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President Joe Biden talks to members of the press in the State Dining Room of the White House Tuesday, March 2, 2021, after delivering remarks during a COVID-19 announcement

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Joe Biden is proving even more of a ‘master of disaster’ than Jimmy Carter

New York Post 16 May 2021

President Joe Biden entered office poised to oversee a record recovery and a return to the booming economy and all-round stability of pre-pandemic life ... see also. Retail spending unchanged in April even as more businesses reopened. Retail sales, which include purchases at stores, restaurants and online,... see also ... .

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Three old woman holding hands while walking

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Perimenopause: 'Little by little we're breaking down taboos'

BBC News 16 May 2021

A woman who set up a perimenopause support group after her own struggle to get a diagnosis said taboos around the issue are finally breaking down. Emily Barclay set up Perimenopause Hub after it took her four years to get to the bottom of her irregular periods, crushing fatigue and mood swings ... Miss Barclay, from Earsham in Norfolk, said ... Source ... .

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A woman reacts while standing near the rubble of a building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday that housed The Associated Press, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media outlets, in Gaza City, Sunday, May 16, 2021.

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There are many victims and precious few heroes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Independent 16 May 2021

Not every actor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now roiling the Middle East is a villain or victim – the latter including the 52 children and entire families wiped out by bombing in the Gaza Strip ... “We are on the edge of the abyss,” he said. “We knew it was coming ... .

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Palestinian relatives mourn during the funeral procession of six-year-old Ali al-Shwaf in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 23, 2012, after he was killed during an Israeli air strike in Gaza and his father and another man were wounded in the shelling, but the Israeli military denied it was responsible.. Photo By Ahmed Deeb/wn

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More deaths in Gaza as Israel launches ‘most intense raids yet’

Al Jazeera 16 May 2021

Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has entered its seventh consecutive day, with air raids in the early hours of Sunday killing at least seven Palestinians, wounding dozens more and flattening at least two residential buildings. The home of Gaza’s Hamas chief, Yehya al-Sinwar, was also targeted ... Some 950 others have been wounded ... .

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File - Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and other U.S. and Chinese officials on June 6, 2016, in a villa at the Diaoyutai Guest House complex in Beijing, China, as the Chinese leader opens a two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue between their respective countries.

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Xiplomacy: Xi's civilization view offers insight into today's world

China.dot.org 16 May 2021

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the unique and important role of the world civilizations in his address at the 2019 Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations ... PROMOTING PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT ... "The meaning of the speech goes far beyond the cultural scope ... FACILITATING DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION ... Enditem.

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The Israeli bombing of civilian neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, May 2021. At least 140 people have been killed in Gaza, including 41 minors, with more than 1,000 others wounded during the conflict. Israel has reported 10 deaths, including 2 minors.

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Israel PM Netanyahu vows to continue Gaza attacks for ‘as long as necessary’

The Observer 16 May 2021

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said attacks in Gaza will continue “as long necessary”, amid continuing hostilities that have so far killed 148. At least three Palestinians were killed in airstrikes early on Sunday, health officials said, and many were injured as the sounds of heavy bombardment took place through the night ... .

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Soldiers try to stop protesters in Bishoftu, during a declared state of emergency, in the Oromia region of Ethiopia

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Ethiopia says ‘destroyed’ force coming from Sudan

Arab News 16 May 2021

ADDIS ABABA. Ethiopia’s army said that a large group of fighters, allegedly members of the former ruling party of the conflict-torn Tigray region, had been “destroyed” attempting to enter the country from neighboring Sudan. Brig. Gen ... AFP has reached out to the Sudanese government, which was not immediately available for comment ... ....

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File - Afghan National Army soldiers with 2nd Kandak, 4th Brigade, 215th Corps fire M16A4 rifles during a battlesight zero range at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, June 4, 2017.

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Fighting resumes in southern Afghanistan as ceasefire ends

Straits Times 16 May 2021

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (AFP) - Fighting between the Taleban and Afghan government forces resumed on Sunday (May 16) in the restive southern province of Helmand, officials said, ending a three-day ceasefire agreed by the warring sides to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday ... ....

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Warning against dragging Lebanon into ‘total chaos’ amid hopes for economic recovery

Arab News 16 May 2021

BEIRUT. Political and economic figures have expressed their opposition to dragging Lebanon into a regional conflict amid the Palestine-Israel crisis and violent clashes. The Vice President of the General Labor Confederation Hassan Fakih warned against “taking the country into total chaos that will wipe out what is left of Lebanon.” ... Ezz El-Din added.

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File - Children of Soweto, a black township some ten miles away from Johannesburg. The Zulu word ""Amandla"" scrawled on the wall means ""Power"" and has been adopted as a rallying call in the struggle for black rights, 1 January, 1982.

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Africa's lost languages: How English can fuel an identity crisis

BBC News 16 May 2021

Some children who have grown up in Africa being forced to speak English are facing an identity crisis ... It was really difficult". .

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File - U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Ospreys and a CH-47JA Chinook helicopter assigned to the Japan Ground Self Defense Force fly in a formation over the flight line at Camp Soumagahara, Japan, Dec. 9,2020.

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Japan, US, France hold military drill eyeing China presence

Yahoo Daily News 15 May 2021

KIRISHIMA TRAINING AREA, Japan (AP) — Dozens of Japanese, American and French troops landed amid pouring rain from a CH-47 transport helicopter onto a grassy field at a training area in southern Japan, part of Saturday's joint scenario of defending a remote island from an enemy invasion ... Around 200 troops took part in Saturday's exercises ... Col ... U.S ... .

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Boxes fill the shelves in the Documents Vault at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center in Bowie, Md., Monday, April 24, 2017.

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First-hand stories shed new light on Nazi death marches

The Observer 16 May 2021

First-hand accounts from survivors of Nazi death marches, which formed a last ruthless chapter of the genocide, are to go on display with testimonies translated into English for the first time ... Evidence and Memory. The accounts will also be available for free online. Clandestine image of a forced march. Photograph. US Holocaust Memorial Museum ... .

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File - ACT-UP and RISE & RESIST Step-off at the 47th Gay Pride Parade March on West 41st Street between Madison and 5th Avenue in New York City, NY on Sunday afternoon, 25 June 2017

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New York City Pride organisers to ban police from marching until 2025

The Observer 16 May 2021

Organisers of New York City’s Pride events say they will ban police and other law enforcement personnel from marching in their annual parade until at least 2025 and will also seek to keep on-duty officers a block away from the celebration of LGBTQ+ people and history ... Pride in London rejects ban on Met police taking part in parade. Read more ... .

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Voters line up outside a polling station during the Constitutional Convention election to select assembly members that will draft a new constitution in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, May 15, 2021

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Chile votes for body to rewrite dictatorship-era constitution

France24 16 May 2021

Chileans head to the polls Sunday in a second day of voting to elect 155 people who will rewrite the country's dictatorship-era constitution in a bid to address deep-seated social inequality that gave rise to deadly protests in 2019 ... .

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A close up view of US Space Force Senior Enlisted Advisor CMSgt Roger Towberman uniform in the Oval Office of the White House

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Space Force commander sacked after claiming US military is under assault from ‘neo-Marxist’ critical race theory

Russia Today 16 May 2021

The commander of a US Space Force unit has been removed from his leadership role following a podcast appearance in which he claimed that ‘Marxist’ ideologies like critical race theory were undermining the military. Lt. Col ... Todd Wood ... Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military’ ... Also on rt.com ‘Dire situation’ ... .