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Israeli [sic] Airstrikes Decimate the Last Restaurant in Gaza City in Nightmarish Bloodbath | The Cradle (cw: blood)

Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal recounts horrific scenes from a massacre at a beloved restaurant and a bustling market—destroyed by a triple Israeli [sic] airstrike in Gaza City.

Belize always comes out as the biggest winner whenever shit goes down with its neighbors. They have plenty of issues on their own but their recent rise in tourism money while El Salvador and Guatemala are plagued with entrenched right-wing corruption is a sore spot for the rest of us. They managed to avoid the regime changes that their neighbors had imposed on them and lacked destructive civil wars. Britain did oppose their initial drive for self-rule and the PUP (Soc-Dem party and the ruling party for decades) while still sparing Belize from any real meddling.

Most of their issues today revolve around climate change, mass illegal immigration from its neighbors, Guatemala threatening them, and crime rising. I would recommend foreigners giving it a visit over Guatemala. It’s safer and more open-minded for the most part, though queer culture is still something they can be hostile towards outside of Belize City or Belmopan.

Mayor Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, arrested at immigration detention center he has been protesting - AP News

Trump says the US will stop bombing Yemen, israeli govt apparently surprised

The US president says the Houthis have told his administration they no longer want to “fight” and they would halt attacks on Red Sea shipping lanes.

“The Houthis have announced that they don’t want to fight any more,” Trump told reporters at the White House alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“They just don’t want to fight. And we will honour that, and we will – we will stop the bombings, and they have capitulated, but more importantly, we will take their word. They say they will not be blowing up ships any more,” he said.

“We just found out about that. So I think that’s very, very positive. … I will accept their word, and we are going to stop the bombing of the booties, effective immediately,” he said.

The Houthis have not confirmed the pause. The US has been striking the Houthis on a near daily basis.

NATO is a thug that only understands force.

Russia and China pledged to use "all efforts to combat the growing attempts to rehabilitate the inhuman ideology of Nazism and racial supremacy" in the main joint statement on the occasion of Xi Jinping's state visit.

Russia and China also pledged to "continue to oppose the glorification of the Nazis and their accomplices, the resurgence of neo-Nazism, militaristic revanchism and practices that contribute to the escalation of various forms of racial discrimination, racism, xenophobia and associated intolerances". In the only explicit mention of the United States, the text criticizes attempts by the Americans and allies to expand NATO's presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Ansarallah/the Houthis in Yemen have launched another ballistic missile at Israel over the past two hours, targeting Ben Gurion airport. The Yemeni Armed Forces statement:

Israel states that the missile was intercepted by the Arrow 3 midcourse interception system, and that THAAD failed to intercept. Given that there are no pictures or videos of impacts or debris, it's likely that Arrow 3 was the system that intercepted the missile. However, Arrow 3 and THAAD have a very minimal overlap in engagement envelope. Arrow 3 intercepts ballistic missiles in the midcourse phase of flight, at ranges up to 2400km, and altitudes over 100km. THAAD instead is designed to intercept missiles in the terminal phase of flight, at ranges up to 200km, and altitudes between 40-150km. Such a statement has to be read in the current political context of a bilateral ceasefire between the USA and Yemen, excluding Israel.

I expect Israel to respond and bomb Yemen again, like they have done previously. These bombings, while having minimal impact on Yemen's military capabilities, have a large impact on civil society. Here are the before and after images of Sana'a international airport, bombed by Israel. Not much was left, the entire terminal, runway, and three aircraft completely destroyed:

WE GOT THE BURGER POPE YEEHAAW

Is it just me or does the US heartily benefits from hostilities between India and Pakistan?

1. It greatly destabilizes two nuclear powers that both border with China.

2. None of the jets being shot down were build by the US and are build by rivals (France and Russia). China weapon good doesn't mean US weapon bad in true multipolarity.

3. It pushes India ever closer to the US, especially since India is forced to adopt a hostile anti-Palestinian stance by virtue of rampant Islamophobia within the country.

Current interim leader of Canada's NDP Don Davies in 2019:

"So honoured to bring greetings on behalf of Parliament to mark April 30, Journey to Freedom Day. We remember all those who lost their lives fleeing oppression in Vietnam, and are inspired by the ideals of freedom, democracy and human rights."

Russia Willing to Help Broker Fair U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal - Telesur English

India launches air strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir - BBC

India stated that its forces have launched "Operation Sindoor" hitting "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan. Indian forces struck nine sites in Pakistan with missiles. According to reports, intense shelling and loud explosions took place in border areas of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. Pakistan vowed to respond to the "cowardly attack."

I heard some architectural people cry about how the evul soviets oppressed the baltics with the riga tv tower, because it was “a monstrosity that dominates and overwhelms the medieval city of riga”. So I look it up, expecting a Le Corbusier Beton behemoth aaaaand its non-intrusive and looks like a spaceship instead.

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.'

Head of the White House Commission on Religious Liberty literally days ago

Per Al Jazeera, Trump told reporters at White House that he is not planning to visit Israel on his trip to the middle east. Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates UAE.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/6/live-israel-attacks-yemen-lebanon-syria-and-gaza-in-one-day?update=3692340

Indian Government Media is labelling Indian civilians killed in Jammu as Terrorists to avoid responsibility. https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedstatesofindia/comments/1khn7fl/indian_media_wrongly_labels_victim_of_crossborder/

Abu Mazen attended victory day and Netanyahu didn’t 😂

Russia supplies India's military while China supplies Pakistan's. It's in the US's interest for a large scale conventional war to happen there. Would not be surprised if they are stoking the flames in the background.

@MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net from the previous new mega

Swear I thought that SLS died years ago. How the hell was it still around?

You may be thinking of the Constellation program, which was a different iteration of the same basic bad idea (making shitty overpriced rockets out of leftover Shuttle parts) with a different regime's name attached. (Constellation was the Bush II regime's project, SLS was the Obama regime's)

Here's hoping these drills are just for propaganda purposes and India doesn't wish escalate further/expect Pakistan to escalate

Edan Alexander, the last POW in Gaza with American citizenship, will be released by Hamas soon. Whilst officially this is being reported as a "good will gesture" from Hamas, it's very likely they made a backdoor deal with Trump's admin.

We know Hamas has been in talks with the US directly, having failed to get a deal with the Israelis, and we know Trump has evicted a few of the warhawks from his circles. The deal might involve some attempt to rein in Netanyahu for good before they spiral the region out of control.

Serbian students call for early parliamentary elections

Just gonna copy my comment from the other thread

This declaration was literally just preceded by some liberal moron professor calling a handful of leftist students the "Khmer Rouge" and them being associated with a marginal leftist party in Serbia, which itself he alleges is being financed by the CPC (even though he doesn't provide any evidence for either of these claims whatsoever). He made these claims alongside accusations of this "minority" of students "sabotaging" the "majority" from voting to participate in the elections. Did I mention he considers it a bad thing that the students are anti-NATO? (like they didn't literally bomb the country, how could they possibly dislike them?). Because this request for the elections is gonna be accompanied by a list comprised of professors chosen by their students, there's a decent chance this fucking charlatan makes it on the list of those 250 professors. Makes me scared of the possibility these professors might be majority pro-EU, which doesn't bode well for the geopolitics of the country, especially not at this fucking moment.

Putin has finally started speaking, coinciding with the possible launch of Geran-2/Shahed 136 one way attack drones on Ukraine.

RT has it live with English translation, you'll likely need a VPN for this if you live in NATOland

AMK Mapping, reporting on drone launches

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Putin wants Russia to hold direct talks with Ukraine in Turkey again with regards to a ceasefire.

Speech over, that's it. An offer to negotiate in Istanbul directly with Ukraine again on May 15th, presumably. A rejection of the EU's plan for an unconditional 30 day ceasefire before any talks begin. War continues now.

Western insecurity about Victory Day is palpable. Historical revisionism abound, while European countries desperately try to threaten and obstruct leaders traveling to the Moscow celebration.

Once again I may be too conspiracy brained, but the timing of this India/Pakistan stuff seems awfully suspicious.

what exactly abbas thinks he is doing? more to the point, how fatah thinks this will end for them

linky to middleeasteye

Putin statement livestream -Europa Univerallis 5 got announced

Edit: Putin won his war of attrition against my attention span.

American pope from Chicago lmaoooo, Robert Francis Prevost. Pope Leo.