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Gunman kills five in attack in Tunisia during Jewish pilgrimage

Washington Post The victims of the attack included two Jewish pilgrims, a 30-year-old Tunisian and a 42-year-old French national. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/09/tunisia-synagogue-attack-djerba-ghriba/

US embassy in Pakistan issues security alert amid violent clashes with protesters over Imran Khan arrest

Fox News The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday issued a security alert canceling all consular meetings through the end of the week as protests over the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan have turned violent. The alert came as video footage showed police and protesters alike dodging objects flying through the air…

Brits are boasting about ‘having a Chinese.’ U.S. TikTokers are horrified.

Washington Post It’s not just chicken balls, fries and curry sauce that turn American stomachs in this TikTok takeout war. Many say the British phrase “having a Chinese” is racist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/10/tiktok-british-chinese-takeaway-videos/

Brits are boasting about ‘having a Chinese.’ U.S. TikTokers are horrified.

French expert in Russian history wins Spanish award

Washington Post Ninety-three-year-old French historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, an eminence in Russian and Central Asian history, has won Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for Social Science for 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/10/spain-carrere-dencausse-asturias-history-soviet-union-russia/02075092-ef3a-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Tributes pour in for AFP journalist killed in Ukraine

Washington Post Colleagues of Arman Soldin, the Agence France-Presse journalist slain Tuesday in Ukraine, have gathered solemnly at the press agency’s Paris headquarters Wednesday to remember him https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/10/ukraine-journalist-killed-arman-soldin/23999226-ef33-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Moscow’s division deepen as Wagner chief claims Russian troops fled Bakhmut posts amid Ukrainian advances

Fox News The divisions between Russia’s defense ministry and its notorious Wagner group continue to play out in public with mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin suggesting Tuesday that Russian forces have fled their posts in Bakhmut. In a video posted to the Telegram messaging app, the once top ally to President Vladimir Putin claimed that units…

Saudi Arabia invites Syrian president to Arab summit

Washington Post Saudi Arabia has invited Syrian President Bashar Assad to the upcoming Arab League summit in the oil-rich kingdom https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/10/syria-saudi-arabia-arab-league-assad/065acdc2-ef35-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Italy smashes cross-border migrant smuggling ring

Washington Post Italian police say they have arrested 29 people and smashed a transnational operation that brought migrants illegally into Italy by sea and then smuggled them in vehicles into northern Europe https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/10/italy-turkey-migrants-smugglers-arrests/f3c4859a-ef34-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Gaza militants fire wave of rockets into Israel after strikes kill top terrorist leaders

Fox News Militants in Gaza fired waves of rockets into Israel on Wednesday, following a series of airstrikes that killed three senior members of a terrorist group this week. Israeli Defense Forces confirmed that a wave of rockets targeted the southern cities Ashkelon and Sderot, and elsewhere, but no casualties were reported. Israel’s Iron Dome…