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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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‘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 ... âªï¸Hamas' main bank.
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57 Top Scientists and Doctors: Stop All Covid Vaccinations
Principia Scientific 12 May 2021
A group of 57 leading scientists, doctors, and policy experts (including Dr Peter McCullough, seen above) has released a report calling in to question the safety and efficacy of the current Covid-19 vaccines and are now calling for an immediate end to all vaccine programs ... You can read an advanced copy of this manuscript in preprint below ... Abstract.
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Saudi King, Crown Prince register for organ donation
Gulf News 12 May 2021photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
Israel military set to approve plans for Gaza ground invasion as world leaders urge calm
The Independent 13 May 2021
The Israeli military is set to approve on Thursday plans for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, as overnight it intensified its strikes on the blockaded strip where militants fired back dozens of rockets ... Lt ... .
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Israel’s Annexation Plan Is “The Nakba Revisited”
GlobalResearch 13 May 2021
The centrepiece of Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu’s election campaign and the central legislative purpose of the current Israeli unity government would constitute another chapter of dispossession for Palestinians in 2020. Those are the plans to annex one third – or at worst two thirds – of the West Bank.
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‘Weak’ US let Saudis jail more dissidents, says rights group
The Guardian 13 May 2021
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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.
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Biden says he told Netanyahu Israel violence must end 'sooner than later'
The New Arab 13 May 2021
At least 365 people have been injured in Gaza and four Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, including a man who was killed during a confrontation with Israeli soldiers near Nablus in the early hours of Thursday morning ... West Bank and Gaza," Blinken posted on Twitter.
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Joe Biden signs cybersecurity executive order after Colonial Pipeline attack
Indian Express 13 May 2021photo: AP / Manish Swarup
Ex-Maldives president flown to Germany after assassination bid
Gulf News 13 May 2021
Mali, Maldives. Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, was flown to Germany Thursday for treatment, officials said. The 53-year-old democracy pioneer and climate activist was the target of a remote-controlled bomb rigged to a motorbike one week ago in the capital, Male ... .
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Maduro Says Ready to Talk to Guaido Under Mediation of EU, Norway
Urdu Point 13 May 2021
CARACAS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 13th May, 2021) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has expressed readiness for a dialogue with US-supported opposition leader Juan Guaido under the auspices of the European Union and Norway ... Guaido supporters boycotted the vote in protest ... ....
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Israeli President Warns Of Civil War As Jews, Arabs Clash Over Gaza
NDTV 13 May 2021photo: AP / Mariam Zuhaib
Afghan president rejects military solution to crisis, calls for political settlement
Sina 13 May 2021
KABUL, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said Thursday that there is no military solution to the lingering crisis in his country, calling upon the Taliban leadership to give up fighting and support the peace process to find a political settlement. "The people of Afghanistan want peace, we all want peace ... .
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6.0 magnitude quake recorded off south coast of Panama
Star Tribune 13 May 2021
PANAMA CITY — An earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck Thursday in waters off the south coast of Panama, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ... The USGS said little or no population was exposed to the quake. No tsunami warning has been issued. No other details were immediately available..
