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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 ... “Yes! Yes, that’s the real world, guys, c’mon,” McFaul replied, drawing laughter from the audience ... .
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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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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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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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China Holding Security Talks With Kiribati, One More Pacific Island Country, Reports Say
Sputnik 21 May 2022photo: AP / B.K. Bangash, File
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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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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Australia's opposition Labor party poised to topple ruling conservatives
The Jerusalem Post 21 May 2022
The Australian Labor party will topple the ruling conservatives at a national election, although it may have to form a minority government, the Australian Broadcasting Corp said on Saturday ... "Labor is 72 and needs 76 seats to govern ... "If Labor falls short and it wants to form a government, it can talk to the Greens or it can talk to the crossbench.".
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Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents sent to quarantine
The News International 21 May 2022
Photo. AFP/file. BEIJING. Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents were forcibly relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the capital begins to take more extreme control measures resembling virus-hit Shanghai. Beijing has been battling its worst outbreak since the pandemic started ... then disinfect homes ... .
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WHO ‘working on more monkeypox guidance as cases rise’
Gulf Daily News 21 May 2022
He led a meeting on the outbreak on Friday ... “What seems to be happening now is that it has got into the population as a sexual form, as a genital form, and is being spread as are sexually transmitted infections, which has amplified its transmission around the world,” Heymann said ... .
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Russia declares victory in capture of Mariupol
RTE 21 May 2022
Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms ... The verdict is due Monday ... Smoke rises at a warehouse after shelling in Severodonetsk ... "Attempts to attack Donbas continue ... 'End of operation'.
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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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Difficult trip to Africa for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Deutsche Welle 21 May 2022
Olaf Scholz is on his first trip to Africa as chancellor. In Senegal, Niger and South Africa, he will have to address the EU's military presence in Africa, as well as promote investment and cooperation on the continent. ... .
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison joined call about contesting Trump’s election loss
Engadget 21 May 2022
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was involved in a call where a number of influential GOP figures—including Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Fox News anchor Sean Hannity and Trump attorney Jay Sekulow — brainstormed ways to contest the 2020 presidential election, reported the Washington Post ... “Jim was on a call this evening with Jay Sekulow, Lindsey O ... .
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