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The barrage of Palestinian militant rockets and Israeli air strikes grows, in the worst violence in years.

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Locals in Israel and Gaza terrified amid the worst flare-up in the conflict for years.

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The BBC's Vikas Pandey has called Delhi home for more than a decade - but Covid has changed everything.

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The Taliban have stepped up attacks on government forces, with US troops set to withdraw.

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The Paris court ruling comes 12 years after flight AF447 crashed into the Atlantic killing 228 people.

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The officer involved is allegedly the director of Hong Kong's National Security Department.

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Anglerfish, which are known to lurk deep down on the seabed, very rarely wash up on land.

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How did a cyber attack lead to a shortage of petrol in the US?

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In an impassioned speech on the eve of the vote, Ms Cheney trained her fire again on "liar" Mr Trump.

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Many internationally funded conservation schemes are underfunded and ineffective, researchers conclude.

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We look at the state of the virus, through three charts.

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The International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor said she was watching the escalation of violence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza with “great concern.”

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Swift mask mandates and travel restrictions, an international treaty and the creation of new bureaucracies are among the recommendations presented to the W.H.O.

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With hundreds reportedly dying because of a shortage, relief groups are attempting to repurpose tanks used by climbers in the Himalayas.

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From the French Open and the Tokyo Olympics to New York Pride, a look at which global events are canceled, postponed or moving ahead (with altered plans) in 2021.

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The Israeli-Gaza conflict intensifies.

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Only 44 people are said to have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s highest mountains. Now, researchers are questioning whether any of them have really done it.

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Fighting between Israelis and Palestinians intensified on Tuesday to the highest levels seen in seven years, as militants fired rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded with airstrikes in Gaza.

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Paying women for unpaid work at home. Delivering food to transgender people. Building day care centers. Bit by bit, these women, appointed by the president to high-ranking positions, are restructuring society.

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Scores of people have been killed in some of the worst fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians since the 2014 Gaza war.

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Seven of the victims — four boys and three girls — were students in eighth grade, according to reports.

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Waiving the death penalty for Craig Lang could speed up his extradition from Kyiv, where capital punishment has been off the books for 20 years.

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“There are unfortunately children among the dead,” the city's mayor said.

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As cases in India surge faster than anywhere in the world, Indians struggle to care for their family members who have COVID and mourn lost loved ones.

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As thousands of people die each day, the Modi government is cracking down on people criticizing it online.

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On Wednesday, the world’s largest social network hid posts with the text #ResignModi for a few hours, before restoring them.

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The AstraZeneca vaccines are authorized in India but still awaiting an FDA go-ahead in the US. Up to 60 million doses will be shared with India amid a catastrophic surge in cases there.

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More than 50 tweets are now blocked in India.

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About 1 in every 3 cases of COVID-19 recorded each day in the world is now in India, where the rate of new infections is growing faster than in any other nation.

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We explore ways to break our addiction to meat and dairy and eat dishes that are healthy for both people and the planet.

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Report by IPPPR says 'toxic cocktail' of dithering and poor coordination means warning signs went unheeded.

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The election showed that the Union's future will be decided by Scotland - either in the ballot box or the courts.

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Israeli raids in Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem put Palestinian communities on edge.

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Rashid Abu Arreh, 16, shot dead in Tubas, after killing of Hussein al-Titi, 26, during protests in al-Fawwar camp.

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The sell-off was driven by inflation fears and some investors cutting their exposure to overstretched stocks or sectors.

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Rakesh Kumar has gone beyond call of duty to help perform last rites of as many as 1,300 coronavirus victims in Delhi.

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Pop-up mega hospital in India's financial capital is mounted with tents and metal partitions and looks like a war room.

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Ismail Haniya says Israel bears all responsibility for the consequences after 'igniting fire in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa'.

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How shadows of past tensions between Macedonian majority and ethnic Albanian minority impede population registration.

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South Korea’s Korea Aerospace Industries, commonly known as KAI, has released a short promo video of its proposed design for the future military transport aircraft. The released video doesn’t reveal much other than a shape that resembles pretty much every other aircraft in the class, as the Japanese C-2 or Ukrainian An-178. At the same […]

The post South Korea unveils design for future military transport aircraft first appeared on Defence Blog.

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Cobham Mission Systems, the U.S.-based world leading design and manufacturer of innovative aerospace safety and survival systems, announced today it has been awarded a new $7.1 million prime contract from the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support. This contract is for production and delivery of Universal Water Activated Release System (UWARS) components to […]

The post Cobham wins $7.1 million U.S. Navy contract for water activated parachute release systems first appeared on Defence Blog.

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U.S. Naval Forces Central Command has released footage of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) on 10 May. On Monday, IRGCN’s fast in-shore attack craft (FIAC), a type of speedboat armed with machine guns, conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers and failed to exercise due regard […]

The post U.S. Navy releases footage of incident in Strait of Hormuz with Iranian Navy Forces first appeared on Defence Blog.

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Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS, part of Norwegian defense company Kongsberg, has received a $499 million contract modification for the Protector Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station system, also known as CROWS. The CROWS system is a weapon-mounted turret that adapts to four standard weapons – the M2, MK19, M240, and the M249. The weapons system […]

The post Kongsberg gets $499M contract modification for CROWS systems first appeared on Defence Blog.

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The U.S. State Department recently approved the potential sale to Canada of more than $1.7 billion worth of integrated naval weapons system produced by Lockheed Martin, according to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The possible deal covers four Shipsets of the AEGIS Combat System (ACS); one AEGIS Combat System Computer Program; four Shipsets of […]

The post Sale of Aegis Combat System to Canada approved first appeared on Defence Blog.

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The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has released a photo showing the Russian Navy’s latest patrol vessel Pavel Derzhavin (363) shadowing the Legend-class national security cutter USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753) of the U.S. Coast Guard in the Black Sea.  According to the plan of joint exercises, the warships of the U.S. Coast Guard and […]

The post Russian Navy shadows U.S. Coast Guard cutter in the Black Sea first appeared on Defence Blog.

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The U.S. Navy was able to seize thousands of Russian and Chinese-made illicit weapons from a stateless dhow — enough to equip a small army. On Saturday, the service press release said that the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) seized an illicit shipment of weapons from a stateless dhow in the international water of […]

The post U.S. Navy seized enough weapons to equip ‘small army’ first appeared on Defence Blog.

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On Saturday, the U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Expeditionary Sea Base ship USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), May 8, at Naval Air Station North Island, Coronado, California. Due to COVID-19 limitations, 50 guests were able to attend the ceremony for the ship named in honor of Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Lance Cpl. Miguel […]

The post U.S. Navy commissions its newest Expeditionary Sea Base ship first appeared on Defence Blog.

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The Ukrainian Army is testing an integrated aerial target system that developed to support the training requirement of the armed forces. According to the Army Inform news agency, the Ukrainian Army is experimenting with the Flying Target-1 (FT-1) low-flying air target system during the training phase of combat firing of air defense units at the […]

The post Ukrainian Army tests new aerial target system that replicates cruise missile first appeared on Defence Blog.

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The U.S. Air Force’s latest fighter jet, the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II, participating in a joint training exercise hosted by U.S. Pacific Air Forces, according to 53rd Wing Public Affairs Advisor. The 53rd Wing said in a statement that the first two F-15EX fighters – both 001 and 002 – have taken to the Alaska […]

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The consequence of homocolonialism can obstruct the radical queer politics that have challenged the oppressive forces of the gendered and heterosexed nation-state.

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Leupold deals with the complex relationships between Armenians, Kurds and Turks, uncovering the nuances of memory, nationalism and conflict.

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Although it is not feasible to assess the ultimate implications of COVID-19 currently, the pandemic has already revealed multiple long-term dynamics in our societies.

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Even though COVID-19 developments set states and economies further apart, a new push from the Biden administration can partially restore confidence in multilateral endeavours.

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Victor Khodayar-Pardo discusses his work for the United Nations, including the organisation's response to Covid-19, environmental issues and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Kurdish women and feminism constitute a force of resistance against patriarchy and domination through the conjunction of democratic confederalism and military resistance.

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The first condition for de-sectarianization is the end to external competitive intervention in Syria’s conflict. Much will depend on what dominant national identity is constructed to replace (or restore) Arabism.

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At their core, English language teachers (and their IR active learning compatriots) believe that more people should be empowered to speak, and should help others find their voice.

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The world powers who are currently negotiating with Iran need to explore the prospects of drawing in the GCC to explore wider solutions.

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Latin America provides relevant context for the implications of a climate debt scheme given its high levels of foreign debt and significant export of natural resources.

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NEW DELHI, India, May 11 (IPS) - The Coronavirus infections and deaths in India recorded a daily high on Monday, 10 May, with 366,161 new infections and 3,754 deaths as reported by the Indian health ministry, taking India's total tally to 22.66 million with 246,116 deaths. Experts have raised a flag stating India's actual figures could be far higher than what is currently being reported.

Read the full story, “India Under Siege From Covid-19: The Worst Yet to Come”, on globalissues.org →

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BUENOS AIRES, May 11 (IPS) - "Until five years ago, we didn't know about the circular economy, but today our waste generates environmentally neutral products that also offer a return,” says José Luis Barrinat, manager of a cooperative that brings together some 550 small farmers in Monje, Argentina.

Read the full story, “Biogas in Argentina: Turning an Environmental Problem into a Solution”, on globalissues.org →

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IBADAN, Nigeria, May 11 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that global health challenges cannot be solved only by health sector interventions.

Read the full story, “One Health Approach Key to Tackling Africas Challenges”, on globalissues.org →

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As the world continues to grapple with the health and economic crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN and Islamic Development Bank teamed up on Tuesday to help the most vulnerable. 

Read the full story, “Islamic social financing initiative aims to help economic recovery, pandemic response”, on globalissues.org →

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A trusted electoral process with “free and wide-ranging participation” can steer Iraq towards a “safe and prosperous future”, the country’s UN envoy told the Security Council on Tuesday. 

Read the full story, “Credible elections can help propel Iraq towards ‘safe and prosperous future’”, on globalissues.org →

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the deadly shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan on Tuesday, which claimed the lives of two adults and seven children. 

Read the full story, “UN chief: Deadly school shooting in Russia an ‘act of senseless violence’”, on globalissues.org →

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Although the outlook for global growth has improved, the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as inadequate progress on vaccination in poorer countries, are putting recovery at risk, according to the latest UN economic forecast, published on Tuesday. 

Read the full story, “Vaccine inequity posing ‘significant risk’ to global economic recovery: UN report”, on globalissues.org →

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The UN Secretary-General said he was "gravely concerned" at escalating violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on Tuesday, while the UN rights office, OHCHR, appealed for “a redoubling of efforts to restore calm”, after airstrikes and days of clashes between protesters and Israeli police.

Read the full story, “UN chief 'gravely concerned' as violence escalates in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel”, on globalissues.org →

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ROME, May 11 (IPS) - We met 22-year old Ali B. in a park in Rome’s city center on a rather cold and windy April evening. We could not share a meal, or even a coffee, as all restaurants were shut due to continuing COVID-19 restrictions. He had travelled down from Cerveteri (a small town about 50km north of Rome) where he works for an old couple. They provide boarding and lodging as well as a decent salary and social security benefits. In return, he has to cook for them and look after the kitchen.

Read the full story, “Pakistanis in Italy: Against All Odds”, on globalissues.org →

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MAKUENI, Kenya, May 11 (IPS) - It is an uncommon occurrence to see farms with flourishing healthy crops in Kenya’s semi-arid Makueni County. But in Kithiani village, Justus Kimeu’s two-acre piece of land stands out from the rest. After embracing the regenerative agriculture (RA) technique, the 52-year-old farmer is looking forward to a bumper harvest of maize as all his neighbours count their losses following this year’s failed season.

Read the full story, “Kenyas Dryland Farmers Embrace Regenerative Farming to Brave Tough Climate”, on globalissues.org →

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Lit only by an orange floodlight, a single file of camouflaged men crept along the wall of a small, dark Romanian port on the Black Sea. Suddenly, they opened fire on the two men guarding a darkened warehouse with broken windows.

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Colombian student activist Lucas Villa was declared brain dead Monday night, nearly a week after he was shot eight times at a peaceful protest against President Ivan Duque's government, CNN Espanol reported, citing a statement from San Jorge de Pereira University Hospital where he was being treated.

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CNN's Zain Asher speaks to Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio about how he's performing against his campaign promises to root out corruption in the country.

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A terrifying and record-breaking wave of Covid-19 in India threatens to stall the country's economic recovery and send shockwaves through several important global industries.

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Today in ultra-billionaire news, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has purchased a modest 100-foot schooner as he looks forward to a quieter life and hours of reflection on the open seas ... LOL, just kidding.

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L Brands has officially given up on seeking a buyer for Victoria's Secret and is spinning off the struggling underwear brand to become its own publicly traded company instead.

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IBM is on a tear under the leadership of new CEO Arvind Krishna: It created the world's smallest microchip and Tuesday it announced new AI capabilities at its annual Think event.

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Chickens are in short supply. Part of the blame goes to Tyson's roosters.

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Some people are demanding their second shot early so they can go on holiday or profit from advantages such as shopping without needing a Covid-19 test. Older patients who have been assigned AstraZeneca are also demanding a different vaccine.

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In a statement posted earlier on its website, the embassy said it would from May 12 stop offering routine services to US citizens including passport renewals "for the forseeable future" and only process new visa applications in "life-or-death emergencies".

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Donald Trump took a solidly pro-Israel stance Tuesday amid an escalation of deadly Mideast violence, as the former US president accused successor Joe Biden of "weakness" and lack of support for the Jewish state. Hailing his administration as "the Peace Presidency," Trump said Israel's adversaries knew there would be "swift retribution if Israel was attacked" when he was prez.

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Iran's state television has reported that former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is registering as a candidate to return to the same office in upcoming elections.

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Macron wants the pass to help speed up the lifting of coronavirus restrictions as his Covid vaccination programme gathers pace.

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Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza into Wednesday morning, as the Islamist group and other Palestinian militants fired multiple rocket barrages at Tel Aviv and Beersheba.

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Independent high-level panel castigates global leaders and calls for major changes to ensure it cannot happen again

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The Covid pandemic was a preventable disaster that need not have cost millions of lives if the world had reacted more quickly, according to an independent high-level panel, which castigates global leaders and calls for major changes to bring it to an end and ensure it cannot happen again.

The report of the panel, chaired by Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, found “weak links at every point in the chain”.

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The Republican caucus will vote on Wednesday on whether to oust the Wyoming congresswoman

Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming is facing removal from her leadership position in the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning in an internal battle seen as a bellwether of the future direction of the party.

Cheney’s ouster is widely expected after she found herself at odds with other members of Republican leadership over her refusal to stop blaming Donald Trump for inciting the mob attack on the United States Capitol on 6 January.

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Further airstrikes and rocket fire reported in worst violence since 2014 war between Israel and Hamas

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Israeli jets and Palestinian militants have traded fresh airstrikes and rocket fire as the UN’s Middle East envoy warned of an escalation towards a full-scale war.

One person was killed and two injured after an anti-tank guided missile struck a jeep patrolling near the border between Israel and Gaza on Wednesday morning. Mortar shells fired across the border hampered efforts by medical teams to reach the scene.

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County court judgment puts prime minister at potential risk of bad credit rating and action by bailiffs

Boris Johnson has had a county court judgment issued against him for a debt that has not been repaid, official records show, placing the prime minister at risk of not only a bad credit rating but potential enforcement action by bailiffs arriving at Downing Street.

The official register of county court judgments for England and Wales shows that Johnson had a judgment against him in October last year over an unpaid debt of £535. The register does not give details of to whom the debt is owed.

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Exclusive: Costs of War study looked at losses suffered by Nato allies over 2001-17, finding UK lost 455 lives

British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in Afghanistan as their US counterparts, according to a study that looks at the scale of the sacrifice made by Nato allies over the course of the 20-year war.

The UK also gave more to Afghanistan than the US in the form of economic and humanitarian assistance as a percentage of GDP, the study published on Wednesday by the Costs of War project at Brown University found.

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DuPont and Daikin, manufacturers of ‘short chain’ PFAS, did not inform regulator the FDA negative results of tests on animals

Chemical giants DuPont and Daikin knew the dangers of a PFAS compound widely used in food packaging since 2010, but hid them from the public and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), company studies obtained by the Guardian reveal.

The chemicals, called 6:2 FTOH, are now linked to a range of serious health issues, and Americans are still being exposed to them in greaseproof pizza boxes, carryout containers, fast-food wrappers, and paperboard packaging.

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Additions to online safety bill would also ban sites from discriminating against political viewpoints

Social networks will be banned from discriminating against particular political viewpoints and required to protect “democratically important” content, the UK government has announced, as its landmark online safety bill finally heads to parliament.

The additions to the bill, based on a white paper first drafted by Theresa May’s government in 2019, would make the UK one of the first nations in the west to require social networks to take active steps to moderate their impact on the democratic process. But there are fears that the requirement could lead to social networks refusing to take action against harmful content in case it is decreed to...

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Survey of 800 cities around world finds almost 43% do not even have plan to adapt to impacts of global heating

One in four cities around the world lack the money to protect themselves against the ravages of climate breakdown, even though more than 90% are facing serious risks, according to research.

Cities are facing problems with flooding, overheating, water shortages, and damage to their infrastructure from extreme weather, which is growing more frequent as the climate changes. A survey of 800 cities, carried out by the Carbon Disclosure Project, found that last year about 43% of them, representing a combined population of 400 million people, did not have a plan to adapt to the climate crisis.

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Diplomat to stay in post in Yemen until successor is found to avoid vacuum in war-ravaged country

The Yemen special envoy, Martin Griffiths, is to take on the role of UN humanitarian relief coordinator, succeeding another British diplomat, Mark Lowcock, in a move that may mark a reset in the stalled peace process in Yemen.

Griffiths was not the official British candidate but his confirmation in the role means the UK will have kept hold of a posting that has gone to British figures for more than a decade.

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Rawiri Waititi had accused the opposition of racism and was asked to sit down by the speaker, but instead performed the ceremonial dance

Māori party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been thrown out of New Zealand’s parliament after denouncing rhetoric from the opposition as racist and performing a haka.

Waititi said the opposition was inciting racism across New Zealand through its stance on Māori healthcare. The haka is a ceremonial dance for Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand – it can represent a challenge, and is sometimes performed in moments of conflict.

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Amazon won its appeal against the European Commission on Wednesday, who had ordered the tech giant to pay back 250 million euros ($303 million) in taxes to Luxembourg.

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Glenn O'Donnell, a vice president research director at advisory firm Forrester, believes the shortage could last until 2023.

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Tesla's sales decline came amid an overall drop for new energy passenger cars in China, and increased scrutiny from regulators on the electric car company.

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The World Health Organization said India accounted for half of all cases reported globally last week as well as 30% of global deaths.

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Technology stocks fell Tuesday but eventually recovered, spurring selling in the broader market

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Vineyard Wind 1 project will be located in waters off the coast of Massachusetts.

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Consumer inflation data for April will be released on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET, and it's expected to show a significant bump.

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The U.S. has agreed to remove Xiaomi from a blacklist that would have barred Americans from investing in the Chinese smartphone maker.

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Lebanon is facing its worst crisis since its bloody civil war of 1975-1990.

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England Manager Gareth Southgate has been using a piece of player performance software that has been developed by the Football Association and Google Cloud.

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Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has said he is under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption prosecutors over alleged false statements given during parliamentary hearings. Kurz denies any wrongdoing. Read Full Article at RT.com

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry has hit out at claims by Western media that the country’s latest census results are a sign that China is a nation in decline, both economically and in terms of its population size. Read Full Article at RT.com

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Instagram has announced that users will now be able to display up to four pronouns on their profile in a dedicated section. They will also have the option to make them public or only viewable to friends. Read Full Article at RT.com

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A Paris court has ruled that Air France and Airbus will stand trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of flight AF447, killing all 228 people on board, the deadliest crash in the airline’s history. Read Full Article at RT.com

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The International Criminal Court's top prosecutor says she is keeping a close eye on developments in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, as Israeli forces and Palestinians engage in deadly clashes and retaliatory strikes. Read Full Article at RT.com

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Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson is facing a backlash on social media after criticizing Israel’s treatment of Palestians, amid a flare-up of violence in the region. The controversial Instagram post was later removed. Read Full Article at RT.com

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Taiwan is tightening its coronavirus restrictions after 16 new domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases were detected, marking the highest-ever daily increase on the island, which has largely kept the pandemic under control. Read Full Article at RT.com

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Japan’s platform for booking Covid-19 vaccinations has crashed in parts of the country because of a technical issue with US cloud computing vendor Salesforce, compounding frustration with the government’s handling of the pandemic. Read Full Article at RT.com

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Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi was ejected from New Zealand’s parliamentary chambers after accusing a fellow MP of engaging in racist rhetoric, and then performing a ceremonial dance to express his displeasure. Read Full Article at RT.com

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The Israeli military has claimed to have “neutralized” two high-level Hamas intelligence officials during air raids in Gaza, as local officials claim Palestinian rocket fire killed two Arab-Israelis, a woman and a child. Read Full Article at RT.com

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LONDON (Sputnik) - The UK government launched on Wednesday an action plan seeking to recognise animals as sentient beings in law and introduce welfare measures to protect pets, livestock and wild animals at home and abroad.

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US Democrats repeatedly slammed similar suggestions by the former president and the Republican Party. Since the inauguration of Joe Biden, they have been peddling the opposite, called the HR 1 Bill, which seeks to relax the voter identification process and expand the scope of mail-in voting, which the GOP claims is prone to fraud.

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Ghulam Nabi Azad had led a group of senior Congress leaders, known as G-23, to write a letter demanding free and fair organisational election in the party. The G-23 had blamed the Congress leadership for the continued organisational weakness of the party evident in electoral losses in state after state and parliamentary polls. 

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The parliamentary constituency of Batley and Spen has been held by Labour since 1997 but in 2015 local MP Jo Cox was murdered by a British nationalist. Now Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer faces a by-election, knowing defeat could spell the end of his reign.

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BERLIN (Sputnik) - Police in Bonn, Germany, told Sputnik on Wednesday that they had stepped up security at a local synagogue after several suspects were arrested for vandalising it.

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Members of the White House press corps used to confront the previous administration, but it seems that under the new president, the rules for journalists have become much tighter than they were before.

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The foreign secretary has addressed the National Cyber Security Centre’s CYBERUK conference in his first major speech on cybersecurity-related issues.

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In her book titled "The Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service", Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig mentioned Donald Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany, who allegedly started spending "an unusual amount of time alone" with a security agent after breaking up with her boyfriend.

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The Trump administration designated Xiaomi as a company with ties to the Chinese military. The tech firm dismissed the allegations, saying the Chinese military designation was unconstitutional and hit back with a lawsuit against the US government.

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LONDON (Sputnik) – The UK's gross domestic product slumped by 1.5 percent from January to March 2021, a quarter when most of the country was under its third COVID-19 lockdown, the Office for National Statistics reported on Wednesday.

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Both the aircraft manufacturer and the airline have stated that they will appeal the decision.

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The head of La République En Marche! has criticised one of its own candidates, Sara Zemmahi, after she was pictured wearing a headscarf in a campaign poster.

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Many local residents have left candles, flowers and toys at a makeshift memorial set up outside the school gates after Tuesday's horrific incident.

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India confirmed 4,205 more coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, a daily record for the country.

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Scores of dead bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in eastern India amid a ferocious surge in coronavirus infections in the country.

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Ten people, including a priest and a mother of eight children, were killed at the height of "The Troubles", a sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which raged over three decades until 1998

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China's ruling Communist Party (CPC) has been using fake fans to boost profiles on Twitter, a study has found.

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Klubrádió's owner omitted a few important facts, writes Zoltán Kovács, Hungary's Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations.

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The Italian navy has accused Turkish fishing boats of throwing stones and smoke bombs at two Italian vessels north of Cyprus.

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The man had tried to infect his former partner while they shared a home as their divorce proceedings were being completed.

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With their next-generation mRNA vaccines, the German companies BioNTech and CureVac are at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation. But U.S. President Joe Biden's plan to suspend patent protections is threatening that position.

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Zalmay Khalilzad is the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan. DER SPIEGEL speaks with him about rising violence in the country, the danger of another civil war and what the U.S. is doing to prevent it.

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Followers of Islamic State are on the advance in southern Africa, with dreams of natural gas riches fueling the conflagration. Issa Taramade is doing what he can to maintain order in the face of brutal violence.

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The U.S. no longer want to enforce patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines, but critics argue that this will do little to improve the lack of access in the developing world. Some are calling for much more ambitious solutions.

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The U.S. has been a success story when it comes to vaccinating its population against COVID-19. But the pace is beginning to slow as Republican voters shy away from getting the injection. The story could be similar in Europe.

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Admiral James Stavridis has commanded U.S. warships in the South China Sea. In his new novel, he writes about a war between China and America – a scenario he considers to be extremely realistic.

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Scottish voters are electing a new parliament this week, and again the pro-independence party SNP is expected to win. The vote could lead the way to the disintegration of the United Kingdom.

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India’s health care system and hospitals are on the verge of collapse and crematoriums are overloaded. The country got through the first wave of the coronavirus relatively unscathed, but the second has been a catastrophe, the product of inconceivable mistakes by the government.

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If all goes well, the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 could be approved for ages 12 and older by June, and for kids above the age of six months by the fall. But the development would raise new moral and practical questions.

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Refugees are being detained, tortured and killed at camps in Libya. Investigative reporting by DER SPIEGEL and its partners has uncovered how close the European Union’s border agency Frontex works together with the Libyan coast guard.

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Donald Trump is on the cusp of cementing his stranglehold on the U.S. Republican Party, which is voting Wednesday on purging a rare member of its leadership who is critical of the former president. Liz Cheney and her defenders call this a defining moment for democracy.

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Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes early Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with no endgame in sight.

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Problems with two major oil and gasoline pipelines in the U.S. underscore how fragile the North American energy infrastructure grid is and how vulnerable Canadians are to supply disruption.

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Three Georgia men pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who authorities say was chased and shot while jogging.

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Allegations of racial profiling at the U.S. border are nothing new. What's more unusual is how they are now coming from inside the agency that oversees the U.S. border. They're contained in a lawsuit against the U.S. government from three officers stationed at a Michigan-Ontario border crossing.

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A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges. A prosecutor filed notice that she'll also seek hate-crime charges and the death penalty.

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Nine people, including seven children, were killed on Tuesday and many more badly wounded after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, local authorities said, prompting a Kremlin call for tighter gun controls.

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U.S. television network NBC said on Monday it will not air Hollywood's Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 following complaints about ethical lapses and lack of diversity among the group that hands out the annual awards for film and television. 

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Both the U.S. and the U.K. have vaccinated millions of people, but only the U.S. is still reporting tens of thousands of new COVID-19 cases a day. Emma Paling looks at some potential lessons for parts of Canada when it comes to managing vaccination rollouts and reopening.

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The coronavirus variant first identified in India last year is now being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily, the World Health Organziation said on Monday.

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