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      31 May

      Russia accuses US of ‘encouraging terrorists’ after Moscow strike

      President Putin casts the attack as a Ukrainian attempt to intimidate Moscow residents and says the capital’s air defences will be ‘beefed up’. Investigators inspect a building after a drone attacked the apartment in Moscow on Tuesday The United States is encouraging Ukraine to launch cross-border “terrorist” attacks, a Russian official alleged, after Moscow was hit by a series of drone strikes. The White House, meanwhile, said on Tuesday it did not support attacks inside Russia, and that it is still gathering information on the incident. “What are these attempts to hide behind the phrase they are ‘gathering information’?” Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the US, said in remarks published on the Telegram messaging channel. “This is an encouragement for…

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    • 31 May

      Sudan army suspends participation in Jeddah ceasefire talks

      The army and the paramilitary group RSF had agreed to extend a weeklong ceasefire deal by five days just before it was due to expire on Monday. Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan cheering with soldiers as he visits some of their positions in Khartoum [Sudanese Army’s Facebook page] Sudan’s army has suspended its participation in talks over a ceasefire and humanitarian access, a Sudanese diplomatic source told , raising fears of renewed fighting that has displaced tens of thousands of people. The talks with the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah in early May and had produced a declaration of commitments to protecting civilians and two short-term ceasefire deals that have been repeatedly…

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    • 31 May

      Malaysia seizes Chinese ship suspected of looting WWII wrecks

      Enforcement officers found 100 unexploded artillery shells and rusted piles of metal on board the dredger in South China Sea. The deck of the Chuan Hong 68 was piled with rusted scrap metal [Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency] Malaysian authorities have seized a Chinese registered dredger suspected of looting the wrecks of British warships that sunk off the east coast of the peninsula during World War II. The Fuzhou-registered Chuan Hong 68 was detained off the coast of the Malaysian state of Johor on May 28, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said in a statement on Facebook on Tuesday. In a joint operation with police, officers found 100 unexploded artillery shells on board. Photos released by the agency showed piles of…

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    • 31 May

      NATO launches Arctic exercises, pledges protection of Finland

      NATO aircraft and troops from Norway, the UK, US and Sweden are participating in arctic exercises A US soldier instructs a Finnish soldier in the operation of a Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle during the Northern Forest land force exercise in Rovajarvi, Finland on May 30, 2023 [Janis Laizans] NATO countries have kicked off Arctic military exercises with a pledge to defend their newest member, Finland, which is hosting its first joint training since becoming part of the Western alliance in April. Nearly 1,000 allied forces from Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States – as well as NATO applicant Sweden – joined approximately 6,500 Finnish troops and some 1,000 vehicles for exercises this week, which mark Finland’s biggest modern-time land-force drill…

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    • 31 May

      Saudi, US astronauts splash down on return from space station

      Saudi Arabia’s Rayyanah Barnawi, a biomedical scientist in cancer research, has become the first Arab woman sent into orbit. In this image taken from a video broadcast by SpaceX, crew members wave after the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico on May 30, 2023 [SpaceX ] A private space flight carrying a team of two Saudi and two American astronauts – including the first Arab woman sent into orbit – has splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico after a research mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the team parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on Tuesday night after a 12-hour re-entry…

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    • 31 May

      News|Humanitarian Crises

      Sudanese doctor ‘abducted’ after smear campaigns, say family Dr Alaa Nogod, a prominent figure in Sudan’s protest movement, was taken amid continued fighting in the country. Sudanese protesters march towards the parliament building in Omdurman on April 6, 2022, during a rally against military rule [] In the early afternoon on Saturday, 10 armed men stormed the Khartoum home of Dr Alaa Nogod and took him, as his younger brother and mother watched on helplessly. According to his family, the men claimed to belong to Sudan’s military intelligence and confiscated Nogod’s laptop, notebooks, passport and mobile phone. They then drove away without saying where they were taking him. “They kicked Alaa between his shoulder and his neck,” Nogod’s mother, Alawia,…

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    • 31 May

      BJP misusing government agencies: Rahul Gandhi

      Speaking at an event in Santa Clara, California on Tuesday, Gandhi said the BJP and the RSS are controlling all the instruments of politics in India. San Francisco: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken a swipe at the ruling BJP government, saying it is “threatening” the people and “misusing” the country’s agencies as he addressed a gathering of the Indian diaspora here. Speaking at an event in Santa Clara, California on Tuesday, Gandhi said the BJP and the RSS are controlling all the instruments of politics in India. He said before starting his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra‘, he realised that the normal tools that have historically been used in politics were not working anymore. “The BJP is threatening people and misusing government agencies.…

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    • 31 May

      Around 2,000 Amazon employees set for walkout against return-to-work, layoffs

      Amazon mandated its return-to-office policy from May 1, with employees required to be back in offices at least three days per week. San Francisco: Around 2,000 Amazon employees were set to participate in a walk-out in front of Amazon’s Spheres building in the heart of its headquarters in Seattle protesting against layoffs and return-to-work mandate. Amazon mandated its return-to-office policy from May 1, with employees required to be back in offices at least three days per week. The e-commerce giant has also laid off 27,000 employees in two job cut announcements. “The walkout is on! About 1,816 employees have pledged to walk out around the world so far, with 873 in Seattle. Please join 1,816 of our coworkers (and counting) and pledge to walk…

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    • 31 May

      Imran Khan will be tried in military court, says Pakistan’s interior minister

      Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that Imran Khan will be tried in a military court as the former prime minister was the “architect” of the May 9 incidents in which military and state installations were attacked by his party workers following his arrest in a corruption case. Appearing on a Dawn News show, Sanaullah also accused the 70-year-old chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of personally carrying out the planning of the attacks on military installations before his arrest on the day. There was evidence to prove the claim as well, the minister added. When asked if Khan would be tried in the military court, he said: “Absolutely, why shouldn’t it? The programme that he made to…

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    • 31 May

      Indian sailors to finally return home after nine months of detention in Nigeria

      Sixteen Indian seafarers who were detained for nine months in Nigeria will soon be returning to their home country. Their vessel, the MV Heroic Idun, was released on Sunday by the Nigerian authorities and is on its way to Cape Town, South Africa. The Indian sailors onboard the Norwegian vessel will travel to India from there and reach their home country on 7 June. On 12 August last year, the vessel was stopped by a naval ship off Equatorial Guinea in international waters. Reports said the MV Heroic Idun was on its way to pick up crude oil from Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. There are 26 sailors on the vessel and 16 of them are from India. The others are from the Philippines, Poland and Sri Lanka. Nigerian authorities had…

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