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'Trump failed miserably as Xi treated him like an uninvited family member who popped up at his front door.'

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/13330178

The extensive coordination between Iran-backed Hezbollah and remnants of Assad’s security apparatus, which was also supported by the Iranian regime until its fall, has fueled fears of an emerging dynamic that could undermine Syria’s new government and deepen regional instability.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47401296

May 15, 2026

Cuba’s top diplomat in the United States on Friday underscored the inviolability of her country’s sovereignty amid tenuous negotiations with the Trump administration and mounting fears that the US is planning to criminally indict a former Cuban president and possibly invade the island to abduct him.

“We have reorganized the whole country, the healthcare system, the education system, the transportation system, to keep the basic services running,” Torres Rivera told The Hill. “But it doesn’t mean that they are running normally. They are running under huge stress.”

Still, “a serious country that respects yourself... won’t put on the table your political system or your internal order that the people of our country decide in a sovereign way,” she stressed.

A deal inked during Modi’s visit to the UAE focuses on maritime security, cyberdefence, and military collaboration.

Major media outlets are promoting a new report as an evidentiary breakthrough on alleged mass rapes of Israelis by Hamas on 7 October 2023.

This includes numerous claims from figures whose accounts have already been exposed as contradictory, unreliable or fabricated. But you wouldn’t know this from how the media are covering it.

CNN called the new report a “landmark” and invited its principal author for an interview. The BBC termed it “the most comprehensive” report documenting “rapes, sexual assault and sexual torture” against Israelis.

None of these outlets offered any skepticism or cautious scrutiny – certainly not of the kind they apply when it comes to almost any account of Israeli violence against Palestinians.

Indeed, the Civil Commission – an initiative launched by Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy soon after 7 October – was already severely discredited by Israeli media more than two years ago.

Elkayam-Levy came under fire for her shoddy research methods– which managed to embarrass even some in the Israeli government. “People disconnected from her because her investigation is not accurate,” an Israeli government source told Ynet, the online outlet affiliated with Israel’s mass circulation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

The government source cited how Elkayam-Levy disseminated a story about Palestinian fighters “slicing the belly of a pregnant woman – a story proven to be untrue, and she spread it in the international media.”

The report’s funders include the German government, through its Tel Aviv embassy, which is significant since German leaders have openly promoted false claims about 7 October sexual violence, including the fabrication that Hamas fighters filmed themselves raping Israeli women on 7 October.

No such video exists.

New Delhi is proud of its carefully balanced ties with rival nations in the Middle East. But this diplomatic strategy might be reaching its breaking point.

As this article says, Zelenskyy has said this on Twitter:

We are entirely justified in our responses against Russia’s oil industry, military production, and those directly responsible for committing war crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians.

Do you agree with him?

Africa's top health agency says around 246 cases have been reported.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/45694113

Also see https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russian-battlefield-momentum-slows-as-ukrainian-drones-target-logistics-18835

Not that CNN is a good source, the reason I posted the CNN link is because it is indicative that CNN is concluding this publicly and emphatically. It shows the calculus of US mainstream media is changing towards Ukraine, which is not something it has really done for quite awhile.

Bret Baier’s Fox News crew was busted by Beijing’s cameras for illegal parking during Donald Trump’s state visit—and locals filmed the team blocking traffic too.

A long-running energy crisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46879551

Such middle school energy

Israel is preparing legal action against The New York Times after the newspaper published an article describing the rapes of Palestinian prisoners in its custody.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced its decision to sue on X on Thursday, after the paper doubled down in its defence of the report.

"Nicholas Kristof’s deeply reported piece of opinion journalism starts with a proposition to readers: ‘Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape,'" a spokesperson for The New York Times said.

Kristof's story contained harrowing testimonies of the rape of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, which included accounts of prisoners being mounted by dogs, penetrated by carrots, and rectums torn by batons.