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How far has Spain moved past Catalonia's secession crisis? Voters will decide in regional election 2024-05-10
Newsday

BARCELONA, Spain — Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s fugitive former leader, stares confidently out the backseat window of a car, the sun illuminating his gaze in a campaign poster for Sunday’s critical elections in the northeastern Spanish region. The image plays on another one imagined from six years...

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Tension with Israel represents only one of Biden’s immense election challenges 2024-05-10
CNN

If Joe Biden wins a second term later this year, he will have defied one of the most complex political environments for a president seeking reelection in years. At home and abroad, he is facing the kind of headwinds that would normally cast severe doubt on his chances of convincing voters that they...

photo: AP / Stephanie Scarbrough

Israel strikes Rafah as talks yield no breakthrough 2024-05-10
Dawn

SMOKE billows from a building which caught fire after fresh Israeli attacks in the Zaytoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, on Thursday.—AFP CAIRO: Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would...

photo: AP / Ismael Abu Dayyah

Maui to hire expert to evaluate county’s response to deadly wildfire 2024-05-10
Wtop

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Nine months after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century struck Maui, Mayor Richard Bissen says the county will hire an outside expert to assess how its emergency management...

photo: AP / Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources

Stock market today: Wall Street limps toward second straight day of losses before the bell 2024-05-09
The Call

Wall Street’s lull threatened to stretch into a second day Thursday as more corporate earnings are released ahead of the government's weekly layoffs data. Futures for the S&P 500 ticked down 0.1% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell less than 0.2%. Airbnb tumbled 9.6% in...

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Which bombs has the United States stopped shipping to Israel? 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

The United States has halted the shipment of some types of heavy bombs to Israel and US President Joe Biden has also pledged to halt the supply of some offensive weapons and artillery shells to the country if it goes ahead with its assault on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Here’s what we know so...

photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov

Give or take a few bombs, US complicity in genocide remains ‘ironclad’ 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

On Wednesday, May 8, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin became the first senior administration official to publicly confirm that the US government has uncharacteristically paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Over the past seven months, the Israeli military has killed some 35,000...

photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov

US emboldening Philippines to square off with China at sea 2024-05-09
Asiatimes

US Marines joined Filipino counterparts on May 5, 2024, for a mock battle at a telling location: a small, remote territory just 100 miles off the southern tip of the contested island of Taiwan. The combat drill is part of the weekslong Exercise Balikatan that has brought together naval, air and...

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

Israel shells Rafah as Biden vows arms suspension 2024-05-09
Gulf Today

Palestinians work to remove debris following an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday. Reuters Israel shelled Rafah on Thursday as US President Joe Biden offered his starkest warning yet over the conduct of its war against Hamas, vowing to cut off arms transfers if an offensive into the...

photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana

That '70s Show: Is Biden Taking America Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter? 2024-05-09
Hot Air

Everything that is happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of America's last lost decade -- the 1970s. Advertisement For those who don't remember, the late 1970s under part-time President Gerald Ford and then...

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