At least 35 killed in Israeli airstrike on displaced persons camp in Rafah, health ministry says, hours after Hamas fired rockets into Israel (www.cbsnews.com)
Israel's Knesset to vote on declaring UNRWA a terrorist organization (m.jpost.com)
USA | House Democrats Reject Mike Johnson’s Invite for Netanyahu to Address Congress (truthout.org)
Despite voting to send Netanyahu’s government billions as it commits war crimes, mainstream Dems criticized the invite....
Rates of melanoma skin cancer hit all-time high in UK, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Cancer Research UK notes particular rise in diagnoses among older people and says majority of cases are preventable...
Family infected with parasitic worms in US after eating bear meat, CDC says (www.theguardian.com)
Six people who ate a meal in South Dakota in 2022 with black bear meat diagnosed with trichinellosis, a parasitic zoonotic disease...
Israeli airstrike kills 35 in Rafah after Hamas launches rockets at Tel Aviv (www.theguardian.com)
IDF says strike on tents housing displaced people hit Hamas installation after militants launch first salvo at Israel in months...
China EV dream came true; 10 years on, walls are going up (www.straitstimes.com)
NATO’s boss wants to free Ukraine to strike hard inside Russia (www.economist.com)
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Hamas launches rocket attack towards Tel Aviv (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ukrainian M1 Abrams Tanks Get Elaborate 'Cope Cages,' Soviet Explosive Reactive Armor (www.twz.com)
Israel/OPT: Israeli air strikes that killed 44 civilians further evidence of war crimes – new investigation (www.amnesty.org)
The International Criminal Court should investigate as war crimes three Israeli air strikes that killed 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, in the occupied Gaza Strip last month, Amnesty International said today. The strikes – one on al-Maghazi on 16 April, and two on Rafah on 19 and 20 April 2024 – also injured...
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...
Polish and Allied Aircraft Take to the Skies Amid Russian Missile Strikes on Western Ukraine (polanddaily24.com)
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Colombia begins exploring 'holy grail of shipwrecks' (www.bbc.com)
Exploration of a 300-year-old wreck in the Caribbean Sea with an estimate £16bn trove starts....
Palestinian Prime Minister in Brussels for more support from EU (www.euronews.com)
Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Mustafa says the Palestinian Authority is making reforms to govern Gaza after the war....
French town reels from scandal involving mayor and fortune teller (www.bbc.com)
The mayor and fortune teller are both being kept in prison under judicial investigation....
Some 160 villagers reported taken in deadly raid in Nigeria (www.bbc.com)
Nigerian officials say gunmen spent hours in the village and had time to drink tea before abducting people....
Lithuania President Nausėda wins landslide re-election in vote shaped by Russia fears (www.theguardian.com)
Incumbent, who beat challenge from prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė, says Lithuania’s independence a ‘fragile vessel that we must cherish’...
China & Russia strengthen friendship, blasting Western 'neocolonialism' & US militarism (www.youtube.com)
Belarus: Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers (www.hrw.org)
Belarusian authorities have unrolled systematic and widespread repression targeting lawyers who represent clients in politically motivated cases or who shed light on rights abuses, Human Rights Watch, the Belarusian Association of Human Rights Lawyers, and the Right to Defence Project said in a report released today....
Burkina Faso extends military rule by five years (www.bbc.com)
Military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré breaks his promise to restore civillian rule by 1 July this year....
New Caledonia state of emergency to be lifted, says Paris (www.reuters.com)
Seven more mobile force units will soon arrive as reinforcements in New Caledonia, the Elysée said in a statement on Monday, also indicating a state of emergency would end as planned in the French Pacific territory on Tuesday morning local time....