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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 ... Targets struck..
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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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‘Weak’ US let Saudis jail more dissidents, says rights group
The Guardian 13 May 2021
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Israel’s Annexation Plan Is “The Nakba Revisited”
GlobalResearch 13 May 2021
This article was first published in 2020, on the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba. Anniversaries commemorate past events. And you could be forgiven for thinking that an event which happened 72 years ago is indeed in the past. This is true of most anniversaries, except when it comes to the Nakba, the ... The Nakba is not a past event ... The Saudi factor ... .
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Biden says he told Netanyahu Israel violence must end 'sooner than later'
The New Arab 13 May 2021
Joe Biden says he spoke to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently battling corruption charges, about the hemorrhaging of violence against Palestinians ... "I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu not too long ago," Biden told reporters ... Dozens of Israelis have also been wounded ... "I expressed condolences for the loss of life ... 'Harrowing' ... ....
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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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Israeli President Warns Of Civil War As Jews, Arabs Clash Over Gaza
NDTV 13 May 2021photo: Creative Commons / PhilippN
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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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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Bitcoin recoups some losses after Elon Musk-triggered tumble
Live Mint 13 May 2021
Bitcoin popped back above $50,000 in Asian trade on Thursday, clawing back some of the 17% plunge that followed Elon Musk's tweet that Tesla Inc would stop accepting the digital tokens as payment for its cars ... It recovered about half of that drop early in the Asian session, and last traded about $51,099. MORE FROM THIS SECTIONSee All ... 2 min read ... .
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Joe Biden signs cybersecurity executive order after Colonial Pipeline attack
Indian Express 13 May 2021
US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that advances federal cybersecurity capabilities and encourages improvements in digital security standards across the private sector which has been hit by a spate of cyber attacks ... ET.” ... The requirement was first reported by Reuters in March ... Top News Right Now ... Tags ... Advertisement ... x ... .
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How Europe helps authoritarian regimes to export repression
Open Democracy 13 May 2021
Extraterritorial coercion against exiles and diasporas from authoritarian states is now a global phenomenon ... The toolkit these rulers employ ranges from murder and forced renditions to Interpol listings and passport cancellations, as well as digital surveillance and online harassment ... An Austrian court has since invalidated his extradition ... Sign up ... .
