More than 24 Sudanese political parties announced their rejection of normalising relations with the occupation and the abolition of Israel boycott law ...Last year, Sudan signed the Abraham Accords to build ties with Israel under US auspices. Khartoum followed in the steps of the UAE and Bahrain. OPINION ... ....
Police shot and killed a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school student on Monday after they said he opened fire on them in a campus bathroom, wounding an officer. The gunfire, which erupted at about 3.15 p.m. at Austin-East MagnetHigh School on the east side of Knoxville, marked the latest in a rash of shootings in the United States since mid-March ... ... .
Russia has warned Turkey against fueling the Ukrainian government’s “never-ending militarization sentiments,” amid speculation that Kiev may be planning to launch a new offensive against the Russian-speaking Donbass region in Ukraine... The Turkish government provided Ukraine with drones in 2019 ... ‘We live here! What about you?!’ ... www.presstv.ir ... .
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police overnight in a suburb of Minneapolis in defiance of a city-wide curfew, as outrage grew over the shooting of another black man in the city. Daunte Wright (20) was shot dead by a police officer on Sunday after he was stopped for a traffic violation ... “You’re ordered to disperse to the north ...Homicide ... .
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Taiwan has accused the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of its largest incursion of the nation's air defense zone with jets and nuclear-capable bombers, as joint US-Philippines military drills begin in the South China Sea... 25 PLA aircraft (Y-8ASW*2, KJ-500 AEW&C, J-10*4, J-16*14 and H-6K*4) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on Apr. 12, 2021.
Japan plans to release into the sea more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station, the government said on Tuesday, a decision that is likely to anger neighbours such as South Korea... .
In the 30-odd villages on the hilly slopes of Jammu’s Doda district, more than 200 farmers have shifted from maize to lavender production, starting a “purple revolution” in the region ... ....
WASHINGTON—PresidentJoe Biden and first lady Jill Biden's dog Major will get professional help adjusting to the White House after a pair of biting incidents last month ... Both dogs spent time ....
Canada on Monday blocked military arms exports to NATO ally Turkey after a probe found Canadian drone technology had been misdirected for use in conflicts. Shipments had been suspended last October pending an investigation into allegations that Canadian imaging and targeting systems on unmanned drones were used by Azerbaijan in clashes with Armenia.
“We are willing to defend ourselves, that’s without any question,” Wu said. “We will fight a war if we need to fight a war.” Meanwhile, U.S.AdmiralPhilip Davidson, who is the senior U.S. commander in the region, told a Senate panel that the risks of a Sino–U.S. war over Taiwan “are actually going up.” And a Chinese defense official cautioned the U.S.
The world’s wealthy must radically change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says. It says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN. The wealthiest 5% alone – the so-called “polluter elite” - contributed 37% of emissions growth between 1990 and 2015... .