Feature: Myanmar: Young insurgents changing the course of a forgotten war (www.bbc.com)
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar....Two loudspeakers, as big as the men carrying them, are brought to the rocky hilltop. Some 800m below, in the town of Hpasang, lies a sprawling Myanmar army base....
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Volunteer guns: Latvia’s military conscripts ready for war (www.euronews.com)
Euronews spoke to three voluntary soldiers about why they decided to join up and whether they feel prepared to defend their Baltic homeland from potential Russian aggression....
thejapantimes, to worldwithoutus South Korea, historically an underdog in the space race, launches its new space agency, KASA, to catch up with global leaders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/28/asia-pacific/south-korea-space-powerhouse/ #asiapacific #yoonsukyeol #southkorea #space
Iran's near-bomb-grade uranium stock grows, talks stall, IAEA reports say (www.reuters.com)
Iran is enriching uranium to close to weapons-grade at a steady pace while discussions aimed at improving its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog are stalled, two confidential reports by the watchdog showed on Monday....
Chinese military releases bold video simulation of Taiwan invasion (www.news.com.au)
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Papua New Guinea: satellite images reveal scale of landslide as rescuers face ‘grim’ scenes (www.theguardian.com)
Rescue efforts are ‘very challenging’, Australian minister says, as aid agencies work to send supplies to remote part of Enga province...
French military instructors to visit Ukrainian training centres soon, Ukraine commander says (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine’s top commander said on Monday he had signed paperwork allowing French military instructors to visit Ukrainian training centres soon....
“Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods (arstechnica.com)
Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances....
‘Exterminate the beasts’: How Israeli settlers took revenge for a murder in the West Bank (www.bbc.com)
Israeli settlers went on a violent rampage last month, inciting and co-ordinating attacks on WhatsApp....
He Moderated the R/Ukraine Subreddit. Now, He's Being Called to Fight. (www.businessinsider.com)
USA | FDA Maintains Discriminatory Rules on Donated Tissue for Gay and Bisexual Men (truthout.org)
Federal regulations prevent gay and bisexual men from donating tissue, such as corneas, ligaments and blood vessels....
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#MiddleEast Crisis - May 27 live updatesAmid Condemnation, #Netanyahu Calls Civilian Deaths in #Rafah Strike ‘Tragic Accident’ [other articles follow]
#SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael #PrisonForNetanyahuAndGallant #IsraelWarCrimes #USHandsOffICC
#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel
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Captain_Jack_Sparrow, What about the 35000 civilian deaths #Netanyahu already caused in Gaza, all the journalists and doctors murdered by the #IDF and the deliberate starvation of Gaza - all part of Netanyahus planned genocide. Is he also calling them "tragic accidents" ?
fuck that evil piece of shit #nazinyahu and anyone who supports him.
InternetDev, French Il finira par s'étrrangler de ses mensonges.
EU sanctions 19 Russians -including judges, prosecutors and members of the judiciary- for human rights violations after the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny (www.reuters.com)
European Union foreign ministers decided on Monday to impose sanctions on Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service and on 19 Russians for human rights violations after the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a prison in February....
Belgium to supply Ukraine with 30 F16s by 2028 (www.vrt.be)
Dairy farmers protest in Brussels over low price of milk (www.euronews.com)
About a hundred farmers protested in front of European Union institutions, calling for a law on the price of dairy products...
China & Russia strengthen friendship, blasting Western 'neocolonialism' & US militarism (www.youtube.com)
EU convenes Israel to discuss respect of human rights, ICJ ruling (www.euronews.com)
The breakthrough comes three month after Ireland and Spain first pressed on the EU executive to re-open its trade deal with Israel....
NATO’s boss wants to free Ukraine to strike hard inside Russia (www.economist.com)
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India elections: PM Narendra Modi claims he has been chosen by God (www.theguardian.com)
Indian leader tells interviewer God ‘just keeps making me do things’ but that he ‘cannot dial him directly’...
A major pause in relations between Russia and China, economist says (russiapost.info)
By Vladislav Leonidovich InozemtsevThe author is Director of the Moscow-based Centre for Research on Post-Industrial Societies, a nonprofit think-tank, and a professor and the chair at the Department of World Economy, Faculty of Public Governance, Moscow State Lomonosov University.–...
Cyclone Remal: At least 16 killed in Bangladesh and India (www.bbc.com)
Nearly a million people have been evacuated as Cyclone Remal destroys thousands of homes....