As Ramadan Ends, Israeli Provocations Seem Aimed at a Religious War
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OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, PALESTINE — On the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at least 42 Palestinians were injured when Israeli police raided al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said. With nearly 300 Palestininians injured in the last two weeks at al-Aqsa compound, this year’s Ramadan in Palestine has been marked by bloodshed once again. 

Since the start of Ramadan on April 2, human rights organizations have monitored a significant increase in violence against Palestinians. Palestinian human rights organization...

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Employee sues Amazon after being fired for contracting 'long Covid' and asked to repay $12,273
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A former employee of Amazon.com Inc filed a lawsuit against the online retailer on May 2 for wrongfully firing her from her job.

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'Great Resignation' in US: 4.5 million Americans quit jobs in March
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America's "Great Resignation" which began during the pandemic continues as the US Bureau of Labour Statistics in a report said 4.5 million American

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Biden comments on Supreme Court abortion leak
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The president has called on Americans to elect pro-choice lawmakers in the midterms

Commenting on reports that the US Supreme Court is preparing to overturn the precedent allowing abortion, President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Americans to support pro-abortion officials in the coming midterm elections, so Congress can make it a law. 

On Monday evening, Politico published a 98-page document suggesting the court is willing to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade and 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey rulings, two precedents that have made abortion legal in the US without an act of Congress. The document, authored by Justice Samuel...

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Taiwan seeks alternatives as US weapons deliveries focus on Ukraine
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Taipei is weighing other options after its howitzer order was ‘crowded out’ of American production lines amid the Ukraine crisis

Taiwanese defense officials have been forced to regroup on plans for artillery forces after being told that the US has pushed back the estimated delivery date for 40 howitzer systems by at least three years as Washington races to supply more weapons to war-torn Ukraine.

Taipei’s $750 million order was “crowded out” of US production lines, delaying delivery to 2026 at the soonest, rather than starting in 2023 as planned, Taiwan’s...

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Probe ordered into Roe v. Wade leak
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The staffer who leaked the draft opinion overturning the abortion law “will not succeed” in undermining the Supreme Court’s work, the chief justice wrote

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered the court’s marshal to investigate the source of a leaked draft opinion showing that its justices would imminently strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Conservatives suspect that a liberal clerk leaked the document to generate public outcry and force the court to backtrack.

“Yesterday, a news organization published a copy of a draft opinion in a pending case,” Roberts, a conservative, wrote on Tuesday. 

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Roe v Wade and state abor­tion poli­cies: By the num­bers
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Sev­er­al US states have abor­tion bans and re­stric­tions that may go into ef­fect if the land­mark 1973 rul­ing is re­versed.
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US em­ploy­ers post­ed record 11.5 mil­lion job open­ings in March
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The Unit­ed States job mar­ket is on a red-hot streak.
Published On 3 May 2022

US State De­part­ment says Griner ‘wrong­ful­ly de­tained’ by Rus­sia
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Brit­tney Griner has been held by Rus­sia since Feb­ru­ary af­ter au­thor­i­ties said she was car­ry­ing a vape with cannabis.
Published On 3 May 2022

Civil­ian evac­uees from Azovstal plant reach Ukrain­ian-held city
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Dozens of evac­uees from Mar­i­upol ar­rive in Za­por­izhzhia as Rus­sia re­sumes at­tacks on the be­sieged Azovstal steel plant.
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US Supreme Court con­firms Roe v Wade draft opin­ion is ‘au­then­tic’
Chief Jus­tice Roberts says leaked draft rul­ing to over­turn prece­dent-set­ting abor­tion rul­ing is au­then­tic but not fi­nal.
Published On 3 May 2022

Inclusiveness is the strength of the Indian community, says PM Modi to Indian diaspora in Denmark
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the Indian diaspora in Copenhagen said that "world leaders never tire of narrating about the

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US President Joe Biden urges Americans to oppose possible anti-abortion ruling
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US President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Americans to defend access to abortion.

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West should stop weapons supply to Ukraine: Putin to Macron
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Amid the war in Ukraine war, Russian President  Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron that the West should halt weapons supply to Ky

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Another ‘epidemic’ is worsening in Europe, WHO says
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Nearly 60% of adults in Europe are overweight or obese, the UN health watchdog has said

Overweight and obesity rates have reached “epidemic proportions” in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The issue was highlighted in a major report unveiled at the European Congress on Obesity on Tuesday

The rates are “still escalating,” the health watchdog warned, stating that no country in the region was expected to meet the WHO global noncommunicable disease (NCD) goal of halting rising obesity rates by 2025....

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Fire from the Mountain: In Search of Omar Cabezas
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When I was in college in Dayton, Ohio in the late 1980s, radical students such as myself became quickly acquainted with the book Fire from the Mountain by Omar Cabezas. This book was in fact a bible of sorts for young people excited about the story of rag-tag guerillas in Central America fighting at impossible odds against U.S.-backed dictatorships and death squads. In the case of Nicaragua, the Sandinista guerillas actually triumphed in 1979, ousting the infamous dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza – a regime the U.S. Marines had helped install by force in 1934. David had slain Goliath, and Omar Cabezas, a leading Sandinista fighter, told the exhilarating story in a manner that wa...

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Jerusalem: Al-Aqsa in the Sniper’s Scope, with Lowkey and Dr. Ramzy Baroud
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Israel is once again attacking the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israeli forces storming the ancient religious complex fired tear gas and rubber bullets, seriously injuring hundreds and killing at least one person.

The latest series of attacks is the most consequential since those in May last year, events that led to the Israeli military killing hundreds of Palestinians, injuring thousands, and forcing tens of thousands to flee their houses.

“What is happening at Al-Aqsa right now is more dangerous than at any other time in the past,” Dr. Ramzy Baroud told Lowkey today. Dr. Baroud is a journalist and editor of...

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