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China clamps down on access to public data to counter US think tank intel

Fox News China has ramped up its efforts to clamp down on foreign data procurement in a move partially motivated by U.S. think tank efforts to monitor hard to find information on Beijing and its “military-civil fusion” strategy, a report by the Wall Street Journal found Monday. As tension and competition between the U.S. and…

Mexican president to hold call with Biden on immigration

Washington Post Mexico’s president says he will talk with U.S. President Joe Biden by telephone on Tuesday about immigration and the fentanyl crisis https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/08/mexico-us-immigration-migrants-fentanyl/14e28a86-edd4-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Russian wildfires tear through Urals, Siberia

Fox News Wildfires have engulfed large areas in Russia’s Ural mountains and in Siberia this week, with authorities promising to swiftly contain them. A total of over 130,000 acres of forests in the Sverdlovsk region in the Urals were on fire as of Monday morning, according to local authorities. More than 4,800 firefighters have been…

Humanitarian convoy ambushed in Burma; no casualties reported

Fox News A convoy including diplomats representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on a mission to provide humanitarian assistance to displaced people in strife-torn Myanmar has been ambushed, state media and a member of an ethnic minority militia said Monday. State-run television MRTV reported that the attack on the convoy with delegates from the…

Turkish economist, former head of UN Development Program Kemal Dervis dies at age of 74

Fox News Turkish economist, politician and former head of the United Nations Development Program Kemal Dervis died Monday at the age of 74, Turkish news outlets reported. He was being treated for an unspecified illness in Washington D.C., state-run Anadolu Agency reported, as did BBC Turkish and t24, which first reported the news. In early…

Russia preparing to evacuate nuclear plant, Ukrainian operator says

Washington Post Elements of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant require constant supervision, the head of Ukraine’s nuclear operator said. Eliminating that oversight, he warned, “will be dangerous for the plant itself.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/08/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-evacuation-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Russia preparing to evacuate nuclear plant, Ukrainian operator says

Belarusian blogger who was jailed over satirical drawing of President Alexander Lukashenko dies in prison

Fox News A Belarusian man sentenced to jail over a satirical drawing of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has died behind bars, the country’s leading rights organization reported on Monday. Mikalai Klimovicz, a 61-year-old blogger and activist from southern Belarus, died on Sunday while in prison in the northeastern city of Vitebsk, just two months into…

Wildfires rage in Russia’s Ural mountains, Siberia

Washington Post Wildfires have raged in Russia’s Ural mountains and in Siberia this week, with authorities promising to swiftly contain them https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/08/russia-wildfires-siberia-urals/1ed43fc0-edbc-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

What’s behind Syria’s return to the Arab League?

Washington Post The Arab League’s decision to re-admit Syria after 12 years of ostracization was a large symbolic victory for Damascus https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/08/syria-arab-league-cairo-saudi-arabia-qatar/58c45ccc-edbe-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world