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Turkey confirms opposition to NATO membership for Sweden, Finland
Al Jazeera 17 May 2022
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed Turkey’s opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, shooting down a proposal by the Nordic countries to send delegations to Ankara to address the matter ... “Neither of the countries have a clear stance against terror organisations,” Erdogan said. “How can we trust them?” ... .
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French city allows burkinis in swimming pools in controversial change
France24 17 May 2022photo: AP
Ukraine declares 'combat mission' over in Mariupol amid evacuation
CNN 17 May 2022
(CNN)Ukrainian forces have completed their "combat mission" in the besieged city of Mariupol, according to a statement by the country's military ... Hundreds of people were evacuated on Monday from the steel plant, the last holdout in a city that had become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance under relentless Russian bombardment ... Read More ... JUST WATCHED ... .
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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 83 of the invasion
The Guardian 17 May 2022
Fighters evacuated from steelworks in Mariupol; Ukrainian troops push back Russian forces from Kharkiv as far as Russian border The evacuation of wounded Ukrainian troops from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol is under way, Volodomyr Zelenskiy confirmed , with more than 260 fighters transported out of the plant ... ....
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Russia faces diplomatic and battlefield setbacks on Ukraine
The Buffalo News 16 May 2022
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN - Associated Press. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow suffered another diplomatic setback Monday in its war with Ukraine, with Sweden joining Finland in deciding to seek NATO membership, while Ukraine’s president congratulated his soldiers who reportedly pushed back Russian forces near the border ... ....
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US says it conducted a successful hypersonic weapon test
Al Jazeera 17 May 2022
The United States Air Force says it has conducted a successful test of a hypersonic weapon, which flew at five times the speed of sound. The test was conducted on Saturday off the coast of Southern California when a B-52 bomber released an Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), the Air Force said in a statement on Monday ... .
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Shanghai slowly emerges from lockdown as virus flares elsewhere
Indian Express 17 May 2022
The new outbreaks, along with continuing cases in the Chinese capital Beijing despite a growing list of curbs, show how officials are engaged in a Sisyphean effort to quash omicron ... Falling Infections. Shanghai reported a total of 823 infections for Monday, down from 938 on Sunday ... News of Shanghai’s easing buoyed investors ... 🗞 Subscribe Now ... Live Blog ... .
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Pro-Israel lobbying group Aipac secretly pouring millions into defeating progressive Democrats
The Guardian 17 May 2022
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Clashes break out as rival governments jostle for power in Libya's capital
Anadolu Agency 17 May 2022
Clashes erupted in Libya’s capital Tripoli on Tuesday between armed groups loyal to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and rival leader Fathi Bashagha, who was recently appointed as premier by the Tobruk-based parliament ... .
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Don’t accidentally hire a North Korean hacker, FBI warns
The Observer 17 May 2022
US officials have warned businesses against inadvertently hiring IT staff from North Korea, saying that rogue freelancers were taking advantage of remote work opportunities to hide their true identities and earn money for Pyongyang ... US charges three North Korean hackers over $1.3bn cryptocurrency attacks. Read more ... Reuse this content. .
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Russia threatens to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on its European border 'when NATO bases appear in Sweden and Finland'
The Daily Mail 16 May 2022
Russian state television has said Moscow may deploy tactical nuclear weapons to its European borders if Finland and Sweden allow military bases on their territory after joining NATO. Sweden's Social Democrats yesterday said they had dropped their opposition to NATO membership only hours after Finland confirmed its intention to join the alliance ... .
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Mali junta says ‘Western-backed’ military officers attempted coup
The Philadelphia Inquirer 17 May 2022photo: AP / Gregory Bull
El plan de Elon Musk para detectar cuentas falsas en Twitter no es viable, explica ...
Yahoo Daily News 17 May 2022
El multimillonario Elon Musk, anunció el viernes que su propuesta para adquirir Twitter en 44,000 millones de dólares (mdd) se encuentra «temporalmente suspendida» mientras espera información sobre la cantidad de cuentas falsas o de bots en la plataforma ... En respuesta a la crítica de Agrawal, Musk simplemente tuiteó el emoji de una caca ... AHORA LEE ... 1.
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Boris Johnson sets out ‘insurance’ plan to rewrite Northern Ireland’s Brexit deal
Irish Independent 17 May 2022
Boris Johnson said his plan to legislate to rip up Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements was an “insurance” policy if a fresh deal could not be reached with the European Union ... .
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Black Lives Matter has $42 million in assets
The Hindu 17 May 2022
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc had an operating budget of about $4 million, according to a board member ....