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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'.
photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein
China Holding Security Talks With Kiribati, One More Pacific Island Country, Reports Say
Sputnik 21 May 2022photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office / kremlin.ru
Erdogan’s NATO expansion roadblock will only harm Turkey
Asiatimes 21 May 2022
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 ... Turkey is no ordinary NATO member ... Erdogan will find once more that his influence has significantly diminished if for no other reason but his own behavior.
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US and South Korea to consider expanded military drills amid North Korea concern
Irish Independent 21 May 2022
We’ve gotten no response.”The division of the Korean peninsula after the Second World War has led to two radically different countries.In South Korea, Mr Biden is touring factories for computer chips and next-generation cars in a democracy and engaging in ...
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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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China’s fusion nuclear reactor will not crash power grid in world first: scientists
South China Morning Post 21 May 2022photo: Public Domain / Ron Przysucha
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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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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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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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 ... .
photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office
Putin May Be Winning the Information War Outside of the U.S. and Europe
Time 20 May 2022
When the Russian Federation released an official list of “unfriendly” nations, no country from Africa, Asia, or South America was on the list, and neither was India or China—the two most populous countries in the world—both of which have been pretty chummy with Putin.
photo: 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 / KA Sports Photos
Tiger Woods makes cut at PGA Championship as Will Zalatoris leads
South China Morning Post 21 May 2022
Bubba Watson matches course record while Rory McIlroy shares fifth, but biggest crowds follow Woods as he continues comeback after his car crash last year ... .
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Unique heart transplant was performed successfully at Hadassah Hospital, first time in Israel
The Jerusalem Post 21 May 2022
An extremely complex heart transplant was performed at Hadassah Hospital on Friday when a 76-year-old patient needed one and all the common procedures that the hospital usually provides did not suit the treatment that was required. The patient arrived at Hadassah a few weeks ago with a severe heart defect and suffered from a severe vascular disease.
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Russia Adds Chess Champion Kasparov, Former Tycoon Khodorkovsky To 'Foreign Agents' Registry
Radio Free Europe 21 May 2022
The Russian Justice Ministry has added Kremlin critics Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon, to its registry of "foreign agents." ... Kasparov's ties to a U.S ... ....