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Ukraine warns only talks can end war
The Manila Times 22 May 2022
KYIV. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia's war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies to Finland ... Speaking on Ukrainian television on Saturday, Zelenskyy said ... Under what format, I don't know," he added ... ....
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Biden starts Japan tour as protesters take to streets
China.dot.org 22 May 2022
TOKYO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Sunday, as about 750 protesters took to the streets here against the planned U.S.-Japan summit and the summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) ... Japanese public opinion, however, seemingly does not favor the IPEF too much ... Enditem .
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US lied about Ukraine’s NATO prospects, ex-ambassador admits
Russia Today 22 May 2022
Lying is effectively a standard practice for diplomats in “real world,” Michael McFaul says ... The veteran diplomat made the revelation in a public policy forum, the semi-annual Munk Debates, earlier this month in Toronto ... Read more NATO expansion ‘not a threat’ – Biden ... “We kept saying that, over and over again.” ... .
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul, File
Female TV presenters defy Taliban order to cover faces on air
The Manila Times 22 May 2022
KABUL. Female presenters on Afghanistan's leading television channels went on air on Saturday without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam ... Previously, they had only been required to wear a headscarf ... ....
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Painful parallels and international law
Jamaica Observer 22 May 2022
Former US President George W Bush suffered an unfortunate slip of the tongue last week when he condemned "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq" before correcting himself to say “I mean, Ukraine” ... No such weapons were ever found. The US subsequently admitted that its intelligence was wrong ... Bruce Golding. .
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In the firing zone: evictions begin in West Bank villages after court ruling
The Observer 22 May 2022
“It’s too hot for the small children and too crowded for so many people,” he said ... “When I was doing my military service, I trained here ... When there is military activity in the area, artillery shelling in the middle of the night scares the children, said Zakaria’s mother, Nadja Mohammed Bakar, 52.
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The town at the center of California’s climate refugee crisis
The Guardian 22 May 2022photo: AP / B.K. Bangash, File
Pakistan: former human rights minister arrested over land grabbing allegation
The Observer 22 May 2022
She said. “Male police have beaten and taken my mother away and I have been told that anti-corruption wing of Lahore has arrested her.”. Footage on local Geo TV showed female police officers detaining Mazari. There was no immediate comment from Pakistani police ... .
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Shanghai hospitals resume services
China Daily 22 May 2022
For example, Huashan Hospital and the Fudan University's Children's Hospital jointly performed a liver transplantation to an infant, and medical helicopters transported patients in two cases to Ruijin hospital to receive critical emergency surgeries ... She was admitted for hospitalized monitoring in mid-March when she was pregnant for 24 weeks ...