50 bodies of missing persons found in liberated territories over past month
Pravda Ukraine Ukrainian search teams have found the bodies of 50 people in the liberated territories over the past month. They had gone missing under special circumstances. Source: Oleh Kotenko, Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances, on Telegram Quote: “The exclusive footage was provided by Oleksii Yukov, Commander of the search teams in Donetsk,…
Read MoreNE Gov. Pillen scheduled to sign bill banning abortion at 12-weeks, restricting gender surgeries for minors
Fox News Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is scheduled to sign a bill Monday that bans abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy and restricts gender surgeries for people younger than 19. The abortion ban would take effect immediately after the governor’s signature, while the ban on gender surgeries would take on Oct. 1. Nebraska’s conservative-led,…
Read MoreResidents of St Petersburg warned against launching balloons in the sky following a recent drone ban
Pravda Ukraine Ahead of the season of graduation celebrations, the Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety in St Petersburg, Russia, has warned the residents of the city against launching balloons – allegedly in light of ecological considerations. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/22/7403379/
Read MoreConverting to Judaism in Israel is nearly impossible – ITIM report
Jerusalem Post The number applying for conversion in the last decade has been low but even among those who did apply, fewer than half were able to complete the process. https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-743890
Read MoreCarper Says He Will Retire, Vacating Seat in Solidly Democratic Delaware
New York Times The fourth-term senator said he would do everything he could to ensure that Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, the state’s lone congresswoman and his former intern, won the race to succeed him. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/carper-delaware-retirement.html
Read MoreIsraeli Air Force could buy 20 new helicopters from US – report
Jerusalem Post The IDF will soon have to decide if to buy old “Delta” Apaches that were put out of order in the US and upgrade them, or buy new Apache helicopters of the “Echo” model. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-743874
Read MorePutin instructs Cabinet to update oil price indicators for taxation
Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. Since April 1, the law is effective in Russia that updates the methodology of pricing for the Russian Urals oil export blend during calculations of the mineral extraction tax and the additional income tax https://tass.com/economy/1621379
Read MoreBill Gates says top AI agent poised to replace search, shopping businesses
Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-743887
Read MoreEstonia, Latvia planning joint purchase of German IRIS-T air defense systems
Fox News Estonia and Latvia plan jointly to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the two NATO nations’ airspace in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministries said Sunday. According to the provisional deal, deliveries of the medium-range…
Read MoreUnited Nations reports 2 million people were killed from extreme weather over the past half-century
Fox News The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the U.N. weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over the past half-century around the globe…
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