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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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The town at the center of California’s climate refugee crisis
The Guardian 22 May 2022photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office
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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Fugitive North Macedonian Ex-Premier Gets 9-year Sentence
Voa News 22 May 2022
North Macedonia's fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been handed a nine-year prison sentence for illegally ordering the 2011 demolition of a multimillion-dollar residential and business complex owned by a former political ally turned opponent ... Three other former officials at the time of the demolition were also sentenced late Friday.
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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 ... ....
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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 ... "We have an opportunity now to end the climate wars in Australia ... After taking over from Malcolm Turnbull in 2018, Mr Morrison led Australia through a period dominated by natural disasters and the pandemic ... Australian election ... .
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Turkey: Huge rally for opposition's Canan Kaftancioglu
BBC News 21 May 2022photo: Creative Commons / Kmu.gov.ua
Zelensky says only 'diplomacy' can end Ukraine war
The New Arab 21 May 2022
The Ukraine war can only be resolved through "diplomacy", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday amid a deadlock in negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. "The end will be through diplomacy," he told a Ukrainian television channel ... ....
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WHO ‘working on more monkeypox guidance as cases rise’
Gulf Daily News 21 May 2022
The WHO’s working theory based on the cases identified so far is that the outbreak is being driven by sexual contact, said David Heymann, chair of the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential. He led a meeting on the outbreak on Friday ... .
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Erdogan’s NATO expansion roadblock will only harm Turkey
Asiatimes 21 May 2022
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has sufficiently alarmed Finland and Sweden for them to reverse decades-long policies and apply for immediate membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But what appeared to be a no-brainer for the alliance has quickly hit a roadblock in the form of Turkey’s mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... ....
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Violence disrupts Panathinaikos’s Greek Cup final win over PAOK
The Observer 22 May 2022
Panathinaikos beat PAOK 1-0 to clinch the Greek Cup on Saturday in a match marred by crowd trouble as rival fans threw flares and clashed with police inside the Olympic stadium ... PAOK fans also clashed with police outside the stadium during half-time, a police official said ... .
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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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Turkey to Greece: You did it first
Ekathimerini 21 May 2022
Turkey claims Greece violated its airspace twice this week, and that it had replied to those violations Friday “based on reciprocity and in accordance with” the Turkish Air Force’s rules of engagement ... Bilgic accused Greece of trying to mislead international public opinion ... .
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Ethereum wipes out $8.10B while eagerly awaiting ‘The Merge’
Cryptopolitan 21 May 2022
The Ethereum blockchain has burned 2.35 million ether since the implementation of the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559. The $8.10 billion in value was burned over nine months, and during the last seven days, 18,110 ether worth $34.9 million was destroyed. Over the last 24 hours, 2,396 ether worth $4.63 million has been burned ... ....
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9 more bodies found in Kashmir tunnel collapse, toll at 10
Democratic Underground 21 May 2022
SRINAGAR, India (AP) Rescuers on Saturday found the bodies of nine more workers in a collapsed tunnel in Indian-controlled Kashmir, taking the death toll to 10 ... The body of one worker was recovered Friday ... (AP Photo/Dar Yasin). Read more ... .