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Rights panel: Peru used excessive force to quell protests

Washington Post The Inter American Commission on Human Rights says Peru’s military and police forces used excessive force to quell violent anti-government protests, and that they should be investigated as possible extrajudicial executions and massacres https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/peru-protests-human-rights-iachr/c9a1f5a6-e9d3-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Oil Executive Who Heads U.N. Climate Talks Hints at His Approach

New York Times In a speech, Sultan al-Jaber, the Emirati official presiding over this year’s climate summit, spoke of emissions cuts, but experts also cited ambiguity in his statements. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/climate/un-climate-oil-uae-al-jaber.html

Sudan’s warring generals closely matched ahead of latest cease-fire

Washington Post The military and the RSF have divided up Sudan’s towns, factories and resources between them as neither side appears to have the immediate upper hand. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/sudan-conflict-rsf-military/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Gas leak at German high school exposes at least 84 to suspected irritant gas

Fox News At least 84 people have been exposed to a suspected irritant gas at a high school in southwestern Germany, according to German news agency dpa. Both students and teachers experienced mostly slight health effects at the school in the town of Singen, dpa said. Three students and a teacher, however, had to be…

Berlin police say 2 girls seriously wounded in school attack

Washington Post Berlin police say two young children were seriously wounded in an attack at a school in the south of the capital https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/germany-berlin-school-attack-children-girls-wounded/51b18f66-e9c9-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Russia reducing Victory Day celebrations in wake of Ukraine war losses, drone attacks

Fox News Russia has trimmed down annual Victory Day celebrations, with some claiming the Kremlin fears protests and dissent following continued and severe losses in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the celebrations, which mark the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II, as propaganda opportunities. He used 2021 to warn…

Brazil’s federal police search home of former President Bolsonaro over alleged doctored vaccine cards

Fox News Federal police in Brazil searched the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro and seized his phone in relation to an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards. Brazil’s Federal Police said in a statement Wednesday that their officers carried out 16 searches and made six arrests in Rio de Janeiro amid an…

Juan Guaidó says he felt U.S. pressure to get on plane to Miami

Washington Post The Venezuelan opposition leader appeared in Bogotá last week hoping to attend an international summit. Instead, he told The Washington Post, he felt pressured to leave by U.S. and Colombian officials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/guaido-interview-colombia-venezuela-miami/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Bolsonaro’s vaccine status forged before entering U.S., police say

Washington Post Bolsonaro, a longtime skeptic of the coronavirus vaccines, has repeatedly said he would not be vaccinated: “Let me die.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/bolsonaro-vaccination-covid-police-raid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

9 killed in explosion at Chinese petrochemical plant, 3 others dead in helicopter crash

Fox News At least nine people were killed in an explosion at a Chinese petrochemical plant and three others died in a helicopter crash during the country’s May Day holiday. Rescuers recovered the bodies of the nine workers killed in the explosion Monday at the Zhonghua Group plant in an industrial zone in the city…