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Afghans begin burying dead from bloody school blasts that kills 50
The Jakarta Post 09 May 2021
Dozens of young girls were being buried Sunday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year ... Residents were shopping ahead of this week's Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when the blasts occurred ... Topics .. .
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Putin on WWII Victory Day says will 'firmly' defend Russian interests
Straits Times 09 May 2021
MOSCOW (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Sunday (May 9) promised that Russia will "firmly" defend national interests and denounced the return of "Russophobia", as the country marked the 76th anniversary of victory in World War II. "Russia consistently defends international law ... More on this topic. � ....
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Democrats renew effort to get Donald Trump’s financial records
The Guardian 09 May 2021
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Kenneth who? How Africans are forgetting their history
BBC News 09 May 2021
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy considers what young Africans know about their recent history - and why it is important ... I had posted my birthday greeting to the nonagenarian on social media on 28 April with the tag line ... Many celebrated. Other were astonished, saying ... Egg and milk promise ... .
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Cries of the victims of mass rape go unheard in Ethiopia’s mountain war
The Observer 09 May 2021
The use of rape as a weapon of war is as old as warfare itself. In Bosnia in the 1990s, thousands of Muslim women were brutalised by Bosnian Serb forces, who set up “rape camps” as part of a policy of “ethnic cleansing”. In 2001, the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal redefined mass rape as a crime against humanity ... Photograph. Ben Curtis/AP ... .
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In tense Jerusalem, hard-line, flag-waving Israeli march to go ahead
Gulf News 09 May 2021
Jerusalem. Police on Sunday gave the go-ahead to the annual Jerusalem Day parade, a flag-waving display of Israeli claims to all of the holy city, despite days of unrest and soaring Israeli-Palestinian tensions at a flashpoint holy site ... Videos on social media showed Palestinians hurling water bottles and rocks at officers, who fired stun grenades ... .
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Japanese Woman Suspected of Poisoning Her Husband Who 'Became Rich to Sleep With Beauties'
Sputnik 09 May 2021
A wealthy real estate mogul from Japan, Kosuke Nozaki, proudly claimed in his 2016 memoire that he “became rich to sleep with attractive women”, cashing out some 3 billion yen to thousands of them before tying the knot in 2018 with a young beauty to have sex three times a day. That's what he claimed, at least ... .
photo: AP / An injured Palestinian demonstrator is helped during a protest against the planned evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Scores injured in second night of Jerusalem clashes
The Observer 09 May 2021
Clashes have erupted for a second night between Palestinians and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers prayed at the nearby al-Aqsa Mosque. At least 80 people were injured, including a one-year-old, and 14 were taken to hospital, the Palestine Red Crescent said ... Read more ... Photograph ... Photograph ... .
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Netanyahu: Israel ‘rejects’ pressure not to build in Jerusalem
Al Jazeera 09 May 2021
Israel “firmly rejects” pressure not to build in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said following days of unrest and growing international condemnation of planned evictions of Palestinians from homes in the city claimed by illegal Jewish settlers ... East Jerusalem is among territories that Palestinians seek for a future state ... .
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Has Honduras become a 'narco-state'?
BBC News 09 May 2021
Inside a New York courtroom, the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was known simply as "Co-conspirator 4". Yet being stripped of the deference his position traditionally commands was the least of his concerns. US prosecutors now consider him to be intimately and demonstrably linked to violent drug cartels ... Related Topics. .
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Third arrest in manhunt after Maldives bomb attack
Hindustan Times 09 May 2021
The democracy pioneer and climate activist was seriously hurt after a bomb attack in the capital Male on Thursday night that also injured a British national and two others, which police have blamed on "religious extremists". UPDATED ON MAY 09, 2021 01.27 PM IST ... No further details about the man were released ... ....
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German churches plan to bless same-sex couples
The Times of India 09 May 2021
BERLIN. Churches across Germany are planning services to bless same-sex couples this week, in defiance of a Vatican decree clarifying that such blessings are banned in the . The Church of St Benedict in Munich is holding one of just four planned blessing in the majority-Catholic state of Bavaria on Sunday, reports dpa news agency ... .
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Nicola Sturgeon issues warning to Boris Johnson over block on referendum
Irish Independent 09 May 2021
Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that Westminster has no right to block a second vote on Scottish independence as she claimed an “emphatic victory” in the Holyrood election, despite the SNP failing to secure an overall majority ... The SNP leader insisted ... He said his impression was that Scottish voters had “moved away from the idea of a referendum” ... .
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Prince Michael of Kent accused of selling access to Kremlin
The Guardian 09 May 2021
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More than 45,000 volunteer to kill bison in national park
MENA FN 09 May 2021
More than 45,000 people have volunteered to kill 12 bison in the Grand Canyon National Park, as part of a new programme to manage the growing population of the animals, the National Park Service (NPS) said on Friday ... They received over 45,000 applications in just two days, and selected an initial group of 25 names by drawing lots ... .
