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Drone attack targets military base housing US troops in Iraq
Anadolu Agency 08 May 2021
A booby-trapped drone attack on Saturday targeted the Ain Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq’s Anbar province, an Iraqi security officer told Anadolu Agency ... The officer said the attack did not cause any casualties or material damage in the base which also hosts American forces ... 26, 2018 ... 5, 2020 ... *Writing by Ibrahim Mukhtar in Ankara .
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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” .
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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More than 30 dead, dozens hurt in blast near Afghan girls' school
Gulf News 08 May 2021
Kabul. A blast outside a girls' school in an area of the Afghan capital populated largely by the Shiite Hazara community on Saturday killed more than 30 people and wounded scores including students, officials said ... "More than 30 students and other countrymen have been killed, and over 50 more were wounded. The toll is rising." ... .
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Australia rethinks China’s 99-year Darwin Port lease
Asiatimes 08 May 2021
How hard is Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison willing to poke the panda? That’s a question posed by the government’s review of the Chinese company Landbridge’s 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin ... At the time, then-US president Barack Obama chided then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull for not giving America a heads-up about the deal ... Photo ... ....
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US health insurers report billions in first quarter as small providers face stress
The Guardian 08 May 2021
The large profits reaped by the insurance firms are also likely to increase criticism of the US healthcare sector ....
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Turkish DM: Greece is creating tensions, our relationship with Egypt scares others
Greek City Times 08 May 2021
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar visited the Command of the Special Forces of his country and in his statements once again blamed Greece for tensions in the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Cyprus problem ... Stressing that this attitude is wrong, Akar said that “Greece must understand that it cannot get anywhere like this.” ... .
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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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China tries to scupper UN talk on plight of Uighurs
The Guardian 08 May 2021
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200 Palestinians hurt in mosque clashes with Israeli police
Irish Independent 08 May 2021photo: AP / Renee Graham
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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Saudi Arabia-Pakistan agree to mend strained ties
Al Jazeera 08 May 2021
Saudi Arabia and longstanding ally Pakistan signed several agreements on Saturday and vowed to revive ties strained by months of disagreement over policy on the Kashmir dispute ... He was greeted by Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the airport before holding talks with Saudi officials at Jeddah’s Al-Salam Palace ... .
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Violence against Peru’s indigenous communities surge as drug traffickers encroach
The Observers 08 May 2021
In the past year, nine indigenous leaders in Peru’s central Amazon have been murdered and many more have received death threats as their ancestral land is seized by drug traffickers. Covid-19 restrictions have made the remote region even more vulnerable as governmental efforts to protect the land have been hindered ... Read more ... {{ scope.counterText }}.
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Philippine troops drive away armed rebels from public market
Wtop 08 May 2021
COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of Muslim militants occupied a public market overnight in the southern Philippines before fleeing after a tense standoff with government forces, officials said Saturday ... Col. John Paul Baldomar ... There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths ... Troops were pursuing the gunmen, he said ... and Australia ... Source .
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Prince Misizulu named next Zulu king amid family feud
BBC News 08 May 2021
The eldest son of South Africa's late Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been chosen as successor to the throne, amid a bitter family feud. Prince Misizulu, 46, was named in the will of Zulu Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu - his mother - who died unexpectedly last week ... Prince Misizulu had to be led away from the meeting by armed security ... .
