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May 18th, 2020

Iraq Faces Full Local Lockdowns as Virus Cases Jump French Covid-19 Drones Grounded After Privacy Complaint
Coronavirus Turns Germans More Critical of US: Survey Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Village, Killing 20
'Get Out! Move!' Belgium Relaxes Lockdown for Lazier Nation SARS Antibodies Can Block Covid-19 Infection: Study
Police in China, Dubai, and Italy Are Using These Surveillance Helmets to Scan People for Covid-19 Fever Pompeo Demands China Reveal Panchen Lama Immediately
Chile Finance, Presidency Ministers in Quarantine After Meeting With Infected Lawmakers Youths Clash With Police in Paris Suburb of Argenteuil
Children of Rwandan Genocide Fugitive Kabuga Led Police to Paris-Area Hideout Thailand Marks 10 Years Since Deadly Army Crackdown
Yemen's Saudi-Backed Government Pleads for Coronavirus Aid Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Lawmakers Dragged Out of Legislative Session Before Pro-Beijing Camp Elects Chair
The Navy Just Sent a Submarine Force Into the Western Pacific in a Message to China Israeli Colonists Chop Down 80 Olive Trees in Nablus, Bethlehem
Israeli Colonists Hurl Stones at Teqoua' Town Council Israeli Army Bulldozers Raze Palestinian Farm Land in Tulkarem
Will Jordan Make Israel Pay a Price for Annexation? Biden Won't Allow 'Daylight' Between US and Israel in Public, an Aide Assures Israel Lobby Group
Iran MPs Ban Work With Israel, Including Using Its Software, as Acts Against God People Take Up Arms Against the Taliban in Faryab
Afghan Security Chiefs Justify New 'Offense Mode' Afghan Protesters Call for UN Probe of Drowning Incident at Iran Border
Afghan Political Parties Insist on 'Truly Inclusive' Govt ISIS Executes 7 Pro-Govt Fighters in Eastern Syria: Watchdog
Hamas Vows No Release of Israeli Captives Without 'Real' Prisoners' Swap Deal Palestine Decides to Ease Anti-Coronavirus Measures in West Bank
Hong Kong Legislators Trade Blows as China Anthem Law Looms Afghan Intelligence Officials Killed in Taliban Car Bombing
Hong Kong Activists Charged Over Last Year's Demonstrations Yemen Govt Accuses Houthis of Covering Up Coronavirus Outbreak
Former Syrian Intelligence Officer Denies Torturing Prisoners US Envoy to Push Taliban, Afghan Government for Peace Talks
Pakistan: Three Arrested Over 'Honor Killing' of Teenage Sisters International Outcry Over Yemeni Journalists Facing Death Penalty
Scores of Iraq Militia Supporters Storm Offices of TV Channel That Called Ex-Leader a 'Terrorist' Oil Rises Above $30 a Barrel as Coronavirus Lockdown Measures Are Eased
Israeli Court Convicts Settler in Killings of Palestinian Family FBI Finds 'Definitive' Al-Qaeda Connection in Pensacola Shooting
Libya's GNA Claims Key Air Base in Major Advance Against Haftar India Ups Foreign Investment, but Will Stop Importing Weapons That Can Be Made Locally
Japan Launches New Unit to Boost Defense in Space Pentagon Legislation Aims to End Dependence on China for Rare Earth Minerals
Rubio Tapped as Acting Chairman of Senate Intel Panel, Replacing Burr Fired State IG Was Investigating Saudi Arms Sale
Ethiopia Defends Plan to Begin Filling Nile Dam Erdogan Vows to Punish Those Who Smuggle Foreign Currency Out of Turkey
Uganda Detains Prominent Academic Protesting Coronavirus Lockdown Kidnapped Myanmar Pastor Presumed Dead Returns Home More Than a Year Later
Coronavirus 'Not a Pandemic in Pakistan' Says Top Court, Ordering Curbs Lifted US Supreme Court Backs $10 Billion Award to Sudan Bomb Victims
European Countries Set to Further Ease Lockdowns Merkel, Macron Back $543 Billion Fund for EU Crisis Recovery
Amid 'Some Calm', UN Envoy Urges US, Russia Push for Syria Peace Lesotho's PM Thabane Buckles to Pressure, Agrees to Step Down
Xi Vows China Will Share Vaccine and Gives WHO Full Backing Mike Pompeo Says Intent to Fire State Department Inspector General Steve Linick Was Not Retaliation
Gangs Terrorized Lagos in Coronavirus Lockdown. Vigilantes Responded. Ralph Mcgehee, CIA Officer Who Became an Agency Critic, Dies at 92 of Coronavirus
Judge Tosses Coronavirus Restrictions by Oregon Governor Taliban Claims Afghan Bomb Attack, Demands Prisoner Release
Trump Rips WSJ Editorial Warning Him Not to Be 'Impulsive' on Afghanistan 100,000 Crewmembers Are Still Stuck on 100 Cruise Ships Around the World
Saudi Arms Sale Was a Second Area of Investigation for Fired State Department Watchdog FBI: 2019 Shooter at Pensacola Military Base Linked to Al-Qaeda

May 17th, 2020

Israeli Strike Kills Seven Iraqi Fighters on Iraq-Syria Border Iraq Daily Roundup: 15 Killed; Fresh ISIS Attacks
Lebanese Are Despairing Over Their Next Meal as the Economic Crisis Worsens Iran Complains to UN About US Threats on Fuel Shipments to Venezuela
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