“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....
Israel's Knesset to vote on declaring UNRWA a terrorist organization (m.jpost.com)
US, European nations consider vaccinating workers exposed to bird flu (www.reuters.com)
The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said, moves influenza experts say could curb the threat of a pandemic....
Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering (www.theguardian.com)
Egyptian soldier shot dead in border incident with Israel (www.bbc.com)
Hamas launches rocket attack on Tel Aviv for first time in months (www.theguardian.com)
IDF says Palestinian militant groups fired salvo from Rafah area as Israel’s offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city continues...
China & Russia strengthen friendship, blasting Western 'neocolonialism' & US militarism (www.youtube.com)
Lack of bird flu testing may be hiding true spread of virus on US farms (www.theguardian.com)
H5N1 has been found in commercially available milk – but gaps in testing of cattle and humans are hampering effort to stop virus...
Ukrainian M1 Abrams Tanks Get Elaborate 'Cope Cages,' Soviet Explosive Reactive Armor (www.twz.com)
Strike On Russian Strategic Early Warning Radar Site Is A Big Deal (www.twz.com)
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....
Poland to limit movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow's involvement in hybrid war against the EU (www.reuters.com)
Poland will introduce restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow’s involvement in what it deems a hybrid war against the European Union, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday....
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.–...
‘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....
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’...
More than 300m children victims of online sexual abuse every year (www.theguardian.com)
First global study of its kind exposes ‘staggering scale’ of crime, with one in nine men in the US admitting to the offence...
He Moderated the R/Ukraine Subreddit. Now, He's Being Called to Fight. (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia is waging a shadow war on the West that needs a collective response, Estonian leader says (www.independent.co.uk)
Perched on the open ramp at the rear of a British Chinook helicopter, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas flew home from the annual Spring Storm military exercises, pleased to see NATO allies cooperating. But she later said that other types of warfare were on her mind....
Xi Jinping’s Recipe for Total Control in China: An Army of Eyes and Ears (www.nytimes.com)
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