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The end of Bakhmut
Asiatimes 16 May 2023
Ukraine is close to retreating from Bakhmut. This could happen anytime now, but it has to happen fast enough before exit routes are closed down. Predictions of a timetable vary, but the Ukrainians should evacuate Bakhmut no later than the weekend, provided they can ... These will be hard to hold ... Image. screengrab / YouTube ... The big question is ... Photo ... ....
photo: AP / Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry via AP
The EU should start planning now for Russia after Putin
The Guardian 16 May 2023
Alexander Clarkson is a lecturer in German and European Studies in King’s College London.
photo: White House / Adam Schultz
Biden scraps planned visit to Australia, Papua New Guinea to focus on debt limit talks
Hindustan Times 17 May 2023
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he's curtailing his upcoming trip to the Indo-Pacific, scrapping what was to be a historic stop in Papua New Guinea as well as a visit to Australia for a gathering with fellow leaders of the so-called Quad partnership so he can focus on debt limit talks in Washington. US President Joe Biden.(AFP) ... Also read. ... ....
photo: European Community / Dati Bendo
“Ukraine Would Collapse In Days” w/o Western Support says Top EU Diplomat
Rumble 16 May 2023photo: European Community / Benson Ibeabuchi
Four people killed in attack on US diplomatic convoy in Nigeria
The Guardian 16 May 2023photo: AP / Jeff Chiu, File
Elizabeth Holmes puts off starting prison sentence yet again
The Independent 17 May 2023
The former Theranos CEO has filed another appeal of her conviction .
photo: WN / RTayco
Why South Korean women don’t date, marry or birth
Asiatimes 16 May 2023
South Korea finds itself embroiled in an all-out gender war – and it keeps getting worse. The animosity between Korean men and women has reached a point where some women are outright refusing to date, marry and have kids with men – a phenomenon known as the 4B movement ... The article was about racial politics and the masculine ideals ... Photo ... Photo ... ....
photo: AP / Wason Wanichakorn
Thailand elections: Voters deliver stunning blow to army-backed rule
Business Ghana 16 May 2023
Thai voters have delivered a stunning verdict in favour of an opposition party that is calling for radical reform of the country's institutions. Early results show Move Forward exceeding every prediction to win 151 of the 500 seats in the lower house ... The governing coalition won only 15% of the seats ... Now, it's a new day." ... ... ... .
photo: AP / Roman Hrytsyna
Kyiv targeted in fresh attack as Europe renews weapons pledges
RTE 16 May 2023
Russian drones and ballistic missiles have attacked Ukraine's capital in what the defence forces called an exceptionally complex strike, a day after President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would return from a European tour with a restocked weapons arsenal ... Volodymyr Zelensky met Rishi Sunak in Britain yesterday ... .
photo: AP / Michel Euler
Global executions surge, with China, Iran leading the way, Amnesty says
France24 16 May 2023
Recorded executions worldwide reached 883 last year, the highest level since 2017, according to an Amnesty International report published on Tuesday that decried the Middle East and North Africa in particular ... .
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Europe's Weakest Border? Smuggling Between Suriname and French Guiana
InSight Crime 16 May 2023
Stuart Codrington favors the direct approach. Within five minutes of our interview starting, the Surinamese border control officer grabs his gun, shoves it in his pocket, and takes us out of his tiny, air-conditioned office into the afternoon heat. Soon, we are trundling along a badly maintained road in his white pickup ... The youth look defeated ... Photo.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini
Flawless Djokovic crushes Norrie to reach Rome quarterfinals
Khaleejtimes 16 May 2023
Holder Novak Djokovic blasted past Briton Cameron Norrie 6-3 6-4 in a tense encounter to reach the Italian Open quarterfinals on Tuesday and remain on track for a seventh title in Rome ... The duo swapped breaks early in a spicy second set where Norrie's overhead shot hit Djokovic on the leg after the Serbian had turned his back on the net ... ALSO READ.
photo: AP / Leo Correa
UN: Africa’s Sahel desperately needs help to fight violent extremism and stop its spread
Wtop 17 May 2023
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Africa’s Sahel region has become a hot spot for violent extremism, but the joint force set up in 2014 to combat groups linked to the Islamic State, al-Qaida and others has failed to stop their inroads, and a senior U.N ... Assistant Secretary-General for Africa Martha Pobee told a U.N. Security Council meeting ... U.N ... The U.S ... Source .
photo: NASA, ESA
Webb confirms water in weird comet, but something else is missing
New Atlas 16 May 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor on an object in the asteroid belt, a region of the solar system where it wasn’t known to survive. The new observations also reveal something missing unexpectedly ... These are called active asteroids, or main-belt comets, which really only serves to confuse the issue further ... Source. ESA. .
photo: AP / Susan Montoya Bryan
New Mexico gunman who killed 3 and injured 6 shot randomly at cars, houses, police say
Boston Herald 16 May 2023
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, KEN RITTER and MORGAN LEE (Associated Press). FARMINGTON, N.M ... The shootings occurred around 11 a.m. in Farmington, a city of about 50,000 people near the Four Corners — where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet — that is a supply line and bedroom community to the region’s oil and natural gas industry.