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China ‘threatens’ Australia with ‘ballistic missile strike’ via Global Times propaganda tool
The Daily Telegraph Australia 10 May 2021
China has threatened Australia with a retaliatory ballistic missile strike over incursions into Taiwan according to Curtin University Professor Joe Siracusa.
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Rwandan 'genocide financier' unfit for trial: lawyers
Manila Standard Today 10 May 2021
Lawyers representing the alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, have requested that charges against him be dropped on the grounds he is unfit for trial. In a May 6 filing to the UN court's branch in Tanzania, lawyer Emmanuel Altit said that medical reports prove that his 84-year-old client could not withstand trial ... .
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Famous German Architect Killed in Illinois Bike Accident
Voa News 10 May 2021
Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who designed an Illinois state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington, was killed in a bicycle accident outside Chicago.� ... Jahn was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident ... "At his height, he was one of the most influential architects in the world ... .
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Netanyahu: Israel ‘rejects’ pressure not to build in Jerusalem
Al Jazeera 09 May 2021
Tensions over the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood have stoked daily confrontations in recent days ... East Jerusalem is among territories that Palestinians seek for a future state ... “East Jerusalem is occupied, it’s not Israeli sovereignty in East Jerusalem, it hasn’t been recognised by the international community so we are sitting on a volcano.” ... .
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Malware attack on US pipeline linked to DarkSide criminal group
Belfast Telegraph 10 May 2021
The cyber attack which shut-down a vital US pipeline was carried out by a criminal group known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity. ... The pipeline, operated by Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, delivers roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast, according to the company ... .
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WSJ: The Gates' divorce talks began in 2019 over Bill's dealings with Jeffery Epstein.
Democratic Underground 10 May 2021
Gates Divorce Talks Started in 2019 on Epstein Link, WSJ Says. (Bloomberg) -- Melinda French Gates began working with divorce lawyers well over a year before her split with Bill Gates was announced last week, partly over concerns about her husbands dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Wall Street Journal ... ... .
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Ethereum (ETH) Skyrockets Above $4000 Just One Week After Breaking $3K
CryptoPotato 10 May 2021
Less than seven days after exploding above $3,000, the second-largest cryptocurrency has skyrocketed to $4,000. Thus, ETH is more than 400% up since the start of the year. CryptoPotato reported on May 3rd as Ethereum surpassed its latest milestone of $3,000 ... ETH/USD, Bitstamp, 1-year chart. Source. TradingView ....
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Microsoft may have ‘killed’ Windows’ answer to Chromebooks
The Times of India 10 May 2021
Google’s bet on Chromebooks — relying heavily on the excellent — seems to have paid off handsomely. Sometime in 2019, had spoken about Windows 10X, a lighter version of Windows which could take on ChromeOS. However, it looks like Microsoft may have dropped the idea of readying an answer to Chromebooks ... .
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440 arrests made over Capitol riot but FBI still hunting for ‘worst of the worst’
The Independent 08 May 2021
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested approximately 440 people over alleged involvement in the Capitolriots on 6 January, but they are still searching for “the worst of the worst” .
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Body of arrested Myanmar poet Khet Thi returned to family with organs missing
The Guardian 10 May 2021
A spokesperson for the junta did not answer calls to request comment on the death of Khet Thi, who had penned the line ... .
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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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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 ... .
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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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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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US navy claims seizing weapons bound for Yemen
Dawn 10 May 2021
DUBAI. The US Navy announced on Sunday it had seized an arms shipment of thousands of assault weapons, machineguns and sniper rifles hidden aboard a ship in the Arabian Sea, apparently bound for Yemen to support the country’s Houthi rebels ... The arms shipment, described as sizeable, shows that the war may still have far to run ... .
