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Ukraine identifies Russian 'war criminal' soldier 'who gang-raped a young girl with three others after ...

The Daily Mail 17 May 2022
A young Russian solider who is accused of subjecting a young girl to gang rape while her family were locked in a basement has been identified by Ukrainian authorities ... Lenarovich raped the young girl and was then joined in the atrocity by three more Russian soldiers ... Russian soldier becomes the first to go on trial for war...
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U.S. launches program to capture, analyze evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine

FX Empire 17 May 2022
State Department on Tuesday announced the launch of a new program to capture and analyze evidence of war crimes and other atrocities perpetuated by Russia in Ukraine, as Washington seeks to ensure Moscow is held accountable for its actions ... 24 invasion, after charging a captured Russian soldier with the murder of a 62-year-old civilian.
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U.S. launches new program to collect evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine

Colorado Springs Gazette 17 May 2022
State Department on Tuesday announced the launch ...
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Why is a retired Russian military officer suddenly dropping truth bombs on state TV?

Hot Air 17 May 2022
Despite widespread expectations that Putin would order a mass mobilization of the Russian people on Victory Day, Khodaryonok made the case that that wouldn’t do much for the war effort because it would take too long ... The Institute for the Study of War cites further evidence of Russian anxiety..
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‘I look at my government differently’: Losses in Ukraine test Russians’ faith

The Irish Times 17 May 2022
Dozens of Russian tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and trucks lay destroyed, some sinking into the waters of the Donets river by a broken pontoon bridge, pointing to the latest disaster in Russia’s three-month war in Ukraine ... force it to admit the high death toll in the war.
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Invasion of Ukraine forces a reckoning for the Orthodox world

New Statesman 17 May 2022
Far from making the case for a just war, Russia’s mobilisation of Orthodoxy and statements by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, in support of military action have only undermined Russia’s spiritual authority in the Orthodox world it insists it is defending.
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Ross Douthat: There are two endgames in Ukraine, both with big risks

The Berkshire Eagle 17 May 2022
More of the same, then, seems to be the Russian plan — meaning a continuation of the grinding war in Ukraine’s south and east, with the goal of regime change essentially abandoned in favor of the goal of holding territory that might eventually be integrated into the Russian Federation.
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Opinion: There are two endgames in Ukraine. Both carry big risks.

Times Free Press 17 May 2022
More of the same, then, seems to be the Russian plan — meaning a continuation of the grinding war in Ukraine's south and east, with the goal of regime change essentially abandoned in favor of the goal of holding territory that might eventually be integrated into the Russian Federation.
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In Ukraine, West should expect extended confrontation

Asiatimes 17 May 2022
Putin’s war was therefore a preventive war, fueled by regime-security concerns refracted through the prism of Russian historical imperial chauvinism ... Second, Russian conscription will include the European Russians of the country’s imperial core who have, up until this point, felt the war’s bite the least.
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Are the US and Ukraine Winning?

GlobalResearch 17 May 2022
SouthFront has generally taken the position that the Russians are fighting with one hand tied behind their collective back, and need to devote more resources to the Ukraine — and just get it over with ... Now, it is the Ukrainians fighting a lost war and the Russians taking some but not devastating losses ... They say the fear nuclear war.
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Putin's New Problems

Yahoo Daily News 17 May 2022
— “The Russian military has not yet achieved Putin’s stated territorial objectives of securing all of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and is unlikely to do so,” Katherine Lawlor and Mason Clark of the Institute for the Study of War in Washington wrote Friday.
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Jan Lipavský: True and false “liberations” – fighting the ghosts of neo-colonialism

Joy Online 17 May 2022
This year, the celebrations of the victory in World War II are being overshadowed by blood and suffering on the territory of Ukraine and destruction of Ukrainian cities. Ghosts of the new aggressive, neo-colonial war of the empire, hungry for more territory, cast their dark shadows on these days, which are usually connected to celebration of peace.
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Russian parliament to consider ban on exchanging Azov prisoners

Al Jazeera 17 May 2022
Russia’s parliament will consider banning the exchange of Russian prisoners of war for captured members of Ukraine’s Azov regiment, the speaker has said, after the last Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant surrendered to Russian forces ... Several Russian legislators urged Moscow not to exchange the prisoners of war.
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Ukraine Latest: Mariupol Pregnant Woman In Viral Photo Shares Her Story

Huffington Post 17 May 2022
Marianna Vyshemirsky, the pregnant woman photographed escaping a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol who became a symbol of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s bloody war on Ukraine, said she received death threats after false suggestions the photos were fake ... Some Russian media claimed Ukraine staged war crimes to gain world sympathy.
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Ross Douthat: There are 2 endgames in Ukraine; both carry big risks

The Bismarck Tribune 17 May 2022
More of the same, then, seems to be the Russian plan — meaning a continuation of the grinding war in Ukraine’s south and east, with the goal of regime change essentially abandoned in favor of the goal of holding territory that might eventually be integrated into the Russian Federation.

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Anadolu Agency
17 May 2022
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WorldNews.com
17 May 2022
File - Activists protest against the rising prices of food, petrol ,diesel and cooking gas, Jammu, India, 28 March 2022.
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Why does Turkey oppose Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership?
Al Jazeera
17 May 2022
File - Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighters taxi to the runway in Keflavík, Iceland. Norway sent the fighters to support Iceland, which doesn't have its own air force, in February 2020. Norway is a NATO member.
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Ukraine declares 'combat mission' over in Mariupol amid evacuation
CNN
17 May 2022
Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, May 5, 2022.
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Turkey confirms opposition to NATO membership for Sweden, Finland
Al Jazeera
17 May 2022
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Echoing Trump’s isolationism, some Republicans oppose more aid for Ukraine
The Los Angeles Times
17 May 2022
File - U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo attends President Trump's G-20 press conference with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty in Osaka, Japan on June 29, 2019.
US DoS / Ron Przysucha
US says it conducted a successful hypersonic weapon test
Al Jazeera
17 May 2022
File - Lightning strikes behind a B-52H Stratofortress at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Aug. 8, 2017. In a conventional conflict, the B-52 can accomplish strategic attacks, close-air support, air interdiction, offensive counter-air and maritime operations.
USAF / Senior Airman Justin Armstrong
Dogecoin founder says 95% of cryptocurrencies are ”scam and garbage”
Cryptopolitan
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Mexico disappearances reach record high of 100,000 amid impunity
BBC News
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FILE - Lizbeth holds paperwork from her asylum case in a relative's home, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Queen makes surprise appearance to mark new subway line
San Francisco Chronicle
17 May 2022
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Edward, right, talks with Transport for London commissioner Andy Byford, left, at Paddington station in London meets staff of the Crossrail project, as well as Elizabeth Line staff who will be running the railway, to mark the completion of London's Crossrail project, Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
AP / Andrew Matthews/Pool
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The Guardian
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‘We Have to Fight Back.’ Afghan Women Are Losing Their Hard-Won Right to Work Under the Taliban
Time Magazine
17 May 2022
File - An Afghan woman can earn an income using a sewing machine purchased with one of the 1.4 million microfinance loans that have been provided through the AusAID-funded Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan.
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AOL
17 May 2022
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Hezbollah, Allies Lose Their Majority in Lebanon Parliament
Hamodia
17 May 2022
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The Times of India
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