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Amazon tax deal with Luxembourg was legal, rules EU court
Belfast Telegraph 12 May 2021
A European Union court has annulled a ruling by the European Commission that a tax deal between the Luxembourg government and Amazon amounted to illegal state support. The European Commission ordered the US online retailer in 2017 to pay around 250 million euros (£214 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg ... #EUGeneralCourt ... #EUGeneralCourt ... .
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Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza as conflict enters fifth day
BBC News 14 May 2021
The Israeli military has intensified its assault on Gaza, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel on the fifth day of hostilities. Israel's army said air and ground forces were involved in attacks on Friday but had not entered Gaza ... He said Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, would pay a heavy price ... Related Topics. .
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Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan accuses Azerbaijan of 'subversive infiltration'
The New Arab 14 May 2021
Armenia's acting PM accused Azerbaijan of 'encroachment' and convened an emergency meeting of his security council ... Last year Armenia and Azerbaijan went to war over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh ... 'Withdraw immediately' ... Read more ... Last month, Yerevan and Baku traded accusations of opening fire in Karabakh and along their shared border ... ....
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Saudi King, Crown Prince register for organ donation
Gulf News 12 May 2021photo: US DoS / Ron Przysucha
Blinken says US 'deeply concerned' by violence inside Israel
The Jakarta Post 14 May 2021photo: Creative Commons
Ireland shuts down health IT system after ransomware attack
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‘A very real problem’: How resurgent nuclear reactions at Chernobyl might be dealt with to avert disaster
The Independent 14 May 2021
Experts from the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) in Kiev reported a 40 per cent spike in neutron emissions from 2016 levels in a chamber rendered inaccessible by the catastrophe ... .
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Brazil: Sao Paulo protest slams police brutality, racial discrimination after Rio favela raid
Ruptly 14 May 2021
A large group of protesters took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Thursday to protest police brutality and racial discrimination following a deadly police raid in a Rio de Janeiro favela last week ... .
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‘There is nowhere to run… you can’t describe the terror’ – Israel steps up military offensive against Gaza
Irish Independent 13 May 2021
Israel has pressed ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 10 senior Hamas military figures. The country’s defence force also toppled a pair of high-rise towers housing Hamas facilities in air strikes ... Air strikes continued throughout the day, filling the sky with pillars of smoke ... Targets struck..
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73-Million-Year-Old "Talkative" Dinosaur Species Found In Mexico
NDTV 14 May 2021
Paleontologists identified a new species of dinosaur after a specimen from about 73 million years ago was found in northern Mexico, the country's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)... .
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What it's like to live under the Taliban in 2021
The National 14 May 2021
Many Afghans predict that the Taliban will return to formal power in Afghanistan, either through a peace settlement or a bloody military takeover once foreign troops are gone. But it remains a mystery to what extent the Islamist militant group has moderated its extremist beliefs and is willing to embrace major change ... More on Afghanistan ... Editorial ... .
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Turkey’s Erdogan tells Putin Israel needs to be taught ‘deterrent lesson’
New York Post 13 May 2021
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Israel to be taught a “deterrent lesson” as the Jewish State responds to attacks from militant Palestinian groups at its borders. The Turkish strongman told Russian President Vladimir Putin that “the international community to give Israel a strong and deterrent lesson,” adding that the U.N ... With Post wires. .
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Pelosi Denounces Marjorie Taylor Greene's ‘Verbal Assault' on AOC, Says It May Require Ethics Investigation
NBCBayArea 14 May 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's decision to scream at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber is behavior that may need to be investigated by the House Ethics Committee, NBC News reports ... Politics. May 11 ... .
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Philippines’ Duterte says won’t withdraw ships from contested waters
Metro USA 14 May 2021
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has rebuffed a call from China to withdraw vessels from disputed areas of the South China Sea and said he would not bow to pressure, even if it jeopardises his friendship with Beijing ... “I do not want a quarrel, I do not want trouble. I respect your position, and you respect mine ... .
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Mexico apologises to Mayan people for ‘colonial domination’
NIT 13 May 2021
Mexico’s president has made an historic apology to the Indigenous Mayan people for the abuses they suffered in the five centuries since the Spanish conquest ... The Mexican President said the Maya people have been subjected to “exploitation, plundering, repression, racism, exclusion and massacres” ... Giammattei said the Mayan people were still suffering.
