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North Macedonia elects first woman president 2024-05-09
Arab Times

Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the opposition conservative VMRO-DPMNE party, center top, and their presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, (center bottom), attend a celebration on the main square after their party announced victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections, in...

photo: AP / Boris Grdanoski

Which bombs has the United States stopped shipping to Israel? 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

The United States has halted the shipment of some types of heavy bombs to Israel and US President Joe Biden has also pledged to halt the supply of some offensive weapons and artillery shells to the country if it goes ahead with its assault on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Here’s what we know so...

photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov

Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Darfur 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias killed “at least thousands of people” in West Darfur state, an international rights group has said, in what it called apparent “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”. In a report published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

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Putin warns of global clash as Russia marks victory in World War Two 2024-05-09
CyprusMail

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Thursday of risking a global conflict and said no one would be allowed to threaten the world’s biggest nuclear power as Russia marked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. As Russian troops advance against...

photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko

Give or take a few bombs, US complicity in genocide remains ‘ironclad’ 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

On Wednesday, May 8, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin became the first senior administration official to publicly confirm that the US government has uncharacteristically paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Over the past seven months, the Israeli military has killed some 35,000...

photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov

South Korea’s birthrate is so low, the president wants to create a ministry to tackle it 2024-05-09
CNN

South Korea’s leader on Thursday said he plans to create a new government ministry to tackle the “national emergency” of the country’s infamously low birth rate as it grapples with a deepening demographic crisis. In a televised address, President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would ask for parliament’s...

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The situation is dire. Rishi Sunak must suspend all arms sales to Israel 2024-05-09
Metro UK

Continuing the same policy of implicit support for the actions of the Israeli Government is immoral (Picture: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images) This week millions of people across the country are watching the deteriorating situation in Rafah, southern Gaza, in both horror and disbelief. Not...

photo: AP / Kin Cheung

US emboldening Philippines to square off with China at sea 2024-05-09
Asiatimes

US Marines joined Filipino counterparts on May 5, 2024, for a mock battle at a telling location: a small, remote territory just 100 miles off the southern tip of the contested island of Taiwan. The combat drill is part of the weekslong Exercise Balikatan that has brought together naval, air and...

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

Europe Day marks 1 month till EU elections. Rise of hard right, wilting of Green ... 2024-05-09
Wtop

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday, but instead of the humdrum celebrations, all eyes are on the EU elections in a month’s time, which portend a steep rise of the extreme right and a possible move away from the bloc’s global trendsetting climate...

Iran warns it will change nuclear doctrine if ‘existence threatened’ 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

Iran could be pushed into building a nuclear weapon if Israel threatens its existence, an adviser to the country’s supreme leader has warned. “We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,” said...

photo: AP / Vahid Salemi