World
Air defenses intercepted two of three unmanned aircraft entering from the west, but a third hit an electrical generator near the Barakah facility, igniting a fire.
World
Federal prosecutors in Miami unsealed murder and conspiracy charges against the 94-year-old former Cuban leader for his alleged role in downing two civilian aircraft.
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Politics
Ed Gallrein, backed by Donald Trump, ousted libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky's May 19 GOP primary for the 4th District—the costliest House primary on record.
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Politics
Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden warns reported Justice Department settlement language could halt IRS audits of older Trump-family returns; CNN, ABC, the Post, and CNBC describe overlapping terms tied to the tax-leak lawsuit.
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Technology
Google I/O 2026 in Mountain View spotlighted Gemini Spark, described as an always-on personal agent across Workspace and other apps—with user approval before sensitive actions—plus faster Gemini models, agentic Search, and Android XR hardware.
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World
Aftenposten ran Halleraker’s cartoon the same day as Rossavik’s Meninger column; Red MP Rana called it racist; political editor Alstadheim told Dagbladet the symbols backed Rossavik’s point and were not meant to demean.
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World
Britain’s foreign secretary has tied Iran’s disruption of the strait to fertiliser reaching African fields and wider prosperity, while parallel reporting documents urea spikes, stuck cargoes, and UN hunger modelling that treat the next planting cycles as the clock that matters.
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World
Euronews and RFE/RL trace how Tasnim- and Fars-style outlets are packaging seabed leverage—transit fees, forced maintenance clauses, even cloud-giant localisation demands—while Mostafa Taheri, an Iranian parliamentary industries voice, throws around a headline revenue ceiling on the order of fifteen billion dollars annually that markets treated as rhetoric, not an invoice.
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Indian and trade-press explainers describe a new Iranian digital platform pitching blockchain-settled policies for commercial hulls threading the strait—complete with ministry talk of a ten-billion-dollar revenue ceiling—while compliance lawyers warn U.S. and EU persons that paying premiums into Iranian rails can still collide with sanctions law regardless of coin type.
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President Donald Trump said late on 18 May 2026 in Washington that he was postponing a U.S. military strike on Iran that had been scheduled for the following day after Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates asked for time while diplomacy continued; he also told the armed forces to stay ready for a large-scale assault if talks fail.
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President Miguel Díaz-Canel framed military deterrence as a lawful shield, not a war wish, after US-facing outlets amplified an Axios-style tally of imported drones; Washington’s January national-emergency declaration on Cuba still frames the island as an extraordinary threat.
After a single federal appellate judge revived the Canadian miner’s installation permit in February 2026, prosecutors appealed to the same court’s Sixth Panel—where the next collegiate ruling decides if the decade-old suspension logic from 2017 returns or the Pará project keeps rolling.
The Greater Manchester mayor won National Executive Committee clearance to contest Josh Simons’s former seat, told interviewers he wants to “change Labour for the better,” and used a northern summit stage to cast the byelection as a renewal mandate—without yet filing the twenty-per-cent MP nominations a formal challenge requires.
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ProPublica’s unpacking of a May 2026 Brookings exercise walks through Census-informed imputation against ICE arrest streams—far above what federal forms capture when parents fear disclosing citizen children—while parallel academic trackers still document the detention-and-removal machinery in administrative data alone.
Jamie Raskin calls the vehicle unconstitutional; Pramila Jayapal says the president is exercising ‘open corruption’ in plain sight—while the Justice Department frames the payout as redress for weaponization and lawfare and points to older settlement precedents.
Federal filings show the SEC moving for $6m and $12m civil judgments against Gautam and Sagar Adani over a 2021 green-bond roadshow, while a parallel Treasury arm deal wraps Iranian-linked LPG trade allegations against the listed flagship Adani Enterprises—not a single envelope with both signatures.
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A second post-mediation round at the National Labor Relations Commission in Sejong opened on Monday with the union still warning of an 18-day walkout from Thursday; talks follow an earlier collapse and a partial court injunction limiting how far pickets can disrupt safety-critical plant work.
A White House fact sheet framed new agricultural purchase targets and joint trade and investment boards as the centerpiece of the Beijing meetings, while Beijing’s commerce ministry called tariff moves preliminary and still under negotiation.
Anthropic’s March 2026 engineering deep dive frames Auto Mode as permission automation: a two-stage transcript filter plus a prompt-injection probe, built after internal telemetry showed users accepting 93% of manual prompts anyway.
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Benzinga and syndicated Fortune copy captured chief executive Dario Amodei calling the pace “too hard to handle” around an 80-fold quarterly surge narrative, while a Semi Analysis digest summarized by trade press puts annualized run-rate revenue above $44 billion after a climb from about $9 billion at year-end 2025.
The neobank’s first crypto-culture plastic works on Visa and Mastercard rails, pairs with Apple Pay and Google Pay in supporting setups, and leans on fiat balances even as the artwork leans on DOGE memes; Own The Doge licensing framed charity tie-ins in launch copy.
Decrypt’s April recap of the landmark study highlights up to a three-year lead in select cases; oncology trade write-ups of the same paper pin median detection near 475 days with 73% sensitivity versus roughly 39% for pooled radiologists on identical prediagnostic scans.
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The eastern Ituri outbreak is tied to Bundibugyo virus disease—no approved vaccine or drug for that species; CBS-linked sources told the BBC six US citizens were exposed and one may have symptoms, while the CDC weighs safe withdrawal and tighter border screening.
Public Health Wales is supporting a 'small number' of individuals following a deadly cluster of infections aboard the MV Hondius expedition vessel.
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer is booked to lift on a Vega-C from French Guiana on 19 May 2026, carrying European and Chinese instruments into a long polar ellipse so researchers can link what the Sun throws at the magnetosphere with what the auroral ionosphere does in reply.
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Seasonal ENSO guidance is built from ocean temperatures, wind patterns, and ensembles of physics models—expressed as shifting odds for months ahead, not a deterministic map of next week’s storms.
A spring 2026 trade title from a University of Nevada, Reno linguist ties vowel shifts and rhythm to playground bias, hiring screens, and the spread of prosody-scoring software.
Technology
The 2022 New York startup led by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray automated libraries across Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, Go, and Java; Anthropic confirms it will wind down hosted products for other vendors while letting past customers keep generated code.
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Technology
Launch-day listings describe Android 16 across the stack—from a 7-inch Helio G80 starter through a 13-inch Pro bundle with stylus—but paper wins still need reality checks against Amazon’s Fire line, Lenovo’s budget slabs, and discounted Samsung Tab hardware.
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World
Georg Riekeles and Sandro Gozi, among others, describe warmth toward a future application but zero appetite to recreate bespoke opt-outs; the Commission stays on this week’s brief—July summit prep—not hypothetical accession terms.
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World
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen’s tally—four killed, dozens hurt, and hundreds detained—lands atop a nationwide minibus strike that BBC reporting ties to another double-digit jump in regulated diesel and petrol caps.
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World
Missile troops and combat aircraft still drill covert moves and nuclear-use prep, but the same news cycle also airs Minsk’s insistence the exercise threatens no third country—set against Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warnings and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s pushback on Zelenskyy’s talk of a renewed Belarus-axis offensive.
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World
International outlets describe multiple shooting sites in southern Türkiye’s Tarsus district, a helicopter-backed manhunt, and a Cabinet-room toll readout from President Erdoğan while wire-sourced reporting sketches an alleged domestic-violence start and street-to-car attacks.
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World
Nairobi- and Tel Aviv–linked reporting described thousands in Hargeisa for the usual independence anniversary—this time under the glare of December 2025’s Israeli recognition—while President Isaac Herzog formally received Somaliland’s first ambassador in Jerusalem the same diplomatic window.
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World
Jens-Frederik Nielsen is pairing warmer language about closed-door trilateral talks with the same red lines Nuuk has held since winter: no sale, no transfer of sovereignty, and deep scepticism that Washington has abandoned designs on ownership even as negotiators discuss southern bases.
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World
A BDO snapshot of five hundred mid-market companies finds three in five shelving or cancelling investment while Brent-style crude holds above one hundred dollars; parallel CIPD work shows fifty-eight per cent of employers putting cost control ahead of expansion with redundancy risks ticking up.
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World
Commercial and strategic crude pools tracked by analytics houses have slid about fifteen per cent since late February while refiners keep runs high; Delhi is now bridging the gap with larger Atlantic and Russian-linked programmes, excise sacrifices, citizen conservation appeals, and the first visible retail increases after months of political patience.
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World
Article IV staff now pencil about 1.0 per cent GDP growth for 2026 after a modest upward revision from April’s World Economic Outlook track, yet they still warn that a drawn-out Middle East conflict, volatile energy markets, and domestic hesitation could sap consumption and investment.
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Markets
Spot desks in Jakarta logged the currency through the Rp17,500 handle on 12 May 2026 as Hormuz-linked risk sentiment lifted the greenback—leaving import-heavy corporates and budget planners far above the state-budget exchange-rate assumption.
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World
Night-time interceptions in late April 2026 emptied more than twenty small craft of roughly 175–200 activists hundreds of nautical miles from Gaza, including seven Irish passport holders—while Dr Margaret Connolly, sister of President Catherine Connolly, remained with a companion vessel that organisers and reporters said had not been taken.
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World
Norfolk Constabulary says it was called to South Beach Parade just after midnight on 16 May 2026; one man in his 30s is in custody after a Northamptonshire arrest while detectives hunt a second male suspect and ask witnesses to quote crime reference 36/34665/26.
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Technology
AISI’s 13 April 2026 write-up summarises controlled evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview on capture-the-flag tasks and on “The Last Ones,” a 32-step simulated corporate intrusion; Opus 4.6 remains the nearest comparator on the multi-step range but trails on step count.
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World
Petroleum ministry joint secretary Sujata Sharma told reporters on 18 May 2026 that imports ran before, during, and after the latest U.S. Treasury carve-out, while state fuel retailers still bleed roughly ₹750 crore a day even after a ₹3-per-litre pump increase.
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Politics
Speaking while visiting small businesses in London on 18 May 2026, the prime minister acknowledged post–7 May losses in England, Wales, and Scotland, insisted his focus had drifted in the previous ten days, and ruled out publishing a resignation timetable tied to Andy Burnham’s Makerfield bye-election.
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World
Roughly three thousand American and allied commandos from twenty-three countries are training from the Baltic rim down through the Balkans and into the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins—led out of Stuttgart by U.S. Special Operations Command Europe with NATO’s special-operations headquarters in the same chain of command.
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World
Laser-guided 70mm rockets are reaching operational Typhoon loadsheets in weeks rather than years so interceptors can sit closer to the price of the one-way airframes they are meant to knock down—while ministers still have to balance magazine depth, basing access, and the rest of the regional air-defence stack.
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Technology
Nine Northern District jurors agreed the February 2024 filing landed outside the limitations window they were instructed to use; Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers still formalises the advisory result, but the merits of charitable-trust and enrichment theories never went to a second-phase verdict.
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World
The phrase is now political ammunition—most recently from a Labour leadership hopeful—but answering it honestly means separating rhetorical heat from official productivity modelling, from long-run polling regret, and from what voters will still tolerate if Westminster tries to reopen the 2016 choice.
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World
After months of U.S. rhetoric over Greenland and strained North American politics, Ottawa is deepening military procurement talks with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden while Nuuk and Copenhagen consult Canada on adapting the Canadian Rangers model for local surveillance.
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Politics
Organizers billed the May 2026 “All Roads Lead to the South” weekend as a mass response to a fresh Supreme Court order that reopened Alabama’s congressional map fight—linking Selma’s bridge to the Capitol steps where the Voting Rights Movement once converged.
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Politics
President Donald Trump told reporters he would decide on a stalled roughly $14 billion arms package “over the next fairly short period,” after Xi Jinping warned mishandling Taiwan could bring the powers into conflict—while Washington and Taipei each insisted broader policy had not flipped overnight.
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