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Military commander tells dark story about the threat from China
Sydney Morning Herald 04 May 2021photo: AP / Court TV
George Floyd: Convicted killer Derek Chauvin requests new trial
Gulf News 05 May 2021
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin asked a judge on Tuesday for a new trial, court records showed, two weeks after he was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd ... Prosecutors did not immediately file a response to the motions for a new trial ... Mitchell was also wearing a Black Lives Matter baseball cap ... .
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France threatens to cut off Jersey’s electricity as ‘retaliation’ amid Brexit fishing row
The Independent 05 May 2021photo: US DoD / Public Domain
Taliban will roll back women’s rights, warns US report
Dawn 05 May 2021
WASHINGTON. The Taliban “would roll back much” of the progress made in Afghan women’s rights if they regain power, according to an assessment released on Tuesday by top US intelligence analysts ... Women who violated those rules often suffered humiliation and public beatings by the Taliban’s religious police ... Published in Dawn, May 5th, 2021. .
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Trump launches new 'communications' platform
BBC News 05 May 2021
Donald Trump has launched a new "communications" website, which says it will publish content "straight from the desk" of the former US president. Mr Trump was banned by Twitter and suspended by Facebook and YouTube after the Capitol riots in January ... "This new platform is going to be big," he said in March ... .
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Food of the future? EU nations put mealworms on the menu
The Nashville Ledger 04 May 2021photo: AP / Christophe Ena
Fears of a coup in France are exaggerated, but a far-right president is a real possibility
The Guardian 04 May 2021photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Stuart MacGill: Former Australia cricketer kidnapped at gunpoint in Sydney
The Daily Telegraph 05 May 2021
Former Australian�cricketer Stuart MacGill was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, threatened and assaulted in April, it was revealed on Wednesday, as New South Wales police arrested four men suspected of the attack ... Local media reported that�MacGill's kidnappers had been seeking a ransom ... .
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Revealed: 2,000 refugee deaths linked to illegal EU pushbacks
The Guardian 05 May 2021
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Senior Swiss diplomat in Iran found dead after fall from high-rise
Egypt Independent 04 May 2021
The first secretary at the Swiss embassy in Tehran was found dead on Tuesday after falling from a high-rise building where she lived in the north of the city, a spokesman for emergency services was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies ... (AFP) ....
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Popular Party wins Madrid regional election by landslide
China.dot.org 05 May 2021
MADRID, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The center-right Popular Party (PP) won the elections of the Autonomous Community of Madrid on Tuesday with 65 seats, more than doubling the seats it won in the 2019 elections ... The turnout was a historic 80 percent, 16 points above the 2019 elections ... Enditem .
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France's Parliament approves climate change bill to green the economy
Straits Times 05 May 2021
PARIS (REUTERS) - France's National Assembly on Tuesday (May 4) approved a wide-ranging climate change bill that will prevent future airport expansions, prohibit open-air terrace heaters and reduce packaging waste ... In a landmark ruling in February, a court ruled France must do more to combat climate change ... More on this topic. � ....
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American's new climate 'normal' is hotter, wetter, and more extreme
Business Insider 05 May 2021
National data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supports what scientists have been shouting for years. The ongoing climate crisis has created a wet, hot, American climate ... Climate normals are calculated by meteorologists based on 30-years of data to avoid the randomness of daily weather ... ....
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At least 20 dead as train overpass collapses in Mexico City
Metro UK 04 May 2021
The train carriage was split in two as the metro overpass collapsed in Mexico City (Picture. Reuters). At least 20 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a section of an overpass collapsed in Mexico City. Shocking footage shows a train carriage hanging in the air as rescue teams desperately search for survivors in the wreckage ... Getty) ... .
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Countries’ new climate targets curb global warming to 2.4C – analysis
Belfast Telegraph 04 May 2021
New targets announced by countries to drive down greenhouse gas emissions are projected to curb global warming to 2.4C by 2100, analysis suggests ... It is clear the Paris Agreement is driving change, spurring governments into adopting stronger targets, but there is still some way to goBill Hare, chief executive of Climate Analytics ... THREAD ... .
