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"Armed with Cameras"
WorldNews.com 23 May 2022
Dear friends,. It’s terrible. Israel won’t investigate the murder of Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, shot in the head by Israeli forces. As a journalist, she spent decades bravely reporting on life under occupation in her home country -- and now Israel is basically signaling that killing Palestinians is OK ... Sign now and share all around ... .
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Ukraine’s ex-president Petro Poroshenko: ‘The army is like my child’
The Irish Times 22 May 2022
I have not even sat down to my lunch with Petro Poroshenko and already I’m feeling outmanoeuvred. We are walking through the grounds of his European Solidarity party headquarters, opposite Kyiv’s gold-domed Pecherska Lavra monastery. Like everything else in Ukraine, it has shifted to a wartime footing, and is now a volunteer hub ... ... Achievements ... ... .
photo: US Navy / Seaman Darren Cordoviz
Biden says US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China
Al Jazeera 23 May 2022
US President Joe Biden said Monday that he would use force to defend Taiwan if it was attacked by China, appearing to signal a shift away from Washington’s decades-long policy of so-called strategic ambiguity towards the East Asian democracy ... This is the third time that Biden, 79, has made such a statement ... .
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Iran Revolutionary Guard colonel assassinated
Russia Today 23 May 2022
The Quds Force member was shot five times outside his home in Tehran. Sayyad Khodaei, a colonel in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite foreign operations squad, the Quds Force, has been shot dead by a pair of motorcycle-mounted assassins outside his home on Mojahedin-e Eslam Street in Tehran, Iranian state media reported on Sunday ... .
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IMF warns against global economic fragmentation from Ukraine war
Hindustan Times 23 May 2022photo: AP / IRNA via AP
Iran will ‘avenge’ killing of Revolutionary Guards colonel, says president
The Observer 23 May 2022
Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi has said. Col Hassan Sayad Khodayari was killed on Sunday outside his home by assailants on motorcycles. Iran blamed “elements linked to the global arrogance”, its term for the US and its allies including Israel ... Raisi said ... Photograph ... .
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Davos president calls for Ukrainian 'Marshall Plan'
Deutsche Welle 23 May 2022
World Economic Forum president Borge Brende has called for a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Ukraine as the annual meeting in Davis kicks off. Brende said reconstruction should go ahead with or without a peace settlement. ... The Marshall Plan was a US initiative that supported the rebuilding of several European economies following World War II ... .
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Seven killed after fire engulfs Philippine ferry
Arab News 23 May 2022
MANILA. At least seven people were killed and scores plucked to safety in the Philippines Monday after a fire ripped through a ferry and forced passengers to jump overboard, coast guard and witnesses said ... Seven people died and 120 have been rescued so far, Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Armando Balilo said ... ....
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Biden warns of potentially 'consequential' monkeypox spread
Manila Bulletin 23 May 2022
SEOUL, South Korea – Monkeypox has caught the attention of US President Joe Biden, who said Sunday that people should be on guard against the disease which has the potential for “consequential” impact, if it were to spread further. AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN ... .
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Russia must pay 'long-term price' for Ukraine invasion: Joe Biden
The Times of India 23 May 2022photo: Creative Commons / Cecilia Heinen / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Israel seeks direct flights with Qatar during World Cup 2022
The Siasat Daily 23 May 2022
Jerusalem ... The proposal is expected to be presented to the Qatari leadership in the coming days, it added, citing the Israeli officials ... .
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Jacinda Ardern to Visit the United States for Tourism Promotion
The Epoch Times 23 May 2022
The prime minister departs on Monday evening, local time, and will visit New York, Washington D.C., Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle ... ....
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Sri Lanka crisis worsens! 2-day old infant dies as father couldn’t find petrol
DNA India 23 May 2022
As the fuel crisis is worsening in Sri Lanka, tragedy struck a family after a two-day-old infant died as her father could not find petrol for his tuk-tuk to take her to the hospital in the island nation's Central Highlands region ... Also, READ. Bharat Bandh on May 25. Who’s demanding it and why ... . .
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Ukraine war: Russian assault on key Donbas city intensifies
BBC News 23 May 2022
Russian forces in eastern Ukraine are intensifying attacks on a key city as they seek to seize the Donbas region. Severodonetsk, the largest city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, has come under intense artillery and missile fire from Moscow's forces ... Officials said Russia's invasion of Ukraine has contributed to the grim milestone ... .
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More than 100 million people forcibly displaced: UN
Arab News 23 May 2022
GENEVA. Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday ... The “alarming” figure must shake the world into ending the conflicts forcing record numbers to flee their own homes, the UNHCR said in a statement ... “The world is falling apart.”.