A Ukrainian serviceman carries a mortar shell in Kharkiv region, May 9, 2022
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE AT WAR
Flows of Russian gas to Europe through a transit point in Ukraine dried up, while Kyiv reported battlefield gains over invading Russian forces that could signal a shift in the war's momentum.
Ukraine has remained a major route for Russian gas to Europe even since the February 24 invasion, which President Vladimir Putin calls a "special military operation".
Reuters photographer Jorge Silva visited a Ukrainian hospital where medics work as rockets fall. See his photo essay here.
Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network that took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of the war, the United States, Britain, Canada, Estonia, and the European Union said. The digital assault against Viasat's KA-SAT network took place just as Russian armor pushed into Ukraine.
Russian diplomat Sergiy Andreev was feeling unwelcome on the streets of Warsaw even before protesters doused him with red liquid thrown in his face at the short range this week. Across Europe's capitals, Russian diplomats are getting the cold shoulder, ranging from diplomatic expulsions by governments, to protests by individual citizens, and service denials by companies.
Here's what you need to know about the Russia-Ukraine conflict right now
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Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. visits the grave of his father former President Ferdinand E. Marcos at Libingan ng mga Bayani, Taguig, Philippines, May 10, 2022
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| ARRESTS, MEDIA SHUTDOWNS: Most of his opponents — among them Senators, newsmen, editors, labour leaders and young anti-Marcos activists — were arrested. The phone company (PLDT), the electric company (Meralco) were cordoned off. News organisations were shut down, including: 7 English dailies, 4 Chinese dailies, 1 Spanish Daily, 3 Filipino dailies, 1 Filipino-English daily; 66 community papers; 11 English weekly magazines, 7 TV stations, and 292 radio stations. Source: https://twitter.com/mlq3/status/1440842240381710343?s=20 |
WORLD (by Adam Gonzalez)) In the Philippines, Going back 45 Years to learn who the Marcus are. They all come in through the front door and rob you and kill your sons making them serve to defend them not you. Why do you bring them back? Don't you have a dog catcher or butcher or better yet a good school teacher?? You need to go through again through misery because you have not learned. I am so sorry for you.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. went to the grave of his father, the disgraced Philippines dictator, the day after winning the presidential election, a visit that underscores the polarization over the return to rule of the notorious political dynasty. We look at how a Marcos presidency is a boon for China, but awkward for the U.S.. The Ferdinand Marcus Family ruled The Philippines with an iron hand. They were the poorest of any nation except maybe Haiti. So of course He held elections when he got pressure from the US but there was no one alive to run against him. Marcus Killed his opponent like Putin has done. Until Mr. Aquino, a senator ran and won while in the US hiding because Marcus wanted to put him in jail. No reason like Putin does. Well upon the good news he came back and it seems the whole country made up of Islands was there. Including the hired assassin. He killed him. But the Philippines felt cheated and would have burned Marcus and his guards if they could. The US gave him asylum to avoid killing which was a mistake because then Got in trouble because he was not wanted anywhere. He was also sick with cancer but he had a family including his wife that was liking their chops to come back and take over f possible. They have also taken off with the money which belongs to the Republic. They were very rich but they didn't work. She shopped all over the world at the finest stores, particularly for the most expensive perfumes and shoes which she would only wear once, but would not donate. She wanted them in a museum after she dies because she thought in her own little min they were royalty. That's how they lived while the average philippino could not even buy a fan to cool his bedroom to be able to sleep. They have been stuck with an ignorant policeman as the president who is killing or jailing anyone he suspects of having drugs unless he gets paid. The Phillippines prospered a bit but it is very poor. Who's fault is it? You live with the people you elect to take your tax money and not for themselves but to improve the country's economy and make the people that work hard have a better way of life instead of selling themselves to rich nations to become slaves on a contract of a few years.
China hit back against what it called "irresponsible" comments by the head of the World Health Organization, who described the country's uncompromising and increasingly painful "zero COVID" policy as "not sustainable". The policy has placed hundreds of millions of people across dozens of cities under various degrees of movement restrictions.
Sri Lanka has moved Mahinda Rajapaksa to a naval base for his safety after he quit two days ago as prime minister, the defense secretary said, following violence targeting the family for its role in the country's worst economic crisis. Here's how Sri Lanka reached the point of no return.
An Al Jazeera reporter was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank, with the news channel and a wounded colleague accusing Israel of killing her and Israel's leader saying she may have been hit by Palestinian fire. Shireen Abu Akleh, 51,a Palestinian-American, was wearing a press vest that clearly marked her as a journalist.
Britain rejected European Union proposals to resolve a standoff over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, saying it would not shy away from taking direct action in the latest escalation between the two sides. Striking a deal that preserved the peace, protected the EU's single market and avoided new borders on the island of Ireland and with Britain was always the biggest challenge for London as it embarked on its historic departure from the bloc.
U.S.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate plan to force a vote today on legislation codifying women's rights to abortion nationwide, a protest gesture that is almost certain to fail ahead of an expected Supreme Court decision to end those protections. President Joe Biden is considering executive orders and other measures to increase access and funding for women if the court votes to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Donald Trump's favored candidate fell short in Nebraska's Republican primary election for governor, but the former president's pick prevailed in a congressional primary contest in West Virginia.
Arizona is preparing for its first execution since 2014, with an inmate convicted of killing a student scheduled to be put to death eight years after the state carried out its last lethal injection, described by lawyers as botched.
The United States' largest active wildfire bore down on New Mexico mountain villages, triggering evacuations in another county as firefighters saw no way to stop the blaze.
Chef Mario Batali was acquitted of sexually assaulting a woman at a Boston bar in 2017 while posing with her for fan 'selfie' photos, with the judge doubting the credibility of the accuser in the latest #MeToo era trial involving a U.S. celebrity accused of misconduct toward women.
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