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May 4th, 2020

Venezuela: Anti-Maduro Battle Isn't Over as Ex-US Soldier Says He Launched Raid Taliban Attack Military Centre in Afghanistan, Casualties Reported
French Hospital Discovers It Treated Coronavirus Patient in December Saudi Arabia Ministerial Decision to Cut Private Sector Salaries by 40%
South Korea Protests Border Gunfire It Says North Started UN: US Hasn't Shared Evidence on Alleged Coronavirus Origin
US Navy Conducts Anti-Submarine Exercise Above Arctic Circle Former Green Beret Trained Venezuelan Insurgents Fighting Maduro
Democratic Bigwigs Strip Pro-Palestinian Planks From a Nevada Platform, Citing Coronavirus, Jewish Community Israeli PM Warns of Possible 4th Elections if High Court Intervenes in Coalition Deal
Israel Lifts Limits on Leaving Home, Visiting Family; Malls to Open Thursday Afghan Forces Repel Scores of Taliban Attacks in Past 24 Hours: MoD
Polio Contracted by 6 More Afghan Children Afghan Palace Spokesman Reports Progress in Political Negotiations
Headquarters of Brega Oil Company in Benghazi Stormed USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailors Still Showing Virus Symptoms Despite Month of Isolation
Hezbollah Backs IMF Help for Lebanon, but With a Warning Venezuela: 2 US 'Mercenaries' Arrested in Anti-Maduro Raid
North Korea Defectors Criticized Over Speculation Kim Was Ill or Dead Taliban Bomb Kills at Least Five at Afghan Military Center
Hezbollah: Germany Bowing to US Will With Ban Eight Indian Soldiers Die in Gunbattles Amid Major Kashmir Offensive
Syria's Assad Warns of 'Catastrophe' if Coronavirus Cases Spike Sudan Appoints First Ambassador to US for Decades
Mexico Urges US to Probe of 'All' Officials With Ties to Ex-Minister Armed Group in Northeast DR Congo Says to Lay Down Weapons
US Should Keep Congress Informed About Nuclear Talks With Saudis: GAO EU Officials Says Europe Has Been 'Naive' About China
San Francisco Police Chief Orders Officers Not to Wear 'Thin Blue Line' Masks Former National Security Officials Say Democrats Should Oppose Israeli Occupation, Settlement Expansion in Platform
Chinese Ministry Warned Xi of Armed Confrontation With US Protesters Gather at Massachusetts State House to Protest Coronavirus Closures
Border Apprehensions Plummet to Near-Zero Amid Pandemic Pentagon Chief: USS Kidd Coronavirus Outbreak May Have Come From Counter-Drug Operation
Which Middle East States Have Begun Easing Lockdown Restrictions? Lebanese Army Denies Beating, Electrocuting Detained Protesters
Iran Mosques Reopen as Coronavirus Recoveries Approach 80,000 For First Time, US Supreme Court Arguments Broadcast Live
Businesses Reopen as Nigeria Eases Coronavirus Lockdown Germany Won't Use Antibody Tests Until Ethics Are Debated
Which Countries Have Made Wearing Face Masks Compulsory? AP's Kashmir Photographers Win Pulitzer for Lockdown Coverage
Six Killed as Plane Carrying Coronavirus Aid Crashes in Somalia Iran Parliament Approves Bill to Slash Four Zeroes Off Sanctions-Hit Currency
Iraq Launches 'Desert Lions' Offensive Against ISIS Sleeper Cells War-Torn Yemen Faces Shocking 16 Million Coronavirus Cases, UN Warns
Lebanon's Banned Hezbollah Says Not Active in Germany Turkey Denies Jets Harassed Greek Defense Minister
Lebanon Restaurants Partially Reopen, Face Faltering Economy Nine Policemen Abducted and Killed in South Syria: Monitor
Israel Court Hears Challenges to Coalition Deal Egypt Summarily Executes 18 Arbitrarily Detained Civilians in Sinai, in ISIS Campaign
Egypt Releases US Citizen Who 'Criticized' Sisi's Government on Facebook US Appeals Court Dismisses $900m Lawsuit Against Palestinian Authority and PLO
Kuwait Security Forces Break Up Egyptian Worker 'Riot' Over Repatriation Middle East Countries Ease Restrictions as Covid Infection Rate Slows
Dumped Bodies Discovered in Syria's Al-Hota Gorge: Human Rights Watch Turkey to Begin Easing Coronavirus Restrictions Next Week
Turkey's Economy Is in Trouble but the Public Opposes an IMF Loan 'We Can't Be Picky Here': the Libyan Doctor Battling War Wounds and Coronavirus
Northrop, Raytheon Team on Next-Gen Interceptor Bid California Governor Says Some Businesses Will Reopen Friday, With Conditions
The Way Out of the Recession Depends on the Level of Consumer Fear, Economists Say Italy's Fincantieri Will Build Newest Class of US Navy Warships
Esper Says Pentagon Is Bracing for a 'New Normal' That Lasts 'An Extended Period of Time' State Dept. Reroutes Peacekeeping Gear to Coronavirus Fight in Africa
China, EU Join 19-Member Temporary Global Trade Dispute System, but US, UK, Japan, India Not Included For Haitians, Die of Hunger Today or Coronavirus Tomorrow?
With Testing, Iceland Claims Major Success Against Covid-19 Greece Says Turkish Fighter Jets Buzzed Greek Chopper
Cameras to Monitor Masks and Distancing in France The World Comes Together for a Virtual Vaccine Summit. The US Is Conspicuously Absent.
Syrian Army Says Israeli Jets Hit Military Outposts in Aleppo Province French Soldier Dies in Operation in Mali
Assange Extradition Hearing to Resume in September Mark Esper, Defense Chief, Says China Continuing 'Provocations' in Disputed South China Sea
Kent State Shootings: How Events of May 4, 1970 Influence Student Activism Today US Navy Sends Ships Into Barents Sea for First Time in Decades
German Social Democrats Tell Trump to Take US Nukes Home Outpouring for Assange on World Press Freedom Day

May 3rd, 2020

Yemeni Govt, Southern Separatists Sign Deal to Stop Fighting on Socotra Iraq Daily Roundup: 30 Killed; Fresh Attacks on Security Forces
US Bombers Conduct Sorties Over South China Sea US, Taliban Spar Over Afghan Peace Process on Twitter
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