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Ukraine warns only talks can end war
The Manila Times 22 May 2022
KYIV. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia's war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies to Finland ... Speaking on Ukrainian television on Saturday, Zelenskyy said ... Under what format, I don't know," he added ... ....
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US lied about Ukraine’s NATO prospects, ex-ambassador admits
Russia Today 22 May 2022
Lying is effectively a standard practice for diplomats in “real world,” Michael McFaul says ... The veteran diplomat made the revelation in a public policy forum, the semi-annual Munk Debates, earlier this month in Toronto ... Read more NATO expansion ‘not a threat’ – Biden ... “We kept saying that, over and over again.” ... .
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Biden starts Japan tour as protesters take to streets
China.dot.org 22 May 2022
TOKYO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Sunday, as about 750 protesters took to the streets here against the planned U.S.-Japan summit and the summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) ... Japanese public opinion, however, seemingly does not favor the IPEF too much ... Enditem .
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Painful parallels and international law
Jamaica Observer 22 May 2022
Former US President George W Bush suffered an unfortunate slip of the tongue last week when he condemned "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq" before correcting himself to say “I mean, Ukraine” ... No such weapons were ever found. The US subsequently admitted that its intelligence was wrong ... Bruce Golding. .
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In the firing zone: evictions begin in West Bank villages after court ruling
The Observer 22 May 2022
Below the dusty plateau, home to Khribet al-Fakhiet village, on the southern edge of the occupied West Bank, sheep, goats and camels belonging to Palestinian Bedouin roam the hills ... Much closer to home, the illegal Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Yair looms from the next ridge ... Map of area ... “When I was doing my military service, I trained here ... .
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F1 star 'distraught' after giving up victory
NewstalkZB 22 May 2022
Max Verstappen has won the Spanish Grand Prix and taken the lead in the F1 world championship after Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was forced out of the race. Leclerc started on pole position and appeared to be cruising to victory before his engine suddenly lost power and he was forced to retire and return to the pits ... "Shock on the Ferrari pitwall ... .
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Female TV presenters defy Taliban order to cover faces on air
The Manila Times 22 May 2022
KABUL. Female presenters on Afghanistan's leading television channels went on air on Saturday without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam ... Previously, they had only been required to wear a headscarf ... ....
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
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 ... .
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Australia election: Anthony Albanese signals climate policy change
BBC News 22 May 2022
Australia's new leader has vowed to take the country in a new direction, with a big shift in climate policy. Anthony Albanese, who won Saturday's election with the opposition centre-left Labor Party, said Australia could become a renewable energy superpower ... "We have an opportunity now to end the climate wars in Australia ... The basics ... .
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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 ... .
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash, File
Pakistan: former human rights minister arrested over land grabbing allegation
The Observer 22 May 2022
Pakistan’s former human rights minister was arrested on Saturday in the capital over a decades-old land grabbing allegation, her daughter and another former minister said ... She said ... Footage on local Geo TV showed female police officers detaining Mazari ... TopicsPakistanSouth and central Asianews ... .
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The town at the center of California’s climate refugee crisis
The Guardian 22 May 2022photo: WN / Shilpa
Apocalypse now? The alarming effects of the global food crisis
The Guardian 21 May 2022
Apocalypse is an alarming idea, commonly taken to denote catastrophic destruction foreshadowing the end of the world ... ....
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
Turkey: Huge rally for opposition's Canan Kaftancioglu
BBC News 21 May 2022photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Group invades Cannes red carpet to highlight violence towards women
The Observer 22 May 2022
Protests about women’s safety have taken place at the Cannes film festival for the second time in a matter of days, after a group invaded the red carpet at a premiere of a film about the killing of sex workers ... The group, dressed in black, also set off black smoke grenades as they paused on steps in front of the Palais des Festivals ... .