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Powerful cyclone floods homes, cuts communications in western Myanmar; at least 6 dead, 700 injuredCyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar as earlier feared, but still tore apart hundreds of makeshift shelters. — ground.news: 224 reports — 14 May 2023 (LINK)

10 Southeast Asian Nations Challenge Dollar Dominance With Push for Local Currencies — source — 14 May 2023 (LINK)

Sudan's military chief says he is freezing bank accounts of rival paramilitary group amid truce attempts — ground.news: 13 reports — 14 May 2023 (LINK)

Russia says two of its commanders have been killed in eastern Ukraine — thehill — 14 May 2023 (LINK)

Belarus president Lukashenko misses second event in a week prompting speculation of illness — The Guardian — 14 May 2023 (LINK)

Haiti at risk of famine as farmers kidnapped, 'extremely bad' hunger fuels tumult, warns UN — ground.news: 40 media reports — 13 May 2023 (LINK)

Syria extends permission on post-quake aid border crossings for 3 months — ground.news: 28 media reports — 13 May 2023 (LINK)

Crypto-Powered DeFi Platform Empowa Takes on Africa's Housing Crisis — cryptoglobe — 13 May 2023 (LINK)

North Korea's missile programs allegedly funded by stolen crypto — cryptopolitan — 13 May 2023 (LINK)

Kenya cult death toll hits 200, with more than 600 reported missing — ground.news: 59 smedia reports — 13 May 2023 (LINK)

Look: World's oldest dog turns 31 in Portugal — ground.news: 143 reports — 13 May 2023 (LINK)

Cyprus and Malta annul dozens of 'golden passports' belonging to Russian nationals sanctioned by E.U. — meduza.io — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Climate finance: What are debt-for-nature swaps and how can they help countries? — weforum.org — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Twitter Has a Trumpy New She-E-O — jezebel — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Nestlé blasted on social media over alleged blatant 'greenwashing': 'The complete opposite of supporting nature' — thecooldown — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title with 62 newfound satellites, bringing total to 145 — www.space.com — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Congressional Budget Office warns of "significant risk" of US debt default 'in first two weeks of June' — abcnews — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Warring Sudanese factions fight on after failing to agree truce — ground.news: 11 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Turkey says Black Sea grain deal extension nearing — ground.news: 15 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Portuguese parliament on Friday approved legislation allowing euthanasia for people who are aged 18 and suffering from intolerable pain and terminal illnesses. — ground.news: 46 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Mali army, foreign fighters killed at least 500 people in March 2022, says UN report — ground.news: 39 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Nigerian court asked to stop president-elect's inauguration, extend incumbent's tenure — ground.news: 12 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Nestlé blasted on social media over alleged blatant 'greenwashing': 'The complete opposite of supporting nature' — thecooldown — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan released on bail — CNN — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Sudan's rival forces agree to protect civilians but no ceasefire — ground.news: 22 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

— The warring factions signed a declaration to improve the flow of humanitarian relief and begin restoring essential services.

Philippine court acquits top critic of ex-president's 'war on drugs' but she remains in jail — ground.news: 26 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

— Former Philippine opposition senator and justice minister, Leila de Lima, has been acquitted of drug charges after key witnesses recanted their statements. De Lima has been detained since 2017 on charges she claims were fabricated by former President Rodrigo Duterte in an attempt to silence her criticism of his deadly crackdown on illegal drugs. De Lima remains in jail with only one charge still outstanding, but has said through her lawyer that she is looking forward to her full acquittal.

U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Sides with Transgender Refugee, Affirming Her Identity in Historic Ruling — people.com — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

— The official opinion of the court uses proper she/her pronouns to describe a transgender woman who fled Guatemala after being assaulted and persecuted on the basis of her gender identity and sexual orientation. The opinion also referred to the petitioner as a non-citizen, rather than an "illegal alien" (a dehumanizing term that has been in conservative opinions in the past).

Federal judge blocks Biden from 'paroling' migrants hours before Title 42 set to lift — yahoo — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill legalizing anti-LGBTQ+ medical discrimination — lgbtqnation — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Largest cosmic explosion ever spotted by astronomers: 100 times the size of our Solar System and 10 times brighter than a supernova. It has lasted three years — ground.news: 33 media reports — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

— According to the study, the explosion took place nearly 8 billion light years away, when the universe was about 6 billion years old and is still being detected by a network of telescopes.

Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title with 62 newfound satellites, bringing total to 145 — www.space.com — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

Town hall audience was "disgusted" and "bewildered" by Trump, but CNN told them not to boo, only to applaud — boingboing — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

25 Skills Millennials Learned in the 90s That Are Utterly Useless Today — wealthofgeeks — 12 May 2023 (LINK)

WHO says mpox is no longer a global health emergency — ground.news: 28 media reports — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

More than 150 countries agree to ban 3 toxic chemicals — grist.org — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

— Sara Brosché, a science adviser for the International Pollutant Elimination Network, or IPEN, said in a statement. "We are disappointed that financial interests caused unnecessary and dangerous exemptions that will lead to ongoing toxic exposures."

U.N. Human Rights chief urges halt to Sudan conflict as fighting rumbles on despite talks — ground.news: 16 media reports — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

A special status for cities and regions at the United Nations? — genevacitieshub — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

War, natural disasters left record 71 million people internally displaced in 2022, Norwegian report says — ground.news: 13 media reports — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Russia Spent Year's Worth of Savings in Just Four Months — Newsweek — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

South Africa's currency eyes record low after US accuses the country of secretly selling weapons to Russia — Business Insider — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Pakistan's supreme court says Imran Khan's arrest was illegal and orders his release — ground.news: 51 media reports — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Earthquake of magnitude 7.4 hits off Tonga, no tsunami warning — ground.news: 25 media reports — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

G7 Nations Discussed Countering China's 'Economic Coercion' on 11 May — news.bitcoin.com — 13 May 2023 (LINK)

Spotify has reportedly removed tens of thousands of AI-generated songs — ground.news: 34 media reports — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Ron DeSantis signs laws banning foreign citizens from owning land in Florida — boingboing.net — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Gov. DeSantis signs bill that keeps his travel records secret — .cbsnews — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Santos votes for bill cracking down on COVID-19 unemployment fraud as he faces charges of unemployment insurance fraud — ground.news: 9 media reports — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Revolut finance chief quits for 'personal reasons' — cityam — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Surprising superpower of America's bison population: reintroducing bison would double plant biodiversity in a tallgrass prairie. Plant communities also were resilient to the most extreme drought in four decades — sciencedaily — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office — techradar.com — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

Ancient Roman bricks and coins lead to bigger discovery in Switzerland's Thurgau — source — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

George Santos owns up to theft charges in Brazil, signs deal to avoid prosecution — thehill — 11 May 2023 (LINK)

US approves first transfer of seized Russian funds to Ukraine — Al Jazeera — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Turkey, Syria, Russia and Iran hold highest-level talks since Syrian war — ground.news: 28 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Nicaragua to close Red Cross offices in Ortega government's latest crackdown on civic groups — ground.news: 18 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Imran Khan to be held for eight days as several die and hundreds detained during violent protests in Pakistan — ground.news: 15 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Hong Kong restricts foreign lawyers from national security cases — ground.news: 20 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

U.S. demands Taiwan's participation in WHO conference — cryptopolitan — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Joran van der Sloot, implicated in Natalee Holloway 2005 disappearance, will be extradited to US to face extortion charges — al.com — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

The French parliament has called on the EU to formally label the Russian mercenary group Wagner as terrorists; Britain is also said to be set to formally blacklist Wagner as a terrorist organization to increase pressure on Russia; Russian governor says two drones shot down in Voronezh region — the guardian — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Russian forces are planning to evacuate more than 3,000 workers from the town that serves the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, resulting in a "catastrophic lack" of personnel, Ukraine's state-owned Energoatom company claimed

Russia may formally "denounce" the treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe that it pulled out of in 2015, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin.

The thousands of 'soldiers' marching in Russia's Victory parade weren't actual combat troops, UK intel says — Business Insider — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Review of the Hunter Biden story and more: Heather Cox Richardson — substack — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

— There is no evidence that the payments were illegal. Republicans have turned up no evidence that President Joe Biden was part of the other Bidens' businesses or received any money in relation to them.

GOP Rep. George Santos charged with money laundering, fraud, theft — ground.news: 57 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Finally, a vaccine for one of the deadliest forms of cancer: 50% of pancreatic cancer patients free after 18 months — insider.com/ — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Swiss discover microbes that can digest plastics at low temperatures — ground.news: 12 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Violence erupts in Pakistan after Imran Khan arrest — ground.news: 119 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Australia told to shoot kangaroos before they starve — afp / phys.org — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Briton, 23, pleads guilty to hacking Elon Musk's and Joe Biden's Twitter accounts in bitcoin scam — Business Insider — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Baby born from three people's DNA in UK first in an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases. — ground.news: 30 media reports — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

California to pay $24M to family of man who died in CHP custody after screaming 'I can't breathe' — abc7 — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Wendy's to begin replacing drive-thru staff with AI chatbots — /newatlas — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

BRICS considers new currency to rival the US Dollar — cryptopolitan — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Ex-Russian Space Chief Claims NASA's Moon Landings Were Fake — ground.news: 12 media reports: low factuality sources — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

Former Biden admin disinformation chief sues Fox News for defamation — ground.news: 12 media reports: 0 right-wing sources — 10 May 2023 (LINK)

UN sounds alarm over 'new wave of extreme violence' in Haiti; 600 killed in April — ground.news: 12 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Over 5,500 still missing in flood-hit east Congo: local official — ground.news: 22 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Rockfall danger: Swiss village evacuated Residents of Brienz/Brinzauls in eastern Switzerland have been told to leave their homes by 6pm on Friday 12 May — swissinfo — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Red Cross warehouse containing aid destroyed in Russian missile attack in Odesa; five wounded in Moscow's wave of strikes on Kyiv — the guardian — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

— Russia has effectively stopped the Black sea grain deal, which expires on 18 May, by refusing to register incoming vessels, Ukraine's reconstruction ministry said.

— Russia's Wagner mercenary group appears to have ditched plans to withdraw from Bakhmut, saying they had been promised more arms by Moscow. Ukraine's general in charge of the defence of the besieged eastern Ukrainian city said late on Sunday that Russia had intensified shelling and hoped to take Bakhmut by Russia's Victory Day on Tuesday.

— A total of 1,679 people, including 660 children, have been evacuated from areas near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, a Moscow-installed official in the Russia-controlled parts of the Zaporizhzhia region has said.

Russian security agents have been using a secret network of corrupted computers to spy on NATO for decades, but the US just busted it open, feds say — source — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

UN report: Female Afghan UN employees harassed, detained — ground.news: 8 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Global push to tackle maternal and newborn deaths has stalled, WHO report finds — ground.news: 9 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

High stakes on who will lead the World Meteorological Organization — genevasolutions — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

UN political caste system drains workforce morale in Western Sahara — devex — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Reform or die? If the US gets its way, the WTO might do both — politico ← — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday near a synagogue on the island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said — ground.news: 152 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

AFP journalist Arman Soldin killed by rocket fire in Ukraine — cbsnews — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Autopsies reveal organs missing in Kenya cult deaths — ground.news: 27 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Trump Sexually Abused E. Jean Carroll And Owes $5 Million In Damages, Jury Finds — ground.news: 532 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 12, including three leaders of armed group — ground.news: 151 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

US passes 200 mass shootings this year: nonprofit — ground.news: 13 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

20 bodies found in Congo mass grave in an area used to cultivate cacao in Ndoma village in Congo's North Kivu province, ADF rebels suspected — ground.news: 12 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 12, including three leaders of armed group — ground.news: 150 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Australian lawmakers meet US envoy to seek release of Julian Assange — ground.news: 8 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Senator Whitehouse: 275 of 315 Pages of U.S. GOP Debt Limit Bill Are Big Oil Favors — truthout.org — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Rights group accuses Myanmar of using fuel-air explosive in an airstrike that killed more than 160 people, including many children, at a ceremony held last month by opponents of army rule — ground.news:14 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Oil giant Saudi Aramco posts 19% drop in first-quarter profit — ground.news: 56 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

New AI can predict pancreatic cancer 3 years early: study — nypost — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Mind-boggling' methane emissions from Turkmenistan's two main fossil fuel fields revealed: caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK — source — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Storm of criticism against Switzerland as it heads the Security Council — .swissinfo (French) — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

Pakistan, Afghan Taliban agree to boost trade, lower tension — ground.news: 18 media reports — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

Uzbek president calls snap poll on 9 July under new constitution — ground.news: 13 media reports — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

Oil climbs almost 3% as recession fears begin to fade — ground.news: 17 media reports — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

China makes first ChatGPT arrest after man allegedly generates fake news of train crash — ground.news: 21 media reports — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

Vietnam to require social media users to verify identity — ground.news: 12 media reports — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnap 40 worshippers from church — ground.news: 7 media reports — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

NIH renews contract with research firm linked to Wuhan lab-leak theory — ground.news: 23 media reports — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

LinkedIn cuts hundreds of jobs, closes Chinese app for good — ground.news: 66 media reports — 9 May 2023 (LINK)

Former Navy reservist sentenced to additional 4 years for Jan. 6 riot — abcnews — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

— A member of the far-right Proud Boys group, he was first sentenced last month to three years in prison for possessing unregistered gun accessories.

Florida tosses short-term climate lifeline (for 20 years) to swamped 'Keybillies' but longer future open — eenews.net — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

Debunking the Dunning-Kruger effect — the least skilled people know how much they don't know, but everyone thinks they are better than average — theconversation — 8 May 2023 (LINK)

Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis — Until Now — wired.com — 8 May 2023 (LINK)