US Rejects China’s Nature Reserve Plan in Sea Near Philippines – Bloomberg.com

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  1. US Rejects China’s Nature Reserve Plan in Sea Near Philippines  Bloomberg.com
  2. US condemns Beijing’s South China Sea ‘nature reserve’ plan  Al Jazeera
  3. Philippines slams China's plan for nature reserve in disputed shoal  Reuters
  4. China approves nature reserve at disputed South China Sea shoal claimed by the Philippines  AP News
  5. China tipped to boost routine patrols after Scarborough nature reserve is set up  South China Morning Post
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UN assembly votes overwhelmingly to back two-state solution to Israel-Palestinian conflict – AP News

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  1. UN assembly votes overwhelmingly to back two-state solution to Israel-Palestinian conflict  AP News
  2. UN overwhelmingly endorses two-state solution declaration that condemns Hamas  Reuters
  3. Explanation of Vote on the UNGA Resolution Endorsing the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine  United States Mission to the United Nations (.gov)
  4. UN general assembly votes to back Hamas-free government for Palestine  The Guardian
  5. ‘Gift to Hamas’: Trump administration blasts UN Palestinian statehood vote  Fox News
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At least 193 killed in two separate boat accidents in northwestern DR Congo – Al Jazeera

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  1. At least 193 killed in two separate boat accidents in northwestern DR Congo  Al Jazeera
  2. Boat accident in Congo kills more than 100 people in second deadly capsizing this week  CBS News
  3. DR Congo: Boat accidents leave over 190 dead, scores missing  dw.com
  4. Capsizing kills more than 100 people in Congo in the second deadly boat accident this week  NBC News
  5. At least 107 killed in Congo as whaleboat sinks in river  Reuters
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‘It wasn’t’ — Poland rebuffs Trump on Russian drone incident as maybe a mistake – The Washington Post

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  1. ‘It wasn’t’ — Poland rebuffs Trump on Russian drone incident as maybe a mistake  The Washington Post
  2. NATO launches ‘Eastern Sentry’ operation in response to Russian drone incursions  CNN
  3. NATO to beef up defence of Europe's eastern flank after Poland shot down drones  Reuters
  4. NATO Steps Up Defenses After Russian Drones Violate Polish Airspace  The New York Times
  5. How Russia’s ‘salami-slicing’ strategy is testing the West  CNBC
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Israeli intelligence agency balked at Netanyahu’s strike in Qatar – The Washington Post

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  1. Israeli intelligence agency balked at Netanyahu’s strike in Qatar  The Washington Post
  2. Report: Mossad pushed back on carrying out plan it drew up to use agents on the ground to kill Hamas leaders in Doha  The Times of Israel
  3. Live updates: Trump to meet with Qatari PM; Chuck Schumer issues shutdown warning  NBC News
  4. ‘Every time they’re making progress, it seems like he bombs someone’  Politico
  5. Qatar Prime Minister to Meet Trump Officials After Israeli Strikes in Doha  The New York Times
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U.N. report: North Korea executes citizens who watch foreign films – upi.com

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  1. U.N. report: North Korea executes citizens who watch foreign films  upi.com
  2. North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds  BBC
  3. North Korea executes people for sharing foreign films and TV: UN report  Al Jazeera
  4. Kim Jong-un executes citizens for watching foreign films  yahoo.com
  5. DPRK: UN report finds 10 years of increased suffering, repression and fear  Ohchr.org
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Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move

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President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forward

Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, preferring to cast “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left of US politics as the sole problem.

In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics.

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Judge worries Trump administration is sidestepping torture protections for deported Africans – Politico

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  1. Judge worries Trump administration is sidestepping torture protections for deported Africans  Politico
  2. Lawsuit Accuses Trump Officials of More Wrongful Deportations  The New York Times
  3. Lawsuit says US held West African migrants in straitjackets for 16 hours on flight to Ghana  AP News
  4. Trump Admin Hit With New Lawsuit, Claims Migrants Held In 'Straightjackets'  Newsweek
  5. Trump administration sued for using Ghana as ‘end-run’ around deportation protections  My Ozarks Online
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