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Apocalypse now? The alarming effects of the global food crisis
The Guardian 21 May 2022
Apocalypse is an alarming idea, commonly taken to denote catastrophic destruction foreshadowing the end of the world ... ....
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Erdogan’s NATO expansion roadblock will only harm Turkey
Asiatimes 21 May 2022
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has sufficiently alarmed Finland and Sweden for them to reverse decades-long policies and apply for immediate membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But what appeared to be a no-brainer for the alliance has quickly hit a roadblock in the form of Turkey’s mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... ....
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Russia declares victory in capture of Mariupol
RTE 21 May 2022
Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms ... The verdict is due Monday ... Smoke rises at a warehouse after shelling in Severodonetsk ... "Attempts to attack Donbas continue ... 'End of operation'.
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Turkey to Greece: You did it first
Ekathimerini 21 May 2022
Turkey claims Greece violated its airspace twice this week, and that it had replied to those violations Friday “based on reciprocity and in accordance with” the Turkish Air Force’s rules of engagement ... Bilgic accused Greece of trying to mislead international public opinion ... .
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China Holding Security Talks With Kiribati, One More Pacific Island Country, Reports Say
Sputnik 21 May 2022photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Australia's opposition Labor party poised to topple ruling conservatives
The Jerusalem Post 21 May 2022
The Australian Labor party will topple the ruling conservatives at a national election, although it may have to form a minority government, the Australian Broadcasting Corp said on Saturday ... "Labor is 72 and needs 76 seats to govern ... "If Labor falls short and it wants to form a government, it can talk to the Greens or it can talk to the crossbench.".
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Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents sent to quarantine
The News International 21 May 2022
Photo. AFP/file. BEIJING. Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents were forcibly relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the capital begins to take more extreme control measures resembling virus-hit Shanghai. Beijing has been battling its worst outbreak since the pandemic started ... then disinfect homes ... .
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Moldova should be 'equipped to Nato standard', says Truss
BBC News 21 May 2022
Moldova should be "equipped to Nato standard" to help it guard against the threat of a Russian invasion, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said. Ms Truss told the Telegraph that talks were under way with allies about how to help smaller nations defend themselves ... Moldova, once a Soviet republic, sits on Ukraine's south-western border ... .
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison joined call about contesting Trump’s election loss
Engadget 21 May 2022
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was involved in a call where a number of influential GOP figures—including Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Fox News anchor Sean Hannity and Trump attorney Jay Sekulow — brainstormed ways to contest the 2020 presidential election, reported the Washington Post ... “Jim was on a call this evening with Jay Sekulow, Lindsey O ... .
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Zelensky says only 'diplomacy' can end Ukraine war
The New Arab 21 May 2022
The Ukraine war can only be resolved through "diplomacy", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday amid a deadlock in negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. "The end will be through diplomacy," he told a Ukrainian television channel ... ....
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Saudi crown prince signals family unity as succession looms
Dawn 21 May 2022photo: White House / Adam Schultz
Chinese gas exploration in East China Sea ‘unacceptable’, says Japan’s Kishida
South China Morning Post 21 May 2022photo: Creative Commons / Le Grand Portage https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Gorges_Dam%2C_Yangtze_River%2C_China.jpg
China Is 3D Printing a Massive 590-Foot-Tall Dam, And Constructing It With Without Humans
Slashdot 21 May 2022
Chinese engineers will take the ideas of a research paper and turn it into the world's largest 3D-printed project. Popular Mechanics. Within two years, officials behind this project want to fully automate the unmanned construction of a 590-foot-tall dam on the Tibetan Plateau to build the Yangqu hydropower plant -- completely with robots ... .
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Curry, Warriors rally past Mavs for 2-0 lead in West finals
West Hawaii Today 21 May 2022
SAN FRANCISCO — Luka Doncic had been dominating for most of the night, yelling in celebration and flexing his arms in Stephen Curry’s house. Then Curry and the Golden State Warriors delivered one of those signature third-quarter flurries that have defined so many of their postseason runs — with this one sparked by Kevon Looney ... .
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Putin May Be Winning the Information War Outside of the U.S. and Europe
Time 20 May 2022
Is Vladimir Putin losing the information war with Ukraine?. Well, it depends on who you ask. It’s never easy to measure such things, but here are a few numbers. While 141 countries in the UN voted to condemn Russia’s aggression, the number of African, Middle Eastern and South American countries who have imposed sanctions on Russia is 0 ... ... .