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49-year-old Dorjee Gyantsan sentenced to 22 months in prison for spying on Tibetan refugees in Sweden between 2015 and 2017 when he was arrested, man who posed as Tibetan independence supporter pleaded innocent and will appeal verdict
UN accuses six Libyans closely associated with country's EU-funded coastguard or with deal with Italy of people trafficking and places them under sanctions, witnesses say militia groups treat migrants violently and sink boats while at same time smuggling tens of thousands of people per year
Donald Trump wants Russia to regain membership in G7 group, country was expelled in 2014 after annexation of Crimea
Putin expresses hope for deescalation, wants to avoid third world war and end of civilization, according to Russian president in yearly interview with questions from public
Canada on track to legalize cannabis for recreational use, would become first G7 country to fully legalize drug in whole country
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demands China make full public account of Tianamen Square massacre of 1989
Summit between Trump and Putin prepared by Moscow ambassador Jon Huntsman according to Fox News sources, would be third meeting between presidents
Syria recognizes Abkhazia and South Ossetia and sets up embassy level diplomatic ties – Georgia hits back by severing official ties with Syria, blaming Russia for orchestrating the diplomatic stunt
Donald Trump cancels meeting with Kim Jong-un scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, claims Pyongyang has shown open hostility in recent statement, decision comes after North Korea as promised blew up tunnels at Punggye-ri nuclear test site
Polio could be eradicated by end of this year or next according to WHO, number of cases have plummeted from 350,000 in 1988 to 22 in 2017 and disease is now present only in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria

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Miscellaneous

German earlier tennis star Boris Becker during bankruptcy proceedings in the UK claims diplomatic immunity due to being a cultural attache to the Central African Republic, country's ambassador to the EU Daniel Emery Dede confirms Becker's diplomatic passport and that he's unpaid and has never visited the country but that they hope his aura attracts business people
Scientists drop prepared cane toad sausage from helicopters in remote Australia to save native quolls from eating the toxic toads, sausage laced with nausea-inducing chemical to scare the native predators off the especially dangerous first invasion wave
Karpatalya wins soccer World Cup for non-FIFA affiliated associations by beating Northern Cyprus 3–2 after penalty shoot-out, Padania seals third place with dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over Székely Land
Everything that could go wrong did, according to George Soros who says he did not anticipate Trump election victory due to living in own bubble, also says Trump is willing to destroy world
Anthony Bourdain is dead, the Chef and TV Personality was 61 years old
Solo: A Star Wars Story first film in series to not make profit, losses expected to exceed USD 50 million
Dutch PM Mark Rutte mops parliament floor after spilling cup of coffee, initiative to personally clean up caused mess loudly cheered by bystanders
Full list of Bilderberg 2018 attendees released, names include Niall Ferguson, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel
Russian 129-year-old Koku Istambulova has not been happy a single day of her life, wishes for end of earthly life and has no idea how she managed to survive her children, thinks long life is punishment from God
Real world Carrie Bradshaw, dating advisor Julia Allison, regrets being influenced by Sex and the City, says series' message of endless shopping and dating leads to empty life while fear of intimacy is celebrated as women's liberation

Media

Breitbart traffic down seventh month in row, from 13.7 million unique visitors during November 2017 to 6.4 million in May 2018, remains far larger than competing conservative outlets Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Charles Krauthammer says farewell to readers, has only weeks to live after reappearance of aggressive cancer
Vice reporter tests whether telephone is under surveillance by saying trigger words for various products, reaches conclusion that phone is likely monitored but does not consider it a problem for normal people
Putin interviewed in Austrian TV about troll factories, says Moscow has no connection to them, tells reporter to look into what George Soros does online
Breitbart London editor Raheem Kassam leaves company, was recruited by Steve Bannon in 2014, now accompanies Bannon on trip to Europe
Elon Musk wants to build service to rate credibility of specific journalists and news outlets, site to be called Pravda and has connections to person who recently registered name
Barack and Michelle Obama sign multi-year deal with Netflix, say production company Higher Ground Productions seeks to "cultivate and curate the talented, inspiring, creative voices who are able to promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples", will make both documentaries and series
Chinese TV channel Mango TV barred from airing Eurovision song contest after blurring rainbow flags, censoring tattoos and not airing Irish and Albanian entries, European Broadcasting Union says censoring not in line with its values of diversity
Website altright.com shut down, GoDaddy usually respects freedom of expression but says it has made an exception, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law submitted complaint last month
Web.com hands over domain france.com that Jean-Noël Frydman has owned since 1994 to French government after Paris court ruling, Frydman files federal lawsuit in US

Politics

Steve Bannon announces Bitcoin investment, considers creating Deplorables Coin, sees opportunity to strengthen populist movements through crypto currencies
NRA sets new attendence record with 87,154 people attending annual meeting in Dallas
House of Lords votes to support amendment to Brexit meaning UK will remain in EU single market, decision can be overruled by House of Commons
Italy's Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio rejects final offer for right wing coalition as party does not want to cooperate with Berlusconi's Forza Italia and Lega Nord leader Matteo Salvini does not want to scrap alliance, proposes fresh elections instead
Andrea Nahles new leader of German social democrats SPD, received support from 66% of delegates at extra party convention which was lower than expected
Pat Buchanan: Orbán and others like him succeed as they oppose dissolution of nations which common Europeans identify with while their competitors dismiss nationalism in favor of utopian multiculturalist democracy, despite decadent US exemplifying failure of democracy people will use it to replace weak elites with strong men
Manuel Valls considers running for Barcelona mayor, former socialist PM of France was born in city by Catalan father and Swiss mother, opposes independence for Catalonia
Austria government wants to give police right to confiscate mobile phones to investigate identities of asylum seekers, also wants to repatriate minors who commit crimes and extend time required to become citizen from six to ten years
Ingo Senftleben, leader of German Christian Democrats in state of Brandenburg, ready to go into coalition with Alternative for Germany if it enables him to win power
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) retires from Congress after serving out term in January, says additional term would mean his kids would have only ever known him as weekend dad, touts tax code reform and rebuilding nation's military as top accomplishments

Opinion

Doug Smythe: Classical liberalism useless as anti-leftist or unifying ideology since its own principles have given rise to what it now wants to fight, leftist identity politics as well as biologistic nationalism presupposes liberal atomization of individuals and eradication of natural bonds
Cathy Ruse: Grassroots movement fighting perverted sexual education in schools in English-speaking countries healthy reaction against current order where tax money is used to recruit children into sexual revolution, significant that education focuses on contraceptive drugs rather than marriage and family
Justin Raimondo: Donald Trump's unease with own foreign policy could be sign that he is being held hostage in White House by warmongerers and deep state, his initial skepticism with regards to allegations against Russia has been counteracted by interventionist advisers
Richard Greenhorn: Patrick Deneen's claim that liberalism has failed inaccurate, avoids defining ideology and does not understand that its nature is theological rather than political, modern conservatives unable to criticize progressive enemy as they are themselves part of it
Annie Holmquist: Important not to underestimate impact of friends on children's character, parents should choose activities wisely and make home place of hospitality, happiness and authority in order to help children become good and upstanding adults
Brianna Heldt: Ryan T. Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally must-read for modern parents raising kids in cultural climate marked by transgender activism and relativistic understanding of sexuality, combines solid scientific evidence with personal anecdotes from transgendered men and women themselves
George Stanciu: Francis Bacon's experimental method of science and rejection of senses as measure of things launched man's Second Fall, lead to progressive hubris that technology and inventions could create paradise on Earth, resulted in communism, nazism and contemporary society plagued by loneliness, depression and malaise
Richard Storey: Alt-right tendency to oppose Christianity betrays lack of basic knowledge about European history, ignores Christian defense of masculine values, free will and natural law, romanticizes pagan religions which were fatalistic, hyperindividualistic and multiculturalist
Dwight Longenecker: Patience with Pope Francis begins to run out after bullying of conservatives, ambiguous comments about homosexuality and gender ideology and flawed environmentalist agenda, there is hope in observation that liberalism tends to empty churches, in continuing hard work at grassroots level as well as in faith that God really is with His Church
Daniel Lattier: Secularism ironically grew out of Christianity, described accurately by Illich's theory, progressive mutation which hubristically wanted to remake entire society and abolish older ritualism became dominant, decreased need for struggle and will power which led to lukewarm religion

Europe

Alexis Tsipras remains Greek PM after no-confidence vote initiated by opposition party New Democracy after agreement to recognize neighbor country as Northern Macedonia
UK interior minister Sajid Javid says his phone was stolen by moped-riding thieves in London, and that he plans on allowing police to chase helmetless suspects on mopeds to tackle the growing problem
Two injured in supermarket in La Seyne-sur-Mer in southern France after Allahu akbar-shouting woman attacks customer and employee with box cutter, woman detained
Angela Merkel plans special short-notice meeting with Greece, Italy and Austria among others to deal with region's migration crisis, comes as the chancellor struggles to avert government crisis regarding the question, CSU leader and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says no one is interested in "toppling the chancellor" over the issue, according to Bild
Seven injured as taxi drives into crowd of pedestrians on pavement near Moscow's Red Square, 28-year-old Kyrgyz driver claims he accidentally hit accelerator after working for 20 hours straight and that he ran away because he was afraid he would be killed, investigation into suspected traffic code violation opened
The 629 mostly African migrants from Doctors Without Borders' ship Aquarius who was refused entry in Italy and Malta disembark in Valencia, Spain and are met by 1,000 Red Cross volunteers, 470 translators and 600 journalists
Poland's Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling stating that print shop worker in Łódź who refused to create banner for LBTQ group lacked valid reason to do so, justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro criticizes decision and hopes for constitutional court to fix the situation
McDonald's replaces plastic straws with paper ones in all its UK and Ireland restaurants starting September, restaurant chain currently reportedly uses 1.8 million straws a day in the UK
London-based drill rap-group 1011 banned from making music with violent lyrics, naming postcodes in gang context and referencing Abdullahi Tarabi who was fatally stabbed 2017, group also needs to notify police before releasing new videos or doing performances – police said to have connected music genre to rise in violent crime in the city
Permanent perimeter defense to be built around the Eiffel Tower, glass walls and metal barriers as well as 420 blocks to protect the glass walls built for EUR 35 million, residents unhappy with the cost of the fences as well as city using state of emergency to push through changes without assessing impact

North America

Two riders plunge ten meters as roller coaster car derails at amusement park in Daytona Beach, Florida, six people hospitalized
Thousands taken by bus to federal prisons in California, part of Trump's plan to combat illegal immigration, first time in US history detained immigrants has been treated as other criminals
Indiana highschool orchestra teacher John Kluge claims school forced resignation after "very threatening" meeting for referring to transgender student by last name instead of preferred first name, says he feels school's compelled speech policy violates First Amendment rights
Trans woman Terry Miller wins 100 and 200 meter runs in Connecticut State Open, competed as man last winter
US suicide rate up 30 percent since 1999, increase seen among both men and women, all ethnic groups and all levels of urbanization, only half of 45 000 cases since 2016 preceded by diagnosis of psychiatric illness
California limits water usage to 208 liters per day for private individuals, in practice ban against showering and doing laundry in same day, water suppliers forced to report overuse
Mexico introduces new tariffs on US products including pork, steel, cheese and whiskey
Donald Trump rescinds White House invitation to Super Bowl winners Philadelphia Eagles after team refuses to stand for anthem, ceremony will instead be held exclusively for fans
Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault against two women, could face between five and 25 years in prison if convicted on the most serious charges
Family and friends of deceased fight in Harlem, New York funeral home, two police officers bitten as they try to intervene

Latin America

Pablo Escobar's widow and son charged with money laundering by federal judge in Argentina where they live, assets frozen but no arrests made
Brazil's President Michel Temer orders army and federal police to clear highways blockaded by striking truck drivers after protest over fuel prices and graft enters fifth day, state of emergency declared in São Paulo over fuel shortages
Brazil truckers on strike for four days due to rising fuel prices, demand tax cuts, nationwide shortages hit supermarkets, numerous flights cancelled, some factories idle
Venezuela expels American diplomats Todd Robinson and Brian Naranjo as Donald Trump authorized new sanctions against country after widely-condemned presidential election
Nicolás Maduro re-elected as Venezuelan president with 67.7% of vote in election that main opposition boycotted, both second placed Henri Falcón and third candidate Javier Bertucci demand new election due to irregularities
Giant anti-communist flag displayed on Rio de Janeiro hill on Karl Marx's 200th birth day, firefighters called to remove it since it was placed in national park (Portuguese)
Venezuela raises minimum monthly wage by 155% to VEF 1 million three weeks before presidential election, raise to USD 1.61 at black market exchange rate third increase this year
Mexican presidential candidate Jaime "El Bronco" Rodriguez says during debate that robbers' hands should be cut off, was country's first independent governor and is in fifth place in most opinion polls
Ten killed and at least 100 injured in Nicaragua after three days of clashes between police and people protesting pension reform, protests concerning 5% pension tax and increased forced contributions to system for both employees and employer
Cuba communist party nominates 57-year-old Miguel Díaz-Canel as only candidate to replace 86-year-old Raúl Castro who retires after ten years in power

Asia

Prince Norodom Ranariddh of Cambodia injured in car accident, his wife Ouk Phalla dead
Pakistan Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah killed in US drone attack in Afghanistan's northeast Kunar province, according to Afghan defence ministry
Indian veteran journalist and editor Shujaat Bukhari and one of his personal security officers shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside newspaper Rising Kashmir's office in state capital Srinagar, policeman and civilian also critically injured
Saudi Arabia and Softbank to invest USD 60-100 billion in solar energy project in India, already cooperating in Saudia Arabia
Man in Zhaoqing sentenced to six months in prison after stepping on Chinese flag during opening of his new martial arts center, third case in last six months when Chinese citizens are jailed for insulting the flag
Australian Wildlife Conservancy finishes 44-kilometre long electrified fence to create 9,400 hectares predator-free area 350 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs to save native wildlife and vegetation, project to be extended in 2020 to cover 100,000 hectares – western quoll, numbat, bilby and central rock-rat among species to be reintroduced in area
Mob of over 600 Muslim men destroys historic Ahmadiyya mosque in Sialkot, Pakistan – Pakistan declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974 and the community is often targeted by Sunni militants who consider them heretics
Malaysian police raid apartments owned by former PM Najib Razak’s family as part of investigation into state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, seize luxury bags, cash and jewellery
Japanese commuter train departs 25 seconds early due to mistake by train conductor, operator apologises for inconvenience
School in eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou installs cameras to monitor facial expressions in classroom in order to help teachers identify which students are concentrating, unnamed student says he believes everyone’s concentration has improved

Middle East

Protests in Jordan for third night in row, unrest in response to tax hikes and austerity measures, king Abdullah calls for compromise from all sides
Court in Algerian city of Béjaïa sentences blogger Marzouk Touati to ten years in prison and USD 430 fine for communicating with Israel and inciting civil disobedience in January 2017 during political protests, Attorney General of Béjaïa Judiciary Council asked for life sentence
Egypt's top administrative court orders one month YouTube block over "Innocence of Muslims", a low-budget 13-minute video denigrating Prophet Muhammad first uploaded in 2012, ruling considered final and cannot be appealed
Saad al-Hariri once again designated as Lebanon's next prime minister after vote in parliament, resigned in November fearing for his safety, post of prime minister is reserved for Sunni Muslim in country's sectarian power sharing system
Syrian army restores control over all areas surrounding Damascus after recapturing al-Hajar al-Aswad district and Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp from IS terrorists
Israel's ambassador to Turkey declared persona non grata filmed by invited journalists while being denied access to VIP lounge and bodily searched at Istanbul airport, Israel responds by inviting press to film Turkish diplomat who was asked for documents by security guard while arriving at Israeli Foreign Ministry
Iraq catches five "most wanted" IS terrorist commanders, leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi not among captured
Sausan Alkassem selected as judge in Haifa District Labor Court, fist female Druze judge in Israel
US cancels financial support to White Helmets in Syria which is helping population in areas controlled by Islamists, will make group lose third of overall funding
Benjamin Netanyahu claims to have evidence of secret Iranian nuclear weapons program which Tehran dismisses as propaganda, comes two weeks before Trump administration will decide on deal with Iran

Africa

Ghana national football association dissolved after allegations of corruption against chairman Kwesi Nyantakyi
Pastor bitten to death by crocodile during baptism at Lake Abaya in Ethiopia
At least 29 killed under unclear circumstances in Menka in one of Cameroon's Anglophone regions, army spokeman says government troops surrounded hotel after tipped off to separatist rebels' presence and that "several terrorists were neutralized" after long firefight
Amnesty International accuses Nigerian army and militia group Civilian Joint Task Force of raping thousands of women and girls who escaped Boko Haram, brigadier general John Agim says report false and that credible intelligence report says organisation released cooked report to demoralize entire military system
Zimbabwe has applied to re-join Commonwealth according to organisation's Secretary-General Patricia Scotland, observers' report on upcoming election in country part of informal assessment to determine re-admission
US ambassador to Cameroon accuses government forces for targeted killings against country's Anglophone separatists, calls for dialogue to end escalating 18-month crisis
Nigerian former vice president Atiku Abubakar to run in next year's presidential election, becoming main challenger of Muhammadu Buhari, wants to privatize parts of state oil firm NNPC and says he is believer in very small government
South African photographer Sam Nzima dead at 83 – took iconic photo of dying 13-year-old Hector Pieterson during 1976 Soweto uprising, which Time Magazine 2016 named one of 100 most influential photographs in history
At least 48 killed after Patel Dam in central Kenya bursts, most structures within three-kilometre radius destroyed
Democratic Republic of Congo Health Ministry confirms two cases of Ebola in Bikoro in northwestern part of country, 17 deaths in area

Economy

Global sand shortage results in black-market gangs stealing large amounts from rivers and beaches, 51.7 billion tons to be used for construction in 2019 – China has used more sand in recent years than US did throughout 20th century, India's market taken over by organized crime where the Sand Mafia employs 75,000 people to dive for sand
Citibank fined USD 100 million in 42 US States for manipulating benchmark interest rate Libor, third bank to settle with state attorneys after Barclays and Deutsche Bank with USD 420 million in total fines
Turkey invests EUR 3.2 billion in first indigenous car, facility to have 200,000 electric cars per year capacity and produce five models to be at least 5% cheaper than peers, prototype to be ready in 2019 and enter market in 2021
Verizon names 52-year-old Swede Hans Vestberg new CEO, Vestberg CTO in company for a year after being fired from Ericsson CEO position after six years in 2016
Venezuela central bank repays 172 million USD to Citibank and repatriates gold used as security, national gold reserves down 50% in four years
Chinese aluminium company Chinalco invests 1.3 billion USD in Peruvian copper mines, Peru president Martin Vizcara welcomes investment
World's largest hedge fund Bridgewater turns bearish, thinks 2019 will be dangerous year with end of stimulus and less room for Fed to maneuver as US government debt grows
US House of Representatives passes bill to loosen federal regulations on banking sector, changes Dodd-Frank law by raising threshold for closer Fed oversight from USD 50 billion to USD 250 billion in assets
Paypal buys Swedish startup iZettle for USD 2.2 billion
Japan's economy shrank by 0.6 percent on annualized basis during first quarter after eight straight quarters of economic expansion

Technology

Facebook gave unlimited access to user data to at least four Chinese companies, including telecom giant Huawei with close ties to Chinese state
Portland woman says her Amazon Alexa recorded private conversation in her home and sent recording to random contact, was noticed when one of her husband's employees called and said he had heard conversation about hardwood floors
Boston Dynamics shows humanoid robot Atlas jogging on sloped grass and jumping logs, dog-like SpotMini climbing stairs and avoiding obstacles autonomously
Shaun Nichols: Cambridge Analytica's shutdown more of a market exercise, official documents show new firm Emerdata Limited run by similar management and investors as former company's parent organization and headquartered at same offices
Project In Codice Ratio uses AI and OCR software to create digital transcripts of Vatican Secret Archives which is one world’s largest historical collections, lack of spaces between words has previously made transcription difficult
Russia launches floating 70MW nuclear power plant, two reactors will be used to power 100,000-person town of Pevek, desalination plant and oil rigs, towed from St Petersburg via Murmansk
Rick Dickinson dies while receiving treatment for cancer, famous for having designed iconic home computer ZX Spectrum for Sinclair Research
Joseph James DeAngelo who is suspected to be Golden State Killer was arrested after DNA found on crime scene partially matched genome of relative on open-source genealogy website
Spotify starts testing way of filtering out songs which have explicit lyrics, previously word "explicit" was displayed next to tracks
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies begins building two test tracks running 320 and 1,000 meters in length at facility in Toulouse in southern France, ready for testing later this year

Science

Breast cancer patient healthy after experimental treatment which injected her with large amounts of lab reproductions of own white blood cells
Men who have used psychedelics are half as likely to use violence in close relationships, according to study at University of British Columbia
Ukrainian doctors claim to have used DNA from three different people to create babies for infertile women, four children to have been produced this way with another three patients pregnant
Lead pollution in Greenlandic ice correlates to expansion of Roman empire and events thought to have affected silver production
Scientists at Max Planck Institute in German Leipzig to grow lentil-sized Neanderthal brain organoids via human stem cells edited to contain Neanderthal DNA to understand "why humans seem to be cognitively so special", organoids to be incapable of thoughts or feelings but will replicate basic adult brain structures
American soldier undergoes first successful transplant of penis and scrotum at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, injured by IED in Afghanistan, professor W.P. Andrew Lee hopeful patient will regain near normal urinary and sexual functions
Prion infection similar to mad cow disease discovered in Algerian camels, unclear if transmission to humans possible
Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger collaborated with Nazi euthanasia program according to medical historian Herwig Czech, referred 35 children to infamous clinic Am Spiegelgrund wehere 800 children were murdered
Children's reading ability determines how much they choose to read, rather than vice versa, according to Dutch study covering 12,000 twins
Autodidact fossil hunter in Lilstock, England finds bones of ichthyosaur which is calculated to have been 26 meter long, could mean ancient aquatic creatures were largest animals ever, other skeletons presumed to be from land-living dinosaurs could be from marine reptiles

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