $735 million arms deal to Israel
The New Arab 18 May 2021
The Biden administration will sell Israel a further $735 million in precision-guided weapons, despite the ongoing bombardment of civilians in Gaza. Congressional sources indicated to The Washington Post, that the deal would likely be approved by the Houses without objections ... https.//t.co/g348hB7L1T — The New Arab (@The_NewArab) May 18, 2021 ... ....
photo: World Economic Forum / Sebastian Derungs
Putin Calls for Putting End to Israeli-Palestinian VIolence
Urdu Point 18 May 2021
"The outbreak of confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis has already resulted in a large number of civilian victims, including children ... ....
photo: OGL3 / UK Prime Minister
European leaders seized more power during the pandemic. Few have 'exit plans' to hand it back
CNN 18 May 2021
London and Paris (CNN)Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives across Europe due to Covid-19, and many more have suffered long-term ill health after contracting the disease. They're not the only casualties of the pandemic ... The move was seen as controversial by some of Macron's liberal allies ... Read More ... That was two member states ... .
photo: AP / Elaine Thompson
Bill Gates will never be the same
Vox 18 May 2021
Bill Gates is mired in deep scandal, after decades of bolstering his philanthropic image. Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images. The aura that Gates built over the past two decades may be permanently shattered ... It would only take two weeks for Gates to reinvent himself yet again — and not in the way that his past reinventions have gone ... .
photo: US Navy / PO1 David P. Coleman
US approves release of oldest prisoner at Guantanamo: Lawyer
Al Jazeera 18 May 2021
A 73-year-old from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has been notified that he has been approved for release after more than 16 years in custody at the US base in Cuba, his lawyer said ... It does not mean his release his imminent ... A Pentagon spokesman had no immediate comment ... .
photo: AP / Gerry Broome
Prosecutor: Deputies' fatal shooting of Black man justified
Moosejaw Today 18 May 2021
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina sheriff's deputies were justified in their fatal shooting of a Black man in April, a district attorney said Tuesday. District Attorney Andrew Womble said Andrew Brown Jr.'s actions caused deputies to believe it was necessary to use deadly force ... The sheriff has said his deputies weren't injured ... .
photo: AP / Niranjan Shrestha
Wrongfully convicted US brothers to receive $84 million
Raw Story 18 May 2021
Two African-American half-brothers who spent 31 years in prison in the southern US state of North Carolina for a crime they did not commit have been awarded $84 million, their lawyer said Monday ... "They were vindicated." .
photo: AP / Matt Dunham
Nurse who looked after Boris resigns over ‘lack of respect’ for NHS workers
Metro UK 18 May 2021
Ms McGee cited the government’s 1% pay rise for nurses as one of the reasons she resigned (Picture. PA). A nurse who cared for Boris Johnson as he battled coronavirus in hospital has resigned over the ‘lack of respect’ shown by the government for the NHS ... ‘We’re not getting the respect and now pay that we deserve. I’m just sick of it ... AP) ... She said ... PA) ... .
photo: AP / Kin Cheung
Hong Kong closes Taiwan office amid rise in diplomatic tensions
Al Jazeera 18 May 2021
Hong Kong’s government has suspended operations at its representative office in Taiwan in a sign of escalating diplomatic tension between China’s self-governing territory and the democratically-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own ... Taiwan’s government said that while it respected the decision, it also regretted it ... .
photo: AP / Peter Dejong
New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery
The Northside Sun 18 May 2021
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The delicacy of one of the first objects in new exhibition at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a thin iron rod are the artistically interwoven letters GWC — used to brand the initials of a Dutch trading company into the skin of enslaved workers ... Gold, ivory and human beings ... ___ ... All rights reserved.
photo: AP / Babuskinsky District Court
Russian lawmakers move to ban Navalny supporters from polls
Urdu Point 18 May 2021
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