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May 21st, 2020

Staying Home Means Starving to Death for Millions Displaced in Yemen South Korea President Moon Jae-In to Move Forward on North Korea, Former Aide Says
South Asian Rivals Prepare for Bloody Summer in Disputed Kashmir US Lifts Nine-Year Ban on UK-Saudi Arms Firm Implicated in Fraud
There's No Telling What Data Facebook Will Collect if You Use Its Zoom Clone India-Nepal Territorial Dispute Flares Over Road to Tibet
Burundi Candidate Says 200 Supporters Arrested During Vote Cuba's Top Diplomat for US Relations Says Ties at New Low
Salvadoran Leader to File Complaint Against Congress, Courts US Envoy in Afghan Peace Shuttle Demands Reduction in Violence
Lieutenant With South Carolina Army National Guard Dies in Afghanistan Building a Genocide Case for ISIS Crimes Against Yazidis
US Masses Planes at Japan Base to Show Foes and Allies It Can Handle Coronavirus US and Sudan Reach 'Common Understanding' Over 1998 Embassy Bombings
Trump: US May Rethink Decision to Exit Surveillance Treaty Israeli Military Says Iran Is Slowly Pulling Out of Syria
Libyan Official: Tripoli Forces Seize Another Key Town Israeli Colonists Attack Palestinian Cars Near Nablus
Armed Israeli Settlers Set Palestinian Farmlands on Fire Near Tulkarem Israel Fires on Gaza Fishers 100 Times Amid Pandemic
Netanyahu Will Do 'Crawling Annexation' of Colonies Near Green Line Palestinians Demand Sanctions on Israel to Stop Illegal Annexation
4-Year-Old Critically Wounded, 3-Year-Old Hurt in 2 East Jerusalem Shootings Army Offensives Begun in Afghanistan's West
Afghanistan Suicide Bomber Targets Convoy of District Governor Pakistan Still Harbors Taliban, Pentagon Report Says
Israeli Officials Confirm Palestinian Authority Is Ending Security Coordination US Reaches Consensus With Sudan on 'Contours' of Future Claims Deal
Venezuela Sends US Congress Letter on Failed Invasion A Quarter of Americans Are Hesitant About a Coronavirus Vaccine
US Hopes for Better Ties With Burundi After Election Chechen Leader Hospitalized With Suspected Coronavirus
US Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty Gallup Sees Biggest Drop in Americans Who Say They Are Avoiding Public Places
Arson Suspected in Destruction of Mississippi Church That Was Suing Over Coronavirus Restrictions Stylists Ticketed for Cutting Hair on Michigan Capitol Lawn to Protest Lockdown
Appeals Court Orders Judge to Respond to Flynn's Emergency Bid to Dismiss Charges Navy's Oldest Operational Warship Breaks Its Days-At-Sea Record to Avoid Coronavirus
Former CIA Chief: Trump Withdrawal From Open Skies Treaty 'is Insane' Pentagon Rescinds Ban on Recruits Previously Hospitalized With Covid-19
China Accuses US of 'Blackmailing' Hong Kong Government Bangladesh Using Controversial Law to 'Gag Media, Free Speech'
Iraq Announces Arrest of ISIS Number Two Nasser Al-Qirdash Libya's GNA Says It Is Targeting Retreating Haftar Forces
Iran Dismisses New US Sanctions as 'Fruitless and Repetitive' 'Grave Consequences': Turkey Warns Libya's Haftar Against Attacks
Biden Draws Ire of Palestinian Activists for Shunning BDS Efforts Vatican Expresses 'Concern' Regarding Israeli West Bank Annexation Plans
DoD Statement on Open Skies Treaty Withdrawal Kuwait and Saudi Arabia Halt Oil Production From Neutral Zone
Russia, Turkey Back Immediate Ceasefire in Libya Beirut Protesters Try to Break Into Government Office Over Power Cuts Amid Coronavirus Quarantine
Opposition Leader Says Netanyahu Embarrassing Israel, as EU Says Annexation Plans Violate Law Algerian Activists Sentenced for Criticizing Authorities on Facebook
Haftar to Begin Air Strikes Against Turkish Targets in Libya Palestinian Authority Rejects UAE Coronavirus Aid Delivered Via Israel
Egypt Restricts Use of Pseudonyms After Article Calls for Sinai 'Independence' New Report Clashes With Trump's Job Growth Claims From Saudi Arms Sales
Covid-19 Is Probably Going to Put a Dent in Military Manpower Indian Air Force Restructures $17 Billion Fighter Jet Program
New START Nuclear Talks Begin Between US, Russia Pentagon Punts on Questions About Saudi Arms Deals in Pompeo Scandal
Trump Says He Won't Close the Country if Second Wave of Coronavirus Hits Pompeo Announces Open Skies Withdrawal
Poroshenko Claims Biden Leaked Ukraine Calls Were Released by Russia Wrong Move: Japan Prosecutor Resigns Over Mahjong Game During Lockdown
Earth's Magnetic Field Weakens, Impacting Satellites and Spacecraft Four Arrested During Protest Over Coronavirus Restrictions in San Clemente
US Prepared to Spend Russia, China 'Into Oblivion' to Win Nuclear Arms Race: US Envoy Chinese Investment in US Tech Companies Hits New Low as Bilateral Relations Remain Tense, Report Says
As Saudi Official Hid Abroad, His Family Became a Target at Home What Is the Open Skies Treaty?
Huawei's Meng Wanzhou Could Be Set Free Next Week by Extradition Ruling If the US Seeks 'To Contain China', the Country Will Firmly Defend Its Interests, Top Chinese Legislature Official Says
Worried Togo Finds Itself on Front Line of Sahel's Jihadist War Shooting at Texas Navy Base Is 'Terrorism-Related,' FBI Says
US Arms Sale to Taiwan Angers China Agent for Israel Drops Lawsuit Against National Lawyers Guild
Ratcliffe Wins Senate Approval to Be Intelligence Director Satisfaction With Service Life 'Well Below' Peak Levels of Decade Ago
Eglin AFB Orders Brief Suspension of Flight Ops Following F-35, F-22 Crashes Ohio Judge Deems the State's Covid-19 Lockdown 'Arbitrary, Unreasonable, and Oppressive'

May 20th, 2020

Venezuela's Guaido Says Latin America Must Oppose Iranian Fuel Shipment Iraq Daily Roundup: Five Killed; Turkish Jets Bomb PKK Targets
Venezuela Military Will Escort Iranian Tankers to Shore Taliban Leader Says Group Committed to US Peace Deal
Pompeo Lays Out the Case for Cold War II With China Pompeo Declined Interview Request From Inspector General About Saudi Arms Sales
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