Chaos spreads as desperate Gazans wait for food aid – BBC

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  1. Chaos spreads as desperate Gazans wait for food aid  BBC
  2. It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children  The Atlantic
  3. What Israeli Officials Are Privately Saying About Starvation in Gaza  The New Yorker
  4. Gaza aid trucks looted amid ‘hunger, desperation, and anxiety,’ U.N. says  The Washington Post
  5. UN chief Antonio Guterres says Gaza enduring ‘the cruellest phase’ of war  Al Jazeera
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Pentagon promotes Kingsley Wilson to press secretary despite history of antisemitic comments – Jewish Insider

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  1. Pentagon promotes Kingsley Wilson to press secretary despite history of antisemitic comments  Jewish Insider
  2. New Pentagon spokesperson promoted antisemitic conspiracy theory – as it happened  The Guardian
  3. Pentagon promotes press sec who parrots ‘neo-Nazi playbook,’ AJC tells JNS  JNS.org
  4. Judge blocks Trump executive order targeting law firm linked to Robert Mueller – US politics live  The Guardian
  5. New Pentagon spokesperson promoted antisemitic conspiracy theory – US politics live  The Guardian
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Trump signs executive orders to spur US ‘nuclear energy renaissance’

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President aims to construct new nuclear reactors as he implements his own energy policies and undoes Joe Biden’s

Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders on Friday intended to spur a “nuclear energy renaissance” through the construction of new reactors he said would satisfy the electricity demands of data centers for artificial intelligence and other emerging industries.

The orders represented the president’s latest foray into the policy underlying America’s electricity supply. Trump declared a national energy emergency on his first day in office over and moved to undo a ban implemented by Joe Biden on new natural gas export terminals and expand oil and gas drilling in Alaska.

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Georgian man extradited to US to face charges over poison-candy terror plot

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Officials say Michail Chkhikvishvili is the leader of a neo-Nazi group that promotes violence against minorities

The leader of an eastern European neo-Nazi group has been extradited to the United States from Moldova following his arrest last summer for allegedly instructing an undercover federal agent to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children and racial minorities, prosecutors said.

Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old from the republic of Georgia, was arraigned on Friday before a federal judge in Brooklyn on multiple felonies, including soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence.

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Lebanon Moves to Disarm Palestinian Groups, a Test Run for Hezbollah – The New York Times

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  1. Lebanon Moves to Disarm Palestinian Groups, a Test Run for Hezbollah  The New York Times
  2. Lebanon will start disarming Palestinian refugee camps in June, official says  The Times of Israel
  3. Lebanese and Palestinian leaders agree that Lebanon won't be used as a launchpad to strike Israel  AP News
  4. Mahmoud Abbas agrees on roadmap to disarm Palestinian factions in Lebanon  Middle East Eye
  5. Lebanon begins drive to defang militant groups  Financial Times
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Four men guilty of Kim Kardashian jewellery heist in Paris

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Three pensioners and a man in his 30s jailed as four others convicted of related charges

Four men have been found guilty of breaking into a luxury residence in Paris and stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian when she attended fashion week in 2016.

Three pensioners and one man in his 30s were convicted of carrying out the armed heist, which was thought to be the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years. Four other people were found guilty of assisting in the plot or related charges. Two people were acquitted of accusations they handed out information about Kardashian’s whereabouts.

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Satellite images show the catastrophic damage to North Korea’s new destroyer that’s lying on its side – Business Insider

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  1. Satellite images show the catastrophic damage to North Korea's new destroyer that's lying on its side  Business Insider
  2. Kim Jong Un’s New Warship Capsizes at Launch Due to ‘Absolute Carelessness’  WSJ
  3. Satellite images reveal North Korea's mangled naval destroyer after failed launch  Fox News
  4. Kim Jong-un Vents Fury After Botched Launch of North Korean Destroyer  The New York Times
  5. Failed Launch and Damage of the Second Guided Missile Destroyer  Beyond Parallel
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